The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-11
Domestic.

THE outside doors of the vault OF the Ma
tional bank at Phoenix, R. l., were blown
open by dynamite last Friday night, but
the three men who atte mpted to rob the
bank were frightened away before they
could gain access to the interior apartments
where the money, securities and other valu-
ables were kept. The burglars escaped and
there is little clue to their identity. A
hotel proprietor, whose house is situated
near the Pt @uix bank, was aroused by the
heavy explosion.
JUDGE CARROLL, of the Superior court OF
Tacoma, Wash, last Friday handed down
decision which, II sustained by the Su-
preme Court, will invalidate nearly
81 600 600 warrants OF the city Of Tacoma
now outstanding These are warrants
which were presented by the orr ginal pay
ers in 1892 1893 and 1894 to City Treasurer
Boggs paid by him and then resold 10 war
rant buyers. Judge Carroll holds that the
treasurer had no authority to resell the
warrants; that the city never authorized the
transactions and never received any benefit
from their sales. He rules the transaction
was criminal and known by the warrant
buyers to be such.
REPRESENTATIVE DINGLEY's condition is
practically unchanged. He still remains
in that uncertain state which affords little
encouragement to either his family or
ply siciaus. On Tuesday the nervousness
and delirium was somewhat less frequent,
more prolonged. Mr.. Dingley's family and
his physicians believe he still has fighting
chance for recovery. Since Mr.. Dingley
has ceased to respond to the medicines adj
ministered the disease is fast absorbing his
remaining vitality, which will OF necessity
soon force changs one way or the other.
BY head on collision between two pas
senger trains on the Lehigh Valley railroad
at West Dunellen, N. j., on Monday
thirteen persons were killed outright, and
over twenty-five others were seriously in
jured. West Dunellen Is three miles from
Bound Brook and about thirty miles from
New York city. AT the spot where the dis
80 or occurred there Ia a sharp curve in the
Lehigh Valley tracks and steep cutting
but the accident was due in the first place
to some terrible mistake in train orders, and
in the second place to another accident that
occurred at Bound Brook earlier in The day.
The scenes which accompanied the COLI
sion, the sufferings OF the injured and the
panic that reigned among the four hundred
passengers were we'll nigh indescribable.
A head.on collision between q local pas.
senger and double he ader freight train &C.
cured last Sunday near Newcomb, Tenn,
on the Knoxville and Ohio branch OF the
Southern railway. Engineer Maxey OF the
passenger train, one of the oldest men on
the road, was killed. His fireman was also
killed. The engineer OF the freight train
whose name has not yet been learned was
killed and his firemen fatally burned. The
passenger train had the right Of way and the
freight WAS running against orders. The
railroad officers refuse to give any informa-
ton about the wreck claiming that they do
not know the extent OF the losses. 1t IL re-
ported that two passengers were killed and
number seriously burned. An oil car was
next to the engine on the freight train and
its tank exploded, almost destroying both
trains,