The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27

President Grant, and minister to Austria
| His first wife was a member of the Phelps
family of this state.
JOHN BRowNsoN HoLLENBECK, the oldest
resident of Burlington and the oldest Mason
| in the United States, died Sunday morning
in his one hundreth year He was born at
Richmond, and was in the customs service
at Burlington for some time, but during
many years he was a justice of the peace
and did much legal business In 1878 he
fell and broke his hip so that he had been
unable to walk since.
Mrs. ALLISON NORTON of Addison was
supposed to have died about the middle of
week before last. On the following Friday
| her remains were taken to East Middlebury,
where it was discovered that the body was
warm. Efforts to revive her were made,
but they were unsuccessful, and the body
was buried on last week Wednesday. It is
reported that cannon was fired over her
| in order to make certain that death had
taken place.
DIR. o. w. SHERwIN of Woodstock was
| recently appointed member of the state
board of health to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of DR.. A. II. Chesmore of
Huntington, and on Thursday of last week
the board met at Burlington to organize
DIR. G. Caverly of Rutland was reelected
president, and DR.. j. III. Hamilton of Rich
ford was reelected secretary. The board
discussed various matters and decided to
issue circular upon the cause and proven
ton of tuberculosis The next meeting of
the board will be held in June, and it is ex-
pected that meetings will hereafter be held
in connection with the health officers of the
various counties.
Domestic.
SECRETARY PRoCToR reports that the
work of enliSting Indians in the regular
army is progressing well.
FIVE hundred persons in the vicinity of
Pittsburgh, Penn, have been poisoned by
smoked sturgeon. Two have died in great
agony.
WILLIAM SHEF was thrown against
circular saw at Larone, Maine, on last week
Tuesday, and his body was cut completely
in two.
CITY TREASURER BARDsLEY of Philadel-
phia has resigned under cloud He has
made an assignment of all his property for
the benefit of the city.
THE cornerstone of the Masonic home at
Utica, n. y, was laid, with elaborate cere-
monies, on last week Thursday. Chauncey
M. Depew made one of the speeches.
A FURIOUS rain and hail storm occurred
throughout Missouri and Kansas on last
week Thursday. The damage to crops. etc,
in the vicinity of St. Louis was toward
100000.
BoTH houses of the Illinois assembly have
adopted resolution recommending w. NJ.
Springer for speaker of the national house
of representatives. Republicans and farm
ers voted for the resolution.
AN application for the seizure and con-
demnation of the Robert and Minnie, which
supplied the Itata with munitions of war,
was made before the United States district
court on last week Saturday.
THE president has issued proclamation
opening TO the public settlement, under the
homestead law, about 1000, 600 acres of
land in the Fort Berthold Indian reserva-
in the northwestern part of North Dakota.
THE Northwestern railroad refuses to re-
instate its former employees who went out
on strike and who subsequently decided
to return to work. The men were all in
formed there was no work for them at pres
ent.
THE standing committees of the different
Episcopal dioceses have ratified the election
of Phillips Brooks as bishop. The only
opposition was in the New York diocese
in which it is understood the vote was six to
four.
THE supreme court of the United States
has dismissed the appeals of Jugiro, Slo-
cum, Wood and Smiler, the condemned
murderers now in Sing Sing prison. Prepa-
rations for the execution of the prisoners
with electricity will now proceed.
IT is estimated that the loss from recent
fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa will reach somewhere from 5000 900
to S5,OO0,000, while hundreds of families are
homeless. The territory burned over is
nearly half as large as all New England.
A LARGE quantity of dynamite in a freight
, car which was standing on a side track at
Tarrytown, n. Y, exploded on last week
Tuesday, and eighteen Italian laborers
+ were killed outright, while twenty were so
badly wounded that some have since died.
The bodies were shockingy mangled.
! IT is stated upon what appears to be good
authority that the civil service commission
has made report, not only to the secre.
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general, in the case of Green b. Raum, Jr.
and the others alleged to have been concerned
in the recent appointment of man named
Smith to position in the pension office, in
which they express their belief that all
have violated the civil service laws.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOSTER has
/ appointed a commissions composed of ex.
A Congressman Charles II. Grosvenor of Ohio
2 DR.. Walter Kempster, the noted expert on
\ insanity, and Mr.. Powderly, brother of T
e V. Powderly, to proceed to Europe and in
vestigate the immigration problem. The
commission will sail about the middle Of
June. Prior to their departure, the com
: mission will devote some time to studying
! the character of the immigrants who come
to this country and land at the port of New
York.
THE United States supreme court on Mon
day upheld the constitutionality OF the
original package law passed by congress
! and also held that it was not necessary fol
Kansas to re-enact its prohibitory law after
: the passage of the congressional act in or
Q der to shut out liquors in original packages
! The case came up on appeal of Wilkinson
: sheriff, against Rahierer, the lower court
having decided against the state This
court reverses the decision OF the lower
l court. Chief-Justice Fuller rendered the
= decision, the entire court being with him.
. Foreign.
+ THE Brazilian cabinet has been reorgan-
{ lied, and the financial outlook is more salts
4 factory.
A STRONG force Of gendarmes seized ex-
r Queen Nathalie of Servia in her place on
r last week Tuesday and conducted her to
! the Hugarian frontier. In the fight between
> the gendarmes and students one man was
killed and fifty more or less wounded.
| PEOPLE in England are becoming alarmed
I at the rapid influx of destitute Jews from
A Russia whence they have been driven by
the recent prosecutions. IL is estimated
that 800 Jews arrive each week. They are
! seized upon at once by sweaters" who
set them to work at tailoring and give them
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