The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-30
Domestic.

ONE divorce is granted for every twelve
marriages in Michigan.
BY the burning of the Falls Rivet and
Machine Company's works at Cuyahoga,
o., last Saturday, 600 men are thrown out
of employment.
FIERCE prairie fires ragged along the Ar
kansas river in the vicinity of Perry, Okla
homa, last Sunday. The wind was high
and many thousands Of acres of pasture,
meadow and grain fields were burned over.
Several Indian children are reported to
have persisted in the flames and hundreds
OF people barely escaped with their lives.
THE citizens Of Alaska are greatly exer-
cised over the boundary line question, and
they propose to take steps III the matter
without delay. They do not want to see
what they term the richest portion of the
United States annexed to British Columbia,
and they say they will fight before they will
allow it. Much dissatisfaction is expressed
over the dilatOry action OF the government
in this most important matter. 1t is argued
that England knows we'll the vast richness
OF the country, and will leave no stone I'M
turned to accomplish her desires.
THE drouth is causing serious loss in por-
tons OF Ohio. Throughout Scioto county
the tobacco crop is almost a total failure,
and fall wheat is in a bad shape, great
deal of it having been killed after sprout.
ing. Water sells at twenty cents per bar.
rel at West Union and Wellston, and forty
cents per barrel at Winchester. A number
of furnaces and brick works in SciOto, Law
renee and Jackson counties have been COM
PEELED to shut down. Cattle are being sold
at the first price offered, owing to scarcity
OF feed, as the hay and corn crops have been
an almost total failure in many localities.
MISS vANDERBILT's marriage portion is
said to be $10,000O00. 1t has condition
attached to it that the income from this sum
"a ha nf ha f,1fn du nba
during her lifetime. At her death the prin-
cipal goes to the issue of her marriage with
the Duke OF Marlboro. It is understood
that upon his side the prospective BRIDE
groom decided to Miss Wander ilt large es-
tates in England, which have been in the
family for years. While the intrinsic value
OF these estates may not be equal to Mr..
Vanderbilt's gift to his daughter, yet they
have heretofore always been considered
too valuable to pass out of the Marlboro
family.
REAR collision, in which two persons
were fatally injured, several seriously hurt
and score or more badly bruised, occurred
last Thursday in front of the Hyde Park.
Mass, station of the Providence division of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad. The passenger train which leaves
Sharon for Boston at B.; IS was trihe late
and was standing at the Hyde Park station
taking on and discharging passengers be.
ing directly on the time of the passenger
train which left Providence for Boston at
4; 10. The latter train crashed into the sta
tionary train. The engine of the Provi-
dence train was forced through nearly half
the length of the rear car, which was we'll
filled with passengers. Nearly all the in
jured were occupants of that car. Among
the passengers on the Inflated train were
two wedding parties, and in one the bride
and groom were both seriously hurt. The
others escaped with slight bruises.