The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-17
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

SIX sailors were drowned last week Fri
day morning, in the harbor at Baltimore,
Md, by the capsizng of a ferry boat. All
the drowned men belonged in England.
BUDD DoBLE, the best-known horseman
in America, and Miss Hortense Mcdonald
were married at Chicago last Thursday.
They sailed from New York for Europe on
Saturday.
TERRIFIC prairie fires have recently been
raging in the western counties of Oklahoma
Territory. Scores of farmers have lost
everything, and it is feared that several iso-
lated families have persisted.
The New York State Federation of Labor
held its annual meeting last week at AL
bany. Among the many strange resolu-
tions passed was one thanking Governor
Altgeld of Illinois for pardoning the three
anarchists confined in the state prison at
Joliet.
FIRE in Baltimore, Md, last week We'd
nesday night, destroyed property at the
Henry McShane Iron Works and be IL
foundry valued at 100000. The origin is
unknown. The fire originated in the pat
tern room on the fourth floor, to which it
was almost entirely confined. The insur-
ance on the plant will cover the loss, but
many valuable patterns were burned which
cannot be replaced.
CHARLES BENNETT, the phenomenal
catcher of the Boston National Base ball
Club, was run over by train at Wellsville,
Kan, last week Thursday night, and both
legs were cut off. He was on his way home
from Kansas City to Williamsburg, and got
off at Wellsville to speak to friend. Get
ting on, he slipped and fell under the
wheels. The left leg was cut off at the
ankle, the other at the knee.
Mr.. O'NEILL. democratic representa-
tive from Massachusetts offered a resou-
ton in the house last week authorizing the
secretary OF the treasury to borrow money
in anticipation of revenues. The secretary
is authorized by the bill to borrow from
tllne to time a sum or sums not exceeding
500 600 900, and to issue for such loans loan
certificates, to bear interest of not more
than three per cent, principal and interest
payable one year from date of transfer.
The supreme court of Massachusetts has
decided that the city of Quincy may retain
possession of the 100000 which has accu-
INFLATED under the provisions of the will of
the late Ebenezer Woodward, who died in
1869. The will provided that if Quincy re-
fused to accept the property on the terms
specified, it should go to Dartmouth Col
lege. The college claimed the fund by
reason of breach of condition, but the court
says the onlybreach of condition that can be
charged with any plausbility is that the
town has failed TO comply with the six per
cent clause. This requirement, the court
finds, is plainly condition subsequent.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has had definite
offer from syndicate of Ohio capitalists to
become the president, general counsel and
sollcltor-genera OF the corporation which is
to establish a chain of national loan asso-
Citations over the country, with headquarters
in Washington and with the Ohio National |
Bank as its center. The offer was made
some DAYS ago and the salary was placed |
at S25 900 per annum. He has until Feb !
ruary to decide the matter. 1t is said
that he, knowing that he will be out of a
job in 1896, thinks best to accept this offer, |
but that Mrs. Carlisle, who is infatuated |
with Washington society, urges him to de-
cline it.
THREE men were lynched at Russell. |
Kan, early last Sunday morning. They |
had recently confessed that they were the |
brutal murderers of a farmer named Fred |
Dining, which occurred last July. They |
were in Jail awaiting trial. A mob of 100 |
men surrounded the Jail, took the three |
men to railroad bridge near by, placed |
rope around each of their necks, fastened |
the other end to strnger OF the bridge |
and pushed them off. Two shots were
fired into each body, though it is thought |
death by the rope was instantaneous, as the |
bodies dropped fifteen feet. The coroners |
verdict was that deceased came to their |
death at the hands of persons unknown, |
and it is not thought that any attempt will |
be made TO identify the lynchers.
A COMMITTEE Of the employees OF the |
Atchlson, Topeka a. Santa Fe railroad |
called on Governor Waite of Colorado last |
Saturday, with the complaint that they had
received no salary since last October, and |
many of the men and their families are on
the verge of starvation. Salaries for No
vember and December, they say, have been |
promised at different times, but in every
instance the pay car failed to materialize. |
About three weeks ago the Santa Fe en-
p!oyes as far west as Dodge City, Kan, |
were paid their November salaries. The |
pay car came no further west, and il is said |
the money was exhausted The attention |
OF the receivers of the road has been called |
to the matter, with a request from Gov |
ernor Waite that the men be paid at once.