The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

the first Monday in April, nine hours laOOr
shall constitute days work.
A UNIVERSITY EXTENSION" movement
was formally announced at a meeting In
New York last week Wednesday evening.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton and
other institutions unite in the movement.
On last week Thursday the women Of
Mt Etna Ind, armed with clubs and axes,
beat down saloon door, emptied vessels,
demolished furniture and gave notice that
all dram shops would share similar fate.
IT is said at the navy department that the
official report of the trial board on the gun.
boat Bennington, not yet submitted, will
show that the vessel failed to develop the
horse power required by contract by nearly
900 horse power.
Snow storms have been 80 heavy in New
Mexico that at one point on the Denver ana
Rio Grande railroad for eighteen miles the
track is under snow from a depth of five to
forty feet 1t is not expected that trains
will be able to pass before April l,
THE Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad company is retrenching its ex-
penses by discharging old employees and
filling the places with cheaper hands.
superintendent of the road says the short
crops compel the company to retrench,
WILLIAM FERGUSON, b. Q. Watts, his
sonin-law, and his granddaughter of
Mount Sterling, Ky, were poisoned re-
Gently with arsenic placed in a coffee pot.
The murderer confesses that the crime grew
out of a misunderstanding about a debt OF
SIT.
ANDREW MIHoEsKI, Pole, was killed by
a railroad train at Ware, Mass, on last week
Tuesday. Some girls were snow. balling
him, and in trying TO escape them he started
to run across the track and stepped in front
of the train just as it was entering the sta
ton.
GENERAL WooD, the colored midget, was
found dead in bed at his boarding place in
New York last week Wednesday morning.
He had been asphyxated, it is believed, ac-
cidentally. He was sixty-two years old,
forty-eight inches high and had been in the
show business twenty-five years.
THE executors of the Fayerweather will
have made 81 deed of gift " of the $4,000. 900
entrusted to them to be given to educational
and charitable institutions. Thus over
Sc, 900, 600 will, with little doubt, 90 to these
institutions, which number nearly fifty and
include all the leading eastern colleges.
THE Rhode Island republican state con-
vention, held at Providence on last week
Tuesday, made the following nominations:
ii. w. Ladd, governor; Lyman b. Golf lieu
tenant.governor; Daniel Il. Ballalou, attor-
ney-general George II. Utter, secretary of
state; Samuel Clark, general treasurer.
Ex-MINIsTER E. j. PHELPS, in lecture
at Yale College last Friday afternoon, crit-
cised the action of America in supplying
the money for the carrying on of the strug-
gle between England and Ireland. In the
course of his remarks he said: 81 say we
have no business to interfere between those
countries and we shall rue the day that we
do So"
DAVID II. PosToN, a prominent lawyer of
Memphis, Tenn, was shot and mortally
wounded by Colonel II. Clay King, also
member of the Memphis bar, on last week
Tuesday. The shooting took place on one
g
the outgrowth of former lawsuit, in which
King and Mrs. Gideon j. Pillow, wife of
General Pillow of Fort Pillow, are the prin-
cipals. King was commander of Kings
Tigers " during the war.
SIX inmates of the insane asylum about
seven miles from Nashville, Tenn, were
burned to death Sunday morning in a fire
which almost totally destroyed the build
ing. The 400 other inmates of the asylum
were housed in out buildings after the fire.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
surprising thing about the fire was that
when request was sent to Nashville for
assistance the chief of the fire department
could not be found for two hours and his
subordinate refused to send assistance until
he arrived.
The Kansas legislature, which has adj
Journed, is said to be disappointment to
the farmers alliance. None of the very
radical measures proposed have become
laws IRE the bill appropriating $4,000 for
the Kansas exhibit at the worlds fair, the
bill providing for the irrigation of arid
lands, the bill establishing forestry stations,
the bill providing for experiment in the ex-
termination of chinch bugs and the bill
prohibiting the alien ownership of lands
and for the contiscation of such lands il not
disposed of by the owner within two years.
There was an exciting scene on the last day
of the session.
SYRACUSE was visited by great confa-
grafton on Saturday and Sunday, causing
the loss of over 81 900 600 and the death of
one person and perhaps more. The fire
broke out in block ON West Fayette street
at six o'clock in the morning and spread
rapidly. Before the flames could be
checked a dozen buildings had burned in
volving loss of $4,000 AT seven O'Clock
another fire, started by brand from the
first occurred five blocks distant, in the
Roscoe block in East Washington street.
At nine o'clock it seemed as though the
whole city would burn up. The wind blew
ike hurricane, carrying the flames,
sparks, ashes and smoke far and wide.
Among the buildings burned by the second
fire were the Seneca house, the Vanderbilt
house and the building of the Syracuse Jour
nal. About five o'clock Sunday morning,
before the firemen had gone home from the
other fires, a third blaze broke out in the
st. James Episcopal church, which, with
to the ground.
Foreign,
THE German Reichstag, after a lengthy
debate, has rejected the petition to admit
women to the liberal professions.
SOME 800 Chinese pirates and robbers
were beheaded in Kwantug province dur
ing the last few days of the old Chinese year.
A TERRIBLE blizzard occurred all over
England last week. and on some of the rail-
roads the snow was twelve feet deep and
frozen to a solid mass. Nearly one hundred
lives were lost along the coast and the loss
to farm stock was enormous.
THE Canadian government is said to have
declared war to the knife against the Grand
Trunk railroad. The railroad opposed the
government in the recent election, and no
effort is made to conceal the fact that the
great corporation must be made to suffer
for the detection.
PROFESSOR CHARLES WALDsrEIN, the
American archeologist who ia excavating
the ruins of Eretria, city on the island of
Euboua, which was founded before the war
of Troy and was destroyed 400 b. c., by the