The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Domestic.

AS the result of the failure OF the joint
wage conference OF the Amalgamated Asso-
ISOLATION of Iron and Steel Workers and
Manufacturers to agree upJn the scale at
the Youngstown conference held last
Thursday, all the union mills are closed and
between 1900 and 5000 men are idle.
ADvIcEs from Canton and other Ohio
points, and from Kentucky and Missouri,
show that the heat last Sunday and Mon
day was unprecedented, In Cincinnati
there were thirteen deaths from heat dur
ing twenty hours. Dayton reports 100 to
no degrees and two deaths; Lami. 115 de-
grees, one death; Newark, 105 degrees; up
per Sandusky, 115 degrees; Louisville, if
teen deaths.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party reached
Canton, o., last Saturday morning. They
were met by the citizens Of the city en-
masse. A large proportion OF the populace
marched in parade to receive and escort
the party; bands, military companies, cd
soldiers and the organizations Of last fall
being conspicuous in the line. Thousands
of others went to the depot unorganized,
and the crowd there almost equaled that Of
the first Of March, when the President de-
parted for the inauguration. Booming can
non announced the train as it crossed the
city boundary line.
In match race at Colorado Springs last
Friday between Walter q. Sanger OF Mil
Wauh66, w lb., UQ6 W6ll KNOWN CyCllSu, ana
the famous pacing horse Albatross," the
man won two out of three heats. The first
heat, half mile, was won by Sanger by ten
feet in one minute and three seconds. The
second heat, also half a mile, was won by
"Albatross" by length in one minute,
was driven by Jack Flynn. The third
heat was quarter Of q mile and abba.
tross" was turned loose. Sanger won by q
few feet in forty seconds. Another march
between Sanger and the horse was arranged
for July 10 in Denver.
KANSAS PACIFIC trains that arrived at
Denver, COL, last Friday from the east were
delayed several hours. The wheels OF the
engine commenced to slip and all the sand
in the box failed to keep the train moving.
Millions OF grasshoppers had congregated
along the rails, and when the wheels
crushed them it was like greasing the
tracks. The train hands cleared off the
rails for a short distance with shovels.
Then the engine was shot ahead. There
were somewhere between forty and forty
five miles OF the track that were almost inn
passable because OF the crushed grasshop-
pers and the train was eight hours late In
reaching Denver.
HENRY B. STONE of Chicago, vice-presi-
dent OF the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad, was accidentally killed on Mon
day by the explosion OF bomb at his sum-
mer residence at Nonquitt, Mass. Mr..
Stone arrived from Chicago last Saturday
to spend the Fourth with his family who
came East recently to spend the month of
July. The children were discharging their
fireworks on the lawn. Mr.. Stones little
daughter asked him to fire off bomb He
lighted 1t and threw it from him, but the
explosion did not occur. After waiting
short time Mr.. Stone cautiously approached
the spot where the bomb lay and bent over
to see what the trouble was, just as it ex-
ploded. Large fragments struck him in the
forehead
MRS. HATTIE T. WOODWARD of Green
vile, N. H., widow of about fifty years.
was found dead last Saturday in the kitch.
on Of her home. The body was lying upon
the floor with bullet wound in the throat,
while by its side was revolver, two cham.
bers OF which were empty. The first i'm.
preston was that it was a case OF suicide.
but later investigation greatly strengthened
the theory that the woman was murdered,
A careful examination OF the premises dis
closed blood spots on the sewing machine,
window curtain and door latch. A dia.
mond ring which she had worn and a gold
watch were missing, while her pocketbook
had been relieved Of its contents Upon
the throat were marks apparently made by
an assassins thumb.