The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-27

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house of Tiffany & Co., was burned last
Thursday. The total loss was 800, 600, Of
which $40, 600 was shared by the well-known
booksellers, Brentano q Co.
CHARLEY STowELL eighteen years old,
and Bessie Chaifee not quite sweet sixteen,
eloped from their homes in Springfield,
N. Y, last Wednesday. All the wealth
Stowel had at the time was s11, which he
acquired by pawning his watch.
A WOMAN sixty-two years old was found
alone and in want in an old woodshed at
Sioux City, Ia, last Friday. She said she
was a half-sister Of Governor Pattison of
Pennsylvania, who had obtained her share
of her fathers estate, valued at $10,000,0 GOO.
THE Boston Herald has unearthed large
and striped assortment Of scandals In the
Shaker community at Alfred, Me. Stories of
imprisonment of girls, of whippings, and OF
seduction, have aroused such public atten-
ton that the Shakers of Alfred are likely to
be badly shaken up.
Miss MARY TURNER Of Chicago disap-
peared last week, and it was presumed that
she had been murdered by Harry Stokes,
who had gone insane, on account of unre-
Quilted love, and had several times threat
ened her life. Unrequited love Is more de-
moralizing than the grip.
HERBERT SEARvANT, the nurse who,
while his patient, Hawley Chapman, lay
helpless in bed, found his way into Mrs.
Chapman's room and in q struggle shot her,
has been sentenced at New York to ten
years in state prison, the maximum penalty.
Mrs. Chapman recovered
THERE was recently q terrible wreck on
the Wabash railroad near East Hannibal,
H., two passenger trains cUlliding in fog
The fireman explains the disaster in start
ling manner His engineer, he said died of
heart disease, and the train was running
wild some little time previous to the col
lision.
JOHN AHEARN, arrested at New York last
Sunday week, is supposed to be the con-
federate of Jack the Slasher," who was
captured the same morning. Ahearn was
caught within twenty minutes OF Jacks"
arrest, and at the time was engaged in the
same pleasant pastime of slicing a man.
The two prisoners had frequently been seen
together
THR boiler of locomotive going at full
speed exploded near Birmingham Ala, last
Sunday morning, blowing the engineer and
fireman to Fragments, tearing hole in the
ground several feet deep and completely
wreckiDg the machine. The engine was
known to be out of water, but the engineer
thought he could reach a tank half a mile
away and took his chances. His head was
picked up nearly 1000 feet from the wreck
Mrs SARAH e. HOWE died in Boston, last
Wednesday, in a cheap boarding house
pennless aud alone. Mrs. Howe was the
operator of the noted Woman's Deposit
Bank, by which 80 many poor women were
swndled. She offered eight per cent inter-
est, and explained that wealthy Qua6ers
paid the interest to assist women of humble
means. Only unmarried women were al
lowed to deposit in the bank. The swindle
was exposed, and Mrs. Howe served three
years in prison. She was very deaf and
almost blind.
A MOB attacked the Jail at Willeston,
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certain prisoner. The sheriff regarded the
contest as hopeless, and surrendered.
During the parley the sheriff and his depu-
ties went outside the Jail, when suddenly
the door was slammed and bolted. Then the
sherff's daughter appeared at one of the
upper windows and Informed the mob that
she was running the ranch, and that the
first man who attempted to approach the
place would be filled full of lead. After
some hesitation the mob cheered the plucky
girl and dispersed.
JONATHAN MANN, who recently died at
Milton, Mass, left fortune for a curious
project-the building and maintaining Of a
"temple that shall be consecrated to that
Christ who has been revealed unto us in the
New Testament as having been born of
woman. The building shall be of granite,
located in Boston, and called the temple of
Christ. No sectarian or worldly matters
shall be taught or preached within the walls
of said temple; the preaching and teaching
shall be to the praise and glory OF Christ,
and that which pertains to the eternal hap
piness or misery of the souls of the children
of men in the spirit world and only this"
THE national surgical institute at Indian
apols, Ind, burned last Thursday night.
PandemOuium Teigned in the halls and up
per rooms. Inmates wrapped in bedclOthes
crawled from one floor to another. Two
women jumped from the windows; two
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invalids periShed and score or more were
badly injured. Among the thrilling Incl
dents of the contagation was the following
Mrs. e. d. Purdy Was sleeping with her lit
tie daughter in rooniSon what is known as
the " A b G floor, and had only time to
spring from her bed throw quilt over the
crippled child, and, with nothing but her
nghtrobe to protect her began her escape
from the horror that was closely pressing her.
Out into the halls she pressed, fell to the
floor, recovered her feet and then STOPPING
dragged her little girl about seventy five
feet TO the top OF stairway. Again she
took her unconscious child in her arms and
had made her way halfway down the steps
leadin TO the third floor when she lost her
balance and fell downward, the little one
falling upon the mother and remaining mp
permost until she reached the landing about
ten steps below. There tire mother and
child were found shortly afterward and
were with great difficulty carried through fire
and smoke to safe haven.
Foreign.
THE roof of a church ia Slobodskoi fell in
upon the worshipers, and fifty persons were
killed or injured
BULGARIA has apologized to Prance for
eXpelling the journalist ChadOuine, and the
trouble is at an end.
The car of Russia has adopted measures
for the relief of his famine-stri0ken su bjeots,
and has ordered one of his high funcliona-
ries to purchase a vast quantity OF wheat,
which will be distributed by military
officers. About time.
THR anarchist movement in Andalusia, in
| Spain, appears to be general conspiracy
Bombs were found in Cadiz, and at Areas
the doors Of many houses were marked with
red and black crosses. The uprising ap
pears to have exercised a peculiar fascina
| ton upon the peasantry, and women ~
well rs men are joining the agitators.
Two HUNDRED prisoners confined in the
| fortress of Santa Cruz, at the mouth of the
harbor to Rio Janeiro, broke out in mutiny
| last Wednesday night. A number OF the
| prisoners were partsans OF the deposed die
| tator Da Fonseca, and seemed to take the
initiative in the emeute. After capturing
forts Pico and Lage that guard the harbor
the insurrectionists chose leader, and an
nounced their intention Of restoring Fon