The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-12

was considerable quantity of powder and
dynamite in the house, none of 1t exploded.
Henderson and Davis, who were in the en-
CINE house with Desmond, received severe
injuries and several other workmen who
were in the immediate vicinity were slightly
injured Desmond has q wife and two
young children living in Barre He was
about thirty-five years old, and was highly
respected. The exploded boiler was a sec
ond-hand one, purchased few months ago
from the Lincoln iron works of Rutland.
IL is stated that IL has once been condemned.
Henderson was taken to the Mary Fletcher
hospital, Burlington, in the evening.
Domestic.
PRINCETON students have voted to abolish
rushes.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is again in New York, in
consultation with democratic leaders.
The Peck case, in the Albany police
court, has been again postponed, this time
to October 20.
MINISTER LINCOLN has sailed from Lon
don for the United States. He will make
brief visit here.
THE eighteenth triennial exhibition of the
Massachusetts, Mechanic Association began
in Boston last week Wednesday,
A DEATH from cholera is reported from
Jackson, Mich, and two deaths and two
cases are announced from Ironton, n. Y.
The trial of ID. b. Monroe, the leader of
the Tennessee miners in the recent rebel
lion, charged with murder and rioting, has
ended. The jury was unable to agree, and
was discharged.
STATE COMPTROLLER CAMPBELL has sent
a letter to Governor Flower stating that, with
the close of the fiscal year September 30),
for the first time in over half century the
state of New York is practically free from
debt.
Ex-STATE-SENAToR A. 2. MORSE, presi-
dent of the Cambridgeport, Mass, National
Rank and Of the Upalthipqt and most
influential citizens of the city, has been
sued for breach of promise to marry by
Anna ID. Van Houton.
w. W. WINDLE made a mile at Hampton
park, Springfield Mass, Friday, with
flying start in 9 :02 3-5, beating the worlds
record previously held by him in :04 As and
Nancy Hanks best record of 2:4 The
trial was made in strong wind.
A REPORTER of the Springfield Union
bought an interchangeable mileage ticket,
recently, and tested the new law. He dis
covered that it did not work well. He was
put off the train once, and after that the
conductors were satisfied with taking his
name and address,
WHILE Mrs. Paran Stevens was in Low.
ell, Mass, on account of the death of her
mother, the entire contents of her stable at
Newport, r. l., were attached for debt of
$3.50 to her grocers. The property was re-
leased on Thursday, a bond having been
given. A lawsuit will follow.
The Unitarian conference at Milwaukee,
Wis, on Wednesday, adopted resolutions
in favor of opening the Worlds Fair on
Sunday. The resolutions declare that Sun
day closing would defeat the highest pur-
poses of the exposition-the pleasure and
education of laboring men and women.
THE steamer Bohemia the last Of the
cholera ships at New York, was allowed to
proceed to the Hoboken dock Sunday after
noon The Storage passengers were trans
ferred to Ellis Island. One hundred forty
six from the steamer Polaria were also
transferred to the island from quarantine.
In accordance with vote taken at the
last meeting of the Clothing Contractors
Association of Boston, nearly every men,
Der of that body has declared lockout
against their employees, beginning from
Saturday afternoon. The contractors give
as a reason for this action that the Garment
Workers unions of Boston have been I'M
just and arbitrary, and have made it impos-
sible for man to conduct business with
fair profit.
THE trial of the miners at Occur d'Alene
City, Idaho, on charges of conspiracy, has
resulted in the conviction of four of the
defendants and the acquittal of ten. Those
convicted were George A. Pettibone, John
Murphy, M. l.. Devine and G.. Sinclair.
Sentence was passed as follows: Pettibone,
two years in penitentiary; Devine and
Sinclair, eighteen months each Murphy
fifteen months. Pending an appeal, the
men were released on $4,000 bonds each
The meeting of the American Board OF
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at
Chicago, closed on Friday Dr. Storrs &C
cepted the presidency, after the following
resolution had been unanimously adopted:
"That the board reaffirms the rules of adj
ministraton laid down by it at our annual
meetings in New York and Minneapolis,
and expects them to be applied in spirit of
liberality and of faithfulness, expressed
by the president in his annual letter of &C
ceptance to candidates for missionary APP
pointments."
THOMAS CHASE, LID, one of the revis-
ers of the translation of the New Testament,
and a leading Greek scholar of the country,
died at his home in Providence, r. l., last
week. He was born in Worcester,
Mass, in 1927, and graduated with distinc-
ton from Harvard in 1S4S. In 1856 he be-
came professor of philology and classical
literature at Haverford College, Pennsylva-
mia, and in 1915 was chosen president of that
institution, resigning in 1886 on account of
failing health. He was appointed a men,
Der of the New Testament company of the
American committee for the revision of the
translation of the Bible.
A SPECIAL from Haily Idaho, says that
Judge Stockslager of the fourth district
court has declared the Idaho test oath law
unconstitutional. The case was brought by
Mormon whom register in Cassia county
had refused to register because he declined
to subscribe to the test oath The Idaho
constitution provides that no person belong
ing to an organization that teaches or en-
courages polygamy shall exercise franchise
Under this clause the legislature at its first
session provided test oath, one feature Of
which is that the elector must swear that he
has not since January 1 1888, belonged to
an organization which teaches and en-
courages polygamy. Judge Stockslager
holds that the legislative enactment abridges
a right guaranteed by the constitution; that
it is reactive, ex post facto, and therefore
void.
Foreign.
A PRISONER in the house of correction in
London died ON Wednesday OF cholera, and
on Thursday two new cases were reported.
DISPATCH has been received at Paris
from Colonel Dodds, commander of the
French forces in Dahomey. He telegraphs
that a battle occurred between his command
and the Dahomeyans, October 4, the latter