The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-01

topping structure. The merry-makers went
down with the ruins, and many were killed
and injured. A meeting of the Salvation
Army was broken up by the building falling
on them, and two were killed. The scene
at the temporary hospital was one such as
is rarely witnessed except upon the battle
field. The floor was saturated with blood
which gushed from the many wounds of
the many persons who were taken there as
soon as they could be extricated from the
wrecked buildings. Friday night cyclone
struck Harper, Kansas, and only two houses
in the center of the town remain uninjured.
Five persons were killed and nearly hun
dred injured The ruin wrought was fear
full. The storm belt was six miles wide, a
straight blow with hail along the outside.
PATRICK KELLY, a quarresome brute liv-
ing at Armenia, n. Y, shot and killed James
Tobin, last week Monday night, because
Tobin attempted to interrupt Kelly in his
favorite amusement of beating his wife.
The details of the crime are dramatic in the
extreme. Tobin and Edwin McEnroe
heard the woman scream, and both at
tempted to get into the house. McEnroe
was discouraged by a charge of shot which
struck him in the shoulder but Tobin, furi-
GUS at the reception, sprang to the window
sill with the intention of climbing still
higher and reaching the room in which Mrs
Kelly was locked. All this time she had
been screaming with fright He heard the
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the ramming of the rod, and a hollow rat
Ting of shot in can. There was an inter-
val of silence during which Tobin was
slowly working his way up to the shutters.
Then Kelly spoke out of the darkness:
Are you going to get out Of there?" No,
you brute" was the defiant answer There
was flash which was seen by those at the
gate, loud report which made the house
rattle, and Tobin fell to the ground and
never moved again. The charge had
struck him full in the side Of his face.
Foreign.
THE fiftieth anniversary of King Chris
tian and Queen Louise of Denmark was
celebrated at Copenhagen, last Thursday.
LORD SAL1sBURY's horse ran away in Lon
don. last Thursday, and the premier had a
narrow escape from serious injury or death.
NIGHT OPERATOR STEPHENSON, at Sutton
junction, Z. O., was killed last Thursday
morning, while trying to board freight
train.
EMPEROR WILLIAM narrowly escaped
being killed in a runaway near Berlin. The
emperor was driving with Count Donna.
The horses ran away, and the emperor was
thrown into ditch, bruised and covered
with dirt.
THREE petty officers and five men of a
brigade of the Montreal militia went into a
Montreal store, last week, and demanded
the hauling down of the American flag. To
avoid trouble the banner was taken down.
Next day, Colonel Cole of the Montreal gar
rison called on United States Consul Knapp
and apologized for the outrage.
AFTER warm debate in the house of
commons the Irish local government bill
passed its second reading last week. Mr..
Gladstone criticised the leading provisions
throughout and declared that the bill bore
the brand of injustice for Ireland. The bill
might be called refuse political legislation.
The bill conferred on the liberals one great
advantage, as tending to a clear issue. 1t
gave the people power to measure and de-
termine exactly the value of the splendid
conservative promises of absolute equality
with the laws of Great Britain. Was Ire
land wrong, Mr.. Gladstone asked, in reject
ing the measure? No; the stamp of ine-
quality was the brand of degradation. If
Ireland was capable Of accepting measure
so stamped she was unworthy of the great
men who had led her in times of adversely,
unworthy of that happy, better destiny he
trusted and believed she was about to &C.
complish. Mr.. Dillon described the bill as
a mockery and violation Of pledges, tend
ing to confirm the Irish in their placing no
trust in British faith