The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-05
Domestic.

REPEATED efforts to haul the stranded
steamship st. Paul off the beach at Long
Branch have met with failure, and the
wrecking people express the opinion that
she will not be fioated for month.
ELvERToN r. CHAPMAN. the New York
broker who refused to answer the questions
OF the senate committee of investigation as
to the alleged speculatons of United States
senators in sugar trust stock, was last Sat-
urday sentenced to thirty days in prison in
the district Jail and fine of 800. Notice
OF an appeal was at once given and Chap.
man was released on bail.
BY vote of thirty. one to eleven the Iowa
senate passed bill, last Saturday making
1t a crime to manufacture or keep for sale
cigarettes in the state of Iowa. 1t is known
as the Phelps bill and it will pass the house
by big majority. L makes it unlawful to
handle cigaret es in any matter. They can
not be given away. The penalty is a fine
or imprisonn ent, or both.
REPORTS from more than fifty points in
different parts of the state of Texas show
that the heaviest rains known there for
years have fallen during the past week. In
Houston, last Sunday, the water was from
two to four feet deep on several streets, and
90 half the lines the street cars could not
run Some portions of the city were prac-
tically isolated. The Katy" track, near
the city, was washed away.
CITIZENS of noi thern Montana are making
large CIdIn against CdnduH LOT tlmUtr
depredatons Colonel T. A. Root, govern
ment inspector for Montana and Idaho, has
received many complains lately from set
tiers in northern Montana that Canadians
have for some time been coming across the
border and cutting trees until the forests in
two counties are nearly stripped of timber.
1t is believed that two or three million dol
lars worth OF timber has been taken in this
way, as the thievng has been going on for
some time.
The United Mercantile Agency, Boston,
Mass, have filed bill in equity in the
United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts,
district, against the Marble and Granite
Exchange Mercantile Agency Company Of
the same city, publishers of the Blue
Book, " 80 called, alleging an infringement
by the latter concern of the book OF Credit
Ratings OF the marble, granite, and stone
trades, copyrighted and published annually
by the United Mercantile Agency. In their
bill the plaintiffs pray for an injunction to
restrain the defendants from further in
fIingement OF their copyrights.
A MAMMOTH lumber trust on the Pacific
coast, known as the Cent al Lumber Com
pany OF California, commenced business
last Monday IL represents a combined
capital of $40 1000 and includes in its
membership every lumber mill and all the
wholesale and retail dealers as we'll as the
ship-owners Of the coast. The first move
will be an advance of So per thousand
Prominent lumbermen oil Tacoma say they
have been losing money for three years
through competition with each other, and
the combination is for the purpose of regu.
lating the trade and stopping ruinops com
petition
The house committee on foreign affairs
adopted resolution last Saturday, censur
ing ANN issador Bayard for the sentiments
expressed by him in his recent speeches in
England. Two resolutions were reported
The first censures Mr.. Bayard by name for
the language used by him in his Boston and
inburgh speeches, and incorporated with
this was second resolution, expressing the
disapproval of the committee OF our repre-
sentatives abroad discussing American po-
litical affairs and displaying craftsmanship,
and the condemnation of political parties or
other reputable organizations of American
citizens.
K. j. PHELPS, j. Pierpont Morgan, w. G.
Whitney, A. L, Mathew and q. l.. Rives,
the committee appointed by the New York
Yacht Club TO vesligate the charges pre-
ferred by Lord Dunraven, made their of
fetal report last Saturday. 1t completely
exoDerates the defender " and strongly
censures Dunraven. The official report of
the committee is as follows: Upon care
ful consideration of the whole case the COM
mittee are unanimously OF the opinion that
the charge made by Lord Dunraven, and
which has been the subject of this investi-
cation, had its origin in mistake; that il Is
not only not sustained by evidence but is
completely disproved and that all the cir
cumstances indicated by him as giving rise
to his suspicion are entirely and satisfac
torily explained. They deem it, therefore,
but just TO Mr.. Iselip, and the gentlemen
concerned with him. az well az to the OF.
ficers and crew of the A" Defender " that the
committee should express emphatically
their conviction that nothing whatever oc
Cured in connection with the race in ques-
ton that casts the least suspicion upon the