The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-03
Domestic.

A FIRE in the business portion of Mil
waukee, Wis, last Thursday, destroy ed
over S1,000C00 worth of property, and
burned the stocks and buildings of twenty
prominent business firms
ST. PAUL's Roman Catholic Polish church
al Omaha was burned to the ground last
Thursday night. Each faction of the con-
gregation accuses the other of firing it.
This is the church in which bloody riot
occurred two weeks ago.
NEARLY the whole village of Canaseraga,
N. Y, was wiped out by fire last Thursday.
The entire population turned out to fight
the flames, Help was sent from Hornells-
vile Thirty houses were burned, and the
loss will exceed 100000.
The San Francisco Call says the sensa-
tional development in the noted Fair will
case is that insinuations are abroad tlat the
deceased millionaire died by poison admin
istered by parties intert sted in his death
taking place at certain time. Miss Phoebe
Cousins, who claims to have been the aft
anced wife of Senator Fair, hints at her
suspicious that Senator Fair hsd been given
poison at more than one time
THE south. bound passenger train on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad was held up
at Greenwood, KY, last Wednesday by five
masked men. Three road detectives who
were riding in the smoker stepped out to
see what he trouble was and were ordered
by the robbers to throw up their hands.
Instead, however, they reached for their
pistols, and after the shooting had ceased
1t was found that one of the outlaws had
been killed. Another was so badly wounded
that he died in couple Of hours, and third,
who was hit in the breast, will probably
die. Two of the robbers fled and made
their escape. The detectives were not in
jured,
MRS. ROSETTA d. SpRAGUE Of Washing
ton, d. c., eldest child of the late Freder-
lex Douglass, has filed petition in the pro-
bate court at Washington, in which she
charges Mrs. Helen Douglass, her step
mother, and Lewis III. Douglass, her
brother, with unlawfully retaining posses
sion of her fathers property, and requests
the court to grant her letters testamentary
temporarily the court appoint a collector
to take charge of the property and compel
her brother and stepmother 10 make full
and complete discovery and delivery of the
estate. This is thought TO be the beginning
of q bitter contest between members of the
family over the division of the estate.
THE United States and vene zuelan claims
commission at Washington has made al
award in favor of the United States of S141,
600, without interest, as indemnity TO
the Vent zuelan Steam Transportation
Company Of Of IN New York whose steamers Mls
mans" were seized on the ocean Decembe
II, and $500. with interest from that time
for each of the company's officers at Por
Sturges and Maurinus. The defense of III
Venezuelan government was that tn
Blues, " no seized the steamers, were insur
gent enemies beyond its control. 1t wa
claimed for the United States that Their
was no war in the sense of the law of tn
nations at the time in Venezuela, and tn
government was warned OF the danger an
could have prevented the seizure by du
diligence, and that it also failed in It's dut
by not Furnishing the wrongdoers.