The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Domestic.

THERE is decided inclination among the
republican leaders to hold the next ma
tional convention in May instead of June,
to give months additional time to get the
ball rolling and round up the campaign.
If this plan meets with general approval,
the national committee will convene in
November instead of December.
AN extra session of the Illinois legfsla.
ture, called by Governor Altgeld, convened
Tuesday, the 25th. The call recites that
the tax levy made by the thirty-nnth gen.
eral assembly is inadequate in view of the
appropriation made, that the revenue sys-
TEN of the state needs revision, that the Jury
system needs reforming, and that the prison
labor problem needs the attention of the
legislature.
A CYCLONE struck Hartford, Kan, last
week, and swept everything from path 100
feet wide. No one, AS far as known, was
actually killed, although several persons
were injured so badly they are not expected
to live. About twelve houses, a mill and
many barns and outhouses were destroyed.
Many other houses were more or less dam
aged. The total loss is estimated at $4,000.
A similar whirlwiud passed over Wallace,
Neb., the same day, covering territory ten
miles wide and thirty in length. Houses,
barns, windmills and fences were picked
up and carried for miles. Joseph Young,
whose house was carried three miles and
then scattered in ruins, was killed. The
members of the families OF Matthew Bourn,
John Staey and Martin EalSin were more or
less injured. 1t is feared that deaths will
be reported from the east end of the country.
A TERRIFIC storm passed over Richardson
county, Nebraska, last week Wednesday.
1t was seen near Stella, when three funnel
shaped clouds came together and merged
into one. The cloud did not strike the
ground until within few rods OF the west
side of Stoltz's grove. From that point 1t
moved east through the grove and into the
yard and outbuildings. 1t took everything
in its path. A mule was picked up, carried
thirty rods and disemboweled. A fine
mare was injured 30 badly that she had to
be shot. Six hundred bushels of grain were
scattered to the winds and 200 chickens
were killed. William Stoltz, his wife and
six children, were in the cellar when the
storm struck the house. The shingles were
torn off and all the windows on the east
side were broken. The fencing and other
improvements were wrecked The cyclone
passed east from Stoltz's through the field
of Adam Geibhardt, moving down a strip
of corn and oats 400 feet wide and half a
mile long, and, in some places, following
out the ground.
HENRY j. ALDRIcH, president and gen.
eral manager of the Colorado Securities
Company one of the largest in the West,
has absconded. The hasty exit of Aldrich
is due to the fact that warrant for his ar
rest, based on an indictment by the grand
Jury, was about to be served. The charge
is Misrepresentation of funds intrusted to
his care. Mr.. Aldrich has acted a. treas
urer of St. Johns cathedral for the last ten
years, and was accepted in Denver as a
man of sterling worth and deep religious
character. From 300 to 400 ranch titles are
clouded by the acts of Aldrich, who di-
verified funds RENTED by eastern investors
to make good the shortage in mat lring OBJ
legations by the depreciation in real estate.
He guaranteed principal and interest on
loans, and then began the downward course
receiver three months ago. Even then there
was no in,imation of double dealing, and
the disclosures only came to the surface
when the receiver examined the books.
The heaviest loss falls upon widows and
orphans in the East, whose earnings and
savings were entrusted to the company for
investment at a high rate of interest.