The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
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DHpI nuTHunO lieved by CUrioURA REnKDIHs,

BABY HuMukS iieved BY CUTio5si RHssDrss,
was whirled around by the big wheel, which
is fitted with flanges and his body was fear
fully lacersted.
PARTICULARS Of a wholesale poisoning
case have reached Louisville, KY, from
Galloway county in that state. Eight per-
sons are reported to have been poisoned by
eating watermelon stolen from neigh
boris patch. Seven Of them are dead and
the eighth is in a critical condition.
FoREPAUGH AND SELLS BROTHERS. circus
was wrecked last Wednesday near Ellens-
burg, N. Y Several cars loaded with
wagons and other paraphernalia were badly
wrecked. Two cars loaded with elephants
were overturned and smashed in at one end.
The cars were broken open to allow the
animals to get out They were then herded
in nearby pasture.
MARY ELIZABETH LEASE is going to Alas.
ka to dig gold and to regulate politics. Mrs
Lease says II, when she gets there, she finds
no politics, she will make some, and run
them herself. Mrs. Lease says the Klon-
dyde is full of men with long whiskers;
therefore she will not feel lonesome. If
they are not all Populists they ought to be-
with their physical advantages.
THE Pennsylvania democrats had the live
lest kind of time at their state convention
held last week at Reading. The morning
session OF the convention closed with dis
graceful row, during which some delegates
who did not like the way things were going
climbed upon the stage and exchanged
blows A large detachment Of policemen
was on hand in the afternoon and every
thing was serene. When the convention
reassembled after dinner the force Of police
men in the hall had been reinforced and
there were other evidences of preparations
to prevent repetition Of the disgraceful
scene that brought the morning session to u
close.
A PASSENGER train on the Erie railroad,
going at the rate Of sixty miles an hour,
struck a wagon containing five people at a
crossing just outside the city limits of Buff
falo, last week. Melville II. Valentine,
thirty-eight years old, was instantly killed
and M. o. Werder, Mrs. M. o. Werder. Ed
die Werder, four years old, and George
Cole, thirty-seven years old, were all Sc
verely injured. Mrs. Werder and George
Cole may die. The party were returning
from days outing in the country and
started to cross the tracks just after freight
train had passed. They did not hear or see
the passenger train coming in an opposite
direction.
Mrs. JOHN DREW, the aged actress, died
| last week near New York city. She had
been suffering some time from complica-
ton Of kidney and heart troubles, the i'm
mediate cause of death being heart failure.
| With the passing of Mrs. John Drew has
| departed one of the few links that unite the
present generation with the grandest galaxy
| that has ever illuminated the American
dramatic ornament. She was contempora-
neous, and appeared upon the stage in lead
| ing parts with the elder Boothand Forrest
with Macready and Edwin Booth and with
Florence, Clark and Owen of those who
have passed away, and with Jefferson and
| Couldock who still survive.
| Iu, 10 ofio;ollv opnoppoad +bot he JTp;+aJ
States government is to lay claim to a large
portion of Yukon gold fields which have
| heretofore been supposed to be in British
territory, and that the territory which il
claimed as being within Alaska includes
| Dawson City. The basis OF the claim to be
made by the United States officials to the
disputed territory is in the fact that the
! boundary line has never been determined
and the United States authorities are claim
ing to possess information as to surveys
made by the Canadian government that
| fixes Dawson City and large portion OF
the gold district within Alaska,
AT the Republican Convention held last
| Wednesday week at Lincoln, Neb., Senator
| John M. Thurston said: Il shall not be a
candidate for reelection, but l do not in
tend to retire from politics. Let there be nc
mistake about that. Whenever there is
battle for the republican party l am enlist
ed for the war. 1t has never been necessary
|
ular man in office. L am satisfied that ii
will be victorious this fall, next year and
for many years to come, but | do not like
public life in Washington. l do like home
life in Nebraska. 1t is my ambition to live
in this state as private citizen, as a loyal
republican"
John h. GENTRY" and "Robert j."
are no longer the worlds champions on the
race track. The Chicago pacing stallion,
Star Pointer" owned by James A.
Murphy, wiped out forever at Mystic
Park recently the two-minute mark and
paced mile in 1:59f 1t was the most
wonderful performance ever witnessed by a
light harness horse, and was seen by about
5000 people. 1t was the more remarkable
because Friday, Joe Patchen, with the
| "Geers behind him, had made shot at
the mark made by John R. Gentry last
October and had failed by second and a
half. Because Of this it was not thought
that his greatest rival in the race line would
get down below the even time mark.
AT meeting of the social democracy
held Thursday night at st. Louis, Mo-, An
archist Eugene V. Debs was the principal
speaker. In the course of his remarks he
said: The supreme court of the United
States is breeder of revolution and few
more injunctions will see all of us
cause of humanity. 1 am anxious; L am
ready. The time is ripe and it is coming
surely" The speaker then Landed the an
archists who were hanged at Chicago and
said that some day his wife may mourn his
loss as did the widows of those four men
'They are martyrs, and the time will come
when the world will pay tribute to their
names and works." he added.
The strike situation in Pennsylvania in
dicates prolonged struggle. Acting Presi-
dent Warren and Manager Lowell of the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company has
handed to Alexander McMullen, chairman
OF the strikers committee, their ultimatum.
There Is nothing encouraging in it and it is
a big surprise as well as a disappointment
TO those who have been acting as mediators.
The company declines to make any conces-
sion excepting to advance laborers from
ninety cents to 81 per day. They decline
to discuss the company store question or to
consider the removal of Superintendent
Jones. The letter was explained to the
men at mass meeting and the greatest ex-
element followed. On the vote to accept
the proposition to 20 to work on the basis