The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Domestic.

BLANCHE X. BRUCE of Mississippi was
last Wednesday appointed by President
Mckinley to be register of the treasury.
Mr.. Bruce represented Mississippi in the
Senate in the reconstruction days and is
one of the best known negro republicans in
the country The position to which he is
appointed is one he held some years ago.
AFTER January l, next, it will be posi-
BILE for any person In the state OF New York
suffering from tuberculosis in either the in
cipient or advanced stage, to have the most
enlightened treatment at public expense, if
the board Of health shall have certified that
the applicant is affected and destitute. The
board OF estimate has appropriated the sum
of $50, 900 for this purpose
A TERRIFIC explosion of nitro.g lycerine
took place last week about a half mile
west of Chesterfield, Indiana. Sixty
quarts Of nitro-glycerine had been hauled
into field for the purpose Of shooting gas
we'll. The explosive was placed in a large
zinc tub located at the end of steam ex-
haust pipe for the purpose OF thawing out
the mixture. 1t is the theory that the tub
became overheated, causing an explosion
with disastrous results. A hole ten feet
long and several feet in depth was torn in
the earth The engine was blown to pieces.
Persons mile away were lifted from their
feet and the force of the explosion was felt
! for ten miles.
Two hundred and fifty patients in the
epileptic hospital at Gallipolis, Ohio, were
poisoned last Thursday. DR.. Rutter and
his corps of ply sicians succeeded in check
ing the outbreak without a fatality. AS it is
some of the patients are still in critical
condition. The presumption among the
hospital physicians is that the infection
| came from some article of food eaten by
the patients, and the archaeological depart
ment is making rigid analysis of the food
cooked for the past few days Some think a
deleterious drug was placed in some of the
victuals and that, with the wholesale dis
charge OF employees, has caused considerable
excitement.
GEORGE SILLIMAN, a ten-years'-old boy,
is under arrest at Wichita. Kan, charged
with robbing the contribution box of the
Baptist Sunday school at Baufhman, near
| Wichita. For more than six months money
has been missed and action was taken to
| expel the treasurer of the school, Miss Ellie
Markham, from the church and have her
arrested for e-nbezzlement, as she could
not account for the missing money, nearly
500 When arrested, the boy said that his
father had whipped him and compelled him
| to steal. Silliman is wealthy farmer and
a deacon in the church. The testimony is
supported by the boys mother. The elder
Silliman has been arrested
SEvEN men died last week at Naples,
| Ala and seventeen others are not expected
to live from the result of drinking a mix
ture of wood alcohol and cheap whskey.
ITO hiihh wac pOubh' III ooihat hiu' ny
Bill Anderson and another farmer, and
brought to Naples by them and retailed to
| farmers and laborers on the Mobile and Ohio
extension, which is in process OF construc-
ton through that place. A great number
OF farmers and railroad hands purchase
some of the mixture and Immediately after
drinking the connection was taken violently
| i'll. No physician were at hand and many
of them died before attention could be Civ.
EN- them. The alcohol was labelled For
mixing paint" Anderson and his partner
are among the dead.
MINISTER HosHI will return to Washing
ton this week, after an extended visit at his
home in Japan, during which he had an OPP
portunity to confer with the Japanese au-
thorities concerning the annexation OF
Hawaii to the United States. His return
puts at rest reports that he had been recalled
permanently. 1t is understood that his in.
structions will permit the Hawaiian ques-
ton, 80 far, as it concerns Japan, to be
brought TO satisfactory conclusion. When
Japan first presented protest against the