The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

law OF New York, there was a strong senti-
nent against endorsing any political candi-
date or party.
TUE North Atlantic squadron Of the
United States Navy weathered the late
heavy gales off the Atlantic coast. although
the ships put to sea Just before the storm
broke. The Cape Charles light shin was
found adrift, but was towed into port by the
steamer " Columbia"
PRINCE MICHAEL HIKoFF, minister of
ways and communications of Russia, ia in
Pitsburg, Penn. He has lately inspected
the Homestead and Edgar Thomas steel
plants, the Westinghouse air-brake works
and the automatic block and interlockine
signals of the Pennsylvania railroad.
GANG Of masked men lately looted the
town OF Puryear, Tenn. People who left
thelr houses were warned to return under
pain OF death. The gang, OF which there
were eight, kept up an inCessant DISCHARGE
of weapons. After robbing stores they set
fire to several buildings and fed with their
booty.
A BOLD but unsuccessful attempt has
been made TO rob bank in Meeker, Colo.
sixty miles from a railway station. Three
robbers held up the clerk and looted the
bank, but, in their efforts TO escape. were
met on the street by citizens and a hot bat
tie ensued. The robbers were killed and
one citizen wounded.
ANNIE WEIR, an ex-slave at Louisville,
years of pay at SO a week, has recovered
u 800 She has worked for him ever since
her emancipation without wages on his
agreement to lodge, clothe and feed her as
long as she lived. Upon his second marriage
he discharged her.
AMONG the business men of Yankton, s.
D., an organized and general effort is being
made to boycott the hard coal combine
throughout the Northwest by inducing as
many consumers as possible to subs ttute
corn for fuel. II is proposed to hold con =
vention at some central point, where an OF =
ganlzatlon can be formed and the boycott {
made complete.
The Union Veterans Legion, at its an
nual encampment at Washing on had one
thousand delegates in attendance, with as
many more members of the order. The
report Of the secretary indicated the addi-
ton OF five encampments during the past
year, and an increase of seven and one-half
per cent in the total membership, making
l54 encampments in all, and giving the
order membership of 8,752
EX-SENATOR FERRY of Michigan has lust
died. He had held many important offices
in his state and the nation, and in 1875 he
was elected president pro tempore of the
United States senate, holding the position
many years AS an instance of his just
| business dealings, Mr.. Ferry, on the morn
ing after the great Chicago fire, made known
his determination to sell lumber at ante
hre rates, thus breaking up ring of selfish
spectators and saving the city unjust exac-
tions from speculative combinations.
IRVING SMITH, a prosperous farmer of
Plainfield, N H., was shot and killed on
the morning Of October II by Walter Hunt
who then shot himself. The murder was
attended with circumstances of unusual
atrocity. Hunt approached Smith while at
work in his field, picked a quarrel, and,
after few words, shot him down. So close
was the murderer to his victim that the
| charge of shot tore hole through his chest
Hunt then reloaded his gun and again fred,
placing the muzzle OF the weapon almost
against Smiths head, and blowing away a
part of the skull. Still another Shot was
fred into the body before the murderer fled.
When people from the nearest house
reached the place Smiths clothing was on
fire. Hunt is said to have threatened re-
peatedly to kill Smith, of whom he was
| madly jealous Lately he has been drink
ing heavily and that morning he was under
the influence of liquor. His r. cord is bad
and he had served term in Jail for incen-
diarlsm.
REV. DR.. DIAz, a well-known Cuban
| patriot, of Boston has just received letter
from his mother in Cuba in which she
states that Spanish soldiers have ransacked
and partially burned Catholic church a
/ San Miguel, small town near Havana and
/ lad also burned the San Miguel Baptist
| church, which was one of the missions es-
| tablished on the island of Cuba by DE- Diaz
| She also writes that the Spanish soldiers
insulted women, frightened children, and
were guilty OF acts too revolving to enumer-
ate. The Cuban residents are in fear of
| their lives. In Havana the Cuban WON an
are all up in arms, They say that masa-
cres similar to those which have been
occurring in Constantinope have been
| threatened. Those who know the brutal
| Weyler say that he is capable of ndulging
| in any widespread scheme OF murder and
rapine of which the sultan Of Turkey has
been guilty.
A UNION PACIFIC mail train was held up
at Uintah, Utah, October IA. No passen-
| gers were molested, the robbers combining
| operations to the mail and express cars
| The robbers, two in number, boarded the
| train at Patterson, a small station in the
! heart of Weber Canyon. They surprised
| the engineer by suddenly appearing from
! behind the tank and covering him with a
! gun. They ordered the fireman to cover
! his head with a cotton sack which they
handed him. The engineer was ordered to
stop the train and told to indicate the ex-
press car, which he did. While the atten-
ton of the robbers was distracted, the en-
gneer ran away and escaped to Uintah,
where Superintendent O'Neil was notified.
Meanwhile the baggage and express cars
were unoccupied by the robbers and run
ahead of the train few hundred yards and
both cars were broken open. The robbers
failed to open the safe in the express car.
The mail was valuable one from the Pa
cific coast, Bandits have heretofore con-
tented themselves with ritiing express