The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01

The Maine legislature has passed new
liquor law, which is much the same as the
present law, with the punishment increased
for each offence to $500 fine and sixty days
impri' onment.
THE Washington National bank Of New
York has failed and is in the hands of the
national bank examiner. The depositors
| will be paid in full; and the loss will fall on
the stockholders.
In the New Hampshire house last week
| the committee on labor reported favOrably
upon the bill making nine hours a legal
| days work, but the report was rejected by
a viva voce vote.
BUFFALO BILL has secured the consent
of Secretary Noble to his taking to Europe
the hostile Sioux now held as prisoners at
| Fort Sheridan. They are to make up his
" wild west" show.
the military commission appointed to try
| Mrs. Surratt and her fellow conspirators
after the assassination OF President Lincoln,
died at Louisville, KY, on last week Friday.
BRowN, HOWARD & Co. and other con
! tractors have taken preliminary steps TO
| bring suit against New York city for &c.,
600 000, which sum they claim was wrong
| fully withheld from them on false pleas of
poor work on the Croton aqueduct.
Miss SOPHIA G. HAYDEN of Boston wins
the $1,000 prize offered for the best design
for the womau's building of the worlds fair.
| MISS lJOlS II. I1OWt, also Vi DOSbOil was btC-
ond, $500, and Miss Laura Hayes of Chicago
| gets the $3.50 offered for the third best de-
sign.
The war department has given orders
| that the Indian who was indicted for the
murder of Lieutenant Casey near Pine
| Ridge, S. D., and another Indian accused
| of the murder of herder named Miller, be
turned over to the civil authorities at Sioux
| City for trial.
THE labor organizations of Nebraska have
asked Governor Boyd TO veto maximum
freight rate bill. The claim is made that
! the BILL il it becomes a law, will have the
effect of throwing hundreds out of employ
ment and reducing the wages of those re-
naming sixty per cent.
RESOLUTIONS were passed at meeting of
the Grant monument association at New
York last week, asking the legislature to
appropriate 100000 Of the state direct tax
recently refunded by the United States, for
the purpose Of erecting a monument to
General Grant at Riverside park.
HELEN p. CLARK, an Indian girl, who
was teacher at the Carlisle, Penn, Indian
| school, has been appointed special allot-
ment agent by the United States govern
ment, and has left for Montana to assume
the duties of her office. She will superin-
tend the allotment of lands to the Indians
The government has sent marshals to the
| reservation of the Usage Indians in Indian
Territory to order the stockmen to take
their cattle off the reservation. The land
| had been leased from the Indians, and there
| are as many as 100000 cattle on the reger-
walton. The notification has caused much
excitement.
FUNERAL services over the remains of
General Joseph E. Johnston were held at
st. Johns Episcopal church, Washington,
on last week Tuesday morning. Among
| those in attendance were Vice. President
! Morton and General VeaZey, commander-n-
| chief Of the Grand Army The rpmaiOa
were taken to Baltimore.
A CONSPIRACY to get the fortune of Loring
A. Robertson, a leather merchant who died
at Brooklyn last October, has been I'M
earthed. No will was left, and the heirs,
among whom is Elvira Steadman of Brat
| tleboro, applied for letters of administration.
Then woman, with the name of person
who was a skeleton in Mr.. Robertson's
| bachelor closet, appeared and claimed to be
his widow. reporter discovered that she
was the inmate of a dance-house, and the
surrogate disallowed her claims. Mr.. X b.
ertson's fortune was between %, 100000 and
| S15,000,000.
SINCE the arrest Of officers Of the knights
of Labor at Rochester, N. Y, for alleged
eXtortions from clothing manufacturers by
raising boycotts, the following has appeared
in the Journal Of the Knights Of Labor:
" Brothers-See that you appoint commit
tees at once to call on every retail clothing
dealer in your locality. Tell them they
must countermand all orders of Rochester
made clothing. Give all retail dealers to
understand they must not buy clothing from
any Rochester manufacturer till the tyrants
who are in the Rochester combine with its
100000 capital, meet organized labor and
meet us with justice as free men and not as
slaves"
THE state railroad commission of New
York has completed its investigation into
the matter of the Fourth avenue tunnel
accident and finds that Lewis Fowler, en-
| gineer, and Charles Wellington fireman,
were directly responsible for the accident in
that they passed distance and home signals
when set at danger The New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad company is
also held directly responsible for the death
of the victims of the accident in so far as
such death was contributed to by the burn
ing of the cars, because of the failure of the
railroad company to conform to the law re-
quiring its cars TO be heated other than by
stove or furnace,
THE remains of Lawrence Barrett were
buried at Cohassett Mass, on last week
Tuesday. The fact that he was Mason is
said to have almost cost him the privilege
of the rites of the Catholic church. Father
Sherman, who administered the sacrament
in New York, said he did not know Barrett
was Mason until the last moment Then
he went to Archbishop COrrigan and on the
understanding that there would be no Ma
The subject of the actors original name has
been discussed freely since his death, and
there seems to be no doubt but that II was
Brannigan. 1t is said the death certificate
gives that as the name of his parents. The
family lived at Lyndon VT, several years
while Lawrence was boy. The father was
a tailor.
Foreign.
THERE is war between Venezuela and
British Guiana.
A HANDSOME English woman named Eve
line Neal has been arrested at Paris for
marriage frauds. She invegled forty-three
men to marry her by advertising herself as
wealthy widow. Her last victim was a
, viscount, who had almost ruined himself
: by gambling.
The court martial in the case Of the sol
. diers concerned in the revolt at Oporto
' Portugal, last January, has rendered a de.
!. cision that Captain Letas, the principal
leader, be sentenced to six years imprson
mont and ten years Punishment to Africa
7 The other leaders are given more lenien
. sentences.
M. AULARD, a French professor of history
Itch. H.,