The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-12
Domestic.

Miss MARIAN BURNHAM, aged fourteen
years, daughter OF William A. Burnham OF
161ston, was accidently drowned in Lake
Champlain near Westport, N. Y, last Sun
day afternoon. She was in bathing and
went out beyond her depth MAGGIE
nurse, who accompanied the
III ard ,vho v,,nt to her assistance, was
also drowned
MAJ, AN at'emph ~as made last THURSDAY .@asS
---..v 70 wreck the overland passenger o.~.--
at lonely siding near Reno, Nevada. A
large cart.wheel was placed on the track.
The train struck II while running at full
speed and it is considered miraculous that
the entire train was not thrown from the
track. The only damage done was the
breaking of an air pipe in the baggage-car
A MOVEMENT is on foot to raise funds
with which to remove the body of Kate
Field from Honolulu to the family lot at
Mount Auburn Miss Fields last request
was that her body should be inferred in her
native land, but thus far none of her
friends have been interested in the case.
AS she left no estate the San Francisco
Examiner has offered to receive subscrip-
tons.
A CLoUD-BUBsT at Liberty, Ind, last Sat
urday caused damages estimated at S25O,OO0.
The loss is largely in the destruction of
standing corn, but mills and other struc-
lures that have withstood storms for sixty
years have been washed away. Two
drownings are believed to have occurred.
Fonr inches of rain fell at Farmland, Ind,
and part of the bridge over the Mississippi
river at that place was washed away. Nearly
three inches of rain fell at Portland, Ind,
and traffic was delayed on the railways
THE national republican congressional
campaign committee has given out state
ment showing the part played by the sill
yer mine owners Of this country in shaping
the recent national conventions which have
declared for free silver. The estimated
wealth of twenty-five individuals and cor
porations engaged in silver mining ana dl-
rectly interested in the opening OF mines
for the free coinage of silver is put at S54!
100000. The statement charges that VIII
liam j. Bryan has for years been paid to
deliver silver orations.
THE international Bank at Nogales, Ari-
iona, was raided by bandits last Thursday
The president, John Dessart, was the only
person in the bank, when two armed men
stepped into his presence and demanded
the money in his care, while three accom-
plices remained on the watch outside
President Dessart showed fight and fired
when the robbers made an attempt to kill
him He succeeded in holding them off til
the noise Of the firing attracted assistance
Dessart was hit by one of the bandits shots
but was not seriously wounded. The rob
bers escaped
In response to letter of inquiry as t
whether life insurance companies would b
compelled to pay policy-holders' claims il
deprecated silver coin, should the govern
ment adopt the free coinage of silver, Sec
Rotary j G. Carlisle says: " In case ire
coinage of silver should be established i
this country, presume insurance comps
MES and all other institutions would col
tinue to make their payments by check
and drafts on banks as heretofore. In m
opinion the whole volume of our currenc
would sink at once to the silver basis an
these checks and drafts would be paid !
silver dollars or their equivalent, instead
gold or its equivalent, as is now the case.
presume no one suppOses for moment tht
II would be the duty of the governmeI
to attempt to keep the standard silver DO
lar coined free for private individuals an
corporations, equal in value to gold do
lar, or, in other words that it would be Il
duty OF the government to attempt under
system of free coinage, TO maintain u
parity OF the two metals. The dollars won
be coined on private account and delivert
to private individuals and corporations
their own property, the government hayir
no interest whatever in them, and beln
therefore, under no obligation TO susta
them by guaranteeing their value"
A RACE WAR is on in Polk county, Arl
and az result OF the first battle thr
negroes are dead, eight wounded and maj
have been run out of the county by t