The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-10


the time OF the funeral, and Coroner Blood
has censured every one who was instru-
mental in bringing about the burial.
EPHRAIM b. PINE OF Milville, N. j., tack
led Jay Gould last week, and wanted
81, 100000. His scheme is to bring four rail-
roads into Millville, buy all the land in the
neighborhood erect factories, and do big
business, of which he, Ephraim, was to be
the sole boss. Although Pine carried a
satchel he was not bomb crank, but he got
as much out Of Gould as though he had
been.
REV. ALBERT WITHAM of Cedar Springs,
Mich, wants divorce, and ON the lace of
it should have one. His wife was jealous
and threw things at him-taunts and roll
ing pins. She also threatened to kill him.
But the most remarkable paragraph in Mr..
Williams bill of divorce Is as follows ION
October p, in the presence of one Anna
Holt, the defendant in this suit called your
orator black-hearted and other harsh names,
and struck him violently in the face be-
cause she said your orator did not turn the
clothes-wringer properly while your orator
was helping defendant do the family wash
ing
WARD WATERBURY, eight years old. was
stolen from his home in Pound Ridge, West
chester county, n. V, last week Monday.
In the evening the boys father received an
unsigned letter saying that unless he would
pay $4,000 ransom he would never see his
son again. Mr.. Waterbury on Wednesday
went to the meeting-place designated, but
found no one there. He returned home
early in the morning, and fifteen minutes
later a neighbor drove up with the missing
boy. He had been left at his house by an
unknown man. Charles K. Waterbury, u
worthless chap, as suspected of having
engineered the scheme, and was arrested
One Mccain and one Sutherland were ar
rested as accomplices.
The Hotel Royal, situated at Sixth ave-
nue. and Fortieth street, New York, was
completely destroyed by fire last Sunday
morning. Five mangled and burned bodies
were taken from the ruins, and it was
feared that scores of other persons persisted
The fire was discovered by the engineer of
Sixth avenue elevated railroad train, who
blew his whistle long and loud, awakening
many people sleeping in the hotel and
bringing police to the scene. Heart-reDding
and sickenng scenes then ensued, which
appalled, even the experienced police and
fremen. Every window of the building
seemed filed with men, women and chill
dren crying piteously for help. There were
about 100 people sleeping in the hotel Sat
urday night. How many of them were lost
may not be ascertained for several days.
The hotels reputation was not of the best,
and many of the names on the register were
fictitious. Up to last Monday night twelve
bodies had been recovered.
THE prisoners on Deer Island, Boston
harbor, made a concerted attack on the
guard house, last Wednesday morning, and
the two guards retreated before the mob,
which numbered more than 200 prisoners
About the time the Boston police arrived
pretty state of affairs existed. The police
used their clubs, and the prisoners fought
with knives, ice picks, chisels and hammers
| The prisoners made a rush upon the officers
There were few steps of retreat on the part
of the police and then a sharp advance. In
their raj
made easy work. Each officer seized man
and forced him into submission. The riot
lasted three hours. Affairs at the island have
been in bad shape for some time, owing to
dissension among the commissioners OF pub
lie institutions. 1t is intimated that the
mayor Will make a clean sweep of the com
missioners. DR.. Otis X. Newell was re-
moved from the board last Friday, together
with Deputy Superintendent Upton, the
clerk of the institution, assistant clerk, and
three of the officers
CAPTAIN CHARLES CRUNP and Mate
Flavio Canale of scow No. 3, the only men
missing of the New York street cleaners
who were recently blown out to sea, were
rescued last week by British steamship,
and landed at Philadelphia The story of
their wild adventure rivals the most thrill
ing romance, while their homecoming was
both bois erous and pathetic. Canale's
home was crowded with friends, when the
news of the rescue was received, and look
outs were posted along the street. The glad
news passed along the line that Flavio
was coming. When he reached the fourth
floor OF his humble dwelling his wife started
forward, and the watchers fell back. Flavio
caught her in his arms, and together they
fell on the floor and wept. The watchers
also wept. Flavio then turned to his chill
dren. One after another he Rugged them
and then he went on his knee. Then the
neighbors pressed forward, in their hurry
inv ,laAtr ta1Nl
the stove. A similar wild iollification took
place in the home of Captain Crump. The
rescued men had drifted six days on the
scow, frost-bitten and hungry. and tossed
about by wild wind and wave.
ONE of the most remarkable murder trials
in the history of New York jurisprudence
closed last week, when "a jury found Car
lyle w. Harris guilty of the murder of
Helen Potts. Harris, a medical student
had secretly married Miss Potts, and when
her condition made publicity necessary he
attempted to defer the second marriage
Meanwhile Miss Potts had been sent to a
young ladies' clearinghouse, and during a
slight illness Harris prescribed for her
The medicine prescribed was Quinine and
| morphine in capsules. In one of the cap
sues the proportion in the two drugs was
inverted, and the girl died. Harris was
charged with having changed the capsules.
| The legal and scientific battle was one of
| phO uioop CiOSCiy CohbCSuou oNcI WltuoSstu
in New York. The jury was out an hour
and half, and returned with verdict Of
guilty of murder in the first degree. The
| prisoners mother shrieked and fell to the
floor but Harris retained his customary
indifference. Recorder Smyth expressed
his approval of the verdict. Motion was
made for new trial, and Harris walked to
his cell jauntily, smoking a cigar. Since
the beginning of the trial it has been learned
that Harris married Lulu Van Zandt of
Connecticut under an assumed name, seven
years ago, in New York, and he is charged
with numerous instances Of libertinsm.
Last Monday morning Harris was sentenced
to death, the motion for new trial having
| been denied, and the execution Was set for
the week beginning March 81.
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