The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04

went down from st. Adams with railroad
officials and surgeons from Burlington.
Domestic.
THE business failures in the United States
for last week numbered 1879.
EDWARD HrrCHcocK of st. Louis has been
elected president of the American Bar As
ISOLATION.
IT is believed in Chicago that more ar
rests OF Importance will shortly be made in
the Cronin case.
WASHINGTON is to have a new democratic
weekly. The name of the paper will be the
National Democrat.
FIVE men were instantly killed last week
| Thursday by boiler explosion in nail
factory at South Towanda, Penn.
THE forest fires which have been threat
ening Helena, Montana, have subsidized and
there is now no danger to the city
The City of Paris broke her own record
| last week, making the westward trip in five
| days, nineteen hours and eighteen minutes.
HENRY w. SLoCUM, Jr., was the winner
at the Newport tennis tournament of last
week for the championship of the United
States
THE will of the late John w. Mccoy of
! Baltimore, Md, leaves TO the Johns Hop
kins University 100000 and his extensive
| library.
THE complaint against Justice Field,
| lRluR ulIu Wllu luuIutI, was ulSullSotN
by Judge Swain at Stockton, Cal, last
week Monday.
ALL six of the prisoners accused of com
! plicity in the murder of DR.. Cronin asked
for separate trials, but the court refused to
grant the application.
Hon. JAMES e. CAMPBELL of Butler
county, Ohio, was nominated for governor
of Ohio, on the second ballot, by the demo-
| cratic state convention.
Tuu gnor+inc, ,,ooJs bo,,go o,,J f,o,o,. 10,
Philadelphia of A. j. Beach & Co. have
been bought by A. G. Spalding & Co. of
! Chicago and New York.
THE shoe factory of A. Coburn & Son at
! Hopkinton, Mass, was burned last week.
| The loss is $780, 900 and three hundred work
men are thrown out of employment.
Two Arabs landed at Castle Garden last
week, but when the officials learned that
| they intended to go into the peddling bust
ness they were presented with return tick
| cts.
MORMON elders are being driven out of
| Marion county, Ala, where they have made
many converts. Two of the elders were
logged by White Caps last week, and were
! then ordered to leave under penalty of
death
ALFRED BROAD, formerly treasurer of the
Steele packing and provision company of
Grand Rapids, Mich, was arrested Thurs
day night on charge of embezzlement. 1t
is claimed that his steaings amount to
| $4,000. Broad is over fifty years of age
and stood high in the community.
a COMBINATION of Eastern capitalists has
| been formed to purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela river and CON
troll the river coal business. 1t has been
| decided that it will require $13,0000 900 to
settle the deal, including the aggregate of
stock the sellers are willing to take
THERE is a lady in Milwaukee who is the
mother of nine children. Not one of them
was named until it was twelve years old.
They were simply called by their nicknames
and their numbers, cone" "two," etc.
When they We're twelve years old each one
chose his own name and was baptized
THE sales agents of the six great coal
producing companies met in New York last
week at the office of the Pennsylvania Coal
| Company, and decided to restrict the pro-
duction for the month Of September to
| 3,OOO,OOO tons, decrease of about 1,000, 900
tons from the corresponding month last
year. No change was made in the prices.
E. w. HALFoRD, the presidents private
secretary, has begun suit against firm of
| cigarette manufacturers to prevent the use
of the photograph of his daughter Jeanette
in cigarette packages. 1t is said that pho
tographs of the young lady have already
been sent ont by some cigarette manufac-
turers, but none of them has yet appeared.
MARY ANN DoSNELLY, a nurse-maid, was
stabbed and seriously wounded at Atlantic
| City, \. D., last week Monday, by Mrs
Hamilton, wife of Robert Ray Hamilton
Mr.. Hamilton is a prominent New York
club man and has represented Murray Hill
in the legislature He is a great-grandson
of Alexander Hamilton. The stabbing af-
fray resulted from a domestic quarrel be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton. The nurse
| is expected to recover.
THE national encampment OF the Grand
a 10 los oil
was not as largely attended as in former
years. but was success as far as enthu-
siasm and harmony could make it. Gen
eral Alger of Michigan was elected COM
mander-in-chief. The following resolution
endorsing Commissioner Tanner was
adopted THAT we thank President Har-
rison for the appointment of our comrade,
| James Tanner, as commissioner of pen
sions, and that notwithstanding the assault
made on him we declare our complete con-
fdence in his integrity and our approval of
his endeavors to do all that can be done
under the laws for the veterans of the war,
and in connection with him we ask full
investigation of his administration of the
affairs of the pension bureau" 1t was
adopted under suspension of the rules
unanimously, amid great cheering.
Foreign.
Ten thousand French workmen will make
a pilgrimage to Rome at the end Of October.
PRESIDENT CARNOT OF France has ap-
pointed the general election for septem-
Der %.
THE vintage prospects throughout France
are excellent, and the wine exports promise
to be unprecedented.
ONE hundred twenty-nne persons were
buried in an earthquake on the Russian
frontier last week Tuesday.
FIVE persons were killed in the City OF
Mexico last Friday by the falling of the
walls of private residence.
THE jury of the Paris exposition recon-
mends that a gold medal be awarded TO
Boston for its educational exhibits.
a SEVERE earthquake shock was felt
throughout Greece last week Monday. Sc
rious damage was done in several towns.
IT is authortatively stated that Messrs.
GoOderham q Worts have sold their distil-
lery in Toronto, Ont, to an English syndi-
cate for S6,00O,0O0,
THE village of Tscherlach in st. Gall,
Switzerland, was destroyed last Friday by
the fall of portion of Mount Rubisberg e.
The villagers escaped.
SINCE 1900 the population of Europe has
just doubled itself. Then the population
was 49, 900 900; in $780, PIG, OO0, coo; in 1860,
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