The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07
CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAaE.l

HENRY f. HARDY, the notorious bank
robber, escaped from the Clinton, New
York. prison on Thursday of last week.
He secured workman s frock and overalls
and quietly walked out, making for the
Adirondack Mountains. He had been gone
an hour before his escape was noticed.
THE New York Chamber of Commerce
has adopted the following resolution: Re-
solved, that in the opinion of the Chamber
of Commerce of New York, the existing
law compelling the purchase by the govern
nent of 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month
is against the public welfare and should be
repealed"
THE Jeffersonvlle, Ind, police station
was blown up with dynamite, last week
Monday night. The doors and windows
were blown into pieces and the stone walls
crushed. 1T is thought to have been the
result of plot to kill certain of the police
who have been prosecuting the criminals
with vigor of late.
THE Irish National League of America
met at Chicago on Thursday and Friday of
last week. Tho platform contained a slap
at Parnell. A clause in the new constitu-
ton makes it one of the objects of the
league to boycott imported English goods.
NJ. V. Cannon OF Omaha, was elected presi-
dent, in place of John Fitzgerald, who is
very i'll.
The Ulster county savings institution of
Kingston, N. Y, has been closed and is in
the hands of bank superintendent EX-
enormous sum of S436,000 has been stolen
by Treasurer OStrander and Matthew T.
Trumphour, assistant treasurer, and it is
feared that the stealings will reach larger
amount The deception of the two officials
has continued for twenty years. Both have
been arrested.
BELLE JAMESON. a domestic servant of
Mrs Robert White of Shawneetown, Ill,
was shot and killed by the latter, last week.
Miss Jamison had been working for Mrs.
hut 30 ra1
her, and she attacked Mrs. White with
club. Being disarmed, she secured a re-
volver and fred at Mrs. White, but missed
her. Mrs. White then took the weapon
away from her and shot her twice. The
coroner's jury justities Mrs White
THE business failures of the United
States, as reported by II. G.. Dun & Co.. for
the quarter ending September 80, are 2,754
against 2,196 for the same quarter of 1890.
The liabilities for the 1891 quarter amount
to over S44 ,00O,O 600, as against $50, 100000 in
1890, In the nine months of the year 1891
Just closed, the failures in the United States
number S,S2S, with liabilities of S136 100000,
as against ,S51 failures and S100,00O,0OO of
liabilities for the corresponding period of
1890.
AN express train on the New York Cen
trail railroad, due at Utica about three
o'clock in the morning, was robbed of
something like 81, 600 on Wednesday of last
week. 1t seems the robber bored the front
uOOr OF Ulle car, gOt Jne 1dSIenlOBS open ana
surprised b. A. Moore, the express agent
while he was at work, and covered him with
arevolver. The robber sorted over the pack
ages, taking such as he supposed were valu-
able. He then stopped the train by apply
ing the air brake by means of the valve in
the car, and made his escape.
The annual meeting of the Civil Service
Reform League was held at Buffalo, n Y,
last week, beginning on Tuesday even
ing, when the president, George William
Curtis, made his annual address, his sub
ject being Ten Years of Reform" In
closing, he said: upon survey, even so
general as this, of the progress of civil serv-
ice reform within the ten years of the exist
ence of this league, it is idle to deny the
prodigious advance which it has made, both
in public opinion and in practical appli
cation" Mr. Curtis was reelected president.
SOME students of Philips-Exet Acad-
envy visited clearinghouse, last week
Wednesday night, and despite the warnings
of the landlady forced the door and de-
manded student named Samuel L.. We'll
of New Orleans, member of the senior
class. We'll was dragged from his room
and received severe treatment The next
morning, on complaint of the town author
tiles, Henry n. Arnold of New York and
Mckee ID. Mckee of Washington, both
seniors, and Philip Rand of Medford, class
of '93, were arrested and tried in the police
court. Rand was discharged, but Arnold
and Mckee were fined $40 each and costs
assault is supposed to be an outcome of the
suppression of the secret societies at the
school.
A STORY has been in circulation in Wash
ington to the effect that Green B. Raum
Jr., son of the commissioner of pensions,
whose resignation as assistant chief clerk
in the pension bureau was demanded some
months since by Secretary Noble, still re-
tanned sufficient influence in the bureau to
secure promotions of his friends who would
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transactions, it is said, have been supported
by two affidavits, which have been filed
with Secretary Noble, and the facts having
come to the knowledge of General Raum,
the latter has decided to bring the whole
matter to an issue. He has demanded the
dismissal of three prominent employees in
the office, who, he believes, are plotting to
injure his character and compel his retire
ment from the position OF commissioner.
a COLLISION took place early last week
Wednesday morning one mile east OF Kent,
o., on the New York. Pennsylvania & Ohio
railroad, between freight and a passenger
train. Three persons were killed outright
and twenty-four injured, several fatally.
The passenger train was the Michigan sec
ton of the DIN family excursion, members
of which were going to the national reunion
of their kindred at Bennington, VT. Many
other Michigan people took advantage OF
the low rates to visit friends in the East
The persons killed were an engineer, a fire.
man and Mrs Willoughby Dewey of Rich
land Mich. None of the members of the Olin
family were seriously hurt, as they We're in
sleepeTs. The stoves of the train caused the
woodwork to take fire, and the suffering
of some of the victims was intense. The
cause of the accident was disobedience OF
orders by the conductor of the freight train
FRANK G. ALMY, the murderer of Christie
Warden, was taken from Manchester tC
Woodsville ON Tuesday of last week, wher
he pleaded not guilty The courtroom was
crowded with spectators, women predomin
ating. Almy was carried to special trail
on a stretcher, and remained in Woodsvill,
not more than an hour. His health is good
and he showed no concern about the pro
ceedings. Counsel for the state and de
fence meet at Concord this week to MAKE
arrangements for the trial, including thu
time and place. Monday night of last weel
Hanover had another sensation. A woman
entered the Warden house, about nine
o'clock, and said she wanted to sleep il
the room of Christie and that she woul'