The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-23

crowd went out to witness the ascension
When 5000 feet in the air, the parachute
was set adrift and began to fall rapidly.
Tossed and beat about by cross winds, it
finally was seen to be drifting far out over
the stream, and finally struck the water.
CHARLES s. ERswELL, a telegraph opera
tor at Cheyenne, N. Y, when riding on his
bicycle last Wednesday night was attacked
by party OF ten or twelve soldiers from
Fort Russell. After he had been knocked
from his wheel, Erswell shot one of the
soldiers. He then managed to get inside
his house when the soldiers Immediately
bombarded with rocks and pieces OF timber.
They broke windows and forced open the
kitchen door. AS they rushed into the
house, Erswell shot second time, dropping
another OF the soldiers. The city police ar
rived at this time and the soldiers reiterated.
One OF the soldiers is seriously wounded.
Erswell was allowed to go on his own
recognizance.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has sent to the
Senate the name OF Stewart L. Woodford OF
New York to be United States minister to
Spain. Mr.. Woodford is an old friend OF
Senator Plat and the two have been on in
innate terms since they we're colleagues in
Congress a score of years ago. The Incl
dent in the early eighties when Mr.. Wood
ford refused to support for governor Judge
Folger, later secretary Of the treasury, say
ing he would not support republican nom-
mated on q forged telegram" put him at
| odds with the republicans OF the state for
| some years but he finally went back into
the fold. Senator Platt vigorously urged him
| for a cabinet position, trying to have him
made secretary OF the interior.
THE Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians in
Oklahoma are much wrought up over the
| new law relating to polygamy in that terri
tory which goes into effect July 1. After
that time, each of the forty Cheyenne Indi-
| ans who has more than one wife will have
| IN phnOQq Of the w tbrpa or Hua wi yaa
that he has and the cast-off wives must go
| back to their relatives The interest be-
tween the squaws who have become en-
| lightened to their situation has become in
| tense. Every squaw who wants to ROMAN
with her husband is doing her best to
please him that she will be the lucky wife.
There are forty of these polygamists and in
all they have over one hundred squaws
SEVEN months ago the transmission to
Buffalo OF electric power generated by
Niagara Falls was begun, the Buffalo Street
Railway Company receiving about 200 horse
power at the street car power house in that
city. The transmission of this power was
| looked upon as an experiment, and no
further contracts for its delivery in Buffalo
were made. The power has come to Buffalo
so steadily and regularly that the expert
mental stage has now been passed and
other large contractors are now being en-
tered into. Last week arrangements were
made for 1,250 horse power by the Great
Northern Elevator Company, which has
now in course of construction in that city
one Of the largest elevators in the world.
THE Universal Postal Congress, the fifth
convention of the kind in the world, closed
at Washington last Wednesday. The next
OF the congresses Will be held at Rome,
Italy, in February, 1908 The final session
was devoted to the formal signing Of the
general treaty and of the detailed articles
OF arrangements. Every delegate signed
w M in to fha for
NAL ratification of his government, and
owing to the amount of labor involved, sig
natures to other sets Of documents were
waived under general authority for their
execution. The originals of all these doc
uments will be placed in the archives Of the
State Department for preservation and GER
tilted copies will be forwarded to all the
governments comprising the Universal Pos
tai Union. The deliberations OF the final
meeting were accompanied with much for
mality.
MORE tea is now afoat on the Pacific
ocean than ever before at one time. I'M
porters of New York and other Eastern
cities have bought in Japan and China for
immediate delivery and are having their
cOnsignments hurried across 80 as to enter
them before the Dingley bill goes into ef-
fact, with its ten-cent per pound duty on
tea. All available space on all trans
Pacific steamers has been engaged for
months ahead. The Northern Pacific
Steamship Company has four big liners en-
route from Yokohama to Tacoma. bringing
about 100000 pounds. Other steamers
are loading at Shanghai and Yokohama. A
Thousand tons OF new crop tea have already
arrived at Tacoma. Half the tea imported
into the United States this season will en-
ter at Tacoma, as during the two last sea-
sons. The government tea inspectors and
the railroads have made special provisions
for rapid handling of the tea.