The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-13

away bne DOuy anu gave ~ Sepulcner.
Murphy objected to such ofliciousness, and
killed Medlin. Then he filled with lead
man named Bailey, who had hesitated
about furnishing the desperate with
nights lodging. Ben Martin was foolish
enough TO criticise Murphy's conduct, and
the next day, while at work in his fell,
Murphy came along with his Winchester.
Get ready for your grave" said the des-
perado, as he spied Martin. Fall down
on your knees and acknowledge that you
have been lying on me-" In vain did Martin
expostulate. A sharp report and the bullet
sent through his heart finished his course.
Murphy declared to persons whom he met
on the road that he intended to kill ten men
before the week ended.
THE National Art Association, formed in
Washington mainly through the personal
efforts and untiring zeal of Miss Kate Field,
is preparing for an important art congress,
which is to meet on May 10 The idea of
National Art Association, which origina ed
with Miss Field and was warmly endorsed
by Mrs. Harrison, has grown into positive
fact, and there is every prospect for the
success of the first congress next month.
Foreign.
A GOVERNMENT powder mill blew up near
St. Petersburg, Russia, last week, and the
remains of nine workmen were showered
all around the neighborhood.
Four anarchists shot and dangerously
wounded a prominent citizen of Prussian
Poland last week. The assassns were
tracked to the forest and two OF them
shot and killed The remaining two COM
mitted suicide. Europe appears to be over
run with anarchists.
THE evils of the British railway system
were again illustrated, last week, when a
young girl was assaulted by man in
compartment Of car. The girl got out
upon the footboard and attracted attention
! by her shrieks. The man jumped from the
train. Such affairs are not possible on an
American railroad.
A DYNAMITE bomb was placed upon
window.sill of the police depot at Anglers,
capital of the department. of Maine ct Loire,
! in France, early last Thursday morning.
The result was terrible explosion. Every
! pane of glass in the windows of the depot
and the adjacent houses was shattered and
the depot itself was badly damaged One
policeman in the building was injured.
The Venezuelan insurgents under Gen
eral Crespo have been defeated by the gov
eminent troops, and Crespo has fled. His
defeat is attributed to the fact that he was
attacked before he was able to arm all his
| troops. He is expected to reaDpear at the
head of another army. The disaffection in
Venezuela is spreading, despite the reverses
of the revolutionists. President Palaco
fears for his life, and ventures abroad only
under double guard.
PRIVATE letters from Honolulu show that
revolution is in the air, and that an attempt
will soon be made by large BODY of ma
tives, headed by the half breed, Robert
| Wilcox, to overthrow the present govern
ment and establish either republic or Sc
cure annexation to the United States.
Honolulu is overrun with revoutionists
who have come from other islands, and
meetings are held nightly. The presence
of the United States ships San Francisco I"
and Iroquois " prevents an immediate at
tack on the palace.
AT Dublin, last week. Lady Montagu,
wife of Lord Robert Montagu, was found
guilty of causing the death of her three-year-
old child, and was sentenced to a year in
prison. The deceased child had been
naughty, and to punish her, Lady Montagu
tied her in dark room and left her for three
hours. AT the expiration of that time the
door was opened and the child found dead.
The trial and conviction occupied only a
day. In this country it would probably
have been dragged along for weeks, and
then perhaps dropped.
NINETEEN foolish cadets of the Rou-
manian military school at Krajovawa, all of
them sons of prominent families in Rou-
mania, some time ago founded, half in jest,
suicide club. One of the cadets had read
OF the existence OF such club in America.
| When the cadet whose name was first
| drawn drew revolver and shot himself
dead, all the rest felt in honor bound to
follow his example. After five suicides had
occurred the authorities took the matter in
hand, with the result that the rest of the
club is in Jail on charge of murder.
THE plot of the two anarchists arrested at
Madrid appears to have been more diabol-
ical and extensive than first supposed. The
conspirators were first to blow up the cham
Der of deputies; second, the senate third,
the law courts; fourth, the council of state;
fifth, the ministry of war; SIXTH the royal
palace in the chapel, and seventh, the bank
of Spain. All this work to be completed
before May day The prisoners confessed
their connection with the anarchist body in
Paris, and gloried in the fact that they were
anarchists. Fourteen French anarchists
were arrested last week at Barcelona, and
will probably be expelled from Spain.
BENJAMIN, king of Dahomey, is making
war upon the French in West Africa, in
order to support the slave trade, with which
the French are interfering, and from which
he derives most of his income. Latest adj
vices from West Africa say that before adj
vancing upon Porto Novo, the king of Da-
honey has recruited the Amazons to nearly
double the usual number. If so, he has
now about 5000 of these soldiers. The
female warriors are an old feature of Da-
homey's army. They are kept under the
most rigid discipline, and the aim is to
make them positively fearless They at
tack an enemy with the utmost ferocity,
and seem Indifferent to life. The prospect
of having to slaughter women, however, is
not relished by the troops of France.