The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-27
Domestic.

AN epidemic of diphtheria prevails in
Valley Falls and Launsdale, r. l. and the
schools have been indefinitely closed There
are scores Of cases at present and several
deaths have been reported.
DISASTROUS prairie fires have been raging
in Pottawottamie county and the Seminole
reservation in Oklahoma during the past
week, sweeping crops and buildings away.
Horses and cattle were burned to death,
and it is feared many lives have been lost.
THE mining stock craze is on in Colorado,
and prophecies are made that the wild days
of "Comstock will soon be repeated or
exceeded Brokers are swamped with or.
ders for mining stock, which come from all
classes of people, and the end is hard to
foresee.
REV. FRANK H. SMITH, who is charged
with sending scurrilous and defamatory
postal cards through the mails, was adj
judged insane in the United States Circuit
Court in Boston last Thursday. He has
been taken TO the Government Asylum at
| Washington.
The National Grange, which held its an
nual session last week at Worcester, Mass,
passed resolutions of sympathy with the
Cuban insurgents, urging the national gov
eminent to recognize Cuban independence,
and to extend TO the insurgents the rights
OF beligerents.
FIVE negroes were found hanging, six
miles from Port Barros, n. NJ, last We'd
nesday. They were recognized as some of
gang who lately arrived there to work on
the railroad construction, but became fright
ened and fed. 1t is believed that they
were pursued by contractors and killed.
A DELEGATION of nineteen leading citizens
of California are in Washington this week
to urge the claims of San Francisco az the
next place to hold the National Republican
Convention The seven congressman and
two United States senators from California
form part Of the delegation At the pres
ent time the sum of 500 900 has been guar
anteed by the finance committee.
BY the decision from the general Office
100 DIV ,llers in Ashland, Wis, are made
homeless, as their claims, comprising 20, 600
acres of land, are to be taken away from
them and given to the Wisconsin Central
Railroad Company. These lands were sup
thrown open for settlement, but the SUI
preme Court now holds that they belong to
the Wisconsin Central.
COLONEL NATHAN w. FIrzGERALD, pro.
prietor of a restaurant on Nassau street,
New York city, where his waiteresses APP
peared in boomers, has taken an action
against the city for 100000 damages for
false imprisonment. Colonel Fitzgerald was
arrested last week, charged with unlaw-
fully gathering crowd in front of his place
of business. The case was dismissed after
the restaurant proprietor had promised to
abolish the boomers.
THE seven-story building on Van Buren,
street, Chicago, was burned last Friday
forenoon, causing loss of $500, 900. The
fire started on the fifth floor and the occu-
pants, including men, women and children,
who were working in the feather-renovat.
ing, establishment, became panic-stricken
and dashed for the stairs, elevators and
windows. Two girls, crazed with fear,
threw themselves headlong into the street
and were fatally injured,
A JURY at Ottumwa, Ia, has awarded
l.. G. Hendershoot verdict of 1924 80
against the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. Hendershoot sued the Western
Union for the value of a race'horse which,
he alleged, died for the lack of proper treat
ment, which could have been given had the
telegraph company. promptly delivered
message sent by the horse-trainer to Mr..
Hendershoot, telling him to come at once
with veterinary surgeon.
BANK EXAMINER TIMBERLAKE of Maine
has renewed the suspension of the Granite
State Provident Association of New Hamp-
shire from doing business in Maine for a
further term of ninety days from November
%. This does not bar the company from
continuing the old business with their
shareholders in Maine. The association has
just sent out to Maine stockholders state
ment of its financial condition, which on
the face Of 1t makes tiattering showing.
GEoRGE HARRIS, the old negro who is the
original "Uncle Tom in Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin" is
living in Lexington, KY, in destitute con-
dition. He will be eighty four years old
next March and is very feeble. The ne
groes for whose freedom he worked for
years do not appreciate his labors in their
behalf, They have made no effort TO save
him from starvation, and, were it not for a
few white friends, he might starve to death.
The fast ast.bo und mail train on the
New York Central railroad was wrecked
near Rome, N. Y, before daylight last