The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

SUSAN b. ANTHONY has been reelected
resident of the National Woman's Suffrage
Association.
BY the strike of the silk ribbon weavers
/, in New York. last week Friday, 5000 girls
are thrown out of employment
FRANK ByRNE, who was secretary of the
Irish National Land League under Parnell,
and was arrested in France for complcty
in the murders at Phoenix Park, died last
week at the Rhode Island hospital in Prov
idence, X. j. He had lived in that city for
the past four years. His wife is a helpless
paralytic.
The failure of Philip Stimmell g. Co.,
seed dealers OF Omaha, Neb., has brought
nearly every farmer in Douglass county in
that state to the verge of bankruptcy The
farmers mortgaged their property to raise
seeds for Stimmell, for which he gave ware.
house receipts that are now worthless.
A SOUTHERN PACIFIC passenger train was
wrecked at Roscoe, Cal, last week Friday
morning, by three masked men, The en-
CINE and two fruit cars were ditched The
express car was blown open by dynamite and
looted. Engineer Thomas and the fireman
and the express messenger were badly hurt
The robbers escaped.
The original copy of the Declaration OF
Independence has been Withdrawn from
public exhibition in the state department
library at Washington. The rapid fading
rloration OF the parchment on which it is
engrossed, from exposure to the light, and
on account OF age, made it impracticable for
the department to allow it to be exhibited
or handled. In place of the original docu-
ment fac-simile will be placed on exhibit
ton.
REPORTS of appalling loss of life in Okla
bona and Indian Territories during the
great storm of last week continue to come
LOT do
families were poorly prepared for cold
weather cannot be heard from for weeks
yet, and 1t Is more than probable that in
many sod houses dead bodies will some day
be found. Reports come from the northern
part of Oklahoma that six persons of one
vent their suffering while dying of cold
The bodies were found with their throats
cut. The father afterwards committed
suicide. He left note stating he killed his
family to prevent them from freezing.
Many persons are still living in tents, and
their sufferings are extreme.
THE levee at Horn Lake Landing. Tenn.
broke, last week, about fifty miles below
Memphis, flooding about 5000 acres of valu-
able land. There is a narrow strip of land
dividing. the Mississippi river from Horn
lake at the point where the break occurred.
The water is reported to be pouring into the
lake at an enormous rate, and it is feared
that the channel Of the river will be changed
into the lake. If this should occur the loss
will be very great, as the lake is not leveed
and the water will sweep over its banks and
flood the surrounding country and inundate
the tracks of the Yazoo & Mississippi Val.
ley railroad. The town of Lakeview is sit
uated on Horn lake, and is a wel-known
pleasure resort. 1t is safe from inundation,
however, as it is located on high bluff.
The courts of Paris have decreed that the
guardianship of the children of Princess
Colonna, who recently arrived in this coun-
try as fugitive, shall revert to her hus-
band. 1t is further ordered that the chill
dren be handed over to the prince within
twenty-four hours, and in the event of
failure to comply with this order, the prin-
cess will be fined 800 francs daily for three
months. If at the end of three months she
continues to disobey the order, the court
declares that it will take stronger measures
to enforce its mandate. The princess il
condemned to pay the costs of the action.
AS the children are with their mother in
New York, it is impossible to comply with
me order, and it is not thought probable
that the princess will pay any attention to IL.