The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-03-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Domestic.

GOVERNOR SHELDON of South Oak ota has
announced that for one year the importa-
ton of Texas cattl into South Dakota will
be forbidden IL has long been the custom
for yearling Texas cattle to be brought into
South Dakota, fed on the ranges for tw D
years, and then taken to market. Seventy
Ave thousand cattle have been brought to
that state, and have been worth to the state
from IS 100000 to S10,0O0,000 The reason
assigned for the proposed embargo is the
alleged prevalence Of pleuro. pneumonia.
THE celebrated Grouse stables at Syra.
cuse, n. Y, were sold at auction last week
for $1,000. Their actual cost was over
$250,000. These stables, in the time of their
late millionaire owner, were probably the
finest in this country, II not in the wor d.
They were sumptuously fitted as such and
contained nearly 500 600 worth of furni-
ture, rugs and bric.a-brac, which has all
lately been sold. In spite Of their elegance
their late owner was never known to have
shown their interior to any one but few
friends connected with him in a business
way. Not till after his death did the slight
est hint of their elegance become public.
A LARGE number of miners were killed or
injured by an explosion last week Thurs
day in the mine at Red Canyon, Wyoming
owned by the Rocky Mountain Coal & Iron
Company. The bodies of those killed were
burned beyond recognition. All hope of
rescuing any body alive has been given up
Superintendent Maltby died shortly after
he was taken out OF the MIN. About 100
men were employed in the mine, but most
of them had gone out. The covering of the
slope and buildings at the mouth were
blown to atoms. The mine was considered
perfectly safe. Later advices state that
sixty men persisted, Fifty.one of them were
married men with large families. About
thirty of Il men killed belonged to the A.
o. U. W., and were insured for 50 600 each.
The gre atest fire in the history of Sioux
City, Iowa, occurred last week Thursday,
when property valued at a half million of
dollars was destroyed. 1t took in pile of
rubbish on the platform of the Western
Transfer & Implement Company's ware
houses, and in an hour the great ur-story
iron building. with over 100000 worth of
implements and carriages, was a heap of
ruins. The fire spread to the plant of the
Sioux City Linseed Oil Company and soon
the big elevator, with 100 600 bushels of
fiax.seed in it, was destroyed. The mayor
sent kilograms to surrounding towns for
additional fire apparatus The fire was con-
trolled in time to save the main buildings of
the Linseed Oil Company, including the
mill. The loss to the company is 500 001,
fully covered by insurance.
THE one hundred twenty five diamond
cutters for whom the immigration authori-
ties have been on the lookout arrived at
New York last week Thursday Twenty of
them will be deported for having come here
under contract, and twenty will be de-
ported because they are paupers, according
to the immigration laws. Ths steamer
Westerland brought over on Wednesday
thirteen men who were also deported on
Thursday. One of the party, Francis
Boesch, made affidavit to the effect that he
and the other men had been engaged by the
firm of Coalerman, Heinrich & Co. of Ant.
werp to co % this country and proceed
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they were to go
to work for Coalerman, Heinrich & Keck of
tnat CIV. lleV were to receive loo francs
per week for their services. They will all
be sent back in the same steamer. This
concern is Ii able to a fine OF 81 900 for each
of thirteen men imported.