The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

A WOMAN III WaterVllle, Me-, has been
fined $3.50 and sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment for selling whiskey to
Kelley graduate.
Two large elevators, the chamber OF COM
merce, and six big blocks, were burned: in
Toledo, o., last week. Total loss $3.50, 600;
insurance, 100000.
JOHN d. RocKEFELLER has sent $4,000 in
cash to Chicago University to be expended
at once for books. This gift is distinct from
the 100000 due after July l next.
SEVENTEEN blooded Guernsey cattle,
owned by ex-Vice- President Levi p. Nor
ton, were killed at his farm at Rhinecliff,
n. Y, last week, by order of the state board
of health. They were suffering with tuber-
culosis
GOVERNOR WAITE of Colorado says that
he will not interfere with prize fighting in
that state, but will leave such matters to the
discretion of the county officials. This state
ment was made in response to the query
relative to the Cripple Creek offer of $4,000
for the Corbett- Mitchell fight.
THE receivers of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad have also been appointed
receivers of the Atlantic & Pacific road,
one of the divisions of the system. This is
done on the application of the Mercantile
Trust Company of New York. tits said that
100000 of the second mortgage bonds now
due with interest at six per cent, and $780,
900, interest due March l, is unpaid.
THE CHILEAN government has notified Sec
rotary of State Gresham that it cannot ac-
cept the proposition of the United States
for an extension of the existence of the
United States and Gillian claims commits
sion now in session. State department
officials refuse to discuss the matter but it
is known that they are somewhat disap-
pointed at the failure to secure the desired
extension.
a TEMPEST IN TEAPOT was caused in
church and social circles in Knoxville,
Tenn, last week. A charity ball had been
arranged for, and it had been denounced by
by some of the local ministers. Whereupon
the ball committee proposed to one of the
ministers to abandon the ball and pay 81 900
to charity if the ministers would raise
similar amount. The ministers combined
and raised the money,
Forty Indians. nearly all full booded,
became inmates of Kings county peniten-
tiary at Brooklyn, n. Y, last week, to re-
main for periods OF from five to twenty
years. Their home is in the Indian Terri
tory. They belong TO many tribes. They
were convicted at Paris, Indian Territory,
of various crimes, principally horse stealing,
felonious assault and manslaughter and
were sent there by the government.
THOMAS KINNEY and wife, an aged couple
living in Orange, Conn, were burned to
death in their home early last Friday morn
ing. They We're about seventy years old,
and lived in secluson on the Dogman road
The house was seventy-fve years old, and
burned like finder. 1t was completely
wiped out, and when the two bodies were
found, side by side, nothing but their trunks
remained and these were charred black.
JAMES NJ. BOWLING, ex-cashier of the
United States mint at New Orleans, who
was accused of having embezzled $500
and starting up a fire in the vault to cover
up the crime, was acquitted by a jury in the
United States court last week. The evil
dence was all circumstantial much of it be-
ing presented by government experts com
ing from Washington to the investigation of
the fire. Dowlings defence was merely
denial.
On the ground of economy and retrench-
ment Harvard College has dismissed six
prominent instructors, namely, Charles j.
White, A. NJ, professor of mathematics;
Bennett II. Nash, A. NJ, professor of Italian
and Spanish; George Bendelari, A. NJ, in
structor in history Oliver W. Huntington,
PHI D., instructor in mineralogy and chem
istry; Thaddeus w. Harris, Phi. D., in
structor in geology; S. S. Curry, instructor
in elocution In spite of all official asser-
tions, the public is reluctant to believe that
with all her wealth, Harvard was obliged
to take this step in the interests of economy
THE hat-makers' lockout in Danbury,
Conn, bids fair to be long fight between
manufacturers and union labor. The fac
tories are now open as Independent shops
and ready to receive applicants for employ
ment. The men will not return to work
under this arrangement If, after waiting
a reasonable length of time, the men do not
show disposition to go to work, all members
of the manufacturers association, twenty
firms, will move to YOnkers, N Y, where
they will form a cooperative concern and
combine in one great factory, which will
employ over 5000 people. The move will
result in reducing the population of Dan
bury one-half,
THE ID. Lothrop book publishing company
of Boston has made an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors. The firms liabi.
tiles are estimated at $500 The assets
consist of outstanding bills, plates and
copyrights of 5000 books and machinery
valued at $4,000. In May, 1893, their assets
as returned to the state house footed up
$780, 10l, but their real value is very uncertain
at present This house has been identified
for the past twenty years with the juvenile
and Sunday-school literature of the United
States, and has probably sold more Sunday
school books than any other firm in the
country. For the past ten years the COM
pany has gone heavily into the publication
of board books Juveniles, with an at
tractive Autograph cover-and during the
past year it manufactured very nearly the
usual quantity. The result is the accumu-
lation of a large stock that cannot be worked
off until next autumn.
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