The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-24

cruisers and q number of thirty-knot torpedo
destroyers. The Britons, when questioned
az to the cause for this increase in the
British force, became un~communicative and
absolutely refused t, discuss the matter.
THR magnificent new Anchor lin steam
er, bluff CITY," one of the finest boats on
the lower Mississippi, which left st. Loui
last Wednesday bound for New Or
leans, with forty passengers and 1000 tons
of miscellaneous freight on board, was
burned to the waters edge at Chester, ILL.,,
seventy.five miles below st. Louis. All the
passengers and crew escaped without in
jury, but nothing on board was saved. The
loss, which is total, will aggregate 800, 900.
A number Of valuable race horses that were
being taken to New Orleans for the races
there, were burned.
A TERRIFIC prairie fire swept over Lub-
book, Hale and Crosby counties in Texas
last week. 1t originated east of Crosby
county, burned eastward through Crosby
before a severe west wind until it reached a
point north of Emma when a northern
arose, beating the fire south. The flames
made a fire ten miles wide and travelled at
lightning speed. At least four hundred
square miles of territory we're burned over,
Many cattle were burned to death. North
OF Emma, three thousand sheep were burn
ed in one flock and many farmers lost their
winter feed, the fire burning it in the stacks.
NEGOTIATIONS between the United States
and Canada for the settlement of pending
questions are sJill in progress, notwith-
standing public reports that the meeting OF
diplomats resulted in complete failure. The
fnal diplomatic meeting was characterized
by the utmost good feeling, and an under
standing was reached that the Canadians
after returning to Ottawa would submit
their views in writing. The interesting adj
ditional fact is made known that for the first
time the Canadians nave taken in the
A 10 .A Too nAN
and have given assurances that 1t would be
submitted to the privy council OF Canada
and a definite answer given. Negotiations
will proceed by correspondence between
Washington and Ottawa.
MRS. j. W. TERRILL of Plattsburgh, N,
Y, and her nephew, Edward Mason, were
burned to death on a farm a few miles from
Peru, last Wednesday night. Mrs. Terrilli
who was seventy years old, started TO heI
room to retire at about nine O'Clock carrying
a kerosene lamp. In some unexplained
way the lamp was upset. The burning oil
fell on her clothing, e~nveloping her in
flames. Her nephew, who who fifty years
old tried to help her and in his endeavors
his clothing took fire. When he succeeded
in putting out the flames, Mrs. Terrill was
unconscious. She died soon after the arri.
val of the neighbors. Mason was so horri.
bly, burned that he died a few hours later.
The failure of the three banks at English
Leavenworth and Marengo, Ind, has
wrought havoc throughout the southern
portion of that state and for sixty miles uI
and down the Ohio there is scarcely a fam
lily that does not feel the effects of the dis
aster. The three banks were the property o.
lR. W. Willett and John Weathers who were
considered the shrewdest business men il
that part of the state. Both men have flee
from their homes, leaving their wives and
children behind, and have taken with then
every dollar that they could lay their hands
on. 1t is thought that the loss to the com
munity will amount to $500, 600, and less
than ten per cent will ever be returned tC
the depositors.
Itching Piles, nights horrid plague, is in
stantly relieved and permanently cured by
Doan's Ointment. Your dealer ought tt
keep it.