The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
tcoNrINuEp FROM FIFTH PAeR.l


iDdct him, and November 26 he went to |
Hamilton, registering at the Royal hotel
under the name Of Henry Melzar, New
York.
THE control OF the next state assembly In
Kansas depends on drawing by lot. The
body now stands sixty-two republicans,
fifty.eight peoples party, three democrats
and one Independent. The remaining rep
resentative is to be seated by lot, the vote
in Coffey county being tie. If the repub-
licans are successful in the drawing for the
seat they will have just enough to organize
the house. If they lose, the opposition will
have a majority and control both branches
of the legislature and will also elect
United States senator.
A WAGON containing William Conklin and
wife, Edward Blanchard and wife and
Mrs. Maggie Pitts was struck by tram
running AZ high rate OF speed at Elmlra,
n. Y. The engineer did not notice the
accident, and when the train halted at the
station nearly half mile away, the loco
motive bore on its pilot the crushed and
mangled bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Blanchard
and Mrs. Conklin. The dead body of Mrs.
Pitts and the mangled form OF Wllllain
Conklin still alive were found 100 yards
from the crossing.
THERE was hold attempt at bank rob
berry in Allentown. n j., last week Tuesday
morning. when two young men entered the
Farmers National Bank about twelve
o'clock, covered Cashier Hutchinson and
Book keeper Smith with revolvers and de-
mauded money. They got it, about vi ,S'A,
and then started off No sooner had they
gotten out the door when Mr.. hutchinson
grasped a revolver, and Mr.. smith I'M
armed. gave hot chase. The bank robbers
were bundled up in overcoats and coulunV
run fast and their pursuers gained on them.
Hutchinson opened fire and the robbers
fred back. Others joined in the pursuit
among them a man with shotgun. When
the robbers saw him they stopped and gave
mp. They were taken TO a Justice and, gave
the names Of Frederick Smith of Phlladel-
phia and James Morris of New York.
JAY GouLD, the great railroad fiuancier
died at his home in New York last Friday,
the cause Of death being pulmonary con-
sumption The history of Jay Gould, from
the barefooted how who wandered over the
rough hills of Delaware county TO the rail
road king. is one Of the most remarkable
among our self-made men. No two esti-
mates agree as TO the amount of Mr. Gould 8
fortune. The most conservative figures
place il at about $50 100000 while some
people in Wall street figure that he must
have gotten together fully 800, 00O,0 900. His
known holdings of securities are about as
follows 500. 900 900 of Western Union tele-
graph. S10,000,0O0 of Missouri Pacific. He
is supposed to hold in the neighborhood of
SS,000,000, probably more of Manhattan
elevated railway stock. His holdings of all
these stocks have been larger than this, but
he sold them to either invest money in new
issues of bonds of the Missouri Pacific and
Manhattan companies, or to assist these
companies until bonds could be issued. Ex-
cellent information is that he holds about
one-third of the bonds issued on the Mis-
souri, Pacific system, which would be about
$50 900 900. His estate holds over S12, 000,-
900 of Wabash ralrod stock, which shows a
loss of between 81, 100000 and $1,000 900.
jaw Gould was born in RoXbury. n. Y, in
May, 1886. From his earliest boyhood he
was a money-maker and schemer. His am
biiion was said TO he to become the richest
man in the world. He did not succeed. His
enormous fortune is surpassed by those Of
Baron Hirsch and one or two of the ROths-
childs in Europe, and nv that of the Astors
and that of Rockefeller in the United
States Three years Of Gould's life were
snent in Rutland, VT. He located there in
1857 or 1855 His intended father-in-aw, a
Mr.. Miller, leather merchant of New
York, owned the controlling interest in the
Rutland & Washington railroad, and Gould
became its superintendent. He bought the
shares of the railroad at ten cents on dol
lar, took hold of the road, advertised its
prospective value, probably watered the
stock little. and finally sold it at a good
profit. Gould was the most adriot, bold,
INSCRIPTIONS and accomplished operator
in railroad values ever known. Many were
the exciting events in his life. Early in
life he associated himself in the tannery
business at Gouldsboro, Pa, with Charles
Ieupp, and within three years had ruined
his partner. who commit ted suicide. Friends
of Leupp's two daughters undertook to seize
the tannery. Gould organized mob. filed
them full of whiskev, and recovered the
tannery When he began his peculiar bust
ness methods in New York he associated
With James Fisk, Jr., and Daniel Drew, and
they began overissuing Erie stock in i'm
mense quantities, Commodore Vanderbilt
rearly ruined. AS result of the affair
Drew, Fisk and Gould were compelled to
flee to Jersey City, and barricade themselves
in hotel. Fisk and Gonld later squeezed
Drew out of his last dollar, and he died
broken-hearted. His touch is death" he
said OF Gould, Then came the audacious
gold boom of 1869, engineered by Gould and
Fisk, and "Black Friday" September a.
appalled, the business world. Fisk and
Gould had run the price of gold mp to 100,
and were buying in large quantities. In
the height of the excitement Secretary of the
Treasury Boutwell, ordered S5,0OO,0O of gov
eminent gold thrown on the market and
before Fisk and Gould had time to sell out
they lost $4,000, 900 apiece. The conspira-
tors were chased through the streets by a
furious mob, and but for the protection Of
the police would have been lynched. OF
late years Gould had lived a retired life.
The care of his interests rests with his sons,
George and Edwin.
Foreign.
THREE men attempted to assassinate
President Hippolyte of Hayti, last Friday
morning, while he was taking walk in the
palace grounds.
BUCK " OLSEN was hanged at Dorches-
ter, n b., last Thursday. He was entirely
composed on the scaffold and laughed at
tie vigorous efforts of the hangman TO ad-
just the black cap, and when everything
was in readiness he shouted: " Let her go"
1t went.
THE French chamber of deputies has re-
signed partly because of the troubles grow
ing ont of the Panama canal scandal, and
President Carnot has asked NJ. Brisson to
form new ministry Neither Brisson nor
any one else is anxious to undertake the
job. France would not be happy without a
crisis.
A SENSATION has been created in the lit
erary world by the discovery at Edinburgh
of a system of wholesale forgery of auto
graph literary aud historic comments. The
discovery was due to the publication of an
alleged manuscript poem by Burns. This
poem was found to be a reprint from flu
gitive magazine, that appeared when Burns
was only seven years old. A number of
ANTIQUARIAN booksellers of the hghestrepute