The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-29
Domestic News.

KENT, OHIO, Mcb. 22.-Erie train
No. jumped the track at Ritman this
morning. Engineer A, Wallace Ls-
gan of Akron, was killed.
NEW YORK, March ga Ha 7ana
cable to the Sun says the Cuban gen
erals held an important meeting yester-
day and decided to disband the army.
BALTIMORE, Md, March % Fat
IL Co.'s oyster packing ware house was
burned this morning. Loss $4,000
The fire throws 900 hands out of en-
pioyment.
NORFOLK, VA, March M-When
the cruiser Raleigh arrives, April 5, the
officers of the ship will present to North
Carolina gun and other trophies cap
tured at Manila.
WASHINGTON, March 22-Over 10 600
Spanish war pension claims have been
filed and less than fifty granted. I'm
usual delays were caused by absence
from muster rolls, hospital and sur
geon generals reports.
BLUEFIELDs, WEST VIRGINIA, Mch.
24.-F. M. Sect, a notorious negro, was
assaulting Mrs. o. II. Skinner for the
purpose Of robbery, when Skinner shot
him dead. The coroner's jury &C
quilted Skinner of all blame.
CONCORD, N. H., Mch. 22.-At Sal
isbury village, near here, Frank Bailey
aged seventeen, shot aud killed his
teacher, Miss Harriet Prescott He
loved her, but she repulsed him. He
fired one shot through her heart.
Bailey escaped.
ROME, March %. - The Pope has
written letter to the Sacred College
cardinals to be held, after his death, to
elect his successor, be held at Rome.
The number Of Italian candidates for
the papacy is increasing.
PHILADELPHIA, March 22.-All the
men needed for the Twenty-frst Ia
fantry and Third Cavalry have been
recruited by Major David Cragie, COM
handing the regular army recruiting
barracks at Philadelphia. The Twenty
first located at Plattsburg, N. Y, is ul-
der orders for the Philippines and the
cavalry now at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt,
will probably do patrol duty in Cuba.
PENNs GROVE, N. j., March o.
Over 5000 pounds of smokeless powder
exploded today at the E. l. Dupont
works at Carney Point, opposite Will
mington, Del, instantly killing three
workmen, and iDjuring many others
The cause of the accident has not been
determined but it originated in one of
the drying houses about one o'clock
where Layton was at work. The
shock from this explosion shook the
country for miles around and in this
town heavy panes of glass were broken
in many houses. Across the Delaware
river in Wilmington the noise of the
explosion was also heard.
Several explosions followed the first,
demolishing the drying houses, and
other smaller buildings. The works
were running on large government Or
ders for smokeless powder.
OMAHA, Neb. March 2l.-The Pat
terson block, corner of Seventeenth
and Douglass streets was partially de-
stroyed by fire this afternoon. The
property loss is comparatively small,
but the harvest of death and suffering
is appalling. Two people are dead, and
at least twenty-five others are suffering
from broken limbs and burned flesh
The fire started from a gasoline
stove. A party of women busy with
the affairs of the secret orders with
which they were affiliated were in q
moment brought face to face with
death. Sixty seconds later seven of
them lay burned and bleeding on the
pavements to which they had dropped
forty feet below, and the others were
rescued after they had been more or
less severely injured in the desperate
dash down the single fight of stairs that
led to safety.
The fire started next the elevator
shaft. 1t was not discovered until it
had spread to adjoining apartments
and the entire floor was filled with
smoke and flames. About twenty mem
bers of the woman's lodge of Macca-
bees were attending committee meet
ing in the front waiting room on the
same floor. They were unconscious of
danger until janitor threw open the
door and told them to get out before
the flames cut them off. The warning
came to late. The fire swept through
the door and down the single stairway.
Those nearest the door fled through
the binding smoke and reached the
street with hands and face burned and
blstered The rest faced solid wall
of flame. There was a fire escape at
the south front of the building but none
of them thought of it. They rushed
panic stricken 10 the windows through
which the smoke was pouring. The
fire caught their clothing and scorched
their faces.
In another instant the spectators
were horritled to see one after another
spring from the open windows and fall
heavily to the pavement, Not one
arose. They We're quickly carried into
the office of physician across the
street. Most of them were bleeding
from severe cuts and bruises and all
We're burned until their skin hung in
shreds.
The loss on the building will not ex'
coed 4h0 0O0 fully insured