The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-28
Domestic.

CHARLES f. CRISP of Georgia, ex-speaker
OF the national house of representatives
died at Atlanta on Friday afternoon.
LARGE awards have been offered in Gov.
ington, KY, for the detection of those who
threw the rotten eggs at Secretary Carlisle
al the time of his speech there.
BY head-end collision on the St. Louis
and San Francisco railroad, last Sunday,
nine people were killed and score injured
Both engines were wrecked and the train
derailed.
THE Long-Lochren pension case has been
dismissed by the United States supreme
court upon the authority of previous deci-
sions of that court to abate proceedings
against public officers who have died or left
the service. Commissioners Lochren having
resigned his Office, Judge Longs case is
dismissed.
The Massachusetts supreme court has
rendered three opinions in the case Of Fred
erick o. Vegehelan V. George Nj Guntner
ct al. members of the International Furni-
ture Workers Union of America, which in
wolves the power of a court of equity to en-
join striking employees from interference
with their employ in carrying on his bust
ness. The majority of the court, in an
opinion written by Judge Allen, holds that
the plaintiff was entitled to an injunction to
restrain the defendants from patrolling the
sidew ak in front of his premises for the
purpose of preventing persons from enter
ing his employ and from intimidating per-
sons by threats or otherwise from entering
his employ or continuing in his service, and
from consulting among themselves to pre-
vent any person from entering his employ
who might desire to do so, Judl @ Holmes
and Chief Justice Field dissent from the
majority.
In less than an hour, on Monday, fire de-
stroyed $1,200,000 worth of property on the
north branch of the Chicago river, in di-
In a ted Ial
The Pacific grain elevators A. and D.,
owned by the Chicago and Pacific Elevator
Company, were comple tely destroyed and
several frame dwellings adjoining were
swept away. There were more than a
million bushels of wheat stored in the two
great elevators. The loss on wheat is esti-
mated at SS61 600, on corn $34 900, and a
small loss on oats The loss on buildings
and machinery is placed at nearly $500 600.
The insurance fully covers the losses Five
tiremen who were fighting the blaze from
the roof OF the elevator office, One-story
brick building, had narrow escape from
death. The roof they were on fell in by
the building catching fire underneath them,
and they fell with it before a word of warn
ing could be given. Fortunately, the fire.
men seized the hose, and the walls project
ing little above the collapsed roof, they
hung over the fiery furnace until rescued by
their comrades.
THE old grist-mill situated in that part OF
North Hoosick, N. Y, called Dublin, was
burned to the ground on Saturday, together
with Mr.. Burke's house, short distance
from tn mill, The machinery and stock in
the mill were also destroyed The mill was
the most prominent historical landmark
around Bennington battlefield 1t was
erected, in 1776, by a man by the name of
Van Schaik, and at the time of the battle
was well filed with grain and flour for the
use of the northern army of Gen. Schuy Ter,
as were other mills fur her up the valley in
Bennington. Burgoyne, out of provisions
for his invading army, sent Col. Baum with
detachment to capture these and other
stores, for Bennington had been for a long
time base of supplies for st. Clair at tt
conderOga. Baum reached this mill two
days before the battle and wrote back to
Burgoyne that he had secured one thousand
bushels of wheat and seventy-eight barrels
of -four. He wrote also, his letter written
on the head of barrcl, that about 1900
militia-Stark' little army-were in his
front but that they would leave at his ap-
proach. The mill stood very near to the
railway station Al North Hoosick but only
glimpse Of it can be had from train in
passing. Lossings Field Book of the Revo-
luton contains a cut of it.