The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14
Domestic.

MANAGER SEAvEy of Hotel Champlain,
Bluff Point, n. Y, is authority for the state
ment that President Mckinley and the
members Of his party a engaged quarters
at that hotel during the greater part of
August.
Hon. GEORGE V. N. LoTHRoP, ex-minis-
ter to Russia, died on Monday at his home
in Detroit, Mich. He was stricken with
heat prostration q week previous and had
been in a comotose condition most of the
time since.
EXPERTS on the steamer Topeka at Sc.
attic from Alaska, report that the reported
discovery of a lake of petroleum and a
mountain of high grade coal is true. The
experts say there is enough oil and coal in
the basin to supply the world, and 80 near
the ocean that it mingles with the sea. The
Standard Oil Company has already made
an offer for the property to the discoverers
A DISCUSSION of the affairs of the Union
Pacific railroad occupied the attention OF
the Senate on Monday. The deficiency ap-
preparation bill was taken up early in the
day and Mr.. Morgan proposed an amend
ment designed to procure the consumma
ton OF an agreement made some time ago
for the settlement of the governments
throughout the day, severely a%rraigning the
Pacific railway managers. Late in the day
the entire matter was disposed OF by the
withdrawal OF the paragraph to which Mr..
Morgan had offered his amendment The
deficiency appropriation bill was not COM
pleted up to the time of adjournment.
The failure of Decker, Howell & Co.,
bankers and brokers, "A Broadway, this
city, was announced on the New York stock
exchange on Tuesday. The firm say they
cannot give an m Of liabilities and
assets as yet. They attribute their failure
to being on the wrong side Of the market
and principally short on sugar. The same
firm fQilal five VaQrs AGO for tuaIUQ million
dollars, but paid up in sixty days and re-
sumed business. A. Fisher is named as as
signee. He says he believes the liabilities
will be small. The firm did purely a
brokerage business and was one Of the
largest in the city. The announcement OF
the failure almost created a panic on the
Stock Exchange.
WILLIAM DUFFY, a linotype operator
employed in the composing room of the
Philadelphia Inquirer set in six days last
week the enormous amount Of 469, 300 ems
n%onpariel type. His average per hour was
9, 1872 ems. He worked off the hook ordinary
run OF daily copy, principally markets and
summaries OF sporting events, loaded his
own matter, using one point leads, did all
his W correcting, passed galley proofs to
next operator and kept an account of waits
for copy or breaks in machine. Thu highest
average for six days heretofore was $500
ems per hour and 40, 900 for six days, but
matter was loaded for operator, and all
stoppages ofimachine deducted. The meas
ure was also considerably wider than that
Of the Inquirer. On that basis Mr.. Duffy
could, however, set over 100000 ems.
A DISASTROUS flood caused by the break
ing of a dam near Ward, Jefferson county,
Colorado, last Saturday caused the death Of
two lives and ruined property valued at
500, 900. The reservoir covered thirty-four
acres Of land. The rain, which has been
falling over the country for the last three
days, had so swelled the volume Of water
in the reservoir and at the same time weak
ened the dam so that about five o'clock it
gave way and a wall Of water twenty feet
high rushed down hill carrying everything
before it. John Lawrey saw that the dam
was sure to break and warned the residents
below, and it is believed that all escaped
except Mrs. James Matthews and her five
year-old daughter Myrtle, whose home was
in a portion of the valley, and who was
caught by the rushing waters while trying
to climb the bluffs.