The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-01
Domestic.

THE Daily Leader plant at Davenport, Ia,
was destroyed by fire last week. LOSS
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE big elephant Gypsy" owned by
w. II. Harris, became unmanageable at the
winter quarters of Harris Circus in Chicago,
last Thursday, and before she could be got
under control killed her keeper, tore down
frame building and created intense excite
ment Generally.
A NEW law has gone into effect at the
Boston pension Office which affe cts 10000
Massachusetts veterans. The president has
signed bill whereby pensioners will re-.
ceive pensions hereafter only by mail in
stead of counter delivery. The law en-
tails notary public charges quarterly. The
law was telegraphed to Boston and pen
sioners appearing at the Office last week
were turned away.
different states, passed through Chicago last
Thursday on their way to their new homes
in North Dakota. They numbered 800 and
were from colonies in half hundred towns
in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Ohio Indiana and Illinois. In order to
carry all the emigrants four trains were
necessary, composed OF twenty passenger
coaches and 102 freight cars. The principal
object of the movement Is to obtain more
land.
THE proposed payment to them Of 81 ,000,-
900 now in the United States treasury to the
CT6OlJ Oh Uu0 On6y6uu6 Auu ATdpduO6 luul-
ans meets with great favor among the men,
bers of these tribes. They are making more
progress in learning the arts OF peace than
at any time since the ratification Of the treaty
opening Oklahoma to settlement They are
building good houses, laying in large sup
plies OF agricultural implements, stock and
grain, and breaking large acreage for
crops. In about year, by the terms OF the
last treaty, these Indians will be thrown
upon their own resources.
A BILL to prohibit the wearing of high
hats by women in theaters passed the house
in the Ohio legislature last Thursday. The
bill nearly passed two weeks ago, under
suspension OF the rules, but was prevented
from going through by an amendment ad-
ding six months imprisonment to the PEN
atty OF a fine. An amendment was added
fining the manager of an opera house or
an obstruction in the shape OF a hat or head
gear, and the amendment was agreed to.
After considerable humorous discussion, the
bill was passed amid cheers. 1t now goes
to the senate
A BILL in the interests of all old soldiers
who served in the Mexican War has been
introduced in the senate by Mr.. Baker of
Kansas. 1t provides that the secretary OF
the interior be, and he is hereby, authorized
to increase the pension of every pensioner
who is now on the rolls at So per month on
account of services in or disability incurred
while in service in the Mexican war, and
who is wholly disabled for manual labor and
is in such destitute circumstances that SO
per month is insufficient to provide him for
the necessaries of life, to $12 per month. 1t
Is probable this bill will pass the senate
without opposition, and it will doubtless
become law.
WHILE two men, named James Ford and
Harry Somers, were painting a church spire
at Guthrie, o. T., last Wednesday, thun-
der storm, accompanied by fierce lightning,
came up suddenly. While the men were
making efforts to lower their scaffold,
binding flash Of lightning struck the church,
knocking away the scaffolding, splitting the
spire, and leaving SOmers and Ford pinned
to the roof dead. The scene was awful.
The clothing of the two men was ignited
by the lightning, and for ten minutes the
bodies were seen burning and smoking in
mid-air Heavy rain then extinguished the
fire. and three hours later the remains of
the painters were brought from the steeple,
charred and almost unrecognizable.
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