The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-18

statesman and a diplomat saying he had
but one defect, If defect it could be called,
namely his extreme tenderness of heart.
A PRIZE fight between Dan McGivern of
Boston and Edward Mccain of Pawtucket,
r.. L., at New Bedford, Mass, on last week
Thursday evening, was stopped by the po-
lice.
Miss MILL1E GRAFTON, on the day APP
pointed for her marriage to Charles Bard
well of Austin, Texas, was drugged, and,
with the acquiescence of her parents, forced
to marry one Blakely, a rejected sutton.
A SALOON at Fredericksburg, o., was
wrecked by an explosion of dynamite last
week. 1t was doing business in violation of
the prohbitory law, but it is thought the
explosion was the work of "toughs," who
hoped to throw the blame on temperance
people.
IT is stated that diabolcal plot to blow
up the distllery of II. ii. Shufeldt of Chi
cago because he would not enter the whis-
key combination, was discovered |" st week.
II the plot had worked, 100 men would
have been murdered. Secretary Gibson of
the distillers' association was arrested with
the dynamite in his possession. He claims
it is gigantic conspiracy against him.
A MAN entered the Citizens bank at Min
neapolis, Mimi, last week Thursday morn
ing, and pulling revolver on Assistant
Cashier McQuag, who was alone, ordered
him to hold up his hands. The robber
coolly gathered up all the money, placed it
in satche and started for the door. Nc
Quaig followed and gave the alarm, with
the result that the robber was overhauled
by several persons on the street and placed
under arrest.
A LETTER was received at Brockton, Mass,
last week from Charles w. Robinson, who
left that place suddenly last fall after forg-
ing papers to the amount of $4,000. This
W. a i'm OF 10 iyht
The letter was posted at Middletown, Conn,
but Robinson says 1t was written in a for
eign country. He asks for a lenient judg-
ment and says he means to turn over new
leaf aud make some restitution to those
he wronged.
THOMAS COLLINS, who was thrown out of
Michael Flaherty's saloon in Birmingham,
Conn, last week Wednesday, thereby re-
ceiving a fractured skull, died on the fol-
lowing day. He was conscious but few
minutes, and in these his only Ineligible
words were Flaherty did it." Flaherty
has been arrested He is man of fifty
years, is worth $4,000 and is so much of
leader among his element that he is called
King" Flaherty.
ROBERT KEEFE, about twenty-five years
old, employed as brakeman on the Con-
neCticut River railroad, tells an interesting
story of his experience in Boston last week.
In company OF two strangers he went into
saloon on Merrimack street, where he
drank two glasses of beer, which he be-
lieved was drugged. The next morning he
found himself in the depot at Concord,
Mass, minus $50 overcOat, shoes and his
own suit of clothes, watch and 1876 in money.
THE adjourned meeting of the trunk line
representatives of the Central Traffic Asso-
citation and general managers of all the New
England lines, which was called to take ao-
ton on the abolition of commissions and
the appointment of New England repre-
sentative upon the board of rulings of the
trunk line association, convened at Boston
on last week Friday. Ex-Governor Smith
of Vermont made the speech of the day.
The meeting was not very harmonious, and
no action was taken.
THE sixteenth annual convention of the
Ayrshire Breeders Association of America
was held at New York on last week
Wednesday. Secretary g. M. Winslow of
Brandon, VT, made a special report on the
record made by a number of the COWS of
the breed for the year. 1t showed that the
average yield of butter from number of
cows for the year was 900 10 pounds per
COW, and the average yield of milk from
GA cows was 6,100 pounds per cow. The
association determined to select from the
various herds in the United States fifty
cows to represent the breed at the Chicago
worlds fair.
Foreign.
y
surrendered themselves to the English
police authorities.
THE boiler of the Quebec Worsted COM
panys factory, at Quebec, exploded on last
week Thursday morning, killing over
twenty employees.
THE St. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Telegram declares that the only re-
suit of the British memorial to the car
protesting against the treatment of the
Ill bitantQ
doubled persecution of the Jews.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Warsa,o Courier
who has just returned from Brazil, says the
Brazilian government decided some time
ago to import 100000 emigrants, and that
the North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany had already landed 100000, receiving
300 marks each for them. The emgrants
were not allowed to found colonies, but
were scattered in the forests in the interior
and left to their fate, to die of hunger,
fever or snake bites, or to be devoured by
wild beasts.