The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16


different times. or the brothers, A. S.
Winslow Of Cincinnati, Ohio, still lives, and
so does sister, Mrs. II. w. Dwight of Bos-
ton, wife of the general superintendent OF
the New England branch of the American
Express Company. John #. Winslow's po-
sition as an iron manufacturer was very
high With Erastus Corning and John A.
Griswold he introduced the making of
Bessemer steel into this country and made
the first American steel rails at the iron
works Of the firm in Troy, N. Y. From 1868
to 1867 Mr.. Winslow was president of the
Troy Polytechnic Institute. He was presi-
dent of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Company
| in later years, and during his residence in
that city his works of benevoence were
distinguished for their wisdom and munifi-
cence. In 1888 Mr.. Winslow was Harri-
son presidential elector.
Domestic.
THE notorious Mrs. Sarah Athea Sharon
Terry was last Thursday adjudged insane
at San Francisco.
THE strike of the Pennsylvania railway
employees at Indianapolis bids fair to affect
| the entire system.
| TRICHINosIs has appeared at Coleraine,
Mass. The victims are Bavarans and
| French Canadians.
JOSEPH HUTo, track hand on the o.
densburgh & Lake Champlain railroad, was
killed at Brushton, N. Y, last week Friday.
CHARLES WARNING, who was fined by
Police Judge Borg let at Lincoln, Neb.,
| entered the courtroom. last Wednesday,
and tried to murder the Judge. The latter s
| injuries are not fatal.
WILLIAM A. TosEY, book-keeper for Nal
| lison Brothers, paper dealers at New York,
is short S32, 900. He lost it playing policy,
and seven disguised policy-dealers are keep
ing Losey company in Jail.
THE case is being investigated Of another
l A H..
alleged, was the victim of brutal treatment
at the hands of the Valparaiso police, and
died from the effects. The affair occurred
last month.
CALVIN MCDOWELL, William Stuart and
Theodore Moss, "culud gemmen," were
taken from Jail at Memphis, Tenn, by
mob and shot full of holes Their crime
was the ambushing and shooting down of
four deputy sherffs.
THE commercial treaty between the
United States and France was concluded
last week. The value of the free articles is
fixed at 100000 annually. The Spanish
senate last Thursday approved the conven-
ton between that country and the United
States by vote of ninety to fifty.
AN attempt was made near Barrytown,
N. Y, last Sunday night, to wreck the fast
western express. While running thirty
miles an hour the engine plowed through
mass OF dressed stones that had been placed
upon the rails. The train did not leave the
track, and no one was seriously hurt.
A DANcINa-MAsTER from Troy has stirred
up big controversy in Amsterdam, N. Y
He interested the leading society women of
the town in proposed kirmess for the bene
fit OF the public hospital, and proposed to
put $50 of the prettiest young women in
town on the stage The feature of the even
ing was to be grand ballet.
A BIG storm prevailed throughout the
Northwest last week Wednesday-the worst
of the season in Illinois and Wisconsin
closed, and railroad travel delayed or aban-
doned. 1t Is feared that there was great
loss of life in Minnesota. but on account of
the condition of the wires and the drift
covered country roads full details will be
slow in coming in.
A SOLID train of twenty-eight cars, con.
tanning 1000 bushels of shelled corn, has
been made up at Bloomington. ILL.,. and will
be dispatched to the seaboard for shipment
to Russia. 1t is all contributed by citizens
OF Mclean county. In view of the famine
which has been raging for so many months
In Russia, 1t is interesting to note that the
savings banks in that empire show for last
November an increase of deposits over pay
ments amounting to 81 1854 64382 The
Emir OF Bokhara has sent $50, 900 toward
the distress fund.
For two or three days last week Padu-
cab, KY, was lively place. John Doug
lass and Jim Knapp assaulted John San
lord, and Sanford i'll return fatally stabbed
Douglass. John Hoffy lay dying from a
fractured skull, inflicted by unknown per-
sons. John Smith helped along by fatally
cutting Charles johnson. In the neighbor-
ing town OF Maytield four brothers named
MoCarty pounded the life out of David
West, and shortly afterward Charles Dis
mukes cut Frank Jones head off in a quar-
rel about woman. Other surrounding
towns reported murderous ARRAYS. Ken
lucky is rather outdong herself.
Foreign.
A MUNICH servant girl has been sentenced
to three months imprisonment for speaking
unexpectedly of the German emperor.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON, under arrest
at Grasse, France, for shooting and killing
Abeille his wife's paramour, in the Hotel
Splendide at Cannes, has been released on
10000 francs bail.
MAITLAND FRANCIS MoRLAND, a tutor at
Oxford, sixty-tive years old, has been SEN
tenc d to ten years at hard labor for at
tempting to obtain from Lord Northfield
go and other sums by false pretences.
MASSES of Russian troops are assembling
on the German and Austrian boundaries.
81 will pulverize Russia" recently OBJ
served Kaiser Wilhelm during bad attack
of earache. Russia will probably be on hand
when the pulverization begins.
THE big miners strike in England began
last Friday. Ninety thousand Durham
miners quit work, and the next day saw
$40, 900 men idle. The coal famine is grow
ing more acute, especially in the manufac-
turing districts. Serious trouble is expected.
MRS. FLORENCE ETHEL OSBORNE, against
whom the grand jury at London few days
ago returned true bill for larceny and per-
jury, was arraigned for trial in the Old
/ oil MI hnh nd
to nine months Imprisonment at hard la
Dor.
THE elections in Quebec last week re.
suited in the defeat Of the party headed by
ex-Premier MERCER. He alone of all his
party in the late cabinet was elected, ex-
cepting Mr.. Shehyn, the ex-treasurer of the
| province, who is also reelected. The. con
| aarVativaa now hava majority of ahnut