The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-20
Domestic.

THE subscriptions to the new three per
cent war loan OF $500. 000, 600, which closed
last Thursday afternoon will, including the
offers made by syndicates, amount to 81 ,200,-
900, 900 or six times the amount OF the issue.
The subscriptions represented by checks or
other forms OF payment, 1t is estimated, will
aggregate about $3.50, 100000.
THE Clyde line steamer Delaware, bound
from New York for Jacksonville, Fla,
was abandoned recently at sea. The
steamer caught fire and the flames soon got
beyond control. The passengers and crew
left the burning vessel in boats and on life
RATS. There were seventy persons in all
and they were rescued by members Of the
Cedar Greek life saving station with the aid
of the crew Of fishing smack. All were
transferred to the tug Ocean King
THE commissioners OF the internal reve-
nue. has decided that all telegraph messages
must be stamped by the senders, and has
written the superintendent OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company as follows:
upon The question as to.whose duty 1t Is to
affix stamp required by the act Of June 10,
1898, to each telegraphic message offered
for transmission, you are advised that this
Office rules that this duty devofves upon the
person who makes, signs or issues the mes
ssges."
THE Congress just closed has appropriated
1892, 527 1891. This amount includes $117,-
1886, 220 of permanent appropriations to meet
bluhluB luDu requirements anu lut6T6bJ Ou
the public debt and for other objects; and
1851 1884, 95 to meet expenditures Of the war
with SPAIN SAP, 1903, 676 represents the ap-
preparations made at the present session to
meet all ordinary expenditures OF the gov
eminent, which sum is only 81 ,246, SIG more
than was appropriated at the last session OF
the last Congress for the same purposes.
A SYNDICATE OF New York bankers re-
turned recently from Honolulu, where
they offered the Hawaiian government
100000 premium for S40,000,000 worth OF
four and one-half per cent twenty year re-
resolution become the debt of the United
States. They failed to secure the bonds, as
they found the bill before the legislature
unsatisfactory as to maturity and form OF
the bonds and there was insufficient time to
make the changes prior to annexation be.
coming fact.
SINCE the withdrawal of the Fourth
United States cavalry from California the
cattlemen are trespassing on the national
park in Tulare county. The secretary Of
interior has appointed W. B. zabley as SUI
perintendent Of the reservation, and in
structed him to appoint twenty deputies
and see that cattle are kept outside the park
limits. The men left last Thursday for the
park, all fully armed and serious trouble is
feared. The southern ranges having been
exhausted, cattle are now being driven
both to the Sequola and Yosemite reserva
tons
BY the explosion of boiler in the Mag
ara starch works at Buffalo, N. Y, last
Thursday six persons were instantly killed
and twenty-six others were badly injured
The causes which led to the explosion OF
the boiler will never be known, the enei.
neer and fireman, who were both killed
being the only persons who could have pos
sessed any knowledge on the subject. Oh
the five tubular boilers not fragment
COull h6 f0und. Most Of the iniurad w
persons not employed in the works. Many
were in their dooryards and upon the street
at the time Of the explosion and were hit by
the flying missiles. Several OF them were
children. 1t is said that over 100 houses
were more or less injured by falling brick
iron and timber. Scarcely house within
1000 feet Of the factory escaped being hi
with bricks, twisted iron or heavy timber.
and it was these flying missiles that caused
most Of the injuries.