The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Domestic.

for forty-dayS' run.
JUDGE NATHAN CLEAvEs, a prominent,
Maine democrat, died at Portland last week,
at the age of fifty-seven
THE college year at Dartmouth opened ON
last week Wednesday, with an entering
class numbering about seventy-ive.
THERE is much excitement at New Haven,
Conn, because DR.. Vincener D'Elea has
challenged Dr. Louis Parascunolo to fight a
duel.
A MASKED man on Missouri Pacific
train overpowered messenger in Kansas
in the express car, last week, opened the
safe, and secured $1,000.
NANCY HANKS, last week Wednesday af-
ternoon, at st. Paul, Mimi, broke the
worlds trotting record for the regulation
track by going mile in 2:07.
THE attempt to reopen the Andover case
by instituting a new trial of the old charges
against Professor Smyth ended in the dis
missal of the case by the board of visitors.
A soUTHBoUND train on the Sante Fe rail-
way was held up at Wheaton, a station
twenty miles north of Guthrie, o. T., on
Friday. The express messenger had time
to conceal his treasures and the robbers
were foiled.
ALL Of the police and detective force who
for many weeks have been doing guard duty
in the vicinity of the Carnegie Union Mills
at Pittsburg have been withdrawn. The
claim is made that work in both quality and
quantity is equal to that of any time prior
to the strike.
The steamer " Wieland " from Hamburg
arrived in New York harbor on Friday and
hoisted the yellow flag, indicating the pres
ence OF cholera on board. New York is
alarmed by the reports of sickness on in
coming steamers, but no well authenticated
cases of cholera are yet reported.
THE secretary Of state has ordered the
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United States consul at Stettin. This action,
it is explained, grows out OF the complaint
of the health officers at New York on Aug
ust 9, that the consul was absent from his
post and the inspection of vessels from that
port was very slack.
AN American manufacturer named KAN
merer has summer residence at Schlauss
Mauer, about six miles from Vienna. Find
ing burglars attempting to gain an entrance
to the place, he fired and killed one of them.
In accord with Austrian custom, Kammerer
has been arrested and put in prison pending
investigation as to the death of the burglar.
MERRITT A. HARGER, assistant superin-
tendent of the Eleventh Street Mission, the
principal charitable institution of the Meth
odist church in Denver, Col, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by the father of
Mamie Prosser, to whom he was engaged.
Prosser found Harger and his daughter to-
gether at four o'clock in the morning, and
shot Harger through the lung,
REV. SAM SMALL, the temperance evan
gelist was in the neighborhood of Vim
cennes, Ind, last week, expounding pro-
hibition. AT Hazelton, a crowd of toughs
broke up the meeting which Mr.. Small had
been invited to address. He went to his
hotel and was about to retire when some
scoundrel fred revolver through the win
dow, hitting him in the thigh, producing
serious wound.
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true bills against Alexander Bergman, the
anarchist who attempted to assassinate
Prick. Six indictments were returned,
three for entering building with felonious
intent, and one each for felonious shooting,
assault and battery and carrying a con-
cealed weapon. If convicted upon all the
counts, and given the extreme penalty of
the law, he will undergo an Imprisonment
OF thirty years.
THE st. Louis Republics weekly reiew of
the condition of the cotton crop says: "The
reports from the crop this week are mainly
OF an encouraging nature. This is espe-
cially true OF Texas, a large part of Arkan-
sas, nearly the entire Memphis district,
Georgia and the Mobile section. Other
parts of these sections and South Carolina
report great damage from rain, rust and
worms. In the flooded sections of Missis-
sippi and Louisiana the second crop is look
ing well and may yield good crop if the
weather is at all favorable"
A BREAK in the ranks of the locked-out
Homestead men occurred ON Monday of last
week, and upward of 100 returned to work
The majority were laborers of the foreign
element, but a number were formerly en-
ployed in the mechanical department and
went back to their old positions. A new
phase of the strike developed the same day.
due to which a number of school children
were kept home from school because two OF
the teachers are daughters of an Amalgam-
ated association man who wearied of the
strike and returned to work. The teachers
are Misses Mary and Annie Bailey, daugh-
tiers of William f Bailey, chief engineer of
the Carnegie mills.
A RIOT at Garfield Park race track
Chicago, last week Tuesday afternoon, re-
suited in three men being fatally shot. One
OF the victims was j. NJ, Brown, the we'll
known horseman, reputed TO be worth half
million dollars. The other two men were
police officers, named John Powell and
Henry Mcdowell. On Monday the races
were stopped and scores of spectators as
well as bookmakers were arrested. 1t was
while attempting a repetition of the raid
that Officer Powell was shot and instantly
killed by Brown. Mcdowell was also
fatally shot by Brown. Mcdowell then
shot and instantly killed Brown. just be-
fore the shooting there were sensational &C.
velopments in court where the trial OF the
people arrested was In progress. Mayor
Washburn testified that Chief of Police Nc