The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-04
Domestic.

HARRY f. BAILEY, cashier of the Cole
brook National bank, at COlebrook, n. II 81,
was arrested last week, charged with EN-
beZzlng S3i $50 of the funds of the bank.
| The depostoIs will lose nothing as this
bank has an ample surplus to make good
the shortage.
The steamer China that arrived last
Thursday at San Francisco from the Orient
carried the largest consignment of opium
ever entered at that port. There were 600
cases of the drug, valued at $500 600. The
total weight of the opium is 27 600 pounds
and the duty on it amounts to $162 900 at So
pound.
THE year 1898 has broken all records in
the amount of dead freight shipped from
Chicago to the east. The total for the last
week in Dece mber Is estimated at 3 $40 935
tons. The total for the same week of 1897
was 1896 300 tons. Lower rates and the
enormous crops of cereals had much to do
with The big increase.
THE island of Guam, unlike the other
colonial possessions of the United States
will probably have a naval and not a mill
tary governor. The sole reason for the ac-
quirement of the island was to obi ain ma
val station The command will be impor-
tant, for the island has population OF more
than eight thousand people, about ! 400 of
whom are OF European extraction.
The State department at Washington has
instructed the United States consul at
Samoa to act with greater vigilance and
not to entrust his duties to his b itish aud
German colleagues 1t appears the German
agent has taken advantage of his colleagues
confidence to land guns and munitions of
war without their knowledge and also to
obtain important advantages for German
firms
ABRAHAM LINCOLN in bas relief on tab
let of bronze may adorn the turret OF the
battleship Illinois. Ex-Congressman George
e. Adams of Chicago has written Governor
Tanner of Illinois asking him to recommend
to the legislature an appropriation for me-
mortal tablet Of that design Besides the
figure of the martyr President, Mr. Adams
suggests an inscription TO be placed below
with extracts from Lincoln's Gettysburg's
speech.
ADMIRAL DEWEY is now the senior officer
of the American navy, having reached that
position without congressional action
through the retirement OF Admiral Bunce.
He will continue to hold that distinction
until December 26, 1900, when he will go
upon the retired list unless Congress OK
cepts him from the operation OF the law and
after making him admiral OF the navy pro-
vides that he may hold that office in active
service without age limitation.
THE King OF Italy received a curious
Christmas greeting in the shape OF 400 600
postal cards praying for the political prison
ers convicted in connectiod with the recent
troubles in Italy. The signers are sympa-
thizers with the prisoners and have sub.
scribed to monster petition TO parliament.
The post cards bore the portraits of the i'm
prisoned deputies and editors and reached
the king on Christmas morning.
In view of the fact that fraud has been
discovered in connection with the cancella-
ton of documentary aud adhesive internal
revenue stamps by which the old stamps
were reused, the internal revenue bureau
has issued a regulation which requires all
such stamps to be cancelled with the in
itials of the user, together with the month,
day and year written or stamped thereon
Hitherto the month and day OF cancellation
have not been required.
In criminal court In Cleveland, O., last
week Judge Dissette sustained The de-
murrer made to the Indictment returned
against Mayor #. e. Mcgowan of Trenton,
N j., Mrs. Mcgowan and Mrs. Wynne
Mrs. Magowan's sister, upon the charge OF
child stealing. The court ordered all the
defendants in the case discharged, saying
1t was not crime for mother to steal her
own CHILD In the State OF Ohio. The Ma
gowans were not In court when the decision
was rendered and are said to be In Toronto.