The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-14

terribly mutilated with knife wounds. An
American companion was carried to the
mountains by the bandits, where he is held
for ransom.
ANDREW PIKARIEN, Russian Finn, was
arrested at Even, Wis. last week Wednes-
day, charged with feloniously assaulung an
eight-year.old girl. Fifty masked men took
him from Jail that night and hanged him to
a railroad trestle.
A CYCLONE passed over the northwestern
part OF Mississippi, last week Thursday, lay
| ing waste plantation and farm-houses.
Several colored people were killed. wash
ngton and Bolivar counties, both thickly
settled with prosperous farmers, suffered
the most severely.
PRINCESS CoLoNNA, step daughter of John
w. Mackay, the California millionaire,
with her three children, arrived in New
York last Monday She stated that her
sudden decision to leave France and come
to America was due TO the plot that had
been formed by her husband to steal one Of
her children and hold 1t for a ransom
THE senate judiciary committee agreed
last Monday, by vote of five to five, to re-
port without recommendation the nomina-
ton of w. H. Peckham to be associate JUS
tice of the United States supreme court
Senator Hoar was absent, and, as he would
surely have voted in the negative, the op-
ponents OF Peckham look upon the result as
a practical rejection.
TRAIN wreckers, last Friday night re-
moved the rails and fish plates at the high
bridge over White Oak Bayou, near Hous-
ton, Texas, on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad. A passenger train was
ditched and several of the crew were badly
injured. A brakeman was sent back to flag
freight train and was riddled with bullets
by the gang. The wreckers have not been
caught.
THE car of Russia is plaintiff in a case in
the United States district court of admiralty
in New York. The complaint states that
during the naval parade in New York har-
Dor, last year, two steam tugs came down
the river, having in tow fleet of canal
boats and coal barges, which struck the
steam launch of the Dimtri Donski and
sunk it. Russia claims $4,000 damages.
The defense denies that the man-of-war was
anchored in proper place, and declares
that the steam launch displayed lights.
| SENATOR HoAR responded to the toast,
abraham Lincoln" at a dinner given in
Jersey City last Monday evening by the
Lincoln Association, on the anniversary OF
the birth of the martyr president. Mr..
Hoar dwelt upon the existing business de-
preston, and said that there had not been
| since the war such time of sorrow and dis
aster, and that no man could adjust his
business to new conditions because the
threat is hanging over him Of still further
changes in the tariff. Continuing, he said:
=" Let six men whom you or l could name in
the United States senate, let one man whom
you or 1 could name in the executive chair,
declare that they, or he, will not permit for
the next three years any change in the tariff
policy OF this country and will see that the
Mckinley bill has fair trial, if within six
weeks the wheels of the factories of the
United States are not turning again, and the
fires in its furnaces are not lighted again,
and the work in its iron mines and coal
mines is not resumed, and it's capital is not
beginning to move, and prosperity and com.
fort do not come back again to the homes OF
its workmen, you may sentence me to be q
free trader and democrat for the rest OF
my natural life, and ! cannot invoke for
myself any worse fate than that"