The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-23

died at Portland, Maine, on Sunday. He
was also well known newspaper publisher
and prominent Mason.
REV. BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW of st.
Joseph Provincial Seminary, Troy, N. Y,
Monday evening of last week shot and
probably fatally wounded Edward Doyle,
who with a number OF other young men,
were robbing the seminary orchard.
REV. DIR. ROBERT LOWELL, brother of the
poet, has Just died. He was a missionary
clergyman, first in Newfoundland and then
in country and city parishes, where he was
much withdrawn from public observation.
In early life he showed great literary abl-
| ity.
| THE old Commercial advertiser building
on Fulton street, New York, was burned
| last week Tuesday morning, causing loss
of 100000 The building was condemned
twice, once twenty-five years ago and again
about fifteen years ago. Two lives were
lost in the fire.
A DUEL with swords was fought between
Tom Allerton and James Arrowsmith in
! Pipestone county, Minnesota, on last week
Thursday. Allerton suddenly dropped his
sword, when Arrowsmth rushed forward
and cut his antagonists head open. The
murderer has been arrested
DURING the annual target practice of two
companies of the Connecticut militia at
| Willimantic, last week, John Petersen
| pointed at one of his companions an "un-
loaded " rifle, which went off, the bullet
! passing through two men, instantly killing
one and mortally wounding the second.
REV. JAMES j. CoNRY, a Catholic priest
of Faribault, Mich, has closed the parochial
schools of that place and turned them over
| to the public school authorities. He says
! he does this because he is anxious that the
| children may receive in their civic train.
| ing perfect preparation Tor the duties and
responsibilities of American citizenship"
| Trb ou 70 Itch hot ho ,f
securities stolen by Edward Albertson,
secretary of the Fidelity Trust bank of
Tacoma, Wash, was 100000 in addition
to about $1,000 in cash. The securities
were taken in o Ter to effect a compromise,
| and they hav been returned, the bank
making an az cement, which it has since
rescinded, IT, 1t it would not prosecute the
defaulter.
STEVE DALEY the instructor in gymnas-
tics at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn, who
on the night of the class reception, last
summer, in breaking up gang of young
men who were outside the rooms shot and
killed John McCarty, was acquitted last
week. The verdict was received with ap-
! plause, and the courtroom had to be half
cleared before order was restored.
L. l.. Polk, president of the National
! Farmers Alliance, has been speaking in
Kansas. At Wichita he denied stories of
his inhumanity to Union soldiers during the
war, saying that he did not hold rank above
third lieutenant. Wichita veteran has
a sick parole signed by " l.. l.. Polk, briga-
dier-general," and on the strength of this
evidence an attempt was made to tar-and-
feather Polk. The police got. wind of the
plot and it was nipped in the bud.
DETECTIVE w. G. NEGUs of Portland
! Ore, left Pittsburg Penn, last Wednesday
| night for home, having in charge little
Harry Whitbeck, the seven-year-old son of
! George w. Whitbeck of Portland. The
boy was kidnapped from his fathers home
six years ago, and Mr. Whitbeck, who is
very wealthy, has spent $4,000 in search
! ing for his son. But no clew was ever
found which would lead to his discovery
until six months ago, when Detective
Negus heard that child bearing the birth
mark which the lost one was known to
| have, and which subsequently led to his
Identification had left Omaha for Pennsyl-
vania. He followed up the clew and located
| the boy on his seventh birthday, in the
family of G. G. Long, mill-worker of
Homesteam. Longs wife, who is now dead
had the boy when he married her, and he
knows nothing of his origin. The detective
receives $1,000 reward.
ITALY is making extensive preparations
for war, in view of the political situation in
Europe.
IT is now stated that the story of the oc-
cupation of the island of Mitylene by the
British is not true and that it arose from the
fact that picnic of officers was held on
small island near by.
THE overlooking of the Consuegra river in
| Spain has caused the death of hundreds of
persons, and great deal of property in the
shape of household goods, cattle and crops
has been destroyed. The suffering of the
! people is intense.
| THE English home secretary has RENTED
eighteen months of the sentence of mpris-
onment imposed upon Austin Bidwell, the
American forger in 1872, for the frauds per-
petrated on the Bank of England. Bdwell
will be liberated in February next