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

The Troy Conference voted III to 80
against admitting women as delegates to the
general conference.
JOSEPH e. KELLEY, the murderer of
Cashier Stickney of the Great Falls Ma
tional Bank of Somersworth, n. H., was ar
raigned last week and pleaded guilty to
the crime charged against him. He was re-
manded to jail at Dover to await the action
of the grand jury in September.
Miss HELEN REBMANN, a servant girl,
was last week awarded a verdict of So 226
in suit for breach of promise of marriage
at Corning, N. Y. The next day one of the
jurors in the case called on the young
woman. proposed his devotion, and asked
her to marry him. She promptly refused
him.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has sent these nom
nations to the Senate: William r. Day of
Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of State
Bellamy Storer of Ohio, to be Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Belgium; George NJ Fish of Ohio, to be
Second Secretary of the Embassy of the
United States at Berlin Germany; Hunt
ington Wilson of Illinois to be Second Sec
rotary of the Legation Of the United States
at Toxic, Japan.
JUDGES BAXTER AND SEARLE of the dis
trict court of Minnesota handed down, last
week, an important decision in what is
known as the Avon school case, whereby
the school district and its teachers are en-
joined from using the school-house to give
religious instruction or to teach Roman
Catholic catechism. The decision applies
to all public schools in the state and to all
religious creeds. The practice OF teaching
the catechism is held to be contrary to the
constitutional guaranty Of freedom of con-
science.
SENATOR VEST Of Missouri introduced
resolution in the Senate last week directing
the committee on commerce to report at
the beginning OF the next session the causes
of the Mississippi floods and the means of
preventing them. Whether they were due
to destruction of timber at the headwaters,
whether a system of outlets was practicable,
concerning the condition of levees whether
the continuance Of the Mississippi commits
sion was advisable, whether the jetties
should be continued and what the cost of
comprehensive works would be.
The officials of the Japanese legation in
Washington express themselves in positive
terms as having no fear OF international
complications between Japan and Hawaii
or the United States growing out Of the diff
ferences of the first two countries on the i'm
migration question. They belittle the pos
sibility of war over complications that may
arise and attribute such talk to the lingo
newspapers which are disposed, they say
to make a great ado over matters that can
readily be adjusted by diplomacy, and con-
corning which there is no warrant for the
predictions that trouble is likely to follow.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has issued to
General Miles formal assent to his pro-
jected trip to Turkey and Greece. The or
der reads "The president grants you per-
mission to proceed as soon as practicable TO
the seat Of war in the Levant, and II au-
thority therefore be granted to you by the
respective governments concerned, to visit
the Turkish and Greek armies, or both, as
in your Judgment may be desirable. The
president further grants you authority
while in Europe to visit such other coun-
tries as may in your opinion offer the best
opportunities for military observation and