The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26
Domestic.

The city of Mogolton, New Mexico was
struck last week by a cloud burst which
left death and destruction behind it. One
hundred families have been rendered home
less and thirty houses have been washed
away completely.
NINE persons were killed and fifty others
seriously injured at a fire in Sandy Hook,
Ky, last week. The Baptists were holding
a meeting in an old frame church, when it
took fire and portion of the upper floor
fell upon the congregation.
FIRE destroyed the Vantwert County In
Urinary, at Vantwert, Ohio, last Wednes-
day. The patients were panic-stricken.
Thirty inmates barely escaped with their
lives. Two were badly burned An old
woman had both arms broken, and half
dozen suffered slight injuries. Most of the
inmates were cripples, to rescue whom it
was necessary to carry them bodily into the
street.
THE Spanish government is preparing a
large bill of damages to be presented to the
United States because of the numerous ex-
petitions alleged to have gone from our
shores to the relief of the Cuban insurgents
In support of her claim to reparation she
intends to invoke the precedent established
by the United States against Great Britain
in the celebrated Alabama claims awards
made by the Geneva arbitration tribunal.
THERE has been great excitement at
Mansfield and Hudson, Mo-, during the
past week, over rich finds of gold and the
simultaneous discovery of the largest cave
in the world near the town OF Hudson. For
two or three years the earth has been sink
ing in these parts to such an extent as to
cause uneaslness among the population.
Lately there has been recurrence of this
phenomenon. Upon investigation an open.
ing to what is said to be the largest cave in
the world was found. Cavern after cavern,
lined with pure onyx and traversed by sub
terranean streams, have been explored
without finding the end. Portions of stall.
actites in one of the caverns were found to
contain gold.
THE telegraph operators on the line of
the Union Pacific railroad have filed
sensational suit in the federal court at
Omaha. The case is brought in the name
of the Order of Railway Photographers. The
plaintiffs allege that the receivers have re-
duced wages in violation of Judge Cald-
Wells order of 1884, wherein the court ruled
that no cut in wages could be enforced
without an order of the court They specify
where wages have been cut and ask to have
them restored. 1t is further alleged that
the officials of the company are hostile to
organized labor, and, particularly, to the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, and that a
systematic effort has been made to weed out
leaders Of the order by summary dismissal.
FREDERICK HARRISON, general manager,
and Robert Turnbull, general superintend-
ent, OF the London & Northwestern Railroad
OF England, arrived in New York last Sat-
urday on the Cunard steamer Lucania."
These gentlemen came over on a tour of
recreation and observation, and after a
short stay in New York will proceed to the
Pacific coast, visiting all places Of interest
en- route in the States and Canada, and re-
turning to New York in October. They will
be entertained by large number of Amer
lean railway officials, and facilities will be
Afforded them to inquire into the American
system of railroads. G. A. Barraton, the
general passenger and freight agent of the
company in North America, will accompany
the party throughout the whole tour.
AN entire locomotive plant will shortly
be taken to st. Petersburg, Russia, from
philadelphia The plant is to be erected at
Mini Novgorod, the commercial metropolis
OF the interior Of the Russian Empire Con-
tracts for the main machinery for the plant,
amounting to over half a million dollars,
were awarded to American manufacturers,
The bulk OF them coming to Philadelphia
hrms. The plant is to be built in Connec-
ton with the Sarmova works, an extensive
establishment engaged in manufacturing
cars, steamboats, and boilers, and employing
1900 hands. The locomotive plant will
have capacity for building POO engines a
year and will employ 1000 hands. All Of
the tiremen and engineers will be Amer
leans. The buildings have been completed
and are now ready to receive the plant,
MANY a days work is lost by sick
headache, caused by indigestion and stom-
ach troubles. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are the most eifectual pill for overcoming
such difficulties. w. f. Terrill & Co..
Montpelier VT