The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-19

country Is authority for the statement that |
1 ,450 men have been recruited for the Cuban |
army in Kansas City and vicinity and are |
now waiting to be transported to Cuban |
soil. Many of these recruits have already |
made their way to the Gulf coast, he says,
and arrangements have been made to send
them to Cuba between now and fall when |
the yellow fever season in Cuba will have
been passed. Col. Hartman also states
that an American volunteer legion of $4,000
Is now being recruited at various points in
this country for service with the Cuban pat
riots.
THE west-bound Southern Pacific ex-
press train was held up and robbed about
Texas, last Friday. As the train pulled
out of the little town OF Lozier, three men
jumped aboard and pointing pistols at the
engineer and fireman compelled the former
to stop the train about one and one-half
miles west Of the town. After forcing the
doors OF the express car, one of the robbers
entered the car and dynamited the two
safes Of the Wells Fargo express company.
Both the through and local safes were
opened and the contents secured. The
local safe contained $4,000 or $4,000. The
amount secured from the through safe is
unknawn, but it is believed that it will fall
below $1,000 or $1,000.
IT is said there is to be war between the
international Order of Machnists, which
closed its biennial convention at Kansas
City last week, the typographical union and
the linotype engineers" just before the
| final adjournment OF the machinists, it is
| said, they passed resolutions demanding
| that those having charge Of the type-setting
| machines shall be members of the Interna-
| tional Order of Machinsts The sessions OF
| the machinists were held in secret and the
passing Of the resolutions was supposed to
have been known only in the convention.
The officers OF the convention afterward de-
MED that such step had been taken and it
was given out that the matter had been re.
ferred without action.
The will of John G.. Paige, the we'll
| known insurance man of Boston, provides
for the gift Of $500 to every person who has
| been in his employ for ten consecutive
[ years before his death. After providing for
| this trust, he desired his trustees to pay to
his mother, Mrs. Ann l.. Paige, the sum of
| $4,000 year. After her death he directs
them to pay the following legacies: To the
Stockbridge Association. Hanover, N. H.,
$1,000, to be used for the boys's reading
room; to the trustees of Dartmouth College,
$4,000, to constitute scholarship to be
known as Ann L. Paige scholarship; to
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Han
| over, N. H., So 900 for a free bed to the In
surance Library Association, Boston, $1,000;
besides some small requests. All the rest
and residue of his property he gives to the
Boston public library to apply so far as
advisable for the purpose of the childrens
room.
THE State Grand Army Encampment OF
Kentucky, held last week in Lexington,
was the most remarkable ever held in that
state from the fact that ex-Confederates took
the leading part in the exercises, and only
one Union soldier made set speech. Capt
Stephen G. Sharp, an exConfederate, was
the chief marshal of the day. Col. William
Q. P. Breckenridge, an ex-Confederate
made the address OF welcome. Judge Jerry
R. Morton, an ex-Confederate, presented
the gavel made from wood grown on the
battlefield Of Chickamauga. The only Fed.
eral soldier to make an address was Gen
eral Samuel E. HILL adjutant general Of
Kentucky under Governor Buckner. He
accepted the gavel on behalf of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He made what was
considered the best speech of the afternoon
and when he spoke of how the old soldiers
had buried the Ratchet he asked Judge Nor
ton to rise. They clasped hands, and il
this position General Hill finished his ad
dress amid deafening and prolonged ap
plause.