The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Domestic.

THE Central House at Wsdena, kinn.
was burned last Wednesday, Two guests
of the hotel lost their lives and several 9TH
ers were badly burned and injured. The
property loss was small.
THE hat factory of John W. Green g. Co.,
at Dsnbury, Conn, one OF the largest OF its
kind in the country, was completely de-
stroyed by fire last Thursday night. -Four
hundred men were thrown out of employ
ment. Loss, $125,00O; insurance, 500. 900.
A TRAIN of forty cars loa led with wheat
struck one of the supports OF the Sixth
street bridge at St. Paul, Mimi, last Thurs
day and the structure collapsed. Most OF
the railroad tracks between St. Paul and
Minneapolis as we'll as the telegraph lines,
passed under the bridge, and considerable
delay to telegraph and telephone commu.
nication resulted.
ASSISTANT NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR HoBso
will 60 to Manila December 20 to superin.
tend the raising of the sunken war vessels.
Hobson will shortly visit his home in Ala
bama, but expects to stay only three or four
days. He has not yet given up hopes of
successfully raising the Colon, but Is doubt
full whether or not the navy department
can be induced to go to further expense in
this work.
MAJOR GENERAL WHEELER has probably
seen his last active service in the United
States army. He will be relieved from fur
Their active duty unless there is recurrence
OF war, but he will remain on the active list
Of the United States volunteer army until
that army Is mustered out OF the service by
the declaration OF peace. This privilege Is
accorded to him in recognition OF his dis
tinguished services.
The findings of the court OF inquiry con-
corning the abandonment of the Infanta
Maria Teresa during the storm of October
20 last were made public last Thursday.
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ment that the court finds the abandonment
was not due to any fault or negligence on
the part OF any officer Of the navy and that
the court does not think any further pro-
ceedings should be instituted.
SENATOR MORRILL, has presented a petit
ton to Congress from the Legislature OF
Vermont, asking for revival OF the grade
OF Admiral and for recognition of Rear Adj
miral Dewey. Senator Hill has also pre-
sented bill to revive the grade of Admiral
and Vice Admiral Senator Vest of Mis-.
souri, introduced joint resolution, decar.
ing that under the constitution, the United
States has no power to acquire territory to
be held and governed as colonies.
FROM evidences already at hand it is OK.
peCted that the present winter will be the
most suspicious the Maine lumbermen ha We
had in recent years. The cut on the waters
OF the Kennebec will exceed that of 1897
by some "a 100000 feet Nearly all OF the
operators of last year have their crews in
full swing at Moose River, Moosehead Lake
East Branch and Main Kennebec and Dead
River. The total cut, it is estimated, will
be about 125, 0000 900 feet.
THE Paris Exposition commission at Chi
cago received last week a letter from French
officials conveying the information that the
Lafayette memorial monument will, in all
probability, be given site in the garden
OF Tuilleries, A meeting of the commission
was held at Washington on Tuesday to set
tie on plan for the monument. The school,
children of the State OF Washington have
sent 81 900 to the commission to be applied
toward payment of the monument.
THE General Electric Company OF Sche
nectady, N. Y, has received an order from
the company that is constructing the under
ground street road in Paris for eight ele .
trio locomotives and the large quantity O.
apparatus that goes with them. The con
tract calls for the expenditure OF 100000
but the officials of the general electric com
pany are confident that the present orde
will he more than doubled as the Paris rail
way people will make a number OF exten
sons to their road next season. The loco
motives are OF the same type as those bull
by the General Electric Company for tn,
Central London underground railway