The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-09

day at Omaha on the charge OF embezzling
S201 900 state money. Acting on the adj
vice OF his attorneys, he refused to plead.
Judge Baker ordered plea of not guilty
entered for him.
FIVE children were burned to death last
Wednesday in the residence of j. II. White,
Keyston, w. Va. Enemies of the family
are believed to have fred the house. Both
White and his wife were away on visit
and the children were alone Bloodhounds
were used to trace the murderers.
FREEDOM of speech has been defined In
Lincoln county, Maine. In the case OF
George II. Bradford against William Clark
and Austin s. Thomas, in which verdict
Tor Islander had been rendered, the law
court set aside the verdict. The alleged
slanderous statements were made in open
town meeting, the defendants charging the
plaintiff, superintendent of schools, with
burning school books. The court holds that
the statements were privileged.
FROM the large number of inquiries re-
ceived by the post-0ffice department at
Washington there seems to be general be-
lief that congress has authorized the issue
and use OF private postal cards, mailable at
the one cent rate Of postage This belief is
unfounded. The department has called the
attention al all postmaster5 to this fact and
has notified them that no law has been
enacted on the subject, 80 that private
mailing cards, bearing written messages,
ject to postage at the letter rate.
A TALLY-Ho coach containing twenty-one
young people who were taking days out
ing was struck by an express train at Val
ley Spring, l.. l., last week. Five were in
stantly killed and a dozen were terribly
hurt Some of the dead were frightfully
manged. The collision came almost with
out warning and the occupants of the coach
| had no time to make their escape. Before
the most OF them knew Of the pending dam
! ger the train was upon them the coach
was upset and the engine pushing it along
the rails, with the dead and injured being
torn to pieces
A FIvE-sToRY brick building in process of
completion at the corner of Fifty-frst street
and Twelfth Avenue, N. Y, collapsed last
Thursday and several men were buried in
the ruins. The building was hardly COM
pleted and was to be occupied as a soap fac
tory The men had just gone to work when
the east wall crashed inwards. 1t is sup
posed that it was dragged down by the
weight Of the fourteen huge water tanks,
which had just been filed. When the crash
came there were few people in the building
or in the vicinity. Firemen and ambulances
responded to the alarm and the work OF en-
deavoring to reach the entombed men was
commenced.
AN old man named Vance who lives in
Logging Creek, Montana, and who for years
has been pauper, has just received word
tnat the supreme Court OF North Carolina
has rendered decision in suit brought by
his mother, now dead. years ago in favor Of
Mrs. Vance, handing down to him as next
of kin an estate valued at four million dol.
lars. During recent illness he was cared
for by Miss Alice Crossman, the sixteen
year-old daughter OF a Montana section boss
Upon receipt OF the news he proposed mar
riage to the girl who accepted and
they were at once married. Crossman has
resigned his position and with his wife
will go to Vances Southern home. Vance
is seventy-seven years old