The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-21
Domestic.


the town Of Triton, Ca, in the center of the
peach belt, was burned last Saturday night.
An oil lamp in a boarding-house exploded.
The Masonic hall and ten stores were de-
stroyed and the hotel and large lumber mill
were damaged.
INFORMATION concerning the Russian
government loan sought to be placed in
this country was given out at New York on
Monday by j. and w Seligman and COM
pany This firms London represent natives,
Seligman Brothers & Co., cabled to the New
York house asking whether or not they
could place $40 100000 four per cent thirty
year Russian railway bonds, guar anteed by
the Russian government. The matter was
considered and decided in the negative.
A DECISION to hold the Greater American
Exposition in Omaha, Neb., In 1899, was
reached at mass meeting of business men
and bankers and professional men OF that
city held last Friday night. Over S105, 900
amount is more than enough to turn the
grounds and buildings Of the recent trans
Mississippi exposition over to the new as
ISOLATION. A committee OF twenty-five was
appointed to prepare articles of incorpora.
ton for the new association and to draft q
form of government
Two young mel, Elmer and George But
Ter, aged respectively twenty and twenty
one years, were convicted OF manslaughter
at Chillicothe, o., last Saturday and will
serve term in the penitentiary for the
murder Of Daisy Browser, young girl.
The crime was heinous one and in the
trial it was proven the girl had been shot
down from ambush for no cause whatever.
The defence made an attempt to prove that
insanity ran in the Butler family but the
jury could not be convinced.
THE ways and means committee OF the
House is not disposed to frame bill for the
modification of the war revenue bill in ac-
cordance with the recommendation OF Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue Scott while
the finance committee Of the Senate occu-
pies its present attitude. More OF the men,
bers are in favor of certain notifications,
however, but they believe that the amend
ments desired can best be initiated upon
the bill to amend the act which the House
sent over to the Senate at he last session,
but upon which no action has been taken.
THE -four trust scheme is dead so far as
the Minneapolis mills are concerned At a
meeting last Thursday OF the representa-
tives of three leading milling concerns-the
Pillsbury- Washburn Flour mills company,
the Northern Consolidated company and
the Wash burn-Crosby company unani-
mOusly agreed that none OF the Mlnneapo.
lis properties should go into the Mcintyre
consolidation scheme and no further atten-
ton should be given to the matter. The
mills at Milwaukee and Duluth will, in all
probability, follow the lead OF the Min
neapolis millers.
A WAGON containing eight persons was
struck by a train last Friday on the Pennsy l.
vania railroad at the crossing at AllenwOod,
few miles from Manasquan, N. and
| four were killed, two we're fatally injured
| and the other two will recover. David 8.
Allen, from whom Allenwood takes its
name. and his family had been to Asbury
| Park visiting relative Mrs. Alger. They
we're driving home, and had reached the
| cross ing, which is within few hundred feet
of the entrance to Mr.. Aliens place, when
the wagon was struck by the train. The
| eight occupants were thrown in every direc-
| ton.
The Mormon church authorities OF Salt
Lake City, U ah, have advertised an issue
of $500 600 in eleven year six per cent bonds,
payable in gold coin and secured by the an
nual income of the church, trust deed TO
! the GardO house aud the Lion house, former
residences of Brigham Young, other real es-
| tate in that city and stock in the sugar COM
| pany. The object of the issue Is to pay
pressing Indebtedness, the result OF losing
Investments In electric power companies
| and heavy expenses in litigation with the
United States government in years gone by.
| Hall the issue was at once taken up by the
| three Norman banks in Salt Lake City, the
State, the Desert National and the Desert
| Savings bank
| THE Baldwin Locomotive Works OF Phila-
| delphia received orders last week for fifty
| six locomotives. OF which sixteen are for
the Imperial railway OF Onlna, making inc
| second order received from that country
within ten months. A contract with the
Reading Railway comp4ny calls for twenty
| FIVE freight engines and five switching en-
gines Of the heaviest type ever operated on
| the system. The Chicago an Western also
has order ed ten large freight engi 90 while
numerous small orders have been received
from railroads all over the country. In adj
dition to working day and night, IL has re-
| Gently been found necessary to increase the
| force OF men at the works.
AssIsrANT SECRETARY HOWELL Of the
| treasury was before the House ways aud
| means G )mmitte tee last Thursday on the need
| OF extending the tariff laws to Hawaii as
soon as possible. He read letter from
Harold Sewell, former United States minis
ter at Honolulu, now special agent of the
| treasury, stating that this immediate ex-
tension OF the laws was imperative In order
| TO prevent the irregular entry OF goods to
the United States by way of Hawaii. The
| committee agreed to the immediate exten-
sion proposed and Hawaii will be e,tab. ish
| ed az one customs district with three
ports OF entry, viz HiIo, Mahuka a and
Kahulius. The collector Of customs will
have headquarters at Honolulu and will re-
| ceive 81 900 salary Speedy action by the
House will be secured.