The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

mer residence at Dublin, N. II. He was
the author Of eight law books on as many
different subjects, which are widely recog-
nized as authority.
AT Denver, Col. last Thursday, fire de-
stroyed the buildings Of the b. A. Halleck
paint and oil company. Loss, 100000.
OVER 1000 prospectors have gone TO the
gold fields near San Juan, Col, and the
rush continues at the rate Of 600 new arriv-
ais daily.
THIRTY members OF the New York boards
OF aldermen and supervisors have been in
dicted by the grand jury for extravagant
expenditure in the recent Columbian cele-
bration.
Four ringleaders of the gang OF freight
car burglars who have operated between
Buffalo and Erie, Penn, were arrested last
Friday at BusSa'o. They were betrayed by
woman.
WILLIAM H. sHArrucK of Albany, N. Y,
| shot dead his bride of three months, last
| Thursday and then put a bullet through
| his own brain. The tragedy was the out
come OF jealous quarrel.
The Adams Express Company began, last
| Monday, to run the entire Burlington sys-
TEN in connection with the Southern Ex-
| press Company. Heretofore Wells, Fargo
& Co. have had the Burlington system west
| Of the Missouri river.
| JAMES WALLACE of Whitehall, N. Y was
| killed and his two daughters badly injured
| by being struck by a locomotive while driy-
| ing across the Delaware Il Hudson track at
that place. No blame is attached to the
company, as the usual signals we're given.
THE Kentucky hotel at Hot Springs, Ark.
was burned early last Friday morning.
| The house was crowded with guests,
and the rapid spread of the flames COM
| PEELED them to escape in their night clothes
without time to save their personal effects
THE ocean steamer " Bear Creek" re.
| ported to have gone down in midocean
was owned by the Bear Creek Oil Company
| OF Pittsburg, Penn, and cost $3.50 900 three
years ago. She was fully insured, and was
one O; the largest oil carrying vessels afioat
CARL ALBERTO CAPPA, bandmaster since
1881 of the Seventh Regiment, New Yorl
National Guard, died in New York last Fri
day. He had been member of the Seventh
Regiment band since 1860, and ranked will
Gilmore and Reeves as an organizer, in
structor and composer.
Four large mercantile houses and valu
able building known as the Werner resi-
dence were burned in Pittsburg. Penn, las
Thursday, entaiing loss OF half million
OF dollars. Many valuable paintings in thu
Werner mansion were destroyed, and $500,
600 worth of liquors and cigars went up il
smoke.
JOHN G. GALLAGHER, cashier for the pas
twenty years for the Howard Lockwood s
Co. printing house of New York, has all
seconded with 5000 belonging to the firm
His method was to make false entries in thu
cash book, covering them by additions
false entries in the ledger, 80 that his book
appeared to balance.
MAJOR JAMES p. FROST, financial agen
of the Boston Globe, dropped dead at hi
home, last Friday morning. Apoplexy wa
the supposed cause. Mr.. Frost had beel
connected with the Globe for many years
He was a member of the Ancient and Hon
Orable Artillery, vice-president of the Bos
ton Press Club, and member of the News
paper Club.
LOUIS WAGNER of Boston shot and kille
Mrs. Fanny Speir in that city, last week
and then shot himself. Mrs Sper wa
married twelve years ago to Charles Spei
of Lowell, but soon after procured a di
vorce. She made the acquaintance G
Wagner ten months ago, since which tim
they have been very intimate. Jealousy
the supposed cause of the dual crime.
TRUMAN d. SoMERBY, late president G
the Order of the Iron Hall, DIR. Charles II
Baker, Joseph Gladding, and James II
Eckersley, all late officers of the defunct OIL
ganization, were arraigned last Thursda
in Philadelphia, charged with using $500
900 of the orders funds to sustain the Mu
tual Banking and Trust Company OF tina
city. They waived examination and wer
bound over for trial, bail being fixed a
$1,000 each.