The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-03

Domestic.
THE Pennsylvania legislature has passed
ballot reform bill.
HARVARD defeated Bowdoin in boat
race on last week Friday by three lengths.
REAR-ADMlRAL L. p. CARTER, retired,
died at Washington, on last week Tuesday. |
Two trains on the Illinois Central road
| were wrecked by fends, last week Thurs |
| day night. In one, two men were killed.
THE Ohio Farmers Union. by vote of
| sixty-three to sixty-four, decided at Column
| bus on last week Wednesday not to call
| third party convention.
HIRAM S. MAxHAM, a New York man,
claims to have invented a fying-machine
which will make 100 miles or more an hour
and carry heavy loads.
AN attempt was made early last week
| Friday morning to rob the grave of p. 7.
Barnum at Bridgeport Conn. The ghous
were fired upon by watchmen.
Two children of Rev. Mr.. johnson, a col
| ored Methodist pastor of Nicholasville,
! Ky, died recently of strychnine poisoning.
| The family accuses a neighbor of poisoning
them.
PLENTY HORSE, the Indian who killed
Lieutenant Casey, has been discharged, the
court ruling that the killing occurred while
war was in progress, so that 1t was not
murder.
PEsoUELIvA RoBERTLEB, young Italian
girl who murdered her lover at New York
because he had betrayed her, was found
not guilty by the jury, and the verdict was
received with applause.
ABOUT 100000 acres half of the reserva-
ton of the Coloville Indians in the state of
Washington, have been purchased by the
government for 81 per acre and are to be
| thrown open to settlement.
THE RhoDE ISLAND legislature organized
on last week Tuesday, when the republican
candidates for state offices, who failed to
receive majorties at the election, were
elected by the grand committee.
JESSE PoMERoY, the boy fend," who is
confined at the state prison at Charestown,
Mass, succeeded in saving off the lock in
his cell door last week. His work was
discovered before he could effect his escape.
THE sales agents of the anthracite coal
producing companies have ordered an adj
vance of fifteen cents ton on all sizes June
| /. They have also decided to restrict pro-
ducton during the month of June to $780,
600 tons.
WHILE Judge S. NJ. Breckenridge of st.
Louis was discussing the legal points of the
Briggs case before the Presbyterian assem-
bly, at Detroit, Mich on Thursday of last
week, he fell in faint and died short time
afterwards
THE men working in an excavation in
Chicago were Mortified to fiud on last week
Friday morning the dead bodies of two of
their companions. They had been buried
by the caving in of an embankment at night
before the men quit work.
WILLIAM BREITKoPF and his wife COM
mitted suicide on last week Thursday at
their house, No. 81 First avenue, New York,
by taking oXalic acid. lie was slXty-slX
years of age and his wife was seventy-one.
Poverty drove them to suicide.
JOHN BURNS of Lynn, who was knocked
out in an eight-round fight with Harry
Tracy of Cambridge last week Sunday
night, died the following morning from "a
blow on the head which burst blood YES
sci in his brain. Tracy was arrested.
THE sentence Of the court-martial in the
case of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bicknell,
who had been found responsible for the
wreck of the Galena, was approved by Sec
rotary Tracy on last week Thursday. He
is accordingly suspended from rank and
duty for one year.
In the Presbyterian assembly at Detroit,
Mich, on last week Friday, the report Of
the committee vetoing the appointment of
DIR. Briggs to his new professorship in the
Uuion Theological Seminary was adopted
425 to sixty -four. This action does not GUST
DR.. Briggs, and it is probably but the begin
ming of a long fight.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NETTLEToN has
decided that Hollyer Pettison and wife of
Sweden, who were detained at New y ork
as poygamists, fall within the prohibited
class of immigrants and he has therefore or
dered their return to the country whence
they came at the expense of the steamship
company which brought them over. This
is the first time that polygamists have been
debarred.
A BILL to provide for the better protection
OF dairy products and to establish a state
: dairy bureau was passed to he engrossed by
the Massachusetts, house on last week Fri
day, under a suspension of rules. The
house also passed to be engrossed bill inn
posing a tax of one per cent on inheritances
, by direct heirs and five per cent on inheri-
tances by collateral and other heirs, where
the estate exceeds $4,000.
The American university was organized
at Washington on last week Thursday.
Among the trustees elected was Secretary
Proctor. The president and vice-president
of the United States, the chief justices OF
the supreme court and the speaker of the
house of representatives were elected eX-
of1icio members. The board of trustees is
composed of Presbyterians, Episcopalians,
Baptists and Methodsts.
IT is stated that over 60, OCO copies of Sec
rotary Rusk's report have been sent out,
and il has just been discovered that in the
article on mushrooms a blunder was COM
mitted. The article is illustrated by two
plates, one showing the edible and the
other the poisonous variety of mushrooms.
In some manner the title to the plates got
changed, and now the wonder is how many
people will get poisoned by reading the
report.
THE grand jury at New Orleans has in
dicted two of O'Maley's assistants for at
tempting to bride the jury. Leone Burthe,
one of the witnesses against the bribers,
was arrested at st. Louis. To reporter he
said: "When the Hennessey murder case
.. was called, l was drawn on the panel. Be-
fore | was examined and rejected +. Ar
ment approached me and said that l would
get 81 900 if got on the jury and found the
Italians not guilty l told him | could do
nothing of the kind. After the trial | told
Mr.. Parkinson and afterward communicated
to him the fact that Edgar White, the
deputy sheriff, had threatened to kill m If
/ testified against his friend Arment. Yes,
l was afraid and left New Orleans and got
$1,000"
Foreign.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, prime minister OF
Canada, is lying at the point of death at
Ottawa, Ont.
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