The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-02

Jhe Olne1.
THE village of Monticello, Illinois, ia
wild with excitement over numerous won
derlu faith-cures that have taken place in
the community. Several persons have gone
crazy
FouR laborers were killed and two NOR
tally wounded at Denver, Col, last week
Wednesday by the caving in of a cable car
track under which they were working at an
excavation.
4 CENTRAL PACIFIC train was stopped 10y
robbers last week Tuesday at Clipper Gap,
i'm the Sierras aud the passenger and eN-
press cars sacked to the extent of ten or
twenty thousand dollars.
JAMES GREEN of Wolcott n. V, cut his
wife's throat last week Thursday morning
and then went to his barn aud cut his own
throat. Both will die Domestic trouble
was the cause Of the tragedy.
ANOTHER steamboat disaster occurred on
the Mississippi last week Tuesday. The
John H. Hanna " caught fire and burned
to the waters edge, over thirty persons
being burned to death or drowned.
JUDGE a. 4. JOHNSTON of Cincinnati
committed suicide last week Wednesday by
shooting himself through the head. He
was broken down with grief at the death of
his wife, which occurred two months ago.
A WEALTHY citizen of Hannibal, Mo.
was murdered In his bed last Sunday night
by burglar who had crept into the room.
He awakened Mr.. Hillwcll and found il
necessary to kill him in order to make his
escape.
THE mutilated body Of an unknown Ger
man was found in Fairmount Park, Phila-
! de!phia, last week Wednesday, \ board
/ iug-house keeper Of HoholIeu entifed the
man ON Friday as George Hartman from
! Colorado
4 CONDEMNED murderer in a New Bruins.
/ wick n. j., Jail saved the life OF his iailer,
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of mailman, who had crept mp behind
/ him to dash out his brains with a large
stone cuspidOr.
FRANK j. MYERS was Instantly killed in
Toledo, Ohio, last week Tuesday by an
electric shock. An iron window which he
was closing came in contact with an cleo
tric light and the current was too strong
FOR him to bear.
Lucy Parsons, willow of the late an
archist, was forbidden by the Chicago
police to speak in that city, and the owner
| Of the hall in which the lecture was adver-
tised to take place required to surrender
the keys to the authorities.
\ LARGE hall at York, Penn, in which a
. Christmas entertainment was being held,
suddenly collapsed hurting three hundred
people from the second to the first floor.
Strange to say, no one was fatally injured
and few We're seriously hurt
NJ. G. FROST a farmer near Westerly,
| Maine, was knocked down in his barn, last
gaTged and r9bbed he two men who "a.
capped Frost has eleven bad cuts on his
head and neck and is in a precarious con-
dition.
FRANK MCGUIRE, a quarrelsome character
of East Hampton, Mass, was found dead
in the highway near that place last week
Friday His skull was fractured ami the
BODY bore other marks OF Violence a
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but. missing his aim. the heavy knot swung
around and buried itself in his own eve.
CHRISTIAN KA1MBAcH of Omaha, Neb.,
was attacked last week Wednesday in his
saloon by a robber, who shot him near the
temple. In spite of the fact that he was
fatally wounded, he seized the rascal and
threw INN out OF window n second
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MIR GLADSTONE mas decided not TO go To
rome
OsMAN DIGSA is preparing to retreat to
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt in
Spain last week.
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rived in London last week Monday.
TT IL renorted that the rebel tribes in tbp
soudan c6ntemplate snrrenderinp to the
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