The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-31
Domestic.

D0meStlC,
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND New York school
children have volunteered to march in the
parade at the Columbus celebration in Oc-
tober
AT the session of the American Bar As
ISOLATION at Saratoga, last week, the annual
address was delivered by John Randolph
Tucker of Virginia. 1t was a scholarly and
brilliant effort.
ACCORDING to special reports to the Ne1c
England Homestead, the crop of cigar leaf
tobacco in the Connecticut and Housatonic
valleys will be very large, and the quality
is almost perfect,
The Eastern coal agents have advanced
the prices of egg twenty-six cents broken
ten cents, and stove and chestnut twenty
five cents. The production for September
will be the same as for August.
THE National Association of Letter-car-
riers in convention has provided for an an
nual appropriation of 800 with which to
decorate the grave of Sunset" Cox in
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn.
AT Sing Sing, n. Y. two convcts at
tempted to escape from the state prison last
week. One of them, Charles Vincent, was
shot and instantly killed by the guards, and
the other, Thomas Welsh, was seriously
wounded.
MIscREANTs placed four heavy timbers
across the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
near Reading, last week The Philadelphia
express was partly deraied, but the OBJ
struction being discovered, terrible calam-
ity was averted.
A CLERGYMAN named Chambers of East
Harwch, Mass, was assaulted as he was
about to enter his house, one night last
week. He was felled by blow on the
head and was unconscious for two
hours. The assault was due to a church
feud.
ORDERS have been received by Cinnamon
from the Chinese government not TO obey
the law requiring Chinese residents to take
out certificates of residence. The govern
ment of China has sent a representative to
this country to test the law in the United
States supreme court.
CHARLES A. L. ToTTEN, U. S. A., late
professor of military science in Yale, is out
in another warning message, couched if
possible, in more ominouS terms than ever.
The professor says that he is firmly con.
WINGED that during the jubilee year, 1856,
A. D., reckoning from the September
equinox, the clouds now gathering upon all
sides will eliminate.
A CONFLICT between the militia and
large crowd at Homestead was narrowly
averted August 16. Some non-union men
were under charge of deputies, as witnesses
in an assault case, when the crowd took up
sticks and stones and ran toward the men,
The militia company on duty was imme-
diately reinforced by more deputies and po-
lice, and the mob was dispersed.
JAMES f. FAILEY of Indianapolis has
been appointed receiver of the order of the
Iron Hall. His bond has been fixed at
S1000000. In the investigation Supreme
Accountant Walker testified that over
$4,000 was used in the New England
states to procure the passage of favorable
legislation. Judge Taylor said he had
never seen business managed so loosely
CORONER DoLEN of Danbury, Conn, has
rendered finding on the death of Harry
McLane, the e-year-old Danbury boy who
died suddenly recently. The mother of the
child it appears, gave the boy some of DR..
box stated clearly that the pellets were
warranted not to contain dangerous drugs
DR.. Vile, who made the post mortem, de-
clared the pellets contained strychnine.
CHANCELLOR McGILL's decision in the
case of the state of New Jersey against the
railroads forming the Reading coal combine
has been filed. The states contention that
the lease of the Central to the Port Reading
is illegal, that the agreement is in violation
of law, and the combine is against the
policy of the state, because it tends to the
monopoly of public necessity are all up
held, and the preliminary injunction prayed
for is granted.
A MAN named Il. 7. Millburn, who was
employed as entry clerk by the Field
Thayer Manufacturing Company of Boston,
appears successfully to have forged the
name of that firm to two checks of the face
value of about 81, 900 on the National Shoe
and Leather Bank. The last forged check
was for S3,743, and was presented at the
bank and paid TO Millburn on August IL.
Then Millburn disappeared. 1t is supposed
that he has sailed for Europe.
MRS. JOHN GREENBAUM of Marion town.
ship, Mich, went berrying with party of
friends last week. On reaching the woods
she left her baby asleep in the wagon while
she picked berries in the bushes some rods
away. Several hours later ON returning to
hA plaarinn ltn cd n
large animal springing from the wagon and
running towards the woods. few bones
were all that was left to tell the fate of the
babe. 1t is thought that the animal was a
panther.
AT Wardner, Idaho, all the saloons have
been closed and no one is allowed in the
streets after eleven p NJ. The saloon keep
ers are strong sympathizers of the miners,
and their places have been closed TO pre-.
vent secret meetings of the union. The
Poorman and Tiger mines were
worked by union men who rendered support
TO those who were locked out. To break up
the union General Curtis ordered a shut
down of both mines and will not allow
union men to be employed at any point in
the country.
EUGENE BUNCH, the notorious outlaw and
train robber, was shot and killed near
Franklington, La, last week, by a posse
Detective Johnson of the Southern Express
Company has been on Bunch's trail for the
past three months. Bunch has robbed
trains in Louisiana, Mississippi Florida
Georgia and Texas. Bunch and another of the
gang, Colonel Hapgood, were surrounded
in dense swamp near Honey Island, Oh
the Pearl river. Bunch, who had sworr
never to be taken alive, showed fight ant
was riddled with bullets.
AT a recent accident at the glass work.
at Hartford City, Ind, four of the five mel
killed were married. The contractor, j. V
Smith, was away at the time of the sad oc
currence. He came home at once, saw tina