The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14

injuring five others. Mr.. Allen and his
men had just finished threshing wheat and
were preparing to leave the field when the |
explosion occurred. Some Of the victims
were mangled beyond recognition, and
pieces OF the boiler we're blown 700 yards.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone demolished the
town Of Lowry, Mimi, last Wednesday,
and, travelling northward, did great dam |
age to farm buildings and crops. Mrs. PEN |
mock, her daughter Nellie, Robert MacGow- |
an, Mrs. Morrow, four Morrow children |
and man named Lavan were severely in |
jured. Sam Morrow and daughter Annie |
were killed at Abnermarie. Rains in other |
parts OF Minnesota have worked great in
jury to crops.
The extreme heat in Detroit, Mich, last
week Tuesday, beating down through sky
light, caused the blowing out Of two au-
tomato fireplugs. The torrent OF water
thus released flowed down through the
building damaging the dry goods stock Of
stock Of the Peerless Manufacturing Com
pany to the extent of nearly 100000. The
| fireplugs were set to escape at tempera-
allure OF 100 degrees,
A CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR excursion train
from Oregon had narrow escape from a
| frightful wreck last Wednesday near Cot
| tonwood, Cal. Charles Broadhurst, a few
minutes before the train passed, had dis.
covered that trestle twenty-nine feet long
| had been burned out The train was rapid
| ly approaching, when Broadhurst tagged it
and brought it to stop few feet from the
| chasm. The train then backed to Cotton
wood, where the Endeavorers celebrated
their deliverance with hymns and prayer.
THE state department at Washington has
| completed the preparation of the United
States. governments care in the prosecu-
ton OF the Raiz claim After receiving the
approval OF the president il will be turned
over TO Minister Woodford for presentation
to the Madrid foreign Office when he sails
from New York July %. In the prepare
ton Of this case, Mr. Calhoun, the United
States special commissioner has contributed
the principal part but the law officers of
present the facts collected by him in the
strongest light and establish a good basis
for the claim of indemnity, originally fixed
at $4,000, which is to be urged against the
Spanish government.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY intends to take a
vacation of two months this summer, and
contemplates spending most of it on the
Pacific coast. II, as he now expects, Con-
gress sends him in the tariff bill and adj
} journs before August /, he will start on
Washington before October /. Incidentally
, he will attend the soldiers reunions at Buff
falo and in Ohio and will make visit to the
Yellowstone Park. President Mckinley
has promised Mrs. Logan to be present at
the nnveiling Of her husbands monument
|
gent upon his being able to leave at that
time, and II Congress is still in session over
the tariff bill he will not be able to go.
, On July Fourth snow-shoeing and tobog
gaming were enjoyed by people of the high
, towns in Colorado, but during the pas
week reports from the lower tier of coun
t ties in the state show that the heat
was Unprecedented. In many places the
thermometer registered from 1859 to 10S'
in the shade. In fact it was so hot
that it was not safe for men or animals tc
venture out of doors during the hottest par,
, OF the day. Some fear is felt for crops in
: the fields which are whiting under the aw
full blight, and the pasture that stockmer
had been expecting to support their cattle
, through the summer is in danger of being
burned off the range, leaving nothing but 8
crop OF coarse hay on the ground.
, The tariff bill passed the Senate shortly
before five o'clock last Wednesday, by 8
vote of 38 to %. The main interest cen
tered on the final vote and aside from this
there was little interesting in the debate
The early part of Wednesday was devoted
to amendments OF minor importance. The
final affirmative vote was cast by thirty-fve
republicans, two silver republicans, Jones
and Mantell, and one democrat, McEnery
The negative vote was cast by twenty-five
democrats, two populsts, Harris and
Turner, and one silver republican, Cannon
Eight republicans were paired for the bill
and eight democrats against it. The Sen,
ators present and not voting were: Pepu.
lists five, Allen, Butler, Heit6ed, Kyle and
Stewart; silver republicans two, Teller and
Pettigrew. Following the passage of the
bill, a resolution was agreed to asking the
House for conference and Senators ALI.
son, Aldrich, Platt OF Connecticut, Burrows
Jones of Nevada, Vest, Jones of Arkansas
: and White were named as conferees on the
part of the Senate.