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


and grounds has unanimously ordered a
favorable report on the bill to build a
50, 600 900 custom-house in New York on the
site of the present building
FURTHER particulars received at Boone
vile, KY, from the flooded territory in
Clay and Owsley counties in that state,
show that the known dead number twenty
FIVE. One hundred farmers lost their
houses, barns and live stock.
The saloon-frequenting inhabitants of
New York were treated last Sunday to the
driest Sunday in the memory OF the Oldest
inhabitants, and the major part of this null
tituds were obliged to quench their thirst
with non-intoxicants. The Raines law was
very generally enforced.
Ex-PREsIpENr HARRISON and Mrs. Mary
Scott Lord Dimmick were married last
Monday afternoon at st. Thomas Church,
New York. Only thirty six intimate friends
witnessed the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harrison left at once for Indianapolis in the
private car of Vice-president Thompson of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
The natural gas station at Kokomo Ind,
which supplies light and fuel to 800 fam
lilies, was wrecked, last Friday, by an ex-
plosion. The plant is in ruins, and adjacent
buildings, including the county, Jail, are
badly damaged. No one was killed Four
buildings of the plant were consumed by
fire. following the explosion.
PROMINENT colored men have bought a
tract of 1000 acres of land ten miles east of
Topeka, Kan, aud will establish a town
there exclusively for colored people. Sew
eral small manufacturing concerns will be
located there, and the land divided into
lots for gardening purposes. The new town
will be called Sumner, and all its affairs
will be managed and controlled by colored
people.
THE rush to the gold fields of Alaska
continues. Fifteen vessels. carrying more
than 1000 men with supplies, left Seattle
last week. Advices from that region state
that enterprising SiJkans intend to drain a
lake back Of that town and to gather, by the
wagon load, gold bullion aud dust that
for fou. years has been brought down and
accumulated in the bed of the lake by
glaciers. A tunnel about 1000 feet long
will be built, aud it will run the water from
the lake, whose bottom is believed to be
paved with gold.
THE stables at the driving park OF Alonzo
Mcdonald, at Buffalo, N. Y, were burned
last Sunday night, and score OF trotting
horses, valued at $4,000 persisted. The
burned stables were 125 feet in length and
two stories high. The flames spread with
great fury, and though the fire department
responded promptly to the alarm it was i'm
possible to check them until the stables had
been consumed. The horses, maddened by
the glare of the fire and the noise of the en-
gines, resisted the efforts of those who tried
to rescue them, and many of them had to
be left to their fate, the rescuing party
themselves being in great danger.
TIE secretary OF the interior has decided
| that the government cannot withhold PEN
siou granted under the act of June 81, 1890,
| to reimburse itself for money enormously
| paid as pension money under the general
| law, which such pension was not procured
| through fraud. Another ruling concerning
| attorneys Is that, an attorney in appeal, with
view to showing the right to fee, attacks
clients title to pension, such objection can
| not be considered in determining the merits
| of the appeal, and the appeal itself will be
| dismissed. An important decision Of Act.
| ing Secretary Reynolds is that the presump-
ton from the fact that soldier, while in a
rebel prison, enlisted in the rebel army, is
that he voluntarily aided and abetted the
rebellion. But this presumption may be
set aside by proof that it was his intention,
by enlistng, to escape to the Union forces.
A PENSION bill has been introduced in the
house which provides for an increase Of pen
sions for the loss of hand to S38 and a foot
to $s4 per month; for the loss OF hand OF
arm at or above the elbow, to S44, and for
leg above the knee to SAC; for the loss of q
leg at the hip joint, or so near the joint as tC
prevent using an artificial limb, to $50; fol
the loss of an arm under the same cOndi
tons, 500 per month, and where disability
is received equivalent to any of the above
items the pension shall be the same az the
class to which it is equivalent. The bill
further provides that all pensioners whC
have received disabilities totally uniting
them for any manual labor shall receive
pension of $40 per month; also where per
son receives one or more injuries, one o
which comes under this bill, he may receiv
pension for both, providing the tota
amount allowed does not exceed $72 pc
| month