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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

important step for the Central Vermont
road. At present 1t does not fully control
the bridge now stretching across Lake
Champlain, portion of the structure at
Rouses Point being held by the OIdens-
burg and Lake Champlain road. The prop.
osition now is to build new bridge so that
trains can run directly from Alburgh over
the new link Of railroad that is being built
to connect the Central Vermont with the
Canada Atlantic, OF which President Smith
and Hon. j. r. Booth are owners.
TEN Cinnamon from Canada who claim to
be Americ ,n born were arrested at St. AL
bans last week and taken before United
states Commissioner johnson at Burlington
on charge Of attempting to enter the
country under false pretences. All had GER
tifcates showing that they had been in the
United States before, but these have been
declared Of no value by the attorney general
and no celestial can come back on them.
1t Is not believed that the men under arrest
are the parties referred TO in the certificates,
and the decision OF the attorney general in
issuing orders that they he not accepted as
passports in the future Is received with Joy
by the inspectors and will prove set back
to Cinnamon In Canada, who are waiting to
get in as soon as the papers can be returned,
The men under arrest claim they have been
visiting in the dominion for the past six or
eight months. Their case will be given a
full hearing to-day at Burlington.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
Foreign News.

BY the recent floods in the City of Fuki,
Japan, 1890 houses were inundated and
many people were drowned.
THE report is confirmed that during the
recent rioting in Calcutta the artillery fired
point blank at a mob of five thousand mill
hands who were marching to join the riot.
ers with the result that / 800 OF the natives
were killed.
THE news that Hawaii has virtually ex-
Guided the Chinese is confirmed by Homo
lulu advices brought by the Australian.
When the annexation proposition was made
to the Uni ed States one Of the principal
should cease. AS start in this direction the
Hawaiian government has decided to issue
no more six months residence permits to
Chinese or TO execute any bonds for con-
tract laborers to arrive.
Two passenger steamers, the American,
OF the American Line, and the Algerian Of
the aichelieu and Ontario Navigation Com.
pany, colided in the famous Lachine Rap
ids OF the st. Lawrence river, near Montreal
last Wednesday. Both were crowded with
passengers and panic ensued when the
vessels came together. Above the roar OF
the rapids came the grinding and splinter
ing of wood as the two boats came together
Many of the passengers tainted, and pande-
monium reigned on board. BY a miracle no
one on either boat was injured, and the
damage to both boats is comparatively
slight when the peril they were in is con.
sidered, The bulwarks of the America on
the side she struck the Algerian are torn
away, and the woodwork Is otherwise dam
aged. The Algerian, being the larger and
heavier boat, escaped much serious dam
age. AS soon as the end of the rapids was
reached the steamers were headed for docks
and the passengers disembarked.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

Dispatches from Tacoma, Wash, state
that five hundred killed is the record OF the
terrible outbreak OF the great volcano OF
Mayor, on the island Of Luzon, one Of the
Philippine group. The night OF June "a
this volcano began throwing up ashes and
lava in immense quantities. and flames
were thrown upward considerably over 100
feet above the crater. The next day fifty
six bodies were recovered at a considerable
distance, and the most recent dispatches to
Hong Kong up to July stated that not less
than 800 we're known to be killed. 1t was
probable say the dispatches, that the loss OF
life would reach into the thousands, depend
ing on the length OF eruption. On that date
lava streams and ashes had reached the
cities of Bacacay, Malipet and LIBBY, and
their destruction was certain. Fifteen
smaller towns between these and the vol
cano had been destroyed, and scores OF the
agricultural population had been over
whelmed while attempting to escape.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
Domestic.

JOHN JACOB AsToR of New York has do
mated $4,000 to purchase Elmwood, the
Cambridge, Mass, home OF James Russell
Lowell, which will now be turned into a
memorial park and be thrown open to the
public.
ALL mint records were broken at San
Francisco last Wednesday when $3750,000
in gold was deposited for coinage. OF this
amount $4,000 was the property of the
Alaska Commercial Company and the bal
ance was deposited by various miners and
smelling companies. 1t Is said that this thus
far exceeds any single days deposits at any
one mint.
THE determination OF the leading life in
surance companies to carry no risks on
Klondyke explorers has fallen with damp
ening effect on the cooperative companies
which were forming, One company intend
ed sending ten representatives, each in
sured for $4,000, giving each 81 900 besides
operate in the search for gold. Dividing
equally with the company by each death,
the company stood to win $500. Another
company simply designed to carry sufficient
INSURANCE to reimburse it for actual out
lay. 1t is not thought any companies will
proceed further with organic alton.
Four lives were lost in an explosion
which took place last Thursday evening in
Chicago during fire in the Northwestern
x OIL OioNdbOl az OoOh anu w Cob w dIOE
streets. Three OF the dead are firemen, and
one person WAS blown into the Chicago
river. From the force with which the ex-
plosion swept the spot on which they were
standing 1t is certain they must have been
instantly killed. Either the bursting OF a
boiler or the explosion Of mill dust caused
the awful havoc. The origin OF the blaze is
believed to have been in the vicinity OF the
boiler house. Accumulated dust, as dry
and inhammable as gunpowder, that had
been piling up for years aided the blaze. II
spread with great rapidity and them came a
| terrific explosion, completing the work OF
scattering the fire throughout the entire
structure
A ROW boat on Lake George, in which
were Mrs. Humphrey and son Of New Jer-
sey, was capszed last week after
noon. Mrs. Humphrey was drowned. The
accident was caused by the occupants OF
the boat becoming frightened and standing
up as the swells from the steamer, tt.
conderoga," reached them which caused the
boat to upset in an instant. The accident
was witnessed by Captain Samuel Hoadley,
a man nearly sixty years old, who happened
to be standing near the end OF Long Island
at the time, and who, without moments
hesitation, sprang into the water and swan
to the upturned boat. He succeeded in
rescuing the son and would have saved the
mother had she not in her frantic struggles
to save herself, grabbed him such manner
that it was impossible for him to help her
The body was recovered and was taken to
New Jersey
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

Ardell Carpenter Of Bellows Falls are Wis.,
iting their aunt, Mrs. j. NJ. Richardson.
- ii. X. Miles is driving stage for M .
M. Covill. - Robert Richardson has re-
turned to his fathers from Hanover, N H.,
slightly improved. - Miss Emma Eel.
lows, who has been an invalid for several
years, passed away last Tuesday week,
aged thirty. Ga Thursday Grant Town,
aged twenty-nine, died at the hone Of his
sister, Mrs. George Jackson. Rev Il. s..
Cudworth oficiated at the funeral service.
Vershire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Hood are spending a
weeks vacation at their home here. -
Mrs. Clogston has her house at the village
newly painted. - A brother of Mrs.
Henry Morse is visiting her. - The new
mail agent, Mr.. Bastow, made his first trip
last week The route extends from Chelsea
to East Thetford, twenty-five miles.
South Duxbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elhanan Andrews of Mont
pelier visited in this pace the past week.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hart, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Parcher, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs, Herbert Ward went
to Bolton Falls Saturday on a fishing trip.
- w. n. Ward and Mrs Murdoch OF
Boston, William Ward and wife went to
Fayston to view the landslide last Saturday.
- Rev. c. L. Hulburd and wife visited
friends in Topsham the past week
Topsham.
Miss Kate r Wiley returned from her
trip to California last week. - Miss
Sadie e. Bawden OF New York is spending
short vacation at G. K, Taggart's. -
Services in the Reformed Presbyterian
church will be held at half-past one instead
OF eleven o'clock. - Uncle John Arthur
died last week,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

JOHN JACOB AsroR of New York has do
mated $4,000 to purchase Elmwood, the
Cambridge, Mass, home Of James Russell
Lowell, which will now be turned into a
memorial park and be thrown open to the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
10 MOTHERS OF LARGE FAMILIES.
Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Free.

In this workaday world few women
are so placed that physical exertion
is not constantly demanded Of them In
their daily life.
Mrs. Pinkham makes special appeal
to mothers of large families whose work
is never done, and many Of whom suffer
and suffer for lack of intelligent aid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

FIRE has destroyed the greater part Of the
Russian town of Mstislavl, west OF Moghiloff
in the government Of Moheelev, on the
river Sozh, an afil 1ent of the Dnieper. Two
hundred houses have been burned and the
seminaries have been ruined. Mstislavl
has long been a well-known educational
center as well as the seat of important re-
ligious institutions. 1t had, in addition to
the synagogue and seminaries which have
been destroyed, numerous churches, sever
al monasteries, college and a school for
mobiles
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
Hoods SarsapariIIa
- a., D.,, are the best after-dinnt
HOOQ s HlIlS pills, aid digestion. 20
Williamstown.

Frank o. Beckett, for many years past a
resident of W ashington, d. G., is with old
home friends here, having arrived here last
Saturday. Hs has been in quite poor health
Of Lot
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

the first approach Of weakness, may
fill your future years with healthy joy.
MRS. A. G. BUTLER, 1923 North AL
bany avenue, near Humboldt Park,
Chicago, ILL.,, says: II am ffty-one
years old and have had twelve children,
and my youngest is eight years old. 1
have been suffering for some time with
a terrible weakness; that bearing down
feeling was dreadful, and could not
walk any distance. 1 began the use
Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and Sanative Wash and they
have cured me. cannot praise your
medicine enough"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

The Japanese government is said to be
seriously embarrassed financially. Civili-
cation has necesstated increased expendi-
lures in every direction, particularly in
building railroads, telegraph lines, new
government buildings, improving harbors
and Strengthening the army and navy. The
treasury was not directly benefit by the big
war indemnity paid by China, because it
has been kept in England to pay for new
warships and armament.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

DR.. FowLHR's Extract of Wild Straw berry
has been used for forty years and has never
yet failed to cure case of diarrhna, dysen-
terry, or summer complaint In any OF its va
rious forms.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
lousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
SCrofu|a EruptionS
Little Girl the Victim Of Impure
Blood Suffered Intensely Until
Hoods Sarsaparilla Cured.

"When three months old, my little
daughter had eruptions on her face. l
was obliged to keep her hands tied at
night and it was necessary to watch her
during the day. She would scratch her
self whenever she had the chance, until
her clothes would be covered with blood.
We concluded to try Hoods Sarsaparilla,
because had great faith in it, and after
awhile, we could see that she was getting
better. People often asked How did
that child burn her face?' and they said
she would certainly be left with scars, but
she was not. 1t is now a year since she
was cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla and her
face is as smJD h and white and soft
as that of any child" Mrs. WILBUR
WELLS, Warren, Conn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07

plays a marked aptness for business.
Desiring to earn little money, he per-
suaded his mother to allow him to run
a small lemonade stand in front of the
house. A lady came along soon after
he had started in business and asked for
a glass of lemonade. He told her that
the lemonade in one pail was five cents
a glass and that in the other two cents
per glass.
"Why do you charge only two cents
for this lemonade, while you charge
five cents for the other?" asked the lady.
Isn't it just as good?"
"Yes; it's just as good in either pail"
replied the boy.
"All right" said the lady; give me
some of the two-cent lemonade, if that
is the case"
After she had drank the glassful and
paid for it she said:
''Now, Johnnie, want you to tell me
why you only charge two cents for this
lemonade, when it is just as good as the
other"
"Wen, you see, it's just this way" re-
Piled Johnnie. This here lemonade
that I charge five cents for was made
Just the same as that in the other pail
that only costs two cents, but Bobby
Jones' little bull pup fell in that pail,
and so I'm selling it three cents cheap
err"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07

roof and the ladder leading to it from
the garnet floor right at the head of
these attic stairs. Scuttle held only
by hook hooking into a staple. !
could see that easy. A man can see
heap under some circumstances.
81 made a swing or two at the boys
with the jimmy and stood 'em off easy
at first, because it sounded very soggy
when slugged into the side of the stairs,
but 1 knew they'd rush in pretty quick.
and I give 'em just one more vicious
pass with the iron and then turned
and bolted for the scuttle with them
after me. I'd dropped lamp and jimmy
in my bag, and l used both hands on
the scuttle ladder. Darker'n Egypt
now, but 1 knew where that hook was
just as we'll as though there'd been n
electric light alongside OF it.
81 threw back the hook and threw the
scuttle up bang over onto the roof and
caught the frame and raised myself up,
1t was an old-fashioned house, you've
seen 'em, two stories high in front and
one in the back, with long, sloping
roof running down from the ridgepole.
with sort of bend or valley in it about
two-thirds the way down. where the
one-story part began.
Gas looked out on it the roof looked
to be about a mile long and steep as the
side of a mountain. There was a fag
end of q moon just rising. I could see
it from where l was through the tops
of the trees, and it made little light
but it would have been all the same if
there hadn't been any. l stepped out
and set down on the roof and started
all in one motion. The foremost of the
two men reached for me out through
the scuttle. and missed me by about
hair, but that was as. good as a mile,
because was going then mile min
ute. Where to 1 didn' know, but ]
knew 1 wouldn't have long to wait.
'Zoop! and away 1 went down the
roof and off the edge into the air. That
lower part of the roof, you remember
was fatter than the upper part, and
that threw me off into the air kind o
horizontal, and that saved me heap.
I'd ha' been smashed fat if the roof had
been steep and straight. And right back
of the house there was terrace across
the yard, maybe three feet high, with
thick grass on it that hadn't been cut
for a month at least. and was shot off
so far that dropped finally just below
the crest of that terrace and slid down
the face of it on the thick grass and
come to a stop on the level ground below
and never started rivet.
"The two men was standing looking
out the scuttle, and never saying boo,
but when they saw me get up and walk
off they laughed till you could hear
'em all over the country; and 1 laughed
a little myself then; I'd had worse
things happen to me-"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
He Tells How He Once Made an
Undigniflod Exit.
IL Was n Lively Experience, But Was
All Over I'm About IA SIinute-in
the End Everybody Was
Laughing.

81 never actually slid down a tobog-
gan Slide" said the retired burglar to
a New York Sun reporter, "but l think
1 can form pretty fair idea of what
it's like from an experience that had
once. 1 was poking around a house
that was in and had just come out of
a room on the second floor where there
was man asleep that struck me some
how as being pretty restless, and
hadn't more'n got through the door
into the hall when heard this man hol-
Ter:
"'Here he is, JIM and saw him jump
out of bed and come b'ilin' after me,
and at the same minute saw man
come rippin' and rampin' out of door
down by the other end of the hall.
"Now the thing that I'd ha' done
under ordinary circumstances, of
course, would have been to run down.
stairs, but the door that Jim was COM
ing out of was right by the head of the
stairs, and it wasn't possible. But right
back of me there was an attic stairs,
1 knew, because I'd opened the door
when first came up, and the only way
out for me was that way. 1t wasn't a
way I'd ha' picked out, but it was a
narrow stairs, boarded on the sides,
and knew that if could once getinto
it and faced to the front, 1 could stand
off both men easy enough, till 1 had
time to think, anyway, unless they had
gun, with my jimmy. So opened
that door and jumped up the stairs
about four steps and slowed around to
face 'em.
81 was carrying my bag in a strap
over my shoulder, and had my lamp
in my left hand. 1 turned my lamp w
for just fraction of a second when
went in, to see what was above, and
saw almost overhead the scuttle in the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07

the Alazan creek on West Commerce
street, which has so badly needed re-
pairs for a long time. The bridge,
which is 112 feet in length, will be re-
foored and the approaches filed and
made safe.
Vote for most popular young lady
and Public official at Bazaar of Ma
lions. 11-5-4t
For a stylish, perfect fitting suit go
to "Lentz," Tailor, 80 W. Com. st.
Roofing felt, pitch and Ashphalt at
HENRY PAULY'S. Tel. SO. LIFT
Engage passage on Pirate Ship at
Bazaar of Nations. list
LOST OR STOLEN-One bay mare
fourteen hands high. Scar on left hip
Reward at 119 Bowie street. 11-5-2t
A turbulent meeting of the Friend
ly Circle Social club was held last Fri
day night over discussion of some by
laws, and proceedings were not friend
ly'' for a while.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
FREE PILLS.

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These pills are easy in action and are
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07

said his house was full of burglars and
wanted q platoon of bluecoats to give
the marauders proper battle. -Four Off.
cersrespondedo on the doublequick. They
found the doctor standing on his front
doorstep not fully dressed for the re-
ception of visitors. But the officers
overlooked this apparent breach of the
conventional and pushed their way up
stairs.
No burglars were in sight. Then q
new calamity presented itself. The doc
tors six-year-old son was missing. OF
course, he had been kidnapped and an
other demand was made for more police.
While waiting for these reenforcements
a noise like a small cyclone up in the
garnet attracted the officers attention.
With ready reyolvers and cautious
tread they proceeded to investigate.
AS they opened the door into the gar
ret shower of window glass fell on the
floor and n few Comanche war whoops
Glove the crisp night air. There was
the missing boy. armed with big club
and doing his best to break everything
within reach. The police soon had him
in hand. The struggle awakened the
lad, and he wanted to know what the
fuss was about.
The doctor explained to the officers
that his son had simply been enjoying
a good, active, schooIboy dream, alias
nightmare. He apologized for calling
the entire force out to witness the exhi-
bition and told the wondering blue
coats that the cigars were on him."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
NIaArMARE MAKES RoM
boy Dreams "A Dream and the Police
Awaken Him.

Awaken Him.
Nightmare was responsible for some
commotion in Evanston, Ill. Before it
mad been caught by four daring police
men and driven back to its stall the en-
tire police force of the town was under
arms and the family of DR.. Finley Ell
lingwood, 2207 Central street, had been
frightened by burglars in the attic,
only TO face the supposed kidnapping of
the siX-year-old hopeful of the physi-
clans home. It all happened after this
wise:
About three o'clock Or. Ellingwood
called up the police by telephone. He
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
MADAME FOUND OUT.

But the Explanation Came Too Late
10 DO Any Good.
]. Z. Glass likes nothing better than
telling a good story, and one that he
told me the other day will bear repeat
ing, says the Mississippi Valley Lumber
man. Matt Clark, who used to be in the
office of the land commissioner over in
the capitol building, and has for many
years been identified with pine land
matters, lives out on Summit avenue, in
st. Paul. He has little son, five or six
years old, who, despite his youth, dis
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
Nothing to Eat But Food.

A hobo pleaded at South Bethel
(Me.) farmhouse that he'd had nothing
to eat for 4s hours. While he was talk
ing a dOughnut dropped through hole
in his pocket and rolled away ON the
grass. Without the slighteet emIbar'
rassment he picked it up and continued
his plea.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
To a shrine on nicrcIes.

Pilgrims to the shrine of Maria Rad
ma at Temesvar, in Hungary, have re-
ceived permission from the bishop TO
make the journey on bicycles.