The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-07

" national democratic" tickets were voted
Gov All the towns heard from in Windham
county have gone republican III IS PROB
able that the complete returns will show
that the republicans have gained at least
fifteen towns
FuRrHER advices from the region in
Florida devastated by the recent storm
show that the accounts have not been OK
agRerated No one can conceive OF the
situation of the people of the western part
of Alachua and Levy and the eastern part
of Lafayette counties. Left homeless with
no food the cotton crop destroyed and no
resources at hand, starvation stsres them
in the face. so serious, indeed, is their
situation that the people who have visited
them are earnestly advocating a special
session of the legislature to make some pro-
vision for them. In the western part OF
Alachua county, where thousands OF people
lived most of them were wel-tO-do farmers,
and all of their homes have been destroyed,
together with the provisions that they had
stored for the winter
The new commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic has made the
following appointments on his staff: Adju-
tant general q. e. Burmeister OF Omaha;
quartermaster general, Comrade Augustus
j. Burbank OF Chicago; inspector general,
Comrade Charles A. Suydam OF Philadel-
phia; judge advocate general, Comrade AL
bert Clarke, Wellesley Hills, Mass; senior
aide-de-camp and chief of staff, Comrade j.
@. Winans of Troy, o: The executive com
mittee of the council of administration is
constituted as follows: William II, Arm
strong, Indianapolis f. M. Sterrett, st.
Louis; Albert Scheffer, st. Paul; Thomas
w. Scott, Fairfield, ILL Charles A. Shaw
Brooklyn, N. Y. Roscoe ID. Dix, Berri9n
Springs, Mich; j. j. Kent, Trenton, N. j.
A FRIGHrFuL railroad wreck attended by
serious loss of life aud made more terrible
nv "a Qnpi6a nj
CURED on Sunday morning, October 4, on
the Atchson and Santa Fe railroad at Usage
City, Kan. 1t was eastward bound, and
was the same train that had a thrilling ex
perience with bandits in New Mexico few
days before. The wreck was caused by the
explosion of the boiler, the engineer, in his
attempt to make up lost time. failing to
take in water The express, baggage and
passenger coaches came crashing upon the
wrecked engine, and the coaches that were
ditched were piled up in one heap Of
wreckage. William Becker of Los Angeles,
CAL, lost his reason and shot himself in the
presence of the passengers.
THE trouble which has been brewing for
months between the full bloods and the
"squaw men of the Choctaw Nation, In
dian Territory, has broken out more vic.
lently than ever, and, unless indications
fail, there will be serious bloodshed. The
full bloods, who have obtained control Of the
council, passed laws cutting the squaw
men off from their landed property and
made provision for evicting them. When
the first attempt at eviction was made a
few weeks ago there was a clash in the
streets of Tuskahoma, in which several
squaw men were killed and many on both
sides more or less injured Then compare
tive quiet reigned for time, but when the
attempt to evict the squaw men was re-
newed this week trouble broke out again.
Citizens of the town have appealed to the
Federal authorities.