The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-02

A NITRo-GLYcERINE factory near Lima,
o., blew up with a terrific crash, killing
three persons and badly injuring a number
of others. A farmhouse nearly a mile dis.
tant was badly damaged, and $1,000 plate
glass front in the Metropolitan bank, fully
three miles away, was shattered.
A STARTLING instance of the iniurious eff.
fects OF cigarette-smoking comes from Gin
cinnati, Ohio. A. NJ. Bell, prominent
young Washington attorney, arrived in
Cincinnati on important business, and. to
pass away the time that hung on his hands
smoked a dozen boxes of cigarettes. He
died few hours after
To Offset the alliance of the Boston g.
Maine railroad with the PHILADELPHIA &
Reading, it is expected that within thirty
days big counter-combine will be made
by the Concord & Montreal, the OLD
Colony the Pennsylvania, and the New
York, New Haven &c Hartford railroads.
This would make S400,0OO,OOO association.
THE total loss of insurance companies by
the big Milwaukee fire is between 81 800. 900
and S2,000,000, divided among nearly 100
companies. The 1850 homeless people are
all sheltered under hospitable roofs. Money
for the relief of the sufferers is pouring in
from all parts of the United States, and
local business men are contributing liber.
ally.
A. y. MCLEOD, the new president of the
Boston 81 Maine, answering Senator Chan
dler's charge that the power of the road
has been used for political purposes hedges
on the main question, as he has had no
tlme TO investigate the matter, but expresses
his disbelief that Frank Jones, chairman of
the board of directors, has been putting the
corporation into politics.
GEORGE STANDIsH of Athol was buried
under twenty feet of rocks and dirt by the
caving in of a well which he had been
cleaning, and although no hope of his being
aliVa oil ba
was begun. After working eighteen hours
the man was taken out alive. A part of
the well did not cave in, and it formed au
archway, giving him sufficient air to sustain
life.
The reign of terror which has been inaug-
urated by some OF the strikers at Home
stead sui continues, and il is hard to tell
what the final results will be- There is a
strong feeling among the law-abiding citi.
zens OF petitioning the governor to have
The troops returned and the town put under
martial law. They consider this the quick
est ana most effective way of establishing
peace.
TwEEDY, desperate character, broke
Jail at Bangor, Maine, three weeks ago,
with two Others He fled to Moosehead
Lake, stole canoe, padded forty miles,
took TO the woods unarmed, made his way
through the forest and over mountains and
streams 100 miles. Friday he arrived at
Caribou, in the northern part of Maine $50
miles from Bangor, nearly exhausted, went
into town for whisky, was seen and ar
rested, and is back IN Jail
AS an incident to the election of A. \.
Mcleod OF the Reading road to the presi-
dency of the Boston & Maine, it is stated
that the Philadelphia x Reading Company
has obtained control of the New York &
New England railroad. These connections,
with the Poughkeepse bridge in the con-
troll of the Reading, give that system its
own channels of access to New England
and the Canadas The officers of the Read
ing expressed great satisfaction over the
fact that the deal will open the fuel mar
kets Of the New England to the Reading
roads, and the Reading coal production.
Foreign.
KING GEORGE and Queen Olga of Greece
last week celebrated their silver wedding.
HE official report states that in the last
nine weeks there have been 1889 cases of
cholera in Hamburg, and S,261 deaths.
THE province of Santiago del Estero is in
rebellion against the federal government.
In recent battle the rebels were victorious.
A VERY heavy snow storm has been pre-
vailing in Russia, and in many places the
ground is covered to the depth of five feet
Railway traffic has been interrupted in
every direction.
a WEALTHY British subject named Ed
wards, who was recently attacked at Can
tanisetta, Sicily, by band of brigands,
succeeded in putting to rout the whole
band Mr., Edwards was armed with rifle
and fired on his assailants, making such a
determined resistance that they fled.
Miss CozzENs, at woman suffragist
meeting in London, last Tuesday, said
women should stop talking and seek re-
dress by other means. They have dyna-
mite at their disposal, she said, and she was
serious in her reference to its use as "a
means of securing the right to vote if other
means failed.
The inhabitants of the town of Tomochie,
Mexico, have been entirely annihilated,
Two months a0O a battalion sant IN suhdua