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

THE Bartlett Lumber Company OF New
Hampshire has purchased Mount Washing
ton. The price paid was $4,000 and it was
purchased for its timber
THREE young ladies were killed by
lighting last Sunday evening at Jacobsburg'
o., while on their way home from church.
The victims were Minnie Mcclure, Alpa
Kyler and Emma White, all about nineteen
years Of age. 1t is believed that steel cor
sets worn by the girls caused death. Miss
Behring, who was only stunned, wore none.
The girls were daughters Of well-known
residents Of Jacobsburg.
A TERRIFIC wind and hail storm passed
over Caldwell, O., recently. Many build
ings were unroofed and hundreds OF win
dows were broken by the hailstones which
were nearly as large as hens eggs. The
roof of the Free Methodist at Perryopolis
was blown off, while meeting was in ses-
sion but no one was injured. The hail
stripped orchards OF their leaves and did an
immense amount OF damage to crops.
In the area in front of Speaker Reed g
desk, when the House met last week Mon
day, was monster petition appealing to
Congress to recognize the Cuban Insurgents
as belligerents. 1t contained more than
5000, 900 signatures. 1t had been in circula-
ton throughout the United States for about
six months, and was sent to Congressman
Sulzer of New York for presentation to Con-
gress by Franz Mayer, resident of his dis
trict.
THE attempt to prove that the late Jay
Gould married Sarah Ann Angel in April,
1868, in Clinton county, New York and that
a child was the result Of the union, is pro-
crossing slowly at Albany. The claimant
now lives just outside Of Rouses Point in
Clinton county, and is endeavoring to secure
dover interest in about 100000 of real
property in this state left by Mr.. Gould,
which would net her about $4,000 an
nually.
A LITTLE crippled girl named VERNE
Kicker of New Portland, Me-, left her rub
bers in the school house last Friday night
Returning for them she found the house
closed and attempted to climb in through
window She was found dead later with
the window sash resting on her neck, ii hav-
ing, apparently fallen while she was getting
in, 1t is not known whether death was
from the breaking of the neck or from suf-
location,
A SEVERE cyclone struck the town of FL
kins, West Va, last Sunday week, doing
much damage. Trees were uprooted, roofs
were blown off, several houses lifted from
their foundations and the walls of buildings
under construction were wrecked. The
house occupied by Henry Hay was blown
from its foundation and his wife and child
were seriously injured. The damage was
principally in the residence portion OF the
city. Trees and outbuildings ON Senator
Elkins' grounds were badly damaged.
Posten's new opera house, under construc-
ton, was completely wrecked
MRS EDITH T. Bruno, an aeronaut, met
a terrible death on Monday week by drown
ing in the Tennessee river. The basket upon
which she relied as buffer and buoy
against the water overturned and like
milestone around her neck dragged her I'M
der. Her feet became entangled in the
ropes and she was unable to extricate her.
self. The tragedy occurred at Riverside
Park, near Chattanooga. Mrs, Bruno was
skillful aeronaut and acrobat, and a large