The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

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students of the Institute attended in body
ON the afternoon of October 2G, while Mr.
and Mrs Il. S. Anderson, who reside about
half way between BichfOrd and East Berk
shire, were returning TO their home, their
horse took fright and became uncomfortable
Mrs. Anderson was thrown out and sus
tanned severe INJURIES from which she died
on the following day. Mr.. Anderson es-
capped, almost miraculOusly, with but slight
bruises
CHARLES ID. Bowers, a son OF Mrs. NJ. l..
Bowers of Bellows Falls, died recently at
| Highlands, y, G.. Mr.. Bowers was twenty
seven years of age and "A young man of great
! promise. He was to have been married this
fall, but at a somewhat later date, and when
! it was seen that his illness of two months
duration was approaching "A fatal termiua-
| ton, the ceremony was performed at his
death-bed.
! A MEETING of the Vermont Veteran Assoc
/ citation of Boston was held at the rooms of
| the Home Market Club on Tuesday evening
| of last week. II was voted to postpone the
/ banquet, announced to take place NOvem-
! Der II. until the time of the annual meeting,
| the appointment of which was left to the
| executive committee. Remarks were made
| by Comrades Warren, Bond Lewis, DR..
| Thayer and others. Colonel Albert Clarke,
| who accompanied the Vermont delegates to
the dedication Of the monument at Gettys-
burg, gave an interesting account OF the
visit and dedication.
THE Vermont Dairymens Association
| will hold its twentieth annual meeting at
/ the town hall in Rutland, January -, Is
and II, 1890 The new butter extractor, the
! greatest wonder of the age in the dairy line,
will be exhibited there, and speakers who
have won IA national reputation for their
! knowledge Of dairy matters have been en-
gagged to deliver addresses at that time.
| Two hundred dollars will be paid in pre-
miums on butter and cheese Let cheese
] makers hpnr This i'm mind bnfnrn 1isppsiun
| Of their best cheese, Further notice will
| be given from time To time, and a detailed
programme will be issued about Decem-
| Der 10th,
Domestic.
A STRIKE of Key West sugar-makers has
! occurred
The wool firm of Heslon & Erben, Phila-
delphia has failed.
| SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered cattle men
out of the Cherokee Outlet.
The Sioux Indians in Wyoming are suffer-
| ing greatly from starvation.
The Navassa rioters have arrived in Bal
timore and are under arrest.
SECRETARY Tracy accepted the cruiser
" Charleston on last week Friday.
A BAD storm occurred in Nebraska, Colo
RADIO and Wyoming on Friday of last week
President HARRISON has appointed the
2Sth instant as a day of national thanksgiv-
ing.
The National Conference of Unitarian
Churches was held at Philadelphia list
week.
JOHN FIELD has been appointed post
master of Philadelphia, vice William Har-
| rity, removed.
FIVE Chinese lepers We're shipped home
on the Hong Kong steamer from San Fran
cisco last week.
The forty-third annual meeting of the
American Missionary Society was held at
Chicago last week.
NEW YORK won the worlds champion
ship at baseball defeating Brooklyn six
times while Brooklyn won three victories.
AN epidemic of hog cholera prevails in
the northern and northwestern counties Of
Indiana. Hundreds of hogs are dying
daily.
The HatfeldMcCoy feud in West Vir-
ginia took the form of a pitched battle last
week, according to reports. The story is
denied.
The body of Captain c. II. SHOEMAKER,
who was drowned near Samoa in the great
storm of March 16, has been taken to San
| Francisco.
Is the report of General Howard com
handing the division of the Atlantic, he
calls attention to the lack of armament
along the coast
In the Cronin trial, last week Friday,
Jonas Carlson identified Martin Burke as
the man who rented the cottage, giving the
name of Frank Williams.
The secretary of the navy has awarded
to Harrison Loring of Boston the contract
for constructing cruiser No II, of 1000 tons
displacement, for SG74 ,0O0 TO be completed
in two and one-half years
THE hearing of the case Of Consul Lewis
of Morocco is finished at the state depart
ment. Lewis will be eXonerated and will
~ a his pf Iuty having ali snrnNaI
all the charges against him.
COMMANDER HIGGINsoN Of the man-of-war
New Hampshire" is charged with caus-
ing the death of an apprentice boy by con-
timing him on board the vessel after it had
been ordered vacated because of fever in
lection.
ACTING SECRETARY BATCHRLDER has de-
cided that Chinese laundrymen are labor
ers within the meaning of the Chinese re-
strictve act and are therefore prohibited
from landing in the United States, no mat
ter whether they have been here before or
not.
THE secretary of the interior has decided
that the superintendent, supervisors and
enumerators of the census in New York,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts shall be
appointed by the two senators, acting in
conjunction with the republican representa-
tives, from those states.
ALL the unsold lands in Florida of the
of the Florida Southern railroad, of the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West system,
including the Florida Southern railroad,
and of the Florida Commercial Company,
have been consolidated under the name of
the Associated Railway Land Department
of Florida
Foreign.
THE British ship Bolan," from Calcutta,
has foundered, losing thirty-three lives.
THE Londop Vorld says the queen will
open the coming session of parliament in
person.
The overflow of the Pc has caused the
loss of many lives and the destruction of
much property.
Mrs, MAVERICKS cause has not been
abandoned. A strong effort is about to be
made for her release.
THE chief organ in Quebec, La Cdnddien,
has come out in favor of imperial fedora
ton to Offset the annexation spirit
A TELEGRAM from Guatemala states that
the revolution in that republic is ended and
that the government has triumphed over its
enemies.
Al, ,g.ust,