The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
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YALE beat Harvard 10 to o.
foot ball game at Springfield,
Saturday.
FRED MILLER, fourteen years DID, a.
Long Island City, last week; cause, snioR1
ing cigarettes.
A BIG dry.goods fire at St. Louis, Mo-. last
week Tuesday, destroyed about S1,000,000
worth of property.
FRANK MCCAREy, drunk and reckless,
scored the first suicide from the Brooklyn
bridge last Sunday.
MONTREAL has a sensation, in the arrest
of Chief Benoit, head of the fire brigade, on
a charge astounding false alarm.
HORACE G.. ALLEN, ex-president of the
common council, has been nominated for
mayor by the republicans of Boston.
THE City aud District Savings Bank OF
Montreal has been robbed of $4,000 by ST.
mon st. Michael and A. G. Levesque.
DIR. THOMAS A. VosE of Fall River, Mass,
has been held in $4,000 bail for probable
malpractice, resulting in the death of Mary
Fallon.
"PALo Alto" the celebrated stallion
owned by Senator Stanford of California
broke the worlds stallion record last week
Tuesday, making mile in 2:0S4.
THE yearing fily Fausta " was driven
mile at Stockton, Cal, in 2:25l, breaking
the worlds record of 2: 2S3 Stockton now
holds about all the worlds records.
CHIEF. ENGINEER BORE of the steamer
Wandrahm, which arrived at Halifax, last
week, drank carbolic acid in mistake for his
regular medicine, and died in fearful agony.
GENERAL BENJAMIN f. BUTLER has been
seriously ill at his home in Lowell, Mass,
confined to his bed with an abscess in his
ear. General Butler is seventy-three years
old.
MRS. ELIZABETH GEARY of Boston had
few words with her husband, last Thursday,
and he playfuly threw her out of third
story window. He is awaiting in Jail the
result of her injuries.
JOSEPH j. AsHFoRTH, wanted for en-
beZZling funds of the Royal Arcauum
Building and Loan Association, having
headquarters in Massachusetts,, was ar
rested in Liverpool, Eng, last Thursday.
M. b. LEAvITT, the wel.known theatre
cal manager, is alleged to have ill-treated
his wife ever since he began to grow rich,
and recently had preparations all laid for
divorce. Mrs. Leavitt has outwitted him by
bringing wellgrounded libel for a separa-
ton before lie had begun his suit.
Mrs. LIZZIE A. DODGE and DIR. John b.
Andrews are prominent members of the
Baptist church at Lynn, Mass. Last sum
mer Mrs. Dodge publicly thrashed DIR.
Andrews for alleged Islander and it is ex-
pected that she will be expelled from the
church.
A CYCLONE struck the city of Washing
ton at half past twelve Monday afternoon,
and lasted about ten minutes. Buildings
were blown down, and injury to life and
property done. The stone coping on the
White House was blown down on the east
side porch, crushing it in. The inmates of
the house were uninj ured Much damage
was done also in Pennsylvania and Mary
land.
THE great Almy murder trial ended at
| Plymouth, n. H., last Thursday, in YER
dict of guilty of murder in the first degree,
and Almy was sentenced to be hanged the
| first Tuesday of December, 1892. Almy was
removed to Concord before the verdict was
! given out. 1t was a remarkable trial.
strong effort was made by Almy's counsel
to obtain verdict of liie-itnprisonment,
and to that end sought to prove that the
crime was not premeditated. Almy took
the stand in his own behalf and for several
hours narrated about every incident of his
| life at the Wardens'. He shed tears, grew
sentimental and impassioned at times, but
suddenly lost his memory when in his mar
rative he reached the critical moment of the
tragedy-the fatal shots. All he could re-
member was that a. something happened"
The vast audience in the courtroom yelled
and stamped with joy when the verdict was
rendered.
Foreign.
The archduchess Marie Louise of TuS-
cany was last Thursday welded to Prince
Frederick Augustus of SaXony.
AN uprising against Fonseca is reported
in Rio Janerio, and the dictator has re-
signed. The vice, president rules.
A TIDAL WAVE at the Gilbert Islands, in
the south Pacific, drowned eighty people
and caused great loss of property.
FROM $4,000 to 600 coal miners in the
department of Pas de Calais, France, are
out on strike, and the situation is growing
serious,
CONTRADICTORY reports from the dis
turbed republic of Brazil continued all
last week. From official sources came the
statement that all of the governors of the
various states were loyal to Dictator
Fonseca; from other "reiable" authority
came the assertion that Fonseca had i'm
prisoned all but four of the deputies from
the state of Rio Grande do Sui. Passengers
on ships from northern Brazil say that that
part of the republic is on the verge of re-
volt. Cablegrams received at London, last
Friday morning, briefly announced an en-
gagement near Porto Allegro. Fonseca's
overthrow appears TO be the main object OF
the junta; they will be satisfied with moth
ing less than his downfall, and punishment
for violating the constitution of Brazil and
assuming the powers of a dictator. The
insurgent committee at Porto Allegro has
sent circulars to all the garrisons, COM
manders snd intendentes throughout