The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

ing over 1000 votes have rejected the
operators demand for a reduction OF twenty
cents and declared strike.
A PERSISTENT candidate for a consulate
has been arrested in Washington for
vagrancy.
THE Michigan senate has defeated the
woman's municipal suffrage bill by vote
of ten to sixteen
A CLERGYMAN and four members of his
family were burned to death in their home
near Norfolk, Va, last week.
SIXTY persons were poisoned at South
Glastonbury, Conn, by eating ice-cream
favored with impure vanilla extract.
In the jefferson public school building at
Washington, ID. c., in the presence of her
pupils, Mrs. Sarah K. Allen, one of the
teachers, was murdered by her worthless
husband, who then committed suicide.
GREAT excitement prevails at North Bal
timore, Ohio, over an oil well which filed
an S00-barre tank in an hour. 1t is un-
doubtedly the l9rgest oil well in Ohio, and
lots in the town have advanced from $125
to 81 600.
JOHN G. BRADLEY and Charles W.
Palmer, cashier and assistant teller of the
Merchants National Bank, New Haven,
Conn, are in the sheriff's custody. Their
populations are varously estimated at from
1000 to 100000.
THERE is no provision of law under which
national banks can be established in Okla
| homa at present, as requirement. OF the
! law is that three-fourths of the directors
shall have resided in the territory for at
least one year preceding their election.
PROFESSOR DAVIS, superintendent of the
! Essex county On. j } schools, has preferred
| charges against Principal Dunbar of the
| Bloomfield schools because the principal
uses such expressions as {" Good gracious!"
and Mercy" and has pointed his finger at
| a pupil.
THE west-bound train on the st. Louis e.
San Francisco railroad which left st. Louis
/ Thursday night was wrecked at a point
| three miles west of Sullivan, Mo- Not a
passenger escaped unhurt Forty-fve are
! known to have been seriously injured,
| though no deaths are yet reported. The
track had been tempered with, presumably
| by train robbers.
APPLICATIONS for pensions are beginning
to come in at the pension Office in Washing
ton from the widows and dependent rela-
tves of the men who lost their lives in the
recent naval disaster at Samoa. The widow
of Captain Schoonmaker of the Vandalia "
filed her claim, few days ago, and it has
been submitted to the proper division for
! allowance. Her pension will amount to
$50 per month.
IN order to have more time for the trans
action of public business the president has
| decided upon certain changes in the hours
I
mencing with Friday, the business recep-
tons will begin at eleven o'clock instead of
at ten, as heretofore, and on cabinet days
TUESDAY and Friday will close at twelve
o'clock promptly. On Wednesday, Thurs
day and Saturday the receptions will last
until half-past twelve o'clock. The presi-
dent will reserve Monday to himself, and
will receive no visitors on business, except
by appointment.
THE second annual distribution of profits
at John Wanamaker's establishment in
Philadelphia took place recently. A certain
percentage of the profits is set aside for the
benefit of those employees who have been
seven years or longer in the service. This
fund for the year ending April 10, 1889
amounted to S4 1872, and was distributed
among nearly four hundred employees. In
addition to this there is monthly distribu.
ton of profits, which during the past year
amounted to SOS, 263. This was divided
among all the employees, irrespective OF
length of service. Last year S109,439 was
distributed in this way.
THE body of Dr. p H. Cronin, the Irish
American who strangely disappeared from
his home in Chicago two weeks ago, was
found last week some distance north of the
city in a sewer. bloody towel was wrapped
about the head. The rest of the body was
without clothing. A Catholic emblem which
the doctor always wore suspended about
his neck was untouched. On the dead
mans head were a dozen deep cuts which
severed the scalp and indented the skull
1t is the opinion of the police that Cronin
was foully murdered, and by some man who
could not bring himself to disturb Catholic
trinket. The body has been completely
identified by number of the doctor:
friends. The excitement over the mystery
in Chicago is intense and detectives are
carefully tracing every clew to the perpe
traitor of the crime.
ro,, b;ol a. Iroro,+ C;+.
Ark, over the school election, which wa,
held Saturday, May IS, and incendiary
speeches We're made 10y two colored men
A. NJ. Neely and G w. Ingraham. At til,
polls on Saturday Nicely had a fight with
white man and was knocked down by
by-stander. The trouble then became gen
eral, and in the melee three of the best-knowl
men in the county, one of them the sheriff
were killed. A. M. Nicely, the negro VIII,
started the whole trouble, was killed Sunday
Nicely and his father and brother tool
refuge in a building when the killing of ID
Wilson, Thomas Parham and Frank Folbr
occurred Saturday evening, and every effor
made to get at them proved unsuccess
ful, as the negroes were well barricaded
Sunday morning posse raided the build
ing. A, NJ. Nicely was discovered secrete,
under the floor and was riddled with bullets
at least ten shots being fired into him.
Foreign.
HE sultan presents 10 emperor VII
lam exceed 100000 in value
WILLIAM O'BRIEN testified before tn
Parnell commission last week.
THE Prague tramway lines are at a stand
still owing to the strike of the drivers.
, In Mr.. O Briens libel suit against Lor,
, Salisbury the damages are laid at 10000
THE number of persons drowned in tn
! recent floods in Austria is estimated at 100,
Two French fishing vessels have bee
: lost, and it is thought that 175 fishermen
were drowned.
ELEVEN of the crew of the foundere
: steamer Alaskan " have come ashore a
Florence, Oregon.
HoRTENsE LEDUC of Montreal falls hei
t to fortune of over 100000 by the deaf
/ of a French millionaire.
: PARIsIANs complain because the Amer
can section of the exhibition and part
2 the British section are closed on Sundays.
. NEARLY seven hundred houses wer
burned at Saint Sauveur, Quebec, last weel
i Six thousand people are homeless. TIL
loss is $600000.
/ THE steamer Cynthia" was sunk las
. week Thursday in the st. Lawrence by co