The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-24
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.


Miss HELEN A. SHAFER president of
Wellesley College, died last Saturday OF
pneumonia
EX-GOVERNOR WILLIAM CASTOR of Mas
! sachusetts died at his home in Boston last
! Friday. His death was due to a general
breaking down, caused by overwork
! NINETEEN cows of ex-Vice. President Nor
! toms herd of blooded Guernseys, valued at
| $1,000, were killed last week at his farm
near khinebeck, n. Y. They were infected
| with tuberculosis.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
Adirondack and Northern railroad This
action virtually turns the property over to
the control of the New York Central and
Hudson River road
Hon. CHARLES p THOMPSON of Glouces-
ter, Mass, judge of the superior court of
Massachusetts and ex-member of congress-
committed suicide by shooting himself in
the heart last Thursday. Long-continued
illness had unsettled his mind.
The Dutch steamer Amsterdam, which ar
rived at New York last week Wednesday lost
her chief officer, j. Meyer, and five men by
the capsizing of her port life boat while
proceeding to the assistance of the crew of
the American fishing schooner Maggie K.
Wells of Gloucester, Mass, which was in q
sinking condition.
BOLD robbery was committed on Court
street, Boston, early ON Wednesday even
ing OF last week. The show window of the
Jewelry store of Harrington & Freeman was
smashed with brick, and tray contain
ing diamond rings valued at $4,000 was car
rleu on. Although the street was crowded
at the time, the thief escaped.
ABOUT fifteen million bushels of wheat
nave been destroyed by the continued rains
In the wheat belt in the state of Washing
ton. Many thousands of bushels rotted in
the field, but the rains have continued up to
GATE, and have flooded the granaries and
destroyed most of what was harvested and
rendered the roads impossible.
The plan of the trustees of the Brooklyn
tabernacle TO charge strangers an admis-
sion on Sundays, and thus raise money to
pay OIL the heavy debt, has been abandoned
by order OF DIR. Talmage, who says such an
arrangement would offend the whole earth,
Ihere are from 800 to 1000 strangers in
the church every Sunday, and the plan was
TO charge them ten cents admission
REV, BENJAMIN BALDWIN Methodist
preacher in Troy, Ohio, has confessed to the
murder of William Henshaw at Richmond
IND, three years ago. 1t is said that Mr..
BALDWIN was sutton of Miss Bond, and
that his jealousy of young Henshaw drove
him to the deed. 1t is further stated that
the father of the girl favored the minister's
duplicates Mr.. Bond.
made by railroad train was made bv the
empire State express last week Wednes-
day in its run from Albany to Syracuse.
me train left Albany twenty-five minutes
behind schedule time, and there was de-
tention of five minutes at Utica for taking
water. The train reached Syracuse two
minutes late, the run of one hundred forty
eight miles having been made in one hun
dred and fifty-one minutes.
REPRESENTATIVE PowLEN, of the New
York legislature, has introduced a bill
which abolishes capital punishment and
provides that all murderers sentenced TO
death shall be killed by anesthetics. The
phi provides that after the condemned men
have been placed in painless sleep, scien-
lists are to be permitted to take off the TOP
OF the skull and watch the action of the
brain or lay bare his heart and other vital
organs in order TO study their action. The
author of the bill has flooded the state with
circulars in support of the measure. He
is evidently prize crank