The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Items OF News.
VERMONT.

The Free Will Baptist church at Enos-
burg Falls was damaged 81 900 by light
ming and fire last Sunday. A large congre-
cation had been dismissed just before the
church was struck.
COLONEL SEWARD WEBB has offered Gov
ernor Woodbury. the use of Oakledge."
that part of his estate just sonth of Howard
tional Guard for its annual muster in
August. The offer has been accepted and
the muster will be held there.
Two valuable horses owned and driven
by N. e. Chamberlin of Burlington
were struck by lightning and instantly
Chamberlin and Mr.. and Mrs. e. 8: Adsit
were driving near Winooski on their way
to Grand Isle. None of the occupants OF
the carriage were injured. Mr.. Chamber
lin had driven under tree during shower,
and the bolt first struck the tree
DOMESTIC.
HENRY B. BKECHER, son of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, who has been on
trial in New York for forgery during the
past week, was acquitted and discharged.
The heaviest rain in eighteen years fell
last Friday night at Mason City, la. The
rain was accompanied by hail and wind,
and crops for distance OF twenty miles
with width OF two miles were destroyed.
Over four inches of rain fell in few hours,
JUSTICE FIELD OF the United States SUI
preme court had an experience last Monday
OF three-quarters of an hour under the
Roentgen rays. Justice Field is troubled
with an affection OF the knee Joint which
the doctors cannot exactly define. The
negative showed that the tibia and the fe-
muir have almost grown together. The
hinge, 80 to speak, is partially solidifed.
The bones have not that clearness of out
line shown in the normal knee.
DIV tba "a
building at San Francisco, last Monday,
three persons were killed and eleven others
seriously injured. The ruins took fire d.
rectly after the accident occurred, but the
flames were subdued with little difficulty.
An unknown woman who was passing by
the building at the time of the collapse was
struck by falling timbers and instantly
killed. The mangled remains of an old
man, which have not yet been identified,
were removed from the top OF the wreck.
age, together with the body of an unknown
man, an occupant of lodging house. A
defective foundation was the cause. The
ground had been entirely dug away from
beneath the building in order that new I'M
derpining might be set in. Owing to some
mismanagement on the part of the contract
ors, the structure was left insufficiently sup
ported and the collapse resulted.
FOREIGN.
The cholera Is decreasing at Cairo and
Alexandria, in Egypt, and increasing in the
provinces. There were 149 new cases and
ia deaths reported at Cairo last Monday.
MANY bodies OF victims of the disaster to
the British steamer " Drummond Castle"
which was lost off Ushant lighthouse on the
night Of June 16, have been washed ashore
at Ushant. Some Of the corpses are those of
women entirely nude.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at BARGE
Iona last Friday evening, and, for time
thAra "a manic In the nitV. the naOnla
imagining that the anarchists had resumed
their nefarious work, Quiet was restored,
however, when it was learned that the ex-
plosion had occurred in factory devoted
to the manufacture of explosives. 1t was
at first reported that there had been great
loss of life, but was soon ascertained that
only one person was killed and three
injured.