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

FORTY NINE horses were burned to death,
and 200 carriages, hacks, wagons, etc, were
consumed in a fire at Stric6land's livery sta
BILE at Burlington, Iowa, last Wednesday.
Loss, $50 600; insurance, $4,000.
WALTER SCOTT and Miss Clara Dawson,
a runaway couple, were married by JUS
tice of the peace at Des Moines, Ia, last
Wednesday. Shortly after, they went to
the girls home to get some of her cloth
ing, when Scott was shot dead by her father,
8. r. Dawson. The murderer was lodged
in Jail aud narrowly escaped lynchng.
IT is learned in Washington that the re-
cent visit of Major General Miles to Atlanta
and other places in the South was in con-
nection with the subject of coast defences.
The initiative steps have all been taken to
expend the $4,000 available for improving
the defences of Fort Sumter, and it is pro.
posed to equip that fort with ten.inch
guns.
CERTAIN army officers who have appeared
in recent newspaper interviews as discuss
ing the possibilities of war with England,
and who have outlined their ideas of what
should be done in such an event, have re-
ceived personal letters from Secretary of
War Lamont, severely deprecating such
talk. Statements from such sources, he says,
have not only undue Significance but they
are also injurious to the good reputation Of
the character of the army.
THE st. Louis hotel-keepers have com
bned to charge the highest rates for every
thing during the republican national con-
presidential candidate will pay $500 day
for large parlor, to be used as headquar-
! ters. The Mckinley and the Reed manage
ment will each pay not less than $40 900 for
the accommodation OF their boomers. The
parlors to be used for Reed and Mckinley
headquarters will be paid for at the rate of
from $3.50 to $500 a day. Sleepng-rooms
will be fitted up with from six TO ten cots,
and they will be charged for at the rate of
from So to Sc per day each.
LORD DUNRAvEN, owner of the &C Valky-
rie," arrived in New York last Monday
accompanied by George Asquith his adj
wiser, who is noted London barrister,
Lord Dunraven's visit is for the purpose of
doing what he can to substantiate the charge
OF fraud which he made against the yacht
defender after he returned to England.
The ow Ger of the " Valkyrie " brings with
him number of dispositions of members of
his crew, and Arthur Glennie, who sailed
on the Valkyrie during the races, is ex
pected to testify. Lord Dnnraven's legal
adviser will probably be permitted to APP
vestigating committee and conduct the
earl's case. He is famous on the other side
as cross examiner
TWENTY THREE persons were crushed and
trampled to death in panic at the Front
Street Theater, Baltimore, Md, last Friday
night. Several others were fatally injured.
A leaking gas-pipe caused cry OF fire to
be raised. There were $500 people in the
building, and in an instant the excitement
| became intense Some one rushed to the
meter and turned off the supply, plunging
the main body OF the house into darkness.
The stage jets alone remained lighted, be-
ing fed through another meter. Instead OF
allaying the excitement caused by the sheet
of fame from the leaking pipe, the turning
off of the gas and consequent darkness only
served to add to the confusion. The audi
ence arose en- masse and made mad rush
for the exits. Women and children and
weak men were trampled to their death by
the panic-stricken mob.
A NOVEL Christmas entertainment was
held last Wednesday night at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y. at the State Hospital for the Insane,
which contains 1000 patients. Some time
ago Superintendent Charles w. Pilgrim setlt
out circulars to relatives and friends of the
patients, suggesting that they send suitable
presents to those in whom they were per
sonally interested, with the result that two
carloads Of gifts, ranging in bulk from dry
goods box full of good things to cake OF
soap, were received at the asylum. During
the entertain 4ent, which consisted Of songs
and Rotations by convalescent patients,
Santa Claus, represented by Assistant