The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

GEORGE G. PERKINS has been appointed
senator from California to succeed the late
Leland Stanford.
The 81. Louis Journal Of agriculture pre-
diets a deficiency in the worlds wheat crop
this year of 10O, 600 bushels.
SEVEN persons have lately been killed and
several injured by wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad at Oxford,
Col.
THE New Hampshire Trust Company of
Manchester clos ed its doors last Saturday.
1t is thought the suspension will be only
temporary.
CASHIER JAMES M. BOWLING of the United
States mint at New Orleans is under arrest,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from the
government.
DR.. MEYER, the wholesale poisoner, was
arraigned last week before Judge Cowing
of New York. He pleaded not guilty and
held for trial.
BY special order from the war depart
ment, all Indians enlisted as soldiers at
Fort Reno, Oklahoma, have been dismissed
from the service.
The rumor that the Concord & Montreal
railroad has been leased by the Boston &
Maine is confirmed, and the change of man
agement will take effect before September l.
The family of John Ewart and several
other persons of Lawrence, Mass, were
pOlSOueu ldSU week Dy edUlHB
that had been sprayed with paris green A
prompt application of antidotes prevented
any fatalities.
DIR. w. A. WHEELER, chief of the Ellis
Island staff, returned from Europe last Fri
day after an absence of three months He
does not think the cholera will come to this
country this year, even though it should
break out in Europe.
THE story sent out from Seattle, Wash,
hate In Init ahi hnl
fired at the sealing poacher Alexandria and
been disabled by return fire, was Ca
nard. The story was started by corre-
spondents of Seattle papers, who practically
admit that there was no foundation for it.
THE Milburn Wagon Works of Toledo
o., employing 800 men, have shut down
A reduction of wages had been made, but
the men refused to accept it, Mr.. Milburn
threatened to shut down for six months if
the men refused to work. He gave them
an hour and a half to decide, and at the end
of that period shut down.
THE business portion of the first ward Of
Long Island City, l., l., was burned last
Friday together with st. Mary's Roman
Catholic church, parsonage, and new pa
rochial school. The loss on the church is
100000. The burned buildings contained
many tenements and, as result, fully one
hundred families have been rendered home
| less.
| THE merchants and bankers of Denver
have issued a card to the public in which
they declare their faith in Colorado's future
| and that the present trouble is but tempo
rary. They regret the violent utterances re-
| Gently made by excited individuals and
declare that these do not represent the peo-
| pie of the city or the state. They conclude
by declaring for free coinage of silver, and
ask all members of congress to aid them in
securing this at the coming extra session.
| LEE WALKER, the negro who assaulted
Mollie McCadden, was taken from the Jail
at Memphis, Tenn, last Saturday and
hanged to a telegraph pole. He fought
savagely when taken from his cell by the
mob and bit several men severely. The
| body was burned on bonfire after the
| lynching, which was witnessed by crowd
of 5000 people. The sheriff refused to give
| up his prisoner. He was knocked sense
less with chair causing conclusion of the
| brain.