The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26

to save her from injury he leaped and
struck on a rail OF fence
A CALL for territorial convention has
been issued in Oklahoma, signed by Mayor
Dyer of Guthrie and committee OF citizens
The convention is to begin at Guthrie on
July II.
The governor of Missouri signed the New
berry bill last week. 1t prohibits the use Of
musical Instruments, cards, dice, billiard
tables, poUl-tables, bowling-alleys and box
ing-goves in saloons.
FRANK l.. WOODRUFF. late assistant post
master at Lawrence, Kansas, has been ar
rested ON the charge of embezzling between
$1,000 and $4,000 from the deposit
department of that office.
The total appropriations made by the
New York legislature at the recent session |
were $12, 558,055. The governor gives out |
a memorandum showing that he has vetoed |
appropriation bills amounting to 81 ,80S,550 |
j. LEAMAN of Chico, CAL, died recently. |
He was about lightweight years old and |
was said to be the Oldest Odd Fellow living, |
being a charter member of the first lodge or |
ganized in this country by Wildey at Bati-
more, in 1919.
JOHN II. LOCKE, recently appointed post
master at Portsmouth, N. H., died last |
week, aged forty. eight. His death is said
to be due to sickness caused by eating
straw berries and to overexcitement about
his appointment
Fort Scott, has been swept away by floods
| 1t contained 600 inhabitants. Several were
drowned. Floods in Southeastern Kansas
did much damage to crops and railroads and
a number of people were drowned.
ANOTHER important arrest has been
made in the Cronin case Martin Burke
was taken into custody, the first of last
week, at Winnipeg, and is identified as one
of the Williams brothers who engaged the
cottage in which the murder was committed.
A DISASTROUS fire, accompanied by seri-
GUS loss of life, occurred early last week Fri
day evening in the fireworks establishment
of Heyer Brothers, corner OF Summer and
Hawley streets, Boston. The building,
which is four-story brick structure, is oc-
cupied on the ground floor by G. +. Brown
ing, milliner, and on the three upper floors
by Heyer Brothers, dealers in fancy goods
and fireworks During the fire the discharge
of fireworks sounded as If a hard-fought bat
tie was in progress, and for nearly two
hours was heard the rattle of small mus
kerry, interspersed at frequent intervals
with the heavier reports of the larger pieces,
while sparks and an occasional rocket
would shoot from the window. These ex-
plosons created great CONSERVATION among
the spectators. Heyer Brothers estimate
their loss at $4,000 to 100000, upon which
there was an insurance of $4,000 in fifteen
companies. Browning's loss will be- per-
haps, $50, 1000 which is insured.
Foreign.
ADELINA PATTI is reported seriously i'll at
Paris.
THE pope has reopened the Vatican gates
and resumed his receptions.
The sultan of Turkey has contributed
goo to the Johnstown relief fund
CAMELs are to be employed on a line of
coaches in New South Wales, the sultry
climate being very severe on horses.
THE machinery hall of the Paris exposi-
ton is sufficiently capacious for a cavalry
regiment to be handled by the most expert
tactician.
The king of Holland, who had recovered
sufficiently from his recent illness to re-
sumo the rens of government, has had a
serious relapse.
will be treated as Lord Beaconsfeld's have
been-withheld from publication during the
lifetime of the queen.
THE Italian government has Joined Rus.
STA and Germany in asking the Swiss au-
thorities to maintain stricter surveillance
over foreigners in Switzerland.
! The French senate has forwarded to the
public prosecutor report on the case of
General Boulanger, advising that proceed
ings be at once begun against him.
THE Dissident Liberals Association of
Midlothian, Mr.. Gladstone's district, have
, decided not to run a candidate in opposition
, to Mr.. Gladstone in the next parliamentary
5 THE Hamburg Correspondent asserts that
[ the relations of Germany with the French
| government under President Carnot are
: better and more cordial than they have
been with any previous government of
France.
: Mr.. PARNELLs appeal against the post
: ponement of his libel suit against the Times
t has been dismissed with costs. The court
: decided that the delay in the trial had not
: damaged Mr.. Parnells character, the Times
: having admitted the libel and paid the
, money into court.
, ONE-HALF of the city of Lachan, China
, was recently destroyed by fire. The cont1a.
, grafton ragged four days. 1t is estimated
. that 200 persons were killed, most of them
$ being crushed to death in trying to escape
from the narrow streets. Ten thousand
# persons are homeless and fund has been
d started for the relief of the sufferers.
y LAST Saturday afternoon on the st. Mau.
{ rice river, eight miles from the City of Three
# Rivers, p O., a shocking catastrophe oc'
:. Cured. A barge used to ferry railway
4; freight and passengers across the river sud
:, denly became unmanageble in midstrean
=. and was swept over the Grand Falls, anC
o with the exception of two passengers, who
:, made an almost miraculous escape, all on
II board were drowned. AS far as can bt
d ascertained at present, twenty lives are
y supposed to have been lost, but up to thu
II latest accounts received only six bodies
3. have been recovered from the river below
:, the falls.