The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-04


bilities amount to nearly S60O,0OO, although
the exact amount is not known.
The missionary schooner Phoebe Chap
man." in charge of a Second Advent mis-
sionary named Cudeny, of Nebraska, has
been lost near the Society Islands.
JAMES NJ SLocUM, the New York base
ball player who killed his wife on January
1, 1889, was resentenced on last week Thurs
day to die in the week beginning Mar h 16.
The governor of New Hampshire has
granted pardon to Michael VIM of
Nashua, who has served eight years on
twenty years sentence for numbering his
wife.
THE decennial anniversary celebration
of the Christian Endeavor Society was be-
gun at Portland, Maine, Monday evening
The exercises are being attended by large
numbers Of members.
THE vote for senator in the Kansas legis.
lature on last week Wednesday was: Pfef-
fer, 101, ingalls,, 50; Blair, 3; Morrill,, 1;
Kelly, /. Senator Ingalls, did not poll the
| full republican vote.
HARRIS A. SMILER, who murdered his
| wife in 1890, and was convisted of the crime
! and sentenced to be electrocuted in August
! last, but got stay has been re-sentenced to
die in the week beginning March 4, 1891.
JOHN FERGUSON, farmer of Langdon,
| N. H., while driving on the Sullivan rail-
| road track near South Charlestown last
/
train, and he and his two horses were killed.
A COLLISION between passenger train and
a special train bearing 400 soldiers from
| Pine Ridge to Fort Riley occurred at Flor
ence, Kan, last week Monday evening, and
many of the soldiers were seriously injured,
two fatally.
SIX Cinnamon and two white men were
arrested at Buffalo, N. Y, on last week
Wednesday, charged with violating the
! Chinese exclusion act. The white men are
believed to have been working an under
ground railway.
A DEMOCRATIC representative in the
| Washington legislature says that he was
offered $1,000 to vote for Senator Squire by
a man who was vouched for by Squires
private secretary as being all right in what
ever offer he made.
SUNDAY afternoon, as an oil well shooter
was on his way to well near ST. Mary's.
o., with load of nitrO-g lycerine, 1t ex-
poded and blew the horses, wagon and
driver to atoms. The only evidence of the
disaster was a huge hole in the roadway.
Mrs. HENRY WIsoNa of Horton, Kan,
attempted to kill herself last week Friday
night. While yet alive, she set fire to the
| house and she and two children burned to
death. She was widow in destitute cir
cumstances and had become insane through
fear of starvation.
JOHN w. MACKAY, the bonanza king, and
G. w. Bonyuge, a broker, had a rough-and
tumble fight in a bank Office at San Fran
cisco on last week Tuesday. Both were
well scratched and bruised Mackay says
Bonyuge was the instigator of attacks on
his wife in the newspapers.
l.. b. IMBoDEN of Fort Worth, Texas,
president of the New England Trust and
Savings Bank who was on last Friday in
dicted for forgeries to the amount of Sl2,-
600, was on Saturday indicted on two more
charges of swindling and enlightenment,
each to the amount OF 80 900.
CHARLES MILLER, who murdered two
boys, named Fishbaugh and Emerson, in a
freight car while they were en- route from
their homes in St. Joseph to Denver. has
been sentenced to be hanged on March 20.
Miller is fifteen years old. He did not ex-
hibit the slightest trace of emotion when
the sentence was passed upon him.
A MEETING of representatives of the New
England railroads which are closely con.
nected with the trunk lines was held at
Boston on last week Tuesday, with the pur-
pose of exacting pledge from all the New
England roads that they will unite with the
trunk lines in ceasing to pay commissions
on passenger business Another meeting
will be held on the 18th instant. The Cen
trail Vermont was not represented last
week.
GENERAL MILES said at Chicago last
week regarding the Indian troubles: Now
that Sitting Bull and other chiefs are killed
and have most of the others here, the In
dams are left, you might say, without a
leader, and there is no danger OF further
outbreak ON the reservations. These men
whom l brought to Chicago are a crowd of
outlaws. Three hundred of the Indians
were sent to Fort Sully. The others are
all now under control of military authority
and back on their reservations, where they
belong, or are on their way there"
THE meeting and dinner of the Whole
sale Marble Dealers Association of New
England occurred at the American house,
Boston, on last week Wednesday. The
treasurer's report stated that there was S130
in the treasury The resignation of Presi-
dent Morton of Hartford was accepted, and
it was voted to 50 amend the constitution
as to have an annual meeting instead of a
semi annual meeting, to be held in January.
Among the directors elected was Charles
III. Sheldon of Rutland 1t was voted to
hold the next meeting at Rutland. There
We're nearly 100 ladies and gentlemen
present.
Congress.
TUEsDAY.-The credentials of Messrs.
Stanford and Irby, az senators-elect from
California and South Carolina for the term
beginning on March 4, were presented and
placed on file. Among the petitions pre-
sented and referred was one asking that the
government receive potatoes and issue
treasury certificates thereon at the rate of
4 | per bushel. Mr.. Edmunds reported from
the committee the house bill against coun-
terfeitng, which was adopted, with amend
ments, and conference was asked. The
house bill providing for the payment of In
dian depreciation claims was consider d
until two o'clock, when the apportionment
bill was taken up as the unfinished bust
ness, the question being on Mr.. Davis
amendment to increase the total number of
representatives from 1856 (as proposed in the
house bilD to 800 and giving an additional
member to each of the states of Arkansas,
Minnesota, Missouri and New York. -
The house went into committee of the whole
on the military academy bill.
WEDNEsDAY.-In the senate the apportion-
ment bill was taken up, and a long debate
occurred. - The house went into com
mittee of the whole on the military academy
appropriation bill but no progress was
made
THURSDAY. The senate passed the bill
creating the office of fourth assistant
postmaster-general, and the apportionment
bill was then taken up. Mr.. Edmunds
called attention to the fact that the bill
took no cognizance of the provisions of the
fifteenth amendment to the constitution,
which provides that in case the right OF