The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-14
Domestic.

The National House is busying itself with
making three days adjournments, while
the Senate is still discussing the provisions
OF the Dingley tariff bill.
In the presence of 5000 people last Friday
evening at Chicago Robert Fitzsimmons
made the formal announcement that he re-
signed the title OF champion of the world,
and was willing that any one else should
have it. He didn't care for it, and would
not fight for it, and it didn't interest him
who assumed 1t.
Two masked robbers held up the cashier
OF the Yonkers Savings Bank, at Yonkers,
N. Y, last Monday, and got away with
$1,000. The amount included one 81 900
bill and two checks amounting to 5000. The
man in his haste to get out of the building
left q package of bills amounting to $500 on
the floor. Treasurer Williams was in an
inside Office and 80 quietly and quickly did
the robber work. that he did not hear any.
thing Of the theft until the cashier reported
to him. The thieves have not been appre-
hended.
The Senate resolution protesting against
summary proceedings by. the Spanish Of
ficials in Cuba against the captive insur-
gent leader Rivera, has reached the state
department through the White House. Sec
rotary Sherman regarding IL as merely de-
claratory Of the sense Of the Senate, and Of
fered in an advisory rather than mandatory
spirit, has fled it away and is not likely to
with the Spanish government, particularly
| in view of the information he has received
| that Rivera is not 70 be shot.
Mas. LELAND STANFORD of San Francisco
signed a contract last week by which her
| life is insured for 81 900 600 The policy,
| which is said to be the largest ever issued,
was written by New ! ork company. BY
the terms of the contract Mrs. Stanford is
| to pay an annual premium of $40, 000 and
upon her death 81 600, 900 will be paid by
the company to Leland Stanfor Jr., Uni
versity. If she lives ten years and con-
tinues her annual payments of premium
the university will receive at her death
So. 900, 900 instead 100000.
| ARLINGTON, Ca, was visited by cyclone
last Friday which swept up the gulf with
terrific force. Nine children were killed in
a school-house at Arlington. Reaching Val
| dosta, the storm became intensified in fury
| and trees were blown down in every part
its foundation and twisted into fragments
by the winds. Box cars on the Plant Sys
tenn were blown off the track. Lightning
| struck switch board in the Western Union
telegraph office, and set fire to the building
DANIEL W. VOORHEES,, ex-United States
Senator from Indiana died last Saturday al
his home in Washington, d. c., aged
seventy years. He had been in poor health
for several years, and for two years past
had taken little part in the proceedings OF
| the Senate. He had been q constant suf.
ferer from rheumatism OF the heart, and
friends had therefore come to expect they
might hear OF his death suddenly. The last
reports in regard to the condition of the
Senator, however, showed signs OF i'm.
provement, 80 while his death was not
totally unexpected it still came with the
suddenness OF q shock. At the time OF his
death the "Tall sycamore Of the Wabash, -
as he was affectionately called by his de.
voted followers in the Hoosier state was
| the ranking Democrat on the finance com.
mittee by virtue of his position as nominal
| leader Of the party on the floor OF the Senate
on tariff and financial questions.
The total area, south OF Cairo, ILL.,, that
1890 square miles, OF which 1890 square
miles were in Mississippi, $500 square miles
| in Arkansas, 1,760 square miles in Missouri
1000 in Tennessee and 400 in Louisiana
This flooded district contains about 1880
farms, with q total area Of 100000 acres
| one-half Of which is In Mississippi and
rather over one-fourth in Arkansas, the pro-
| portion in Missouri and Tennessee being
about the same as in the case Of the number
of farms. The total value Of these farms
with their improvements, farm implements
etc., is close upon $50, 900, 900. The live
stock on hand the LIST OF January of the
present year was valued at 81 200, 900, di.
| vided in very much the same proportions as
| other farm property. 1t Is estimated that oil
the crops last year over $3.50, 900 worth re.
NAMED on hand in the submerged region or
the last Of the month, cotton representing
about two-thirds Of this amount and corr
practically all the remainder.