The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-04-27
Domestic.

A FREIGHT wreck occurred last Thursday
morning on the New York Central railroad
near Fairport, N. Y, in which three men
were killed outright, another fatally injur-
ed, and property valued at $4,000 was des-
troyed.
PosrMAsrER GENERAL GARY resigned
last Thursday and the President has nomi-
mated Charles Emery Smith of Phils-
delphia, Pa, to succeed him. Mr.. Gary's
resignation is due to i'll health. He has
been advised before by his physicians to
give up the position, but has held it until a
breakdown was inevitable, unless he did so.
THE town of Sutton, P. o., eight miles
from Richford, was practically. destroyed
by fire recently. Owing to defective .sys-
tenn of water works it was impossible to
save any Of the buildings in the path of the
flames, and the greatest excitement pre-
burned, including the Canadian Pacific pas
senger station, the Commercial hotel, Odd
Fellows block, Masonic hall and the post.
Office. The loss is $4,000 with small in
surance.
THE stock and sheep men who are
anxious to get their starving cattle and
sheep out of Central and Southern Califor-
mia as soon az possible, are very angry at
the officials of the department of agricul-
ture for delay in instructing the inspectors
at Sacramento, Stockton, and Fresno to
proceed with the inspection Of the animals
and authorize their shipment to Utah, Ne
braska, Iowa and Wyoming. There are
now in Central and Southern California,
the stockmen say, 90, 900 head of cattle and
100000 head Of sheep that must be moved
Immediately to good pasturage to prevent
their starving to death.
For the second time a verdict OF guilty
has been rendered against Thomas Mead
Bran, then first mate, for the murder Of
Captain Charles l. Nash of the barkentiue
Herbert Fuller on the high seas during the
night of July 10, 1856 The verdict this time
rendered by Jury last Wednesday night
carried with Il the additional words with
out capital punishment" under q law enact
ed since the first trial. The verdict Of
''guilty without capital punishment" was
somewhat Of a surprise to those who had
assembled in the United States Circuit
Court room when the jury was ushered in.
The jury was out ten hours and fifty minutes.
THE Santa Fe overland train, west bound,
was held up last Wednesday, two miles
west of Orc Grand, CAL Engineer Clifford
Jones Of Orc, MORALLY wounded by Clifford
in an exchange OF shots. The robbers
tagged the train at the approach to the
bridge and boarded the engine, took the en-
gineer and fireman back to the express car
and endeavored to detach 1t from the pas
senger coach but could not uncouple it.
They succeeded in cutting off the mail car
and compelled the engineer to pull 1t up to
the siding. Here they riaed the mail car,
and secured the registered mail. They then
backed down to the train again and were
proceeding to the express car when Engi-
neer Clifford opened Eve on them with re-
volver. The amount secured is not stated.
MRS. j. w. CRIsT, an old lady living in
Beloit, Wis, solemnly asserts that she as
sisted in the escape OF Wilkes Booth, the
assassin OF Abraham Lincoln, and that he
died a natural death in Europe. She says
her first husband was Capt. Haggett, COM
mander Of the Mary Porter, Confederate
blockade runner and that in June Two
took the murderer in his boat to Havana
MRS. Crist being passenger on the boat
and carried him to Nassau, Bahama Islands.
She later visited the Bahamas and saw
Booth there, and he gave her ring, which
she now possesses. She says that it was
Booths accomplish, Fox, who was killed