The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-27
IN BRIEF.

THE democrats of Massachusetts, have
nominated John e. Russell of Leicester fol-
governor.
THE Fitchburg railroad has voted to ISSUE
bonds to the amount of 50, 500 900, the money
to be used in the construction of locomotive:
and cars.
FRANCIS Fl. WEEKS, the defaulter, who il
now in San Jose, Costa. Rica, is to be eX
tradited and brought back to the United
States for trial.
OVER 1000 miners have resumed work il
the Colorado mines which were closed a
the time of the slump in prices last June
Only the high-grade mines will be operated
for the present.
The jury in the Trefethen murder case,
tried last week in Boston, returned a yer.
dict of not guilty. The emotions of the
prisoner entirely overcame him when the
verdict was rendered.
IT is now known that the donor of tn,
$500, 600 to Harvard College about a year
ago for the purpose of equipping and main
tanning a reading room, the identity o
whom has caused much surmising, was tn,
late Fred l.. Ames.
GEORGE WALKER, the largest man in tn,
United States, died last week at Rockland
II. l. He weighed five hundred pounds
was five feet eleven inches tall, and hi
waist measurement was seventy-two inches
He was forty-two years old.
FIVE negroes were hanged on one scat
fold at Mount Vernon, Ga, last Friday
They had all been convicted of murder. II
was the first hanging in Montgomery county
since the war. Over 200 persons sur
rounded the scaffold and witnessed the exc
cution of the sentence of the law.
AN express train loaded with a World.
Fair party was run into at Bellevue, Mich.
last week Thursday, by a special. Two
persons were killed outright and the fire.
man of the special was horribly scalded
The special was telescoped and the roof o
one car was hurled into the ticket office a
the station.
JUDGE REED of Wichita, Kan, has de
clared the state law constituting eight hour
a days labor as unconstitutional III,
holds the law is a restraint on the liberty O
action, guaranteed by both state and fedora
law, which permits the making of a Lawful.
contract in a lawful way. Claims aggre
eating hundreds of thousands of dollars foI
overtime under this act are pending agains
every county and city in the state.
SUGAR is so scarce in Chicago that a fam
inc confronts housewives. Retail dealer
cannot obtain enough sugar from wholesal
dealers to supply half the demands of thei
customers. Wholesale dealers say the re
finers are not turning out more than hal
enough sugar to supply the demand. Rep
resentatives of the sugar trust say the mar
ket is short over a million barrels of suga
and that no relief can be looked for in tn
near future.
EDWARD Box, editor of the Lddjes' Hon
journal, receives one of the largest persona
mails in the country, a years mail consist
ing of over 10000 letters. Three-fourth o
these letters are from women. No part of thi
huge mail reaches Mr.. Box directly. 1t
opened by a private secretary and dis
tributed to assistants for answer. Ever
letter, however, receives a reply. One Q
Mr.. Bok's editors on this journal, Rutl
Ashmore, who writes to girls, receives owe
5000 letters during a year.
AN attempt to wreck the north-boun,
steamboat train on the New London division
of the Central Vermont railroad was mad,
near Palmer, Mass, last Saturday %evenin
by stacking fence rails on the track. TIL
train struck the distractions but was no
derailed This was the third attempt mad,
within three weeks to wreck this train a
this point. The first was about three week
ago and was prevented by two tramps, VIII
discovered on the track some fence rail
and three large stones, each weighing 10
pounds. The tramps ran into Palmer AM
gave warning. The second attempt wa
made about two weeks ago, when the trail
struck the obstruction but was not damaged