The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-21
Domestic,

Lodge Of Odd Fellows held on Tuesday in
Boston Alfred 8. Pinkerton Of Worcester,
Mass, was unanimously elected grand sire.
For deputy grand sire, four candidates
were placed In nomination, A. @. Cable OF
Ohio being elected. j. Frank Grant OF Bal
timore, Md, was reelected grand secretary
and Richard Muckle Of Philadelphia grand
treasurer.
Philip d. Armour, Marshall Field and
Norman b. Ream of Chicago, have obtained
control Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Ten million dollars is the price paid. They
have made James j. Hill, president OF the
Great Northern railway, the dominant fac
tor in the reorganization and have gained
for Chicago and the Northwest what is prac-
tically trunk line from ocean to ocean,
controlled by Chicago capital.
SPEAKER REED is to take part in the IL
linois congressional campaign. 1t Is plan
ned to have Mr.. Reed make a dozen
speeches in Cook county and other parts Of
the State on a tour, which will be made in
a special train. Besides the Maine states
man, the party will include Congressman
Hepburn, Dolliver, Cousins and Henderson
of Iowa. This congressional quintette will
end its trip in Chicago and by speaking in
a big wigwam at Ogden avenue and Twelfth
street and in the stock yards district.
PAYMAsTER GENERAL STANTON has turn
ed over to President Mckinley all the pa
pers relating to the recent unpleasantness
growing out of the refusal Of Texas regi.
ment to receive pay from Major Lynch be-
cause he is oolored. The President has
taken no definite action beyond expressing
approval of General Stanton's course in
sending sharp dispatch to the commanding
paymaster of that department, stating in
effect that as Major Lynch had been regu-
larry commissioned by the President as an
army pay master the troops must take their
pay from him or else go without pay. Thus
the matter stands, with the papers before
the President. There is the possibility that
new question may arise on the point of
characterization in refusing to receive pay
from paymasters regularly commissioned to
make payments.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter OF Jeffer-
son Davis, widely known and beloved in
the south, as the Daughter Of the Con-
federacy," died last Sunday at Narraganset
Pier, R. l., after an illness Of several weeks
with malarial gastritis. Miss Davis APP
| peared in public for the last time at Allan
| ia, Ca, July 81 last. The occasion was the
parade Of ex-confederates who held their
annual reunion this year in Atlanta. Miss
Davis was guest of honor and occupied a
carriage with Stonewall Jackson and Miss
Caro- Lewis Gordon, a daughter OF Gen.
| Gordon. The procession started under an
suspicious sky but before proceeding far, a
heavy storm came up and the rain which
fell in torrents, drenched the occupants OF
the carriages Her illness dated from that
time.
Rhv. DIR. JOHN HALL of New York died
last Friday at Bangor, County Down, Ire
land. During the year 1867 DR.. Hall was a
delegate from the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in Ireland to the Pres
by terrain church in the United States, and
after his return to Ireland he received a
call to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York. He accepted it and
entered upon his labors ON November 3,
1867. A new church edifice was erected for
DIR. Hall in 1875, at cost OF 81 100000, on
the corner OF Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ffth
street. He was elected chancellor of the
University of the City of New York in 1882.
DR.. Hall was on his annual visit to Europe.
He died at his sisters residence. His health
had been broken down and he had been
seriously ill for two days before his death.
He had hoped to return TO New York short.
ly, and had already engaged passage on a
steamer for himself and his wife.
United States Quartermaster Hyde of Bos-
ton, opened on Monday, the bids to furnish
10 600 headstones to be erected to the men,
DRY OF Union soldiers who have died since
the civil war and of soldiers who have died
in the Spanish American war. The bids
range from So each to as low as S1.35. There
were five bidders. The work up to the pres
emit time has been done by the Vermont Mar
BILE company. Every state in the Union will
receive some OF these headstones which are
provided by the government, but must be
placed in the cemetery at the expense of the
friends of the soldiers. The stones are four
inches deep, ten inches wide and are three
feet out OF the ground. About %, 900 of
them are delivered every year at the expense
of the national government. Many of them
will now be given to relatives of the soldiers
who have lost their lives in the Cuban war.