The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-04
Domestic.

A CYCLONE swept over San Jose, ILL.,, last
Friday, killing seven persons and wound
ing score Of others. Houses, barns and
crops were leveled and the damage was
many thousands Of dollars.
NINETY. FIVE per cent of the wood alcohol
plants of the United States shut down
August for thirty days, and may possibly
remain closed for sixty days because OF an
over production of wood alchohol and its
products. At Bradford, Penn, where sew
eral large plants are located the effect is Sc
rious.
BENJAMIN VAUGHAN. thirty years old,
while crazy drunk went TO the park grounds
at Perry, Okla, where five hundred Sun
day-school children were attending picnic,
and began shooting at every man, woman
and child he couldlsee. A Sunday-school
superintendent and half dozen children
were hit. Vaughan was lodged in Jail and
narrowly escaped lynching.
JOHN p LOWELL of Boston died last Fri.
day at his summer home at Cottage City,
aged seventy-seven years; Mr.; Lovell was
the founder and head Of the John T. Lowell
Arms company, one of the largest dealers
in arms and sporting goods in this country,
it being fifty-three years since he secured
the controlling interest in the business. He
was born in East Braintree, Mass, and
learned the gunsmiths trade Of A. B. Fair
banks in Boston, with whom he subsequent
ly entered into partnership.
In an interview at Benton Harbor, Mich,
last week. the widow Of Lieutenant Schwat-
ka, the Arctic explorer, regarding the
Klondyke gold regions, which she has re-
peatedly visited with her husband, declared
that the government should stop the tide of
emigrants going to the gold fields in Alas
ka. She says that the mountain passes are
strewn with the skeletons of unfortunate
miners, who persisted from either cold, heat
malaria or starvation while trying to reach
the golden region.
A DESTRUCTIVE hail storm passed over
Sioux Falls, s. D., last Saturday. The
storm started three miles west of Dell Rap
ids and went in a southwesterly direction,
destroying absolutely everything in its
path. One branch of the storm passed over
Shermantown and Luverne, MINI. Here it
went in two paths, one north and the other
south across Rock and Noble counties, The
path OF this branch Of the storm was over
ten miles wide. 1t is estimated that fully
100000 acres OF crops were destroyed.
A DISPATCH sent out last Friday from
Whitemouth, Manitoba, says that at sunset
last Thursday, Thomas Henderson, farm
or who lives three miles from Whitemouth,
saw large balloon slowly drifting in
ed to be twice the size of his house and had
large boat hanging from it. 1t may be
Andrees. Whitemouth is lumber town
on the Canadian Pacific railroad about sixty
miles from winnipeg, and has very limit
ed settlement.
DEGREES of the sale of the Union Pacific
railroad under the foreclosure proceedings
instituted against it by the United States
were passed upon at Omaha last Thursday
by Judge Walter Sanborn in United States
court There was no objection to the en-
trance Of the Ames-Dexter decree, and af-
ter few corrections had been made in the
printed copy Of the decree it was passed
upon by the court. The entrance of the
government decree drew forth a vigorous
debate between ex-Gov. Hoadley, special
counsel for the United States, and Winslow
8. Pierce, counsel for the reorganization
committee. The debate was upon the right
OF the court to reserve to the United States
all rights OF the government not expressly
stated in the decree. 1t was decided in IA
vor of the government. The upset price
under the first mortgage will be $50, 1887 400.
Judge w d. Cornish of st. Paul will act as
special master in the matter