The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-04
Domestic.

REV. JONATHAN PERKINS, an aged and re-
tired clergyman of Anesbury, Mass, was
burned to death last Wednesday while at
tempting to light fire with kerosene.
THE joint executive reorganization COM
mittee of the Atchison, Tope "a g. Santa Fe
Railroad Company have elected &. p Rip
ley, president; ID. b. Robinson, vice-pres-
dent, and Aldace f. Walker, chairman of
the board of directors,
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL
STEARNs, who left Bennington, VT, last
week Tuesday for Tacoma with three China.
men to be deported to China, was stopped
in Chicago by writ of habeas corpus,
which will detain Mr.. Stearns and his pris-
oners in that city for several days.
The Supreme Court of Montana has de-
cided the celebrated Davis will case in ia
vor of Andrew j. Davis, Jr., of Butte.
This gives him control of 100000. Young
Davis laid claim to the estate as an outright
gift from his uncle, the lare Judge A. j.
Davis, made on the latter's death-bed. The
other heirs have contested the claim.
JAMES HERON, formerly employed by the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, has
brought suit against the company for ma
licious persecution and wrongful arrest.
A similar suit has been brought by Charles
K. Baker. The railroad officials claim they
were leaders in rioting during the great
strike. The labor organizations are be-
hind the plaintiffs.
FIVE HUNDRED Armenians in Worcester,
Mass, held memorial ser vices last Thursday
for their countrymen who have been mas
sacred during the past year, and adopted
resolutions asking the United States govern
ment to use its good offices, in the name OF
humanity, with the powers Of Europe for the
final deliverance of the Armenian people
from the tyranny of the Turkish yoke.
IT is said there are only ten head OF
buffalo left in the National Park in Mon.
tana The soldiers and park officials are
unable to protect them from the poachers,
and the true condition of affairs has been
kept from the department at Washington.
There are warrants out for the arrest of six
men, but so far they have eluded arrest. 1t
is said that other wild animals in the park
are slaughtered as rapidly and remorse-
lessly as the buffaloes.
THE convicts in the shirt factory in the
state prison at jackson, Mich, rebelled last
Thursday, and brutally assaulted the keep
ers. 1t is said trouble had been brewing
for some time between the convicts and the
| foreman, which eliminated when he cor
rected one of the men for not doing his
work properly. The instruction was sub
dued after a short time and eight rioters
We're locked up. 1t is thought none of the
| injured men are seriously hurt.
REV. DIR. CHARLES c. CREEaAN of New
| York, of the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions, has received q
cable dispatch announcing that Rev. John
! G. Martin, missionary OF the Board in
Hadjin, Central Turkey, was victim of an
assault at the hands OF the Turkish Marash
marauders recently. The particulars of the
maltreatment to which Martin was sub
| jected are not known. The dispatch con
tained the first intimation OF trouble al
| Hadjin, and much solicitude is felt as to the
! fate of the other missionaries of that isolated
! section.
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daughter of James ID. Rockefeller, was mar
ried last week to Harold II. Mccormick, sor
of Cyrus Mccormick, the reaper king " Of
Chicago. Financially speaking, this wed