The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
IN BRIEF.

A WHOLE family named Johnston persisted
in a snow storm near Enid, Okla, last
week. They were living under a wagon,
with no protection from the weather, when
the blizzard struck them.
REV. CHARLES NJ. BRAGG, pastor OF the
Calvary Methodist church of Baltimore,
Md, has eloped with Miss Ianthe Phelps,
organist of that church. The former has a
wife and five young children.
The citizens of New Mexico have organ
lied vigilance committees in many parts OF
the territory for protection against the
swans of Migrants from southern California
that are a terror to the country.
THE United States steamships Ranger
and Mohican nave been ordered TO Honolulu
to relieve the Philadelphia. 1t is predicted
in naval circles that a large United States
naval force will be concentrated at that port.
THE Granger Hubbell residence in San
Diego, Cal, the finest house in the city, has
been purchased by Ulysses s. Grant for a
permanent home for himself and the widow
of General Grant. The house was built at
a cost Of S92, 600.
Two young men in a canoe went over the
Horse Shoe rapids at Niagara Falls last
Saturday evening. They went up the river
duck hunting, and permitted their boat TO
float too far with the current. Their bodies
have not been recovered.
AT the second trial OF the United States
war ship Columbia, last Friday, she made
the unparalleled speed OF thirty miles, or
| %. 81 knots, an hour. As a half million dol
lars is to be paid the Cramps, the builders,
knots, their bonus will reacEaa tremendous
figure.
SENIOR CARLOS DIAZ GOMEZ DE cADIz,
Spanish consul at Baltimore, Nd, COM
mitted suicide last Thursday night by
jumping from a fourth story window. Death
was instantaneous His mind had been un-
balanced for SOME time. He was forty-slx
years old and had been consul at Baltimore
for two years.
THE Edgewood Catholic female seminary
at Madison, Wis, was destroyed by fire last
Thursday night. Marjorie Rice of Stevens
Point, Wis, and Maggie Stock OF Chicago
were burned to death. Several others were
at $4,000. 1t was once the home of Elk
Gov. q. 9. Washburn, and he presented il
to the Dominican Sisters.
The effort to cut down the pension roll is
ended. 1t is understood that the forthcom'
ing report OF the secretary Of the interior
will show that nine-tenths of the pensioners
suspended nave been already restored, and
it is not improbable that the attempt tC
make political capital by sitting a few
doubtful pensioners from the mass of those
properly entitled to pensions will be aban
doned.
The official reports of the factory in
spectors OF Philadelphia show that OF 5Ul
textile establishments in that city, only
eighteen per cent are in operation. Thu
SEQ mills employ $4,000 men, and onll
1900 OF these are now working. The same
table shows that while in August las
seventy-ive per cent of the total workmeI
were idle, there are ninety per cent withou
work now.
WILD & QUAIL, shipping masters of New
York, nave enlisted 500 men as a crew TO
the Brazilian steamer Gel Cid" which ha
been fitted up in New York as a part of tn,
new navy with which Piexoto will attacl
Mello, the rebel. The articles signed by tn
men are contracts to convey the ship to Ri
J%aneiro, Brazil, and they can leave the yes
sci at the end OF the voyage il they 30 de
sire. Their pay is forty dollars a mont
each, with one months pay in advance.