The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

his body was broken
THE constitutional convention of Mon
tana will be democratic by about five ma
jority.
Hon. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw will make the
annual address this year at the Yale Law
School commencement.
THE senate committee on interstate COM
merce closed its hearing in New York FRI
day, and adjourned to meet in Boston on
July 5.
FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY
two survivors of the war, or their depend
ents, now living iniConnecticut, are annually
paid 1851 ,502 in pensions.
JAMES b. SMITH, city editor of the Spring
field Republican, was shot and killed on
Monday night of last week, by his brother
in-law, who mistook him for burglar.
JAMES DORIAN, living near Wilkesbarre,
Penn, made furious by jealousy, slaught-
cred his wife with Ratchet, tried to kill
his daughter and then committed suicide.
MYRA CLARK GAINES heir was last week
awarded S57G 600, in the famous case against
the city of New Orleans, before the supreme
court, which has been pending for thirty
years.
II. b. CHAMBERLAIN of Denver, Colorado,
was recently elected president of the in
ternational convention of Young Mems
Christian Associations in session in Phila-
delphia.
REV. JOHN e. RUSSELL, professor of Bib
lical theology in the Yale Divinity School,
has resigned his position. 1t is said that he
proposes to accept chair of philosophy in
a leading college.
DIR. FRANK L. VINCENT, brother of Bishop
j. II. Vincent, was killed at Clifton Springs,
n. Y. last week while testing his newly-in-
vented suspension method for the cure of
nervous diseases
THE steamer Alaskan" Captain r. f.
Halves, Astoria to San Francisco, foundered
on the Pacific coast last week Monday
Thirty persons are missing, in addition to
three officers known to be lost
REV. SAM w. SMALL is lying dangerously
sick at his home in Atlanta, Ga, having
been brought from Alabama He had
engagements ahead in several states, which
will, in consequence, have to be postponed
THE Fort George, Florida, hotel was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on May Q. The
house would accommodate over two hum
dred guests, and was owned mostly by
Boston people. The building was insured
for about $4,000, including the furniture.
A special meeting of the national demo-
cratic committee has been called for Wednes-
day. June u, at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, for the purpose of electing a
chairman of the committee, and also to take
appropriate action on the death of the late
chairman, Hon. William II. Barnum.
THE recent count of money at the New
York sub-treasury revealed a discrepancy
of $50, out of a total sum of S1S4 000, 900 to
be accounted for. The shortage resulted
from the acceptance of a few counterfeit
notes in the hurry of business and by the
loss of few pieces of silver The de-
ficiency was promptly made good
GENERAL BATES, retired English army
officer of means, is on tour through Wash
ington Territory. When he sat down to
dinner at the Occidental hotel, Seattle, a
day or two ago. he met with quite surprise.
The waiter who took his order was his own
son, who had ran away from home, to scalp
Indians, some seven years ago He had
switched off to understanding.
Mrs. MARY LAMBRECHT, a bride of ten
days. was run over, Wednesday night of last
week, and killed by one of the Chicago cable
cars. Accidents have become so frequent
on the company's lines and the service so
unsatisfactory that mob of fully fifteen
hundred people quickly gathered and made
demonstrations toward lynching the grip
man. Speedy action by the police saved
him.
MIND-READER BISHOPS wife claims that
her husband did not die natural death
but was killed by the surgeons knife in the
post-mortem examination. Bishop was
frequently the victim of cataleptic fits and
the death-like trance following sometimes
lasted for two days Drs. Irwin, Hance
and Ferguson were arrested, and re-
leased on 81, 800 bail each, to await the result
of the coroner's investigation into the
causes of Bishops death and their respon-
sibility in the matter of the autopsy which
! followed.
WHILE Major Wham, paymaster, Mr..
Gibbon, assistant, and eleven soldiers were
on their way to Fort Thomas, Arizona,
with $4,000 to pay off the government post
there, they were attacked on Saturday after
noon, May II, at place three miles north
of Cedar Spring, Graham county, by band
of highwaymen. After a desperate pitched
battle, lasting half an hour, eight of the
eleven men of the escort were either fatally
wounded or disabled. Further resistance
became impossible, and the robbers escaped
with the $4,000.
THE president has appointed Solomon
Hirsch of Oregon to be minister to Turkey
| Clark K. Carr of Illiuois to be minister to
Denmark; Henry w. Severance of Cali
fornia to be consul-general at Honolulu
John Jarret of Pennsylvania to be consul
at Birmingham; Thomas II. Sherman OF
the District of Columbia to be consul at
! Liverpool Frank G. Loveland to be pen.
sion agent in New York city; Samuel c.
Wright to be superintendent of the mint al
Carson City, Nevada; Asa Mathews of Hin.
DIS to be first comptroller of the treasury.
THE interstate commerce commission has
decided the case of William II. Heard (col-
ored) against the Georgia Railway Com.
pany. Heard complained that he was com.
PEELED to ride from Augusta to Atlanta in q
second-class, dirty, smoking and passenger
compartment car, although he was travelling
on a tirst-class ticket. Commissioner Bragg
who prepared the opinion of the commits.
sion, holds that the railroad company had
violated the law in not providing cars for the
white and colored passengers equal in com.
fort, accommodation and equipment. An
order was issued directing the Georgia com
pany to at once furnish their colored pas
sengers with cars of equal comfort to those
furnished to white passengers.
A BRAVE woman prevented Jail delivery
at Akron, Ohio, last week Sunday evening
The leader of the prisoners had unlocked
the heavy corridor door with false key
when Mrs. w b. Gamble, the deputy
sheriff's wife, who was the only adult in the
front part of the Jail, ran in and shut the
guard door, which is made of light iron
bars. The prisoners were advancing OF
this, one of them armed with an iron bed
Stat, when Mrs. Gamble seized a revolver
and cried out: "The first one that touches
this door is a dead man" The prisoners
could easily have broken down the door