The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-15

quarter of a century, and, during the same
period, was also Washington representative
of the Chicago Tribune, and, later of the
Inter-O Ocean.
A DI. PATCH from Indianapolis to the New
York Sun, last week, says that Elk President
Harrison will go to New York about Janu-
airy 10, and that he will marry Mrs. Dim
mock before his return. The dispatch adds
that it is barely possible the ceremony will
not be performed until after Lent.
THE statehood convention that met in
Oklahoma last Thursday broke up in row
before permanent organization was eff
fected Nearly all the delegates favored
statehood, but 80 intense was the rivalry as
to which should be the capital of the new
state that nothing could be accomplished.
MARD1Ros ENFIFJ1AN, who was killed in
the American College building during the
recent slaughter in Harpoot, Turkey, was
a naturalized American citizen and be.
longed in Worcester, Mass. The state de-
partment at Washington will be asked to
demand an indemnity for the life OF the
murdered man.
THERE was a narrow escape from panic
at the Winthrop School in Boston last
Wednesday morning. The building was
discovered to be on fire while 800 girls were
in the class-roons. The fire caught in a
register on the first floor and worked to the
fourth floor before it was discovered. The
cool and prompt action of the teachers in
marching the girls from the building doubt
less saved many lives.
The house committee on invalid pensions
has ordered a favorable report on a bill
providing that in consideration of claims
| filed under the pension law of June 81, 1890,
the death Of an officer or enlisted man shall
be considered as conclusive II satisfactory
| evidence Is produced establishing the fact
of the continued absence of the officer or
an from his home or family for period of
seven years, during which no intelligence
of his existence has been received.
The weather bureau at Washington has
issued history Of the recent cold wave,
with maps giving the progress of the fall in
temperature and other conditions. 1t is
shown that during this cold wave a warn
ing signal was displayed at every station in
the service in the regions traversed by the
wave twenty four hours before the temper
ature fall occurred, and the claim is ad-
vanced that transportation companies and
dealers in produce and perishable manu-
features effected savings running well into
the millions by being we'll forewarned.
THE Notifications OF San Francisco have
recently been strengthened through the &C
ceptance by the government of three OF the
most powerful pneumatic guns yet tested,
each of which threw 800 pounds OF high ex-
plosive upward of 5000 yards with preci-
sion and terrific effect upon the water where
they struck: Columns OF water were thrown
as high in the air as the Washington Mon
ument, and the aim was 80 true that there
would have been no difficulty in hitting any
ship which they might have been aimed at.
Other guns will be placed at Boston and the
important coastwise cities
SIMON ENSIGN, OF Pontiac, Mich, who
was confined in the Moro Castle at Havana,
Cuba, for twenty years, filed last week in
Washington a claim for 5000, 900 damages
against the Spanish govern nent. Ensign
was an American citizen employed at rail-
reading. Being suspected of sympathy with
the rebels, but guitless of any crime, he
was thrown into prison and kept there for
twenty years without trial. His two COM
panions died in prison, and 1t was only by
Spanish man. f-war while it was anchored
at New Orleans. He is seventy-two of age.
KATE FIELD. the Washington journalist,
has acquired title to the old John Brown
homestead in Essex county, New York,
with the explicit provision that it shall re-.
main public park in memory of the martyr
of liberty. The property was bought in 1869
by Miss Field, and, sufficient money having
been raised to reimburse her, she has trans
ferred to the state the property, consisting
of 244 acres. About a quarter of an acre
enclosed as burial place and containing
John Browns grave is part of the gift to
the state and will be marked by an appro-
pirate monument. 1t is expected that the
New York legislature will make an appro.
priation to develop the park and preserve
the old homestead. Governor Morton is
understood to be in sympathy with the
movement
WIFE" Here's an account OF a man who
shot himself rather than suffer the pangs OF
indigestion" Husband" The fool Why
} didn't he take De Wits Little Early
Rsers? used to suffer as bad as he did
: before l commenced taking these little
pills" w. E. Terrill & Co., Montpelier. Vt
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