The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-16
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

PRESIDENT 1ARRlSON IL SOJOurnlDg at
Cape May with Mrs. Mckee.
NANCY HANKS, driven by Budd Dobe,
failed to beat her worlds record of 9: 04 at
Mystic Park last Saturday. She trotted a
mile in 2: 0Si
THE stallion Nelson lowered his record
of 2: 10 last Saturday at Portland, Me-,
trotting mile in 300 Competent judges
called the track three seconds slow.
IT is said that President Cleveland will
lose $4,000 by the closing Of the pulp mill
at Appleton, Wis, of which he, Dan Lamont,
William G. Whitney and Don M. Dicken-
son are owners.
CHARLES G. EDDY, vice-president of the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad under the
Mcleod management, committed suicide in
Chicago, last week, by shooting himself in
Washington park. The cause is unknown.
AT the bicycle races in Chicago last week.
A. A Zimmerman made quarter of mile
in thirty and two-ffths seconds. II. G.
Tyler, the crack rider from the East covered
a mile in two minutes eleven and two-ffths
seconds.
THERE were two more deaths from cholera
at the Swinbourne hos pital, New York, last
Friday night. The remains were cremated.
There were seventeen cholera patients there
at noon last Saturday, one of whom was
convalescent.
THEoDoDE THOMAS has resigned as mu-
steal director at the Worlds Fair, and his
resignation has been accepted. The big
exposition orchestra will be disbanded and
other arrangements for music at the fair
will be made
CONGRESSMAN w. G. p. BRECKENRIDGE,
the Kentucky orator, is defendant in SEN
sational suit bought by Miss Madeline V.
Pollard, also of Kentucky for an alleged
failure to keep promise of marriage. Dam
ages are placed at $4,000.
SENATOR VOORHEES, has introduced bill
in the senate permitting national banks to
issue circulation to the par Of their bonds.
He had letter from the secretary of treas
ury commencing it and saying If enacted it
would add $4,000, 900 to the currency.
THE Senate Hotel, on Madison street,
Chicago, was burned last Monday morning
One man was killed by jumping from a
window in the upper story. Six others
were suffocated or burned to death. There
were thirty guests in the house at the time
the fire broke out.
CASHIER FRED GRoTENFELD of the bank
of Shasta at Reading, Cal, is defaulter for
more than $780, 600. He has squandered his
fathers estate, amounting TO $4,000, and
has wasted many small estates left in his
charge. All his stealings have gone in
mining stock speculations.
GEORGE J..GoULD has issued circular
announcing that employees Of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad Company whose salaries
are 800 per month or over will have their
salaries cut ten per cent from August l.
In case any employee objects to the cut, he
will receive his full salary for August and
then be dropped from the payroll.
Two THOUSAND people attended silver
A resolution was unanimously adopted de-
handing that " our representative in con-
gress shall oppose the repeal of the Sher-
man law, unless substitute bill is passed
for free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the ratio OF sixteen to one."
TYPHOID fever has assumed an epidemic
form in St. Louis. The hospitals are
crowded with patients, and physicians in
private practice report new cases daily.
The published list of burial permits show
many deaths from typhoid. Sanitary Off
Gals say the city is unusually clean, and
give no explanation for the disorder.
THE intense heat in Washington during
the past week interfered somewhat with
legislation. The debate in the senate and
house on the unconditional repeal of the
silver purchase clause of the Sherman act
promises to be long and tedious. The house
has passed a resolution limiting the debate
to fourteen days, and the senate to eleven
days, the sessions to continue from eleven
A. NJ. to five P. NJ.
MORE disastrous floods are reported near
Pueblo, Col. One day last week the Ar
Kansas iiNoi ioSo eiBHu leob III an uour.
The lower part of the city was submerged
and the tracks of the Missouri Pacific and
Rio Grande roads covered by several feet of
water and badly damaged The approach
to the Eighth street bridge was washed away
for fifteen feet. Three city and five rail-
way bridges were damaged by extensive
washouts. The loss was heavy.
CURRENT funds are decidedly scarce in
New York city. Everybody gets paid in
checks Some get them 'cashed and some
do not. 1t is absolutely impossible to get
check on an out-of-town bank cashed either
by bank or private corporation. Many
ludicrous happenings are constantly crop
ping up through this state of affairs, and in
some cases there is pathetic side to the
case. Some people are actually starving
with money in their pockets in the shape OF
checks. How long this state of things will
last no one knows.
A MIDwINTER International Exposition
will be held in San Francisco, Cal, from
January to June 30, 1891. The site of the
exposition is located in Golden Gate Park,
and will cover an area OF one hundred acres.
There will be five principal buildings,
namely, manufacturers and liberal arts,
agricultural and horticultural hall, mechan-
ical arts, fine arts and decorative art, ad-
ministration building Applications are
being received daily for separate and special
constructions such as state exhibits, restau-
rants, reproductions, side-shows, etc.
THREE men attempted last week to beat
all previous records of speed in descending
Pixies Peak in Colorado on continuance
called tobOggan bitrement. This consists
OF a fiat board nailed over groove which
fits closely on the rack-rail of the cog road.
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