The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
Domestic.

7 Rec powder mills at Acton, Mass.
owned by the American Powder Company,
were destroyed by an ex ploson last Friday
morning Five employees were instantly
killed. The first mill exploded at nine
o'clock. The second went up Immediately
from the jar Of the first explosion. This set
fire in the grass, which ignited the third mill
some ten minutes later.
AN item on page three of this issue states
that DR.. Leslie E. Keeley has been ordered
to appear before Judge Meyers of Leaven-
worth, Kan, and make known the formula
of his gold cure. Last Saturday Judge Sea-
man of the United States court granted a
permanent injunction restraining DR.. Kelley
from revealing the formula. The action
was brought by the Wisconsin Kelley Inst.
tute Company against the Dwight Comp any.
The order will place the Kelley company in
a peculiar position.
UNLESS something unforeseen occurs, DR..
Buchanan, the wife murderer, will be cleo
trocuted to-day at Sing Sing District At
torney Fellows of New York city has trans.
mitted to the governor a record and s'ate-
ment showing the action he has taken to
clear the courts of any technical or obstruc-
tive orders, applications, or petitions in the
case OF Dr. Buchanan. The alleged appeal
to the United States supreme court has been
brushed away, and there remains now no
obstacle to the electrocution of the doomed
man for the murder of his wife.
Rosa WHITEFAcE, an Indian girl, seven.
teen years old pupil Of the Caddo Indian
School at Wichita, Kan, has been sold by
her father TO her sisters husband for fifteen
ponies. The Indian whose wife she is to
become is seventy years old and already has
other wives. The girl has appealed to Pro-
lessor Montgomery OF the Caddo school
u save her from such fate, and he is ex-
erting every energy to assist her. He has
made an appeal to the citizens OF Ell Reno
q Tor honr 10 oh
to pay her travelling expenses to Washing
ton, where she desires to go thai she may
make personal appeal to President Cleve.
land The girls father is memorable and
her aged lover insists upon the contract be-
ing carried out.
MORE than one hundred people were
killed by cyclone which passed through
Sioux county, Iowa, last Friday morning.
Ten prosperous little hamlets were devas.
tated by the flying storm and hundreds of
farms were laid waste. The storm swept
over belt as rich and prosperous as any in
Iowa, but mainly kept clear Of railroad
tracks aud telegraph lines. A pitiful fea-
ture of the disaster was the number of little
children killed. Four school-houses near
Sioux Center were destroyed while school
was in progress, and at each one OF these
from three to ten children were killed out
right. Many OF the little ones were carried
from q quarter to half mile by the fury OF
the storm. No intelligent estimate OF the
money damage inflicted can be made, but
1t will reach into the millions. A curious
feature OF the cyclone was the electric vic.
lence. Many deaths by lightning are re-
ported. Numerous victims were found
lodged in trees where they had been
hurled by the storm and 30 seriously in.
inred that death is momentarily expected.
Two grown boys who had come from the
field near Alton at the approach of the
storm were injured while in the barn
yard, one seriously and the other fatally.
Wires were completely stripped from the
poles, and in some places posts were all
taken from the ground. Horses, cattle and
vehicles were hurled through the air like
chaff, and the country for three-quarters of
mile wide and many miles in extent is en-
tirely wrecked. Where fine residences had
stood, nothing but cellar hole, and in
some cases few twisted timbers, are to be
seen, while strewn on the ground are por-
tions OF buildings and furniture bearing not
the least resemblance to their original form.
Fields with sprouting grain are now as bare
as in the bleak months OF winter. Trees
are uprooted and all is desolation along the
trail of the destroyer.