The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
Domestic.

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARIAN SPOF-
FORD has deposited with the treasury
of the United States $4,000 to settle
the discrepancy in his accounts as IL
brarian and registrar of copyright.
The amount, it is said, was placed to
his credit, but the payment is not &C
copied as a settlement of the matters in
controversy.
SIX persons were drowned near Buff
falo, n. Y, last week, by the founder
ing of a pleasure yacht. Ten others
were rescued in an exhausted condi-
ton. All of the occupants of the boat
were employees of the New York Cen
trail trackyards at East Buffalo, and had
formed part of picnic party who went
down the Niagara river.
NEWTON, Kan, was visited by a
destructive hail storm last Thursday.
Hailstones fell as large as hens eggs
and were piled up till they resembled
snowbanks. The storm came from the
northwest, and the velocity of the wind
was very high. Trees were snapped
off and many buildings were demol-
ished. All kinds of standing crops, as
well as fruit, were damaged.
THE Coliseum building in Chicago,
huge open structure in process of
erection by the Chicago Exhibition
Company, was wrecked last Thursday
night. Fortunately no persons were in
the building at the time. With deaf
ening sound, the mass of de bis carried
with it the four walls in a chaotic heap
towards the center, and the work of de-
struction was complete. The loss is be-
lieved to be nearly 100000.
A FEARFUL explosion occurred last
week at Carnegie's steel works, Besse-
mer, Pa. Six men we're instantly killed
and eight others terribly burned. A
large barrow loaded with raw iron ore
had fallen through huge bell on the top
of the furnace stack. Fourteen men
were engaged in an effort to remove the
barrow from the bell soft could be closed.
Suddenly the explosion occurred, and
not one OF the men escaped without
death or injury.
ORDERS have been given at all large
mines at Marquette, Mich, that are in
volved in the strike, TO draw the fires
and raise the pumps. This means that
the companies have decided TO let the
mines fill with water, and that oper-
ations will not be resumed before win
ter sets in. This step was taken be-
cause Of the final rejection of the COM
panies' ultimatum to the strikers. The
county is now confronted with the
grave problem of how to support the
thousands who will be thrown upon the
charity of the public.
A TERRIFIC explosion of nitro
glycerine occurred last Thursday, just
outside the limits of the city of Frank
lin, Pa. A resident of Oil City was
driving a wagon loaded with nitro
glycerlne to the magazine on the top of
Bully Hill and was within $50 feet of
the building when the stuff exploded.
The wagon and horses were blown to
atoms and not vestige of Hall's re-
mains is to be found. A hole five feet
deep was torn in the earth. The shock
was so great in Franklin that windows
were blown out and number of CHM
neys were knocked down.
WALTER T. LYON, prominent dem.
ocrat of Selma, CAL, was appointed
postmaster there about year ago
Mr.. Lyon is also proprietor az news.
paper in that city called the Irrigator
One day recently there appeared in Its
editorial columns an article which re.
Elected upon the administration OF
President Cleveland. Some one for
warded copy of the issue to the post
office department for the information OF
the postmaster general. The result
was that Postmaster Lyon was sum
msrily dismissed for his criticism of the
chief magistrate of the nation.
THE Union steamboat dock and ware
house at Milwaukee were burned last
Thursday. The fire originated at the
dock. The wind was blowing almost 6
gale and the fire spread to the ware
house and then to the freight houses Of
the company. The wind spread the