The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-08
Domestic.

FIVE men were killed by boiler explo-
sion in Greenville, Miss, April 1.
THERE were floods in Western New York
the last of March The New York Central
tracks were badly washed out. Many rivers
were above high water mark.
BooTH-TUcKER, by title commissioner
in the Salvation Army, and by appoint
ment commander of the army's forces in
the United States, arrived in New York
last week, by the steamer Majestic"
GENERAL BENJAMIN HARRISON is in New
York, accompanied by his private secretary
and ID. NJ. Ramsdell, formerly marshal of
the District of Columbia. General Harri.
sons visit to the city is to prepare for his
marriage to Mrs. Dimmick.
The debt statement issued April |, shows
a net increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during March OF 1924
780.79 Since the beginning of the present
fiscal year the receipts have amounted to
$3.50, 609, $40, and the expenditures to $685.
36O,542
AT the state election in Ohio, April /, the
republicans carried the state by about 49,,
900 plurality. The entire republican state
ticket is elected and the democrats haven't
corporsls guard in the legislature Last
year they elected eight members; this year
only six.
WHILE at work in the lathe shop OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, William
Jones, forty years old, was accidentally
electrOcuted He was standing on an iron
girder which supports the shafting, engaged
in oiling the machinery. The snout OF his
oil can came in contact with bare electric
arc wire and 5000 volts passed through his
body, killing him instantly.
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD delivered
temperance lecture to large audience in
Buffalo, N. Y, April /, in which she spoke
very hopefully Of the work OF temperance
reform. In an interview prior to the meet
-aAlf hA-
ing heartily in favor Of the new excise law,
which she says represents the combined
effort of the protest by Christian people
against the attempt to root out the Ameri-
can Sunday
BY clever management Spaniard, hail
ing from Havana, got $4,OO out OF the
banking firm of August Belmont q Co., on
spurious draft. 1t was one of the biggest
swindling operations that has been worked
in Wall street in the last ten years. The
affair occurred some two weeks ago, but has
only recently become known to the public
The swindler, who purported to he Manuel
Gonzales Mendoza, had not at last ac-
counts been apprehended.
The Armenian Relief Association cabled
$1,000 to Miss Clara Barton, through the
Constantinople committee, April l, being
the amount raised by citizens Of Newark,
N. j., at a mass meeting held on behalf of
Armenia in that city. The New York
Woman's Auxiliary of the Armenian Relief
Association issued an appeal to the churches
asking that the money usually spent for
flowers at Easter be appropriated for the re-
lief OF the starving Armenians, as more ac-
ceptable Easter offering.
JUSTICE WHITE of the supreme court of
the United States recently rendered de-
cision involving the validity OF contracts for
future delivery. The case was that of
Theodore Hanson v. James K. Boyd and
others. Hanson had claimed that the con-
fran fntura daliuarU pOu1d "a N
forced because they were gambling con-
tracts. The understanding was that final
settlement should be made according to the
usages and rules of the Chicago board of
trade. The court below had held that there
was nothing illegal or improper in such a
proceeding, providing the original contract
was lawful, which it had been found to be.
This view was confirmed by the opinion.
A prior decision, rendered in the United
States supreme court by the late Justice
Jackson was in line with the finding of
Justice White.
Jim THE PENMAN" is the name by
which one OF the ceverest counterfeiters in
the world has been known at the treasury
department for half generation. His real
name is Emanuel Ninger. With pen and
brush he produced the cleverest counter
feits of $40, $40, $50 and 500 bills. Sam
Piles of these bills have been ON exhibition
at the treasury department for twelve or
fifteen years. How many are in circulation
is not known. The discovery Of the coun-
terfeiter has been legacy from one admin
istration to another, and every chief OF the
detective department had exhausted his
powers upon the hunt, unsuccessfully, till
Chief Hazen unearthed him recently at his
his home in FlaggtOwn, N. j., as the result
OF the arrest OF an accomplish who had at
tempted to pass a spurious $50 bill in a ga.
loon in New York. Detectives have looked
for Ringer in all the chief cities of Europe
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