The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-09
Summary Of News.
Vermont.


Vergennes last Friday, delaying travel two
hours.
UP to July last, the United States gov
eminent had expended $3.50, 1921 on the
Burlington breakwater
A SwEDE named Ericsson was seriously
Injured at Rutland, last Saturday night,
while attempting to board a freight train.
A FREIGHT brakeman named Perry was
killed at Alburgh Springs, last Saturday
morning. while attempting to board the
train.
THE St. Johnsbury Californian last week
published an interesting story of the big
fire in that town. illustrated by some excel
lent cuts.
Mrs. EBENEzER j. ORMsBEE landed in
San Francisco last week, from Samoa. She
will visit in California few weeks before
returning to Brandon.
RUTLAND had Sunday liquor raid this
week, stuff being seized at the Brunswick
house and the drug stores of Fred +. Fem,
Dennis Mears and the Clffords
ISAAC S. BoRLEY of St. Adams has been
selected as a representative from Vermont
to the Worlds Fair for insurance matters.
The subject of insurance constitutes one OF
general divisions in the series of World s
congresses.
DETECTIVE j. F. NICHOLS of New York
city was in Vergennes, last Friday, and re-
ported the arrest in New York of Red Austin,
who buncoed S. S. Wright of Waltham out
OF $4,000 last April. Detective Nichols
went from Vergennes to Waltham, to get
the necessary evidence.
Domestic.
BEVERLY, Mass, had a $4,000 blaze
Monday night.
MCDoUGALL, convicted of mauslaughteI
for killing his father at Fall River, gets ten
years in state prison.
A COW, last Sunday, ditched train al
Magic, Indian Territory killing the engi.
neer and badly injuring the fireman.
JOHN j. CAREY, a veteran New York de-
tective, was shot and killed last Thursday
night while attempting to arrest James ID
Blanchard, an ex-convict and general crook
ALL over western Pennsylvania the water
sources are drying up, and water is trans
ported for miles. Rain is awaited will
anxiety. Destructive fires have broken out
in many parts of the West, where the droutl
prevails
HOBBS & Co.'s AND WALTHER & Co.'S
wallpaper factories, Behr's sandpaper fac
tories, seven tenement houses and severa
other buildings were burned at Brooklyn
N. Y, Sunday night. The loss is half {
million.
WHOLE passenger train on the Eastern
Minnesota railroad was seized by the sheriff
last week to satisfy Judgment for S15,00t
in favor of j. j. Moran, who was given
verdict for that amount by the courts fol-
personal injuries received while in the EN-
ploy of the company.
THE new telephone system Just com
pleted in La Porte, Ind, and known as the
Stronger automatic telephone system, is il
successful operation. The system does
away with the "hello GIRL" the switch
board and switching being operated and
performed automatically.
THREE masked men rode to the bank il
nCt Ttrrn q
mounted. and went inside the bank, where
at the point of Winchesters, they compelled
the cashier to hand over $4,000. They
then easily made their escape, gallopnG
from town at a furious gait.
THE recent gales on the great lakes have
probably been the most destructive of lake
shipping in the history of inland marine
The losses of the last five days are estimated
by underwriters at S450000. Fully a dozer
boats have been swept away and no less
than twenty five seamen lost.
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE was absent
from his Brooklyn pulpit, Sunday, and the
report was circulated in the newspapers
reverend gentleman and his wife arrived
from Birmingham, Conn, Monday, greatly
incensed over the false report
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK SCHwATKA. the
famous Arctic explorer, was found dead al
his hotel in Portland, Ore, Wednesday
d
anum. 1t is supposed to be a case of suicide
On the other hand, it is thought that death
was due to an overdose of the poison, taken
TO allay pain.
Foreign.
THE official totals of the last ten weeks
are II .972 cases of cholera and 1910 deaths
at Hamburg alone.
A FALSE report that the tower of church
near Vienna, Austria, was collapsing
caused panic in which twenty-five persons
were trampled to death.
A TERRIBLE cyclone in the Caribbean
sea damaged Old Providence and San An.
dres about 100000. On the latter island
nearly every house was badly damaged or
completely wrecked.
THE whaling bark Helen Mac and thirty
five of her crew were crushed by the ice in
the Arctic ocean. October 6. The ice came
on without warning, and no opportunity for
escape was offered. Only six of the crew
escaped.
THE trial of ex-Premer MERCER of Quecec
for conspiracy to defraud the province was
ended at Quebec last week. The jury
brought in verdict of not guilty and the
announcement was received with great
demonstration by the people.
The Russian ironclad Rurik, II 900 tons
burden, the largest vessel of the kind ever
launched in Russia, was launched last
week. 1t is believed she will be able to
cover voyage from Cronstadt to Vladivo,
stock, $4,000 miles, without coaling on the
way.
WHILE the police were searching the
house of a suspected smuggler in the dis
trict Of Toujisky, Poland they discovered
the decomposed remains of nineteen per-
sons-men, women and children. 1t is not
known whether these persons were MUIR
dered or whether the cellar in which they
were found had been used as secret burial
place,