The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-19
Summary of News.


nelu dU barton on w wednesday,. a campfire
was held in the evening.
AN officer of the war department has been
looking about in the northwes ern part of
the state for the most desirable location for
a military post Several different places
were visited, including Swanton, st. Adams,
Alburgh, Highgate, Sheldon and Richford
There is some prospect OF the Central Yer
mont railroad using its influence to get the
post located at st. Adams. The land must
be given to the United States government.
GEORGE f. KEELING, who was sent to the
Rutland house of correction two years ago
for selling liquor, under a cumulative SEN
tence of over sixty years, has been par
doned by Governor Fuller, and has returned
to his home at Norwich. A petition had been
circulated in his behalf. One of his two
children died of diphtheria, last week,
and the other was reported to be dying. Mrs.
Kipling has just recovered from the same
disease
Domestic.
THE New York legislative reapportion-
ment has been declared constitutional by
the court of appeals.
THE schooner Evelena from Labrador,
with fifty Esqumaux for the Worlds Fair,
arrived Saturday morning.
THE Steamer Oceanic, from Hong Kong.
arrived at San Francisco on Friday with
a most expensive cargo, valued at 3,000, 600,
of which S2,00O,0J0 IS in silks and the re-
mander in tea.
The Big Four yardmen at Columbus o.,
struck on Wednesday, and in the afternoon
they attempted To take an engine from the
regular engineer. The police at once ar
rested two strikers.
AUGUST LAUGNER, the murderer of Mary
Emerson Of Dedham, Mass. was arrested
last week Wednesday, The deed was COM
United in June, 1891. Laugner was betrayed
to an officer by supposed friend.
THE Marion county grand jury at Indian
| pnniS m ~ al
returned indictments against Somerby and
other officers of the Order of the Iron Hall.
They are indicted on a charge of embeZzle-
ment.
| A HEAVY rain and sleet storm occurred
at Denver, Col, last week Wednesday,
Communications were cut off. The great
est damage was done by falling electric
| light which struck street car trolley wires.
killing dozen horses.
JOHN l. DAVENPORT United States super
visor of elections at New York, was served
on Friday with a subpoena to appear before
the congressional committee appointed to
investigate his methods. He refused to
obey, and another subpoena has been sent
| him.
The 300 women teachers of the schools of
! Providence, X. L., are up in arms against
the school committee. The latter wants them
to participate in the Columbian day parade,
each TO act AS marshal of their pupils. The
school committee thinks the teachers ought
| to endure the march for the sake of the day
and its meaning.
| The grand jury at Pittsburg, Penn. last
| week Tuesday, returned true bills against
the members of the Homestead advisory COM
mittee, who were charged with treason and
against seven Carnegie company officials,
including III. G. Frick, and number OF the
| Pinkerton detectives, charged with MUIR
der and conspiracy.
The smugglers of Chinese laborers into
the United States are having rather hard
times of late. Twelve celestials were found
in the hold of a lumber barge at Rouses
Point on Thursday, without papers entiUling
! them to enter the United States. They were
arrested and lodged i'll Jail at Plattsburgh,
and the vessel was seized for violation of
the Chinese exclusion law.
The contract between the International
| Navigation Company and the postmaster
! general for mail service between New York
and Antwerp was formally closed ON FRI
| day, in accordance with the bill passed by
congress last year. This bill required
the company that secured the contract to
| construct five ships in addition to the CITY of
Paris and City of New York, now in service.
! The International Navigation Company's
steamships will all fly the American flag
and the company will be thoroughly an
| American institution.
The naval parade at New York, last
week, was a most beautiful affair. The pa
|
presented picturesque and imposing spec
| tacle. The " Phi ladephia" was the flagship
and headed the column of the parade, made
| up of war ships aud other government ves-
| sells, municipal boats, steam yachts, eight
divisions of merchant vessels, aud a fleet of
naval reserves, consisting of sixteen tugs
divided into four squadrons. Millions of
bright-colored flags waved in the breeze
from tiagstaifs and windows. The bay
seemed to be covered from shore to shore
! with SAILING and of n1l si1
and descriptions.
THE republican state committee of Massa-
chusetts has decided to decline the chal-
lenge of democrats TO joint debate. The
reply is addressed to Chairman Quincy. 1t
says: =" We recognize no public issues as
| having arisen through the official acts of
Governor Russell and Lieutenant governor
Halle which require personal debate.
! Their records are well known by the people
of Massachusetts. We do not think sucn "a
debate would benefit any one The general
! principles of the two parties will be dis
cussed by each of them from many platforms
in the state, and their views will be pre-
scented to the people. The above reasons
will apply with equal force to the suggested
discussion between the democratic candi-
! date for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Mr. j. Car
roll, and the republican candidate, Mr..
! Roger Wocott."
Foreign.
The body of Lord Tennyson was taken
| from Aldworth to Westminster Abbey on
Tuesday of last week.
THE new government of Venezuela is
very anxious TO secure recognition from the
| United States government.
FRANCOIS, one of the anarchists who blew
up Very's wine shop in Paris last spring,
has been arrested in London. He made
desperate resistance.
| ANDREW CARNEGIE, in an interview in
! IOn1pn said ln infAnIa1 A 1aVnt. hA
winter TO visiting the cities of Europe
and inspecting large manufactures He
would study the laws bearing on industrial
concerns, especially those OF the courts of
arbitration in France for the settlement of
| differences between employer and en-
ployed He stated that he had been en-
| gagged all the spring and summer in prepar-
ing new book treating ON the industrial