The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-07
Domestic.

A FIVE days session of the American
Local Science Association was held at Sara
toga last week.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
Order of Safety, short term endowment
order, the principal branch of which is at
Lawrence, Mass.
AUNT KEzIAH RANDALL OF Mattapoisett
died on last week Thursday, aged 1913
years. She was probably the Oldest
woman in Massachusetts,
THE custom house authorities in New
York have unearthed some old under
weighing-of-sugar frauds by which the gov
eminent was defrauded out of nearly
100000.
HUGH O'DoNNELL surrendered to Alder
man McMasters at Pittsburgh, Pa, last
week and was released on $4,000 bail to
answer charges of conspiracy and riot pre-
ferred by Secretary Loveioy
THE treasury department is fully prepared
to carry out the Canadian retaliation pro-
clamation of the president which went into
effect on last week Thursday. Collectors
of customs promptly at twelve o'clock
Wednesday night began the enforcement of
the law.
EIGHT thousand persons attended the
races at Independence, Ia, on last week
Wednesday. Nancy Hanks lowered the
pacing race for 5000 Flying Jib did the
mile in 207 breaking the worlds pacing
record in race.
THE contract for the work on the new
athletic field of Dartmouth College has been
awarded to T. Butler of New York, under
whose supervision the Columbia College
athletic grounds were laid out. An in
structor in physical culture will be APP
pointed when the field is completed
AT Maplewood Park, Bangor, Me-, dur
ing the eastern Maine fair on last week
Wednesday, the stallion Nelson, sent to
beat the worlds record of 2:15t on a half
mile track made by him there two years
ago, went mile in 2134. On the following
day Miss Myrtle Peek drove Silver Tail
with running mate in 2:10
JOHN HOWARD and his wife have arrived
at Chicago, having walked from Seattle,
Wash, from which city they started March
10 last on a wager of $1,000 to tramp to
Chicago in certain length of time. They
win the wager with sixteen days to spare.
Howard lost forty pounds and his wife
twenty-five and one-half during the Journey.
DR. EXUM, the third-party candidate for
governor, of North Carolina, has been ar
rested at Goldsboro, charged with using
profane language in the post-otfce in the
presence of ladies'. The postmaster made
the charge, and, although he made positive
denial under oath, the mayor fined him,
and a warrant has been issued against him
for perjury.
NEAR Cato, Cayuga county, New York,
last week, boy, while cutting bundles for
a threshing machine, accidentally cut the
feeders hand, which so Infatuated the
feeder that he caught up the lad and threw
him into the rapidly-revolving cylinder,
where he was ground to atoms The
brother of the lad thereupon felled the muir
derer with a blow from pitchfork, and
then repeatedly plunged the tines of the
fork through the body of the fallen man I'M
til the latter was killed.
The fast mail train ON the Hudson River
railroad was wrecked at New Hamburger
drawbridge, last Thursday'morning. The
draw had been opened to let vessel pass
through and was being closed when the
train came. A gap of several feet remained
when the engine reached the draw going at
the rate of nearly mile minute. The en-
CINE jumped the gap but the rear end of the
tender dropped enough to stop the progress
OF the train. The tender, engine and mail
car were wrecked, Engineer Joseph Owens
of Albany, Fireman Edward Best of East
Albany and Mail Clerk j. f. Kane of Co.
hoes were killed, and Conductor Dodd and
two trainmen were bruised. Much of the
mail was torn in fragments.
In the preliminary trial of Miss Lizzie
Borden, charged with numbering her father
and mother, at Fall River Professor o. S.
Wood of Harvard University testified that
the spot on the blue skirt of Miss Borden
was not blood. That on a white skirt six
inches from the bottom was blood The
hair found on the Ratchet was not human
hair, but that of some animal. A spot on
the right shoe was not blood. There was
no blood on the Ratchet. After the argu-
ments Judge Blaisdell said that sympathy
should be laid aside and duty, stern duty
required upon this evidence but one thing
to be done. Surprising that man was seen
in the chamber of Mrs. Borden, the guest
chamber of death, and that he was in the
room of the father when death came; sup
pose that a man should tell as many diff
ferent stories as Lizzie Borden has done,
the way would be plain. l have found that
she was probably guilty" She was ordered
remanded to the county Jail at Taunton for
trial at the November term, and all of the
witnesses were ordered to recognize for
November term of court