The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

| convicted OF selling an imitation OF maple
! sugar.
FIFTEEN wildcat endowment orders Of
Philadelphia have collapsed within week
or two and the end is not yet.
THE Massachusetts house Of representa-
| tives defeated the bill to prevent the en-
| ployment of Pinkerton detectives
The mayor of Cincinnati has begun a
campaign against Sunday Multiplying and
| the opening of saloons and theaters on Sun
day.
A FIREWORKS factory in New York was
| burned on last week Friday, and three
| girls were burned to death in sight of the
crowd.
THE Ninth National Bank of New York
has lost about 800, 600 through the defaca-
| ton of President John L. Hill, who died on
March of consumption.
A NEGRO named Jim Taylor, who shot
policeman at Franklin, Tenn, was taken
from Jail last week Wednesday night by
mob and hung to a crosS-beam of a bridge.
WILLIAM b. SHOOK, at whose wedding
feast at Louisville a few days ago many
persons were poisoned, some fatally, died
last week Thursday night from the effects
of the poison.
THE public debt statement issued last
week shows that the decrease OF the debt
during the month of April amounted to
1877 AZ. Total cash in the treasury
500, 1862, 858.04.
The Eastern Investment Company of
Boston, a concern with a nominal capital Of
$1,000 600, has been ordered by the state
commissioner TO stop business, its liabilities
being far in excess of its assets.
A RECEPTION and ball were given on
board the old frigate " Constitution " at the
Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard, last week
Thursday evening The governor of the
state and many other distinguished guests
were present
To enable him to deal intelligenty with
the seal fishery controversy, Secretary Fos-
ter has selected j. Stanley Brown as
special agent to proceed to the Pribiloff
islands and there make an examination of
the condition of affairs.
THE supreme court of Louisiana has de-
cided that the constitutional amendment
charterng the lottery must be submitted to
the people. Governor Nichols had vetoed
it, but the court decided that he cannot
veto constitutional amendment.
THE town of Chittenden H., is excited
over the act of a teacher in one of the pub
lie schools. Becoming angry at something
two pupils did, she tied their hands to a
stovepipe and then lighted some paper in
the stove. The children's hands were Sc
verely burned.
II. p. HUTCHINSON of Chicago, better
known as cold Hutch" disappeared mys-
teriously last week and could not be found
for several days. He finally turned up at
Evansville, Ind. He has been losing heav-
lily in his speculatiOns lately, and his mind
is thought to be unsound.
THE historic old log cabin in st. Louis
county, Missouri, which General U. S.
Grant erected with his own hands from logs
cut and hewn by himself is about to be re-
moved from its present site and shipped to
Chicago where it will be regretted for ex-
hibition at the worlds fair.
ANNA DICKINSON gave another lecture in
New York Sunday NIGHT Qubippt
was, Are you ready for your own incar-
ceration in an insane asylum" She was
dressed in jacket of red velvet and skirt
OF white silk, and she shed tears when
speaking of her incarceration in the Dan
vile asylum.
day, Daniel Murphy and Frank Woods
were pronounced guilty of murder in the
second degree in the killing of Elbridge G.
Reed at Salem and Mrs Reed was adjudged
guilty of being an accessor after the fact.
Murphy was sentenced for twenty years.
Woods seven and Mrs. Reed five.
THE town of Warren, Mass, voted for IL
cense at its last animal meeting, for the first
time in twenty years, but the selectmen re-
fused to grant any of the fourteen applicants
license. One of the selectmen is said to
have been offered a good-sized bride by one
of the applicants, which so angered the
board that they refused all others.
The jury in the superior court at Boston
on last week Thursday ordered the West
End street railway to pay the sum of ST.
600 to John Brown Smith, nine-year-old
colored boy, and his father, William H.
Smith. The boys back was broken in an
accident year ago, rendering him an in
valid for life. A motion for a new trial will
be made.
LORD SALISBURY has cabled Sir John
Pauncefote, offering to join the United
States in preventing any seal-killing in
Behring Sea or in the islands this summer,
and to send competent commission to the
islands to report on the condition of the
seals and to agree to close term for any
number of years, if it seems necessary to
preserve the seal.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR, who was appointed
minister to China some time ago, had
started for his post and had reached Chicago,
when he was recalled by Secretary Blaine.
The Chinese government objected to receiv-
ing Mr.. Blair on account of anti-Chinese
utterances made in the senate. Mr.. Blair
says it is possible that he will be appointed
minister to Japan.
The first day of licence at Worcester,
Mass, was sgnalized by a murder, the re-
suit of few words of chaff James f.
Quigley, local manager of the Chicago Art
Company, went around to several different
saloons, and, while drunk, dared John
Manning, stranger to him, to get down
from his wagon. Manning jumped down,
received two knock-down blows and died.
LAST week Wednesday night in East Del
Rio, Tex, an unknown M axican visited the
house OF a Mexican w, man named Sanshez
during the absence OF her husband. The
next morning it was discovered that he had
knocked the woman in the head with
Ratchet and then cnt her head off. He
wrote on the wall with her blood the sem
tence, " Fresh beef for SALE" and then dis
appeared, leaving no trace.
THE jury in the case of Plenty Horse, the
Sioux Indian ON trial for the murder of
Lieutenant Casey, at the time of the late
uprising Of Indians, has disagreed and has
been discharged. The recalcitrant jurors
refused TO vote for conviction because the
court refused the defendant an interpreter.
The refusal was based on the ground that
| Plenty Horse was able to talk English
fuently and understand it perfectly.
CUsroM-HoUsE detectives at New York
have made the largest capture of Partisan
gowns in the history of the special treasury
agents offices. The special agents, in con-
| fscating the costumes, have unearthed a
systematic swindle on the government
which has continued for years and has
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