The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-02
cipal at Rutgers Female College, is charged
with emhezzlinp funds of the inatitntinn

cipal at Rutgers Female College, is charged
with embezzling funds Of the institution.
WALLACE G. ANDREWS, president of the
Standard Gas-light Company of New York.
is alleged to have defrauded the company
out OF millions of dollars.
A BLUFF fell on sixty workmen on the
Northern Pacific railroad near Tacoma
Washington, killing twelve outright and
burying number of others.
The works of the Thomson. Houston
Carbon Company at Fremont Ohio, were
burned last week. The factory was the
largest of its kind in the United States.
1T is minated that Amy may save his
neck, through alleged illegality, in the fact
tnat sentence was pronounced upon him
aiter MS departure from the court room.
THE deadly farm hand " got in his work
again last Friday at Atlantic Highlands, N
j., when Mrs. Charles Leonard was brntallv
murdered by Louis Hariot, the man of ali
work.
CONSUMERS OF Western beef will be inter.
ested to learn that George Youngclaus, a
Chicago meatdealer, has been arrested
charged with selling horseflesh labelled
"beef."
IHE bituminous operators in Indiana
nave refused to discuss the question of
wages with representatives of the miners
ana now the great miners strike is on with
redoubled vigor.
THOMAS CoCH millionaire furnace opera-
tor and powder manufacturer of Pottsville
Penn,, has been shot by his brother, who
also shot his own wife. Both men are over
eighty years old.
THE armored cruiser New York " is to
be launched at Philadelphia, December g
IL is safe to assume that she will be the
fastest vessel of her tonnage afloat in any
navy of the world.
THE warden of the San Quentin Gal
prison recently ordered a thorough search
OF the prisoners and their cells Five re.
volvers and $50 cartridges, one sixty-foot
tunnel and numerous suits of clothes for
disguise were found.
MRS. G. HAwLEY CHAPMAN, wife of we'll
known Brooklyn man, was shot last week.
probably fatally, by Herbert Searvant, her
husbands nurse. While Chapman lay in
sane in his room, Searvant entered Mrs
Chapmans bedroom, and when repulsed
drew revolver and shot her twice.
A TERRIFIC rain at Binghamton, n. Y,
last week Tuesday, washed out the earth
around the braces supporting the door Of
the cupola in the Parlor City Boiler Works
Ten tons OF molten iron fell into a pond of
water, and an explosion followed that
wrecked the rear of the building and killed
six workmen.
Foreign.
SMALLPOX is prevailing in Sherbrooke.
p. @.
HALF of the Spanish city of Seville is
Hooded by the overlooking of the Guadal-
culver.
A CYCLONE that swept over part of
Siam wrecked thousands OF buildings and
caused great loss of life.
A GIGANTIC conspiracy, having for its OBJ
lect the creation OF representative assem-
bly,, has been unearthed in Russia Sixty
members of the nobility and upper classes
have been arrested.
HERR KRAPF Won LIvERHoF, secretary of
the Austrian eLation at Washington, who
has been staying Vienna ON leave, com.
mitted suicide, last week, by shooting HIM
self with revolver.
THE war-in- Europe sensation is added to
trifie by an order from the Russian minis
ter of war for half million pools of SOL
dlers' biscuits, an order unprecedented
since the Russo-Turkish war.
The famine in Russia is horrible, and
starving peasants devour any refuse they
can find. A woman at Chelabinsk killed
her three children and hanged herself on the
refusal of rich neighbor to lend her money
to prevent their starving.