The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-25

| FIVE of the miners entombed at Jeans
Vile, Penn, were found alive Monday
night.
In an incendiary fire in tenement house
at Brooklyn, Saturday night, six persons
| lost their lives.
| A SEVERE snow, sleet and rain storm &C.
| Cured throughout the Middle states during
the latter part Of last week.
THE body of Professor Bancroft, the miss
| ing professor Of Brown University, was
found in a pond at Cranston, II. J.. on
Monday.
In the special election in the second con-
gressional district of Rhode Island, last
week, Page, democrat, was elected by $500
majority.
Mrs. DANIEL LAMBERT, alias Clara
| Tucker, has been indicted by the grand jury
at Boston for polygamy. She has five hus-
bands living.
EDWIN S. STUART, republican, was elected
mayor of Philadelphia on last week Tues
day by a majority OF forty thousand over
his democratic opponent.
FIVE Indians, who are thought to have
had hand in in the murder Of Lieutenant
| Casey in the recent Indian troubles, are now
held at Fort Meade, S. d., for trial.
The Massachusetts senate has passed the
constitutional amendments providing for
biennial instead of annual elections and re-
| pealing the poll-tax prerequisite for voting
CAPTAIN FRANCIS l.. NORTON, who, with
| his wife, niece and seven others, left New
York on November "a in his air-chambered
| life-boat for Europe, has been given up for
lost. Nothing has been heard Of the little
craft.
SHEBUYA JuGIRo, the Japanese murderer
has failed in his appeal from the New York
court to the United States supreme court to
escape the penalty of electrocution. The
court has denied the writ of habeas corpus
applied for.
NINE persons were terribly burned by an
explosion Of natural gas in a house at Mar
tins Ferry, Ohio, on last week Wednesday
night. The gas got into the house through
a break in the street main and became ig-
nited, the explosion following.
Mrs. f. ii. HARRIS of Columbia, Conn.
while assisting her husband at the grist-mill
last week Tuesday afternoon, caught her
dress in the shafting and was carried around
several times. She was killed instantly
and her body was terribly mutilated.
In general order No. -, issued on last
week Wednesday, COMMUNICATIVE Chief
| Veazey instructs the officers Of the Grand
| Army when on duty to wear the prescribed
badge of mourning for thirty days as a mark
| of respect for the memory of General Sher-
man.
| JAMES ~. hlNSLFf II DOSlOH man,
! was arrested last week Wednesday charged
with the embezzlement of property valued
| at S34, 200 AT different times during the years
| 1883 and $780, belonging to various bankers
| in Boston, New York and Philadelphia and
other parties.
HEAVY floods occurred in western Penn.
sylvana and vicinity in the latter part of
last week, due to thaw. AT Johnstown,
| Penn, many buildings were taken from
|
for time. Washouts on the railroads
were numerous.
\ TENEMENT house on Hopkins street,
Brooklyn, was burned early last week
Wednesday morning. There were nine
| families in the building, all of whom es.
capped except Mrs. John Henry, widow,
who, with her four young children, was
burned TO death
COLONEL w. j. ELLIOT, editor of the
Columbus (O) Capital, shot and instantly
killed Albert Osborne, city editor of the
| World Monday afternoon. w. l.. Hughes
an old gentleman, was killed by stray
bullet. The affair was educed by news
paper controversy.
DURING heated discussion between
Mayor Fay and Alderman Rider OF Ports
mouth, n. H., on last week Thursday even
ing, William Quinn, an employee at Riders
store, struck the mayor in the face, knock
| ing MN down. quinn got a sentence OF
| thirty days the next morning.
HENRY A. CLARK, a wealthy manufac-
turer in Philadelphia, purchased few years
ago the old Doubleday farm, two miles
south of Sharon. Making more butter than
he could use, he sent some to Philadelphia,
and was soon overwhelmed with orders.
His shipments now amount to 800 pounds
weekly.
CHARLES OSCAR DECoURCEY, who claims
to be an English lord, and who had been
living at Machias, Me-, was arrested at Ban
gor last week on the charge of having duped
the people to the extent of over 500 at his
boarding house. After his arrest he took
half an ounce of laudanum in the presence
of an officer, with suicidal intent, but
prompt remedies were taken and his life
was saved
The river steamer Sherlock struck the
stone pier of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road bridge at Cincinnati, last week Tues
day evening, and in short time the hull
sank, leaving the cabin atloat with some
passengers on it. A number of passengers
and members of the crew were drowned.
The cabin boy says the mate and engineer
were both drunk and that the steamer was
short-handed because the officers were Mig
gardly.
THE supreme court of New York has
granted power to the Clipper Chilled Plow
company OF Ellnra to cancel its contract
with the National Harrow company, the re-
Gently formed combine of harrow manufac-
turers of the country. The first-named con-
Germ was one of the parties to the combine,
but in short time sought dissolution. The
decision declares that the National Harrow
company is firmly. entrenched monopoly
which effectively strangles competition and
is a conspiracy indictable at common law.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Fort Payne Coal and Iron Company last
week. it was voted that the stockholders be
given until March 10 to subscribe for bonds
at %, no stakeholder to he allowed to sub
scribe for more than $4,000 at that figure.
The board of directors met Thursday after
noon and elected the following officers: j.
w. Spaulding president; ID. II. Goodell,
first vice. president; W. T. Dunn, secretary;
F. H. Tobey, treasurer; T. p. Randall,
George S. Smith, j. w. Spaulding, execu-
| tive committee
A SAD railroad accident occurred in the
Fourth avenue railroad tunnel in New York
city about quarter-past seven o'clock last
week Friday morning. A shop train " of
empty cars was struck in the rear by the
New Haven local. A third engine, without
| cars, Immediately after ran into the New
Haven train. Fire broke out, and num-
Der of those in the train were burned to
death. After the fire department had put
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