The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

Two workmen were killed outright and
several others were badly scalded by a
boiler explosion last week Thursday at
Yale, Va.
OVER 100000 cords Of wood valued at
5000, 600 were burned last week at Dead
wood, s. ID. Over 1000 men employed by
the Homestake and Associate Mining Com
pany turned out to fight the flames and
save adjoining property
THE Yale crew won the four-mile race on
the Thames at New London, Conn, last
Friday. The Harvards led at the start, but
Yale training and endurance won the race
in twenty-five minutes one and one.half
seconds by three and one-half lengths.
Harvard's time was twenty-five minutes
fifteen seconds.
THE Sycamore Hotel at Lake George was
burned last week. Loss estimated at $780,
000 No one was injured. There were
about 100 guests at the house besides ser
wants. The Sycamore was located on
Green Island near Bolton, and was one of
the finest summer hotels in the country. 1t
was owned by a stock company, composed
mainly of Philadelphia capitalists.
THE president has called an extra session
of congress to meet August Z, to consider
"unwise laws which must be executed I'M
Til repealed by congress-" 1t is thought
that the action of the British government in
suspending silver coinage in India, together
with the national demands for immediate
relief on the silver question, induced the
| president to summon congress together be-
fore September /, as was his determination.
THE fremont House at Fort Scott, Kan,
four-story brick structure, collapsed last
week, burying seventy-five people in the
| ruins. Fourteen persons are missing and
believed to be dead. Twenty-Five persons
were taken from the second story on the
| west side by means of ladders, and others
| aQpQna6 thrnunb ha axit A
man Woodward, son of the proprietor, was
in the dining room when the crash came
and was carried through the door, but was
not fatally injured.
THE Mutual Life Insurance Company oil
New York has been swindled out of S44 00C
through the rascality of one of its special
| agents. The act was committed two years
ago, but has just been discovered. A. M
| Whitney, acting as special agent in 1891
| bought 546 acres OF land ad Joining the city
| of Cheyenne as an investment for the com
pany, representing that he had paid $4,000
Tor the property. E. b. Newton, specia
| agent for the company in Chicago has just
ascertained that Whitney actually paid but
SAG, 800 for the land.
A BOLT of lightning at Kidderville, Kan.
last Saturday, set fire to dry prairie grass
which caused devastation by fire OF a trac
OF country five miles wide and ten long. A
heavy wind which preceded the rain few
| luluuJtS uTONe tut ire SOubu WIFI ETbd
force, leveling fences, barns and three farm
houses before the rain came to quench the
flames. One Of the houses was unoccupied
and the families in the others saved theil
lives by taking refuge in the cyclone cellars
dug into the ground and covered over. Ter
horses and about twenty head Of cattle
persisted.
The will of Senator Leland Stanford, pro
bated at San Francisco, gives his vast es
tate absolutely to his wife to be disposed
of as she pleases during her lifetime or by
will at her death" This leaves the uni
versity dependent wholly upon Mrs Stan
ford's bounty. II she chooses, she ma,
ALLEVIATE more than $20,00O,0 600 from the uni
versity, but as she is as deeply interested il
its welfare as was her husband there is lit
tie danger of such disaster. The will il
also noteworthy for the supreme powe
given to the widow. The executors ar,
merely advisory, for she has power to vot,
personally or to give proxies for voting OF
all railroad or other interests held by him
The will makes no personal bequest othe
than to relatives, with the single exception
of $4,000 to Herbert G. Nash, his private
secretary.