The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-13

places $4,000 within the limits of South
Dakota and ri 600 in North Dakota.
THE anarchist memorial celebration at
Chicago on Sunday was very tame Mrs.
Lucy Parsons, in defiance of the police pro-
hibition of red flags, hung one from the
window of her residence on Milwaukee av
enue early in the day, but policeman
pulled it down.
THE president formal, opened the South
ern Exposition at Montgomery, Ala, on
Tuesday of last week by touching the knob
of the telegraph instrument at the White
House connected by wire with the expo
stion building, thereby setting the ma
chinery in motion.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the APP
pointment of the first American bishop of
the Catholic church was observed at Balti-
more on Sunday, when the first congress of
laynen in this country began its session.
The new Catholic university will be dedi-
Gated during the session.
COLONEL WILLIAM CAssIUs GooDLoE, men,
Der of the national republican committee
from Kentucky and collector of the seventh
internal revenue district, stabbed and killed
Colonel A. NJ. Swope, prominent republic
can, on Friday of last week. GoOdloe was
shot and fatally wounded.
EDWARD OTIS HINKLEY of Baltimore, sec
rotary of the American Bar Association, and
j. Hubley Ashton of Washington delivered
TO President Harrison last week a letter
prepared by a distinguished committee in
behalf of the association, setting forth the
great accumulation of business of the
United States supreme court and making a
strong statement of the urgent necessity for
the enactment of some measure of relief.
A SPECIAL meeting of Patrons Of Hus
baudry was held at Manchester, n. H., on
Wednesday of last week to consider the
matter of the abandoned farms of the state
IiSrnSg thn nrO1ppt rpnDnllntn them
by immigration. There was considerable
opposition to the immigration idea, the
sentiment seeming to be nearly evenly di-
Vided. Commissioner of immigration
Batchelder, Governor Goodell and II. II.
Metcaf of Concord spoke in favor of the
scheme
In his annual report for the signal service
General Greedy complains of the lack of
facilities in almost every department. He
recommends either that instruction in the
art of military signaling be abandoned or
ample material and moral support given the
chief, so that he may raise IL to u high stand
ard of efficiency. Regarding river observa-
tions, he says: While this Office was en-
abled on general and meteorological grounds
to forecast from twelve to twenty-four hours
in advance the severe and destructive floods
which occurred at the end of May, 1889, in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Western New
York and West Virginia, yet had a COM
plete river and flood service, supplemented
by rainfall stations, been in operation, it
would have resulted in more definite fore
casts, and in consequence great benefit to
the general public"
Foreign.
The Paris exposition closed on Wednes-
day of last week.
The volcano of Colima, Mexico, is in a
state of active eruption. Many houses are
destroyed and the woods for miles around
are on fire.
DETAILS have been received of the recent
engagement in Zanzibar between a section
of Captain Wismann's expedition. under
command of Lieutenant Gravenreuth, and
Chief Bushri's forces, which resulted in the
defeat of the rebels. The Matites made
three desperate charges upon the Germans,
but were repulsed with great slaughter.
Seven friendly natives were killed, but no
Europeans.
REPORTS from Mier, Mexico, state that
a week ago Sunday merchant named
Guterios was shot and killed by two Gus
toms guards who claimed he refused to be
searched. On learning of the merchants
murder, a mob of citizens captured the
guards and lynched them. About fifty
Mexican troops and twenty customs guards
arrived too late to rescue the guards and
general battle ensued, which resulted in the
death and wounding of ten or fifteen men.