The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

Madame de BarrioS. The burglar ned. lie
had been within reach of thousands and
| thousands of dollars worth of gems, but had
not had time to get them.
MRS KATE SroCKER and her sister, Mary
| Tierney, of New York. attended a ball at
! Jersey City Heights last Wednesday even
| ing. After the ball they were accompanied
| home by John T.. Dunn and George Brom-
| ner. At Mrs. Stockers house they held a
carousal until nearly noon. Meanwhile
| Stocker watched the whole proceedings
and ground his teeth Finally he put in an
| appearance with revolver, and the party
broke up hurriedly. Stocker first shot Miss
Tierney, then pursued his fleeing wife up
the street and shot her dead. Afterward
| he chased John Dunn into a grocery store,
but concluded not to murder him. Then
the police took him in hand. Miss Tierney
was seriously hurt, but has fair chance
! for recovery.
A TERRIBLE tragedy took place at Mem.
phis, Tenn, last week, when Miss Alice
| Mitchell murdered Miss Freda Ward. Both
young women belonged to the first families
OF that section. The girls had been insep-
arabic companions. but lately had become
estranged Miss Ward had refused to rec
| ognize her friend on the street. Miss
| Mitchell met Miss Ward on the street and
cut h throat with a razor. The murder
ess made remarkable statement after be-
| ing locked up 81 was in love with Freda.
l could not live without her. Long ago we
made compact that IL we were separated
we should kill each other. When / found
that Josie had forbidden Freda to have
anything more to do with me, saw nothing
else to do but to kill her." Her sanity is
doubted.
OVER sixty prominent Cleveland demo-
Gratis assembled at New York last Friday
evening to protest against the calling of an
early state convention. Among those pres
ent were K. Elery Anderson, who pre-
sided, ex-Mayor William II. Grace, ex-
| Saprptarv nf tho Treasury Cbarlaa Fair-
child Everett p. Wheeler, Peter Il. Olney,
Henry r, Beekman, Edward b. Whitney,
lsidor Straus, Francis NJ. Scott and Stephen
A. Walker The meeting was held behind
closed doors. Ex-president Cleveland was
not present. Ex-Mayor Grace suggested
that the anti-machine democrats should
| hold a convention of their own aud elect
delegates to the national convention to ex-
press the will of the people Eek Secretary
Farchild introduced resolutions setting
| forth that many democrats who had hitherto
worked faithfully with the party did not
favor the attempt at snap Judgment made
| by the state committee, and proposed that
| the chairman appoint y committee of twenty
| five to draft a call for the meeting at Cooper
institute in February. The resolution was
adopted
In the potters field at San Antonio,
! Texas, lies buried Otto Hauser, a suicide,
according to the finding of the local magis-
trate; but the records of the inquest are
| missing from Jle county Clerks once, and,
it is believed, have been stolen. 1t is odd
that the record of pauper's suicide should
be stolen, and such a theft seems doubly
strange when the fact is made known that
this Otto Hauser, the pauper, was none
other than the nihilist assassin for whom,
these fourteen months, the agents of the
Russian police have been searching the face
of the earth-none other than that Stanis-
| laus Padiewsky, who, on November 49, 1890,
murdered in the Hotel de Babe at Paris
General Michael de Seliverstoff, chief of the
| Russian secret police of that city. The
story of this act of nihiist vengeance, of
the plots that preceded and provoked it, of
the escape of the assassin from Paris by the
help OF two newspaper men, his conceal
ment by socialists in New York city, and
| his suicide, as it is called, in Texas, vic
tim of poverty and of terrors that may or
may not have been terrors of the magma
| ton only, is story such as is rarely told by
the newspaper types.
| Foreign.
The pope is again growing weaker.
SUCcI, who tried to fast fifty-two days at
London, gave up the attempt last Friday,
having tasted nearly forty-four days.
WILLIAM CORNELL, the English manager
OF gold mine at Malaga, Spain. was robbed
and maltreated by bandits, last week. The
militia and civil authorities are hunting the
robbers.
AN election riot took place at Stein am
Anger, Hungary, last Thursday. Three
rioters were killed and number injured.
In the election the government won fifty
and the opposition sixty-nine seats.
FRANK SCHNEIDER and his wife were SEN
fenced to death at Vienna last Friday.
They were convicted of having murdered
eight young women whom they decoyed to
their house on the pretext of employing
| them.
A DEEP, dark tragedy is reported from
/ G.uvst, A t,ah
woman welded naval officer. and after
short honeymoon the husband was sum-
moned away A discarded lover sent to the
wife bogus telegram stating that her hus-
! band was dead. She went crazy and poi
| soned herself. Three weeks after her burial
the husband returned. He was almost in
sane with grief, and is now on the trail of
! the murderer.
| THE sequel to remarkable eopement is
reported from London. Three months ago,
at Deptford a couple of rooms in dingy
cottage were taken by man named Nc
Kenna and his daughter. In the beginning
of December, the girl was seized with in
fiuenza and died. McKenna himself was
dying OF the same disease when one day
fashionably dressed lady called at the house
and inquired for him. On being ushered
| into the poverty-stricken room, she fell on
her knees beside the sick mans bed, ex-
claiming, "Oh Jack, forgive me-" The
visitor then devoted herself to nursing the
patient carefully until he was well. She
then fell i'll herself, having caught the dis
ease while nursing him, and subsequently
died, leaving McKenna fortune of e65,0O0
1926, 00O). The explanation of the mystery
is that the wealthy lady was the wife of
McKenna, who had deserted him twenty
years before. Her companion took her to
Lower California, where he died after hav-
ing made fortune. Repenting her trans
gression, she returned to England just in
time to save her husbands life and to rem
der his old age comfortable.