The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-04

have been discovered, and it is feared there
may be some internal injury of a serious
nature.
JAMES E. French of MOultonboro, N. H.,
the new internal revenue collector for New
Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, is a mer-
chant He is best known, however, as a
former state railroad commissioner and
deputy.collector of internal revenue. He
has been for many years prominent in the
state committee He has appointed as dep
uties Col G. S. Forbes of st. Adams and
f. N. Whitney of Burlington
Domestic.
VoLAPuK is to be taught in one of the
Boston evening schools.
THE crew of the steamer Santiago"
which was burned at sea, was saved.
TRAIN robbers on the Santa Fe railroad
secured between $4,000 and $4,000 last
week.
Four Italians have been arrested, charged
with the murder of Edward Cunningham
of Milton, Mass. One OF them has confessed.
GENERAL b. f. BUTLER has been sued
by Samuel Strong of Washington for $780,
600 for Islander.
Mrs. HANNAH b. SoUTHw ORTIZ has been
indicted for the murder of Stephen l.. Pet
tus at New York.
WILLIAM HOLMAN, a farmer living near
Greenville, n. H., fatally shot his wife with
a shotgun on Thursday of last week. They
had had quarrel.
The residence of II. r.. Stowell at Athol,
Mass, was entered on Wednesday evening
of last week, and securities and cash to the
amount of nearly $4,000 taken.
THERE was bad snow-slide on the Gin
cinnati, Wabash & Michigan railroad last
week Friday. Heavy snow-storms also oc-
CURED in Minnesota and New York.
THERE were sos, 200 letters delivered by
special delivery messengers during the year
ending on June 30 This was an increase
of nearly twelve per cent over the proceed
ing year.
GENERAL CASEY, chief of engineers, has
recommended to Secretary Proctor that
S7,j0O,O00 be appropriated for the construc-
ton of mortar batteries and barbette bat
teres at Boston.
A Two-sToRY house at Dayton, Ohio, was
blown to pieces by an explosion of natural
gas on Tuesday of last week. Two chill
dren were killed and three other persons
were severely injured.
A CARLOAD of buffalo has arrived at New
port, n H., to be placed in Austin COrbin's
deer and several antelopes were started
at the same time from the West.
JUDGE BARNARD in the New York supreme
court has rendered decision in the Vassar
contested will case, deciding that the execu-
tors must pay $4,000 and interest to the
JIuSlttS III charge vi blt college, luUu.
The Enfield Shakers, who for many years
have raised dock-root for the firm of j. G..
Aver & Co., of Lowell, shipped them last
week over 300 barrels, or twenty-eight tons,
being this years crop. They will receive
$500 for the product.
THE superintendent of the dead letter
Office has submitted his report, showing
that 6,206,393 pieces of original dead mail
matter were received at that office during the
year ended June 30, 1899, decrease of 1888
from the number received the previous year.
AN officer of the Canadian customs, just
returned from the Pacific coast states that
the United States is losing nearly 81 ,0OO, 900
a year in revenue which should be collected
on prepared opium manufactured in British
Columbia and struggled into the United
States.
SECRETARY BLAINE has received COM
muncation from DR.. Cruz, a delegate to the
international American conference from
Guatemala, thanking the United States gov
eminent in the name of the government of
Guatemala for the constant and delicate at
tentions paid the delegates from that coun-
try during the excursion Just terminated.
In his decision against the Chicago gas
trust at Chicago, on last week Wednesday,
Judge Mugruder in the supreme court de-
clared that the creation of a giant company,
for the purpose of buying up other COM
panies in the same business, is not only op-
pOSeu W puDlC pOllCyp Dut Is IL COuLTdNtn-
ton of the spirit of the constitution This
reverses the decision of the lower court.
ALDERMEN CALLEN, Doughty and Maneese
and Detectives Bander, Doyle, Maggie and
Bender of Pittsburg, Penn. convicted of
conspiracy to defraud, in accepting brides
to settle illegal liquor-selling cases, have
been sentenced. Callen got three wears in
the workhouse, Doughty one year and
Maneese six months in jail. Bander and
his chief detective each got three years in
the workhouse, Nagle one year and Bender
six months in Jail.
In the report of Postmaster-general
Wanamaker for the year ending June 80 it
is suggested that authority be given to re-
tire clerks who have arrived at a certain
age upon the report of three bureau chiefs,
and to allow one years pay upon such re-
tirement; that system of mail distribution
on the ocean steamships be established;
that the question of establishing postal saw
ings banks at ten thousand fourth-cass Of
fees be considered. One cent postage is
said to be an easy possibility of the fu-
ture. A full parcels post is opposed.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH was assaulted with
stones by mob Of Orangemen at Toronto
last week.
MARTIN FARQUHAR UPPER, the we'll
known poet and prose writer, is dead. He
was born in 1910.
AN explosion took place in colliery at
Bochum last week Thursday, by which
fourteen people were killed and four injured.
w. II. HARVEY of Guelph, Ont, who
murdered his wife and two daughters last
March, was hanged last week Friday. The
execution was one of the worst pieces of
hanging ever witnessed.
THE London Times correspondent at Brus-
sells says: " A Belgian statesman who has
recently visited Rome learned that the pope
was compelled to abandon his attempt to
pacify Ireland because the clergy of that
country threatened to rebel against papal
authority in case he persisted in his inten-
ton as their living depended upon the
nationalists."
ADvICEs from Port-au-Prince, dated No
vember IA, state that the presentation of the
United States minister, Hon. Frederick
Douglass, took place at the palace of the
capital on that day, on which occasion Min
lister Douglass presented his letter of ere
dence and also his predecessors letter of
recall. Mr.. Douglass read his address, a
short, terse expression of the feelings of the