The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Domestic.

The residence of Senator Hale at Els
worth, Me-, was burned last Saturday.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The fire
is thought to have been incendiary. The
house was unoccupjed, and was undergoing
repairs for summer occupancy. The valu-
able library was saved.
CHARLES DoBLE, father of Budd Doble,
the famous driver, died last Sunday at
philadelphia. He was the first man to
drive trotter in better time than 2:20,
which was in the famous match race be:
tween &C oldsmith Maid y and Lucy"
making the last heat in Q; 16t,
~n n nn::ccyiest rainfall >, oring the same
space OF Tine ever known at Chattanooga,
Tenn, took place last Saturday afternoon
For about twenty minutes the water fell in
solid sheets, flooding the streets nearly up
TO the axles of passing wagons. Several
stores were inundated and the damage will
be heavy. 1t was the first cloud-burst there
in several years.
A STRIKE of street railway employees was
inaugurated at Milwaukee, Wis, last Mon
day morning. Over 1,2OO men are out and
no cars are running. The American FEEDER
alton of Labor has passed resolutions en-
dorsing this strike, and the affair may re-
suit in general suspension OF the in
dustries in which union labor is employed.
The men struck for an advance in wages.
INDIGNANT students at the Ohio Wesleyan
strike. They gathered at the chapel en-
trance and then deliberately marched away.
Some excited preparatory students battered
down the signs of merchants on the streets
In the line OF their march. The faculty had
disappointed the college glee club, which
had arranged long western tour under its
approval by annexing such conditions to
the trip as to make 1t barely possible for the
tour to be made,
Four THOUSAND coal-miners at Terre
Haute, Ind, have struck and it is expected
ON both sides that there will be long sus,
pension Of operations. The men had offered
to work at sixty-one cents they had been
receiving sixty but the operators asked fol
a reduction to ifty-fve cents to compete
with the Danville, Illinois, district The
men in the Vermillion county Undiana) dis
trict, who have been out of the miners or
ganization, and who have been working fol
fifty.fve cents, will continue at work, get
ting out about one-tenth of the Indiana out
put.
THE May demonstration of labor in New
York last Saturday night was an imposing
affair. 1t is estimated that fully 10000 par
ticipated in the parade and double tina
number crowded to hear the speakers
Men carried red flags transparencies and
torches, and women waved handkerchief
and hnrrahed for labor. The stars ant
stripes were conspicuous by their absence
The parade made up four divisions organ
leu lOlnUly by JDb ObubIdl lldbON FcuOId
ton, the socialists faction of the Knights o
Labor. the United Hebrew Trades and thu
Socialistic Labor Party.
A TERRIBLE calamity occurred in Cincin
natl o., last Monday night. A tive-stor.
brick stI ucture, filed with people, com
pletely collapsed and fell burying the un
fortunate inmates beneath the ruins. 1t /
impossible to say how many persons hav
been killed, some placing the number a
high as forty and others AZ low as fifteen
No accurate statement Of the loss of life cal
be given until the debris shall have bee
cleared away. The upper half of the build
ing was occupied by dodgers and the groun
floor by stores and saloons. The cause c
the wreck is at present unknown.
ADvIcEs from sitka, Alaska, indicat
that trouble is imminent there between tn
Indians and whites over the acquital OF
white man who brutally killed an Indian
The residents are appre hensive OF an at
tack, as the United States government sui
tains there no force sufficient to handle a