The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

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his lease he is entitled to one-half of the
baby, and has instituted proceedings to pre-
vent its removal.
HERMoN MONTE and Peter jacobson of
Houghton. Mich, struck a dynamite car
fridge, while drilling shaft, one day last
week 1t was loaded and Peter and Her
mon are now no more-but no doubt know
more about the irritability OF the apparently
quiescent bomb
THE Columbia College trustees have APP
proved the project for woman's college in
conjunction with the present institution.
| The new department will occupy a separate
building and will be called Barnard Col
lege, in honor of DIR. Barnard, for twenty
five years president of Columbia
A FRE1GHr-TRAIN ran on to burning
bridge eighty miles east Of Wheeling,
w Va, last week Monday. The engine
and fourteen cars broke through and were
burned. The engineer and brakeman saved
themselves by jumping, but two unknown
tramps who were stealing ride, were killed.
EDWIN BooTH the great actor, was taken
i'll during performance of Othello at Roch-
ester, n. Y, last Wednesday evening, and 1t
was feared that he had sustained a stroke of
paralysis but later reports contradict this
statement and describe his illness as tenn
porary loss of voice due to excessive
smoking.
MONROE LAsATER, a crazy Missourian,
recently conceived the idea that he was a
second Abraham and considered himself
divinely commissioned to sacrifice his in
FAINT son. He made his wife strangle the
! boy, claiming that he would be resurrected
| on the third day. Lasater and his wife have
! been arrested
| PLUMMERvILLE, Ark, the town where
! the ballot box was stolen and where John
NJ. Clayton, the republican congressman
| elect, was aSsassinated, was the scene of
another political murder recently. The vic
tim was Joseph p. Smith, prominent col
ored man, who had furnished valuable evil
dence to the detectives.
The Rhode Island state election, last
Wednesday, resulted, with one exception,
in no choice by the people on the general
ticket. Davis, democratic candidate for
governor, had u $50 votes, and Ladd, repub-
lican, 1862. The former lacks 54S of an
election. The only candidate elected was
Slocum democrat, attorney-general.
AN adrot system Of smuggling has been
unearthed in New York by which the GUS
toms have been defrauded of over S250,0O0
during the last few years. The Vanderbilts,
CARROTS and others have been imposed upon
by the smugglers. Valuable tapestries,
| jewelry and embroidery were smugged past
! the customs officials, concealed in old furni-
| ture that was admitted almost free of duty.
| HENRIETTA AND EMMA DAY of Summit,
| n. j., confessed last week that they set fire
to the Randolph block and several other
! buildings that have recently been burned
! The girls said they liked to set houses on
! fire :" just to see big blaze" While they
were being taken to Jail the younger one
broke away and raced like deer across the
| fields. She was chased for more than a
mile before being captured. After Henri
eta was put in her cell she tried to batter
down the door with large stone. Thomas
Britt entered the room to disarm her and
was felled to the floor like a log. Britt got
the stone away after struggle and escaped
| from the tigress. Emma sat on the cot and
applauded her sister. During the night the
| young Amazons amused themselves by
smashing the windows, tipping over the
stove and wrestling with each other.
Foreign.
KING JOHN of Abyssina is dead
JOHN HENRY POPE, Canadian minister OF
railways, is dead.
RETIRING Consulgeneral Waller of Lon.
don will be banqueted May 2.
THE members of the Roumanian ministry
have rendered their designations to the king
THE National Liberal Club London, has
unanimously elected Mr.. Parnell an honor
airy life member.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY Alsations have
been fined heavily for failing to report fol
service in the German army.
IT is stated that the sultan of Turkey has
discovered a plot to depose him and to place
his brothers heir on the throne.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL refuses tC
contest the seat made vacant at Birming
ham by the death of John Bright.
THE French chamber of deputies has re
jected the proposal of the senate to prose
cute newspapers that have lbeled govern
ment officials.
AN extensive nihilist printing establish
ment has been discovered in Warsaw, Rus
STA, and many persons connected with il
have been arrested.
AT the recent London diocesan confer
ence the bishop of Bedford advocated card
playing in working mems clubs, but rather
strangely disapproved OF dominoes.
THE great Eiffel tower, which will be one
of the principal features of the coming Paris
exhibition, was opened Sunday, March 81
Premier Tirard delivered an Grafton.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for pub
lie debate in London, some time in May
between Henry George and Samuel Smith
a Gladstonian member of parliament.
CoUNT HERBERT BISMARCK is reported a.
saying that his interviews with Lord Sails
bury have resulted in a complete under
standing between Germany and Grea
Britain.
THE English prvy council has reversed
the decision of the Canadian court which
had declared that metals discovered on the
coast of British Columbia belonged t.
Canada.
EMPEROR WILLIAM presented Prince Bis
marck with an enormous hound on his re
cent birthday, to take the place of the chan
cellors famous Reichshund,' which dice
some time since.
THE French ministry on Thursday asked
the chamber of deputies to sanction tn,
prosecution of General Boulanger, and, afte
a short debate, the chamber voted in favo
of prosecution 1856 to 203
Two verdicts for libel against the Pal
Mall Gazette were returned last Thursday
one for 5000 and the other for $500. TIL,
plaintiff was Mrs. Irwin, who had been &C
cused of disgraceful conduct.
THE new ministry of Peru has resigned
giving as the reason therefor the impossi
bility of conciliatng the minority in con
gress regarding any arrangement for the pay
ment of Peruvian bondholders.
OK Thursday the British house of lords
by vote of ninety-tive to seventy-seven
elected the Earl of Morley, liberal, chair
man of committees, rejecting Lord Sails
burys candidate, Lord Balfour of Burleigh
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has at last beel
heard from. In a long and graphic lette
to the chairman Of the Emin Pacha relic
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