The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-05
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

vermont
r. G. WAsHBuRN has been appointed
postmaster at Ascutneyville.
HOWARD CLARK Of Lincoln, sherift, OF
Addison county. having been elected a
county senator resigned the office OF sherif
last week Friday. Governor Page mas ap-
pointed Kent w. Merritt of Shoreham,
sheriff elect, to fill ont the unexpired
term.
r. II HARRINGTON, SUPERINTENDENT OF the
Vermont exhibit of merinos NJ the worlds
Columbian Exposition has called meeting
of the breeders Of merinos and Of the vari-
Gus mutton breeds TO he held AT the Addi-
son House in Middlehury. this week Thurs
day. at haf-past ten O'clock. All interested
in the matter are cordially invited to attend
the MEETING. The managers OF the exnosl-
ton offer 81 1875 in premiums in each of the
three classes of merino sheep There are
eight or ten classes of the mutton breeds
and the premiums in each are the same as
for merinos.
Domestic.
NANCY HANKS trotted a mile at Terre
Haute, Ind, last week. in 2 o.
THE International monetary conference
will be held at Brussels on November y.
THE Pan-Presbyterian council at Toronto
closed on last week FRIDAY. The next
meeting will he held at Glasgow in 1896.
MARTIN II HIGGIvs of the firm of Higgins
& Co., at Taunton. Mass, was found dead
in bed in his room at p hotel last week Fri
day night of hna~t disease. He had been
dead twenty hours. He was a native Of
Newfane, VT.
A GREAT sensation was created at Home
stead, Pa. last week Friday night nv the
arrest for treason of number Of members
of the advisory committee of the Homestead
strikers. Those arrested were Chairman
Thomas ] Crawford, William Baird, George
Rylands, John Dierken and T. Brown
Tho wholly nnpxnpptp1
GENERAL T. MORRIS CHESTER one of the
most prominent colored men in the United
States. died at Harrisburg, Penn. on last
week Friday. He had devoted his whole
life to the welfare Of his race. He had
fine education, and during the war was
newspaper correspondent at the front. He
studied law in England and was admitted
TO the bar in that country.
THE case of Labor Commissioner Peck of
New York, under indictment, charged with
burning the returns made nv manufacturers
10 him. was called at a special session held
by Judge Mavham in the supreme court SEES
sons chambers AT Albany, last week. Mr..
Pecks counsel claimed that the publication
of the names and addresses of persons and
corporations who furnished data would be
greatly injurious to their private interests.
A motion to quash the Indictment has been
denied
DIR. j. b. HAMILTON. surgeon-general at
the united StateS marine hospital, was lu-
terviewed at Chicago last week regarding
the proposition to establish national quar-
autine. He said when asked as to an ep-
idemic in this country: "If the quaran-
tine in New York is managed by the United
States there is not the slightest possibility
that we shall be subject to the contagion,
hut If the quarantine is managed by the
New York state officials. as at present.
would answer your question with decided
Yes. To say that DIR. jenkins methods
are very slack is putting it mildly indeed"
THE Connecticut supreme court on last
week Tuesday by a close division, three
to two, decided the quo Ddrrdnto cases
growing out of the 1890 election. Leaving
out the constitutional questions, the deci-
sion deals in detail with the various classes
of ballots rejected for Irregularities in that
election or counted under dispute. AS a
matter of statutory Interpretation il finds
that some should have been counted and
some rejected. But on the most important
item. the so-caled "double ballots" Of
which there were 57S it decides against the
democrats and this is enough to prevent
any of the candidates getting a majority,
though they all had plurality. The two
judges who dissent claim that the decision
is a fiat contradiction of the law, constituting
ii to require the election officers to do just
what the law forbids them to do.
THE New York senate committee on the
Reading railroad combine voted last week
that the attorney-ge general of the state be in
structed to take such action as is necessary
to annu the charters of such railroad cor
porations in the state of New York, and to
annul the leases of such foreign corpora
tons as have Joined with the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad company in monop-
oily that controls the production and sale
of anthracite coal This action will be
similar TO that taken by the encouragement
OF New Jersey, which resulted in Chancellor
McGill forcing the Central Railroad of New
Jersey TO abandon the combine. If a SINH
lar decision is rendered in New York it is
believed the encouragement of Pennsvl-
vania will make like move and that the
coal trust will be effectually broken.