The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

OVER 100000 spindles in the city of Fall
River, Mass, were stopped last Saturday
night for an indefinite period.
GEORGE B. NJ. HARVEY has retired from
the position of editor-in-chief of the New
York World, because of i'll health. Colonel
Charles III. Jones, formerly of the st. Louis
Republic, succeeds him.
SNow-DRIFTs foot deep were found in
Haverhill and Amesbury, Mass, last Mon
day morning. The country side was COW
cred with patches of drifted snow, more
suggestive of March than August.
A STOCK train of twenty-six cars on the
Atchison, Topeka IL Santa Fe railroad was
ditched at Kinsman, ILL.,, last Thursday.
Thirty head of cattle were killed. The
wreck took fire and was consumed. A
tramp who was stealing ride was instantly
killed.
A CARRIAGE containing Stephen r. Hatch
and family of New Bedford Mass, was
struck by passenger train at Niagara Falls
last week Thursday. Mrs. Hatch was in
stantly killed and the others were painfully
injured They were returning from the
Worlds Fair by carriage.
E. S. MoFFATT of Scranton, Penn, pres
ident of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel
Company, committed suicide in London,
England, last Friday, by shooting Insom-
mia, caused by overwork, is the alleged
cause. He had just arrived in London, his
physicians at Scranton having recon-
mended sea voyage.
THE large barn on the farm of Levi p
Morton at Rhinebeck, n. Y, was burned
last week Wednesday, together with nine
horses, eighty head of Guernsey cattle, sew
eral hundred tons of hay, number of reap
ers and mowing-machines, and other valu-
able property. The total loss was nearly
100000.
EXTENSIVE forest fires have caused great
damage in Burlington county, N. j. A
number of poor berry-pickers are homeless,
with no prospect of earning q, livelihood
now that the huckleberry and cranberry
swamps have been ruined. The largest
tract of timber left in South Jersey is now
charred. A careful estimate places the loss
on buildings at $4,000, to timber $500 900,
and to the crop of cranberries $4,000.
The depression of the silver market has
given great impetus to gold mining in
Utah and Nevada. News from the Henry
mountains gold district is to the effect that
rich strikes in a dozen new prospects have
been made, and stamp mills are kept busy
crushing ore. This camp is practically uneX-
plored, and experienced mining men are
confident the Henry mountains will be the
coming gold district of the West.
NOTICES were posted in the repair shops
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad at Hartford last week announcing
reduction of labor of all workmen to eight
hours per day. Two hundred men living in
Hartford were affected by the order. From
an official source IL is learned that the same
policy of retrenchment is to be pursued by
the road over all its branches The road
has now force of 81, 900 men employed in
all capacities and the annual disbursement
of wages is about S3,000000. No reason is
assigned for shortening the hours OF labor.
The exodus of Colorado miners is proving
| a heavy burden to the farmers and rail-
roads through Kansas. Tramp trains on the
several roads carry from POO to 400 each day
| going east. The regular trains are still be-
| sieged by idle and destitute miners who are
| determined to get out of the country. The
| crowds are so great in Denver that first
class passenger trains frequently back
away from the depots and then run through
the station at full speed in order to prevent
men from jumping on. In some instances
the trains are accompanied through Kansas
| by guards of soldiers to avoid any inter-
ference with regular travel.
A KU-KLUX raid is reported from the
mountains near Dunlop, Tenn. The gang
surrounded the house of Lafayette Grimes,
| dragged him out of doors and beat him, in
| tlicting fatal injuries. His young son gave
| the alarm, and he and a brother fired on the
| ku-klux, as soon as they released their vic
| tim. One of the men had an eye shot out
| a second was seriously wounded and third
perforated with shot. The cause of the
| whipping was that Grimes objected to his
| stepdaughter receiving attentions from one
| of the gang. Warrants have been sworn
out for seven of the raiders, one of whom
was recently arrested for murder but re.
leased,