The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20

peared from nome TWO weeks ago. lie
started to see some friends off on the steam
ship Trave," and it was supposed he had
been Involuntary carried off. But that
belief was dissipated upon the arrival of the
steamer at Southampton. 1t is most re-
markable disappearance.
WALTER q. GRESHAM, judge Of the United
States court, was for hours, last week Tues
day, shut up in his chambers in the govern
ment building with Martin McCanaha, a
lunatic. He finally got away by ruse and
Marshal Hitchcock and his assistants had
terrific battle with the mailman. McCanaha
claimed that Jay Gould had sent him $780,
900 aud that some one was keeping 1t from
him.
THE New York Herald has been waging war
against the Guttenburg race track in New
Jersey, which has been setting the law at
defiance for some months, aided and
abetted by the inactivity of Governor Alb
bett and the police. As a result of the
Herdld'S crusade, Captain John Graham and
few special officers last Saturday arrested
Gottfried Walbaum president Of the Hud-
son County Jockey Club, and nine other
book-makers. The mob threatened Ora
ham, but he held them off at the point OF
revolver, and won the day. More raids are
promised.
THE terrible and novel machine which
is to end DR.. Graves existence at Canon
City, Col, is the invention OF a Colorado
world. A moose hangs from the ten-foot
ceiling, runs to the rear room over set of
pulleys, and is fastened to a pig of iron
weighing 500 pounds. The pig rests on q
colapsing shelf, which is kept in place by
trip lever, on which hangs a receptacle
holding tifty-six pounds of water. In the
bottom of the vessel is plug, which is at
tached to chain. The chain passes down
through the floor around pulley, and is
hooked on TO a rod, which stands upright
under a raised portion of the floor of the
execution-room. This surface is kept from
touching the rod by means of four spiral
springs. On the wall of the room is a white
disc, on which is a red mark and black
hand points downward. When the man COLI
demned to die steps under the moose his
weight forces the raised floor surface down
the rod, which gives the chain a pull and
the plug drops out Of the water receptacle.
This starts the flow of water, and at the
same instant the black hand on the disc on
the wall travels upward. When it reaches
the red mark the witnesses know that the
water vessel is empty, and the trip lever,
fifty-six pounds lighter, is forced upward
by a spring, the heavy weight drops and
the murderer hangs in the air. All this is
done silently; not a creak or a snap is
heard. This machine has never yet failed
to break a mans neck.
ROBERT j. LEMON, book-keeper in the
office of the Memphis Barrel and Heading
Company at Memphis, Tenn, incidentally
spoke in complimentary terms Of the type
writer in the Office, Miss Mollie Seaman, to
Mrs. Lemon last week, She jumped to the
conclusion that her husband was in
fatuated with the typewriter, and one day
visited the office. Her husband, Miss Scan
LAM A. X. Ward, secretary of the company,
and a clerk, were all at work at their desks
Mrs. Lemon at once broke ont in trade of
abuse, accusing Miss Seaman of trying to
steal her husbands affections. "My God,
Molie, you will ruin mel " said the aston
ished husband. 1t CHANGED that the women
bore the same name, and the wife shreked
out: Which Mollie do you mean, your
clerk got Mrs. Lemon into the hall and
tried to persuade her she was entirely mis-
taken in her suspicious. Just then the
spring lock clicked, and realizing that she
was locked out and that her husband and
the typewriter were alone inside the office,
Mrs. Lemon grew furious, and tried to
break the door down. Mr.. Ward then I'M
locked the door. The typewriter was found
weeping bitterly, and Mr.. Lemon was
apologiZing for his wifes unseemly conduct.
Before she could be prevented, Mrs. Lemon
rushed at Miss Seaman, and dealt her
several blows on the face, head and shout
ders with her umbrella She was removed
from the Office by force, but insisted that
her husband should go with her. Miss
Seaman will give up her place.
Foreign.
ANARCHISTS attacked the town of Bor-
neos, in Spain, and were repulsed only ter
hard fighting and repeated cavalry charges.
DEGANAvIoFF, the notorious anarchist,
was arrested at London last week Wednes-
day. AT Walsall another dynamiter, Will
liam Ditchfeld, was arrested.
BY the wreck of the Chinese steamer
" Namchow," off Cupchi Points, Ala per-
sons-all on board-were drowned. The
officers and crew were Europeans.
FIFTY armed officers were arrested at
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, charged with
being implicated in a plot against the lives
of Prince Ferdinand the ruler of Bulgaria,
and NJ Stambulotf, the prime minister. The
palace cook was detected in the act of plac-
ing strychnine in dish prepared for the
prince.
CRIME is rampant in Russia, owing to the
famine. A peasant in village in the lula
government incensed at the refusal of rival
tradesman to give him bread to save him
from starvation, drenched his rivals house
with kerosene and set fire 10 it at midnight.
Three women and seven children persisted
in the flames.