The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11
rec Wool Not Wanted

OF the Nj massachusetts, house OF representa-
tives for the fifth consecutive term, last
Wednesday, receiving 230 of the 23I votes
cast.
Free Wool Not Wanted.
THE executive board of the National
Merino Sheep Registry Association met
last week at Steubenvile, o., and in behalf
of the association a petition was forwarded
to congress asking the members not to
tinker the wool tariff, and not to vote for
the free wool bill.
Death of John r. Squire.
JOHN p SQUIRE, the widely.known pork
packer of Boston, died last Saturday at his
home in Arlington. AT the time OF his death
he was president of the well-known pack
ing and provision company that bears his
name. He had been in failing health for
the past year, and had not visited his office
for several mouths.
Telegraphers' Strike Off.
THE strike Of the telegraph operators on
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
Is ended, resulting in "A victory for the COM
pany. Before any of the strikers are taken
back they must sever their connection with
the Order of Railroad Photographers, and the
company in future will not give employ
ment to members of that order.
The Lat est Pension Figures.
COMMISSIONER RAUM has just issued a
statement of the pension business of the
port in which he says: There were 800, 1856
pensions on the roll. Since July, 1882,
5S,1I6 original pensions had been granted,
aud increase in 30 3O5 cases had been al.
lowed. The number of claims pending in
December were 776 6S7. For the first six
mon: rs of the present fiscal year there WAS
paid out on account of pensions, $50, 423, 1903
The Monetary Conference.
PRESIDENT ANDREWS of Brown Uni
verSity, one of the delegates to the recent
monetary conference, said, last week, tina I
he was much pleased with the result of the
deliberations, and felt sure that some prac-
teal result would be realized in July, when
the conference meets again The beneficial
results likely 10 accrue to the United States
are marked. The American delegates were
treated with the Difference due the great ma
ton whose ambassadors they were.
The Boston & Names New station.
THE Boston a. Maine railroad is to begin
| at once the erection of union station in
Boston, which will extend from the present
station of the Boston x Lowell division 70
| the tracks of the Western division, nearly
ton will have twenty tracks exclusively for
passenger traffic. This movement means
much 10 Vermont shippers of freight to
| points in Maine and elsewhere in New
| England, as carloads will be sent to theiI
destination without traushipment, and the
present heavy expense will DO avoided.
| Suicide of Young Boston Doctor In
| London.
DIR. EUGENE WHITE, a physician of Bos-
ton residing on Huntington avenue, com
mitted suicide in Temple Gardens, London,
recently, by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver. DR.. White was
thirty years of age, aud graduate of Dart
mouth College. He had always been
| slightly eccentric in his manners, and as
| his father had brqueathed him comfortable
income he did not practice his profession.
A brother has sailed for London to take
charge of the body, which has been en-
balmed, and will bring IL TO Boston.