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

That part of Waterbury, Conn, known as
The Lumber" was totally destroyed by
fire last Saturday morning, causing a loss
exceeding $1,000 0 Fifteen horses belong
ing to the City Lumber & Coal Company
were burned to death and several freight
cars belonging to the New York & New
England Railroad Company were de-
strOyed.
MRS. Lucy THOMAS, a colo-ed woman,
died last Monday at Boston, Mass, aged
one hundred and three years and ten
months, She was born a slave on the AL
pheus Roulette plantation, Chesterfield
county, Va, May 18, 1892. She was a field
hand. AT the age of thirteen she was given
a husband, named Thomas, and by him she
had twenty children, seven of whom are
no living.
Two large warehouses of the Pleasure
Ridge Distillery Company of Louisville,
KY, were burned last Saturday, entailing
a loss of 81, 200 900. The property was
owned by Bernheim Brothers, Block, Frank
& Co. and N. Block & Son of Louisville,
and 100000 gallons OF whiskey were stored
on the premises. This was in bond. The
amount of insurance on the property de-
stroyed has not been learned.
FRANCIS R. FAvA, JR., son of Baron
Fava. the italian ambassador at Washing
ton and professor of mathematics n en-
cheering at the Columbian University,
died of consumption at Washington last
Friday morning. He was thirty six years
old. Fifteen years ago the title of baron
was conferred upon him by the king of
Italy. For the past six years he had been
one of the most prominent architects in
Washington.
DR.. r. G. FLOWER Of Boston has sued S.
w. McCaslin, a Chicago lawyer, for alleged
conspiracy and false imprisonment. Dam
ages are placed at $50, 900. DR.. Flower
says that he has been the victim of a system
attic conspiracy, a relentless and malicious
persecution, without any foundation in fact.
He claims that this was lone for the pur-
pose of intimidating him and forcing him to
pay a large sum of money to the Deming
Land Company of New Mexico.
THE Joint report of the international bound.
airy commissioner appointed to ascertain
facts and data necessary to the permanent
delimitation of the boundary line between
Alaska and Canada has been presented to
parliament at Ottawa. The report shows
agree approximately in their observations
The summit of Mount st. Elias is found to
be 2.4l statute miles east of the 141st merid-
ian-that is to say, in Canadian territory.
THE new battleship "Iowa" was sue
cessfully launched at Philadelphia last
Saturday. The vessel was christened by
Miss Nary Lord Drake, daughter of the
governor of Iowa. She broke a bottle of
champagne upon the bow as it entered the
water. The construction Of the Iowa"
was authorized by congress in July, 1892.
She has a coal capacity of 300 tons and a
cruising radius of about 16, 900 knots at the
most economical speed. Her full war COM
plement will be 512 officers, seamen and
marines, and at deep load draught her coal
capacity is sufficient for about 0,000 miles,
steaming at the most economical cruising
speed. The contract price of the "Iowa"
is SO, 010, GOO.
THE American schooner William Todd"
of Calais. Me, which arrived at Kingston,
Jamaica last Sunday from Mobile, Ala,
Spanish gunboat when six miles south of
the Island Of Pines. The first intimation
that the Todd" had that she was to be
interfered with was a shot across her bows.
Upon this she promptly displayed the Amer
lean colors and kept on her way, assuming
that that was sufficient. But when three
more shots followed in quick succession
she hove to as quickly as she could. A boat
then put out from the Spanish war vessel
and was soon alongside the American
schooner. A Spanish officer, with a file Of
marines, came abroad and announced his
purpose Of searching the schooner for con-
raband OF war. The s%chooner's captain
protested and assured the Spaniard that
she carried nothing Of the sort, but the Of
fcer still insisted on making a search. The
American skipper, of course, offered no
physical resistance, and the search was
made. The schooner had only a legal cargo,
and when the Spanish officer became sat
isfed Of this fact he took his departure. A
formal complaint of the affair has been
lodged.