The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

patch from Seoul that the United States
| minister to Corea has demanded the
payment of 81, 600, 500 due to the build
ers of an electric railroad
The New York board of aldermen
has increased the appropriation for
the purchase of coal to be distributed
to the poor from 800, 600 to $3.50, GOO!
Representative Martin, of South Da-
kota, has introduced bill in the
House making October 81, the ami
versary of the discovery of America.
a legal holiday to be known as Column
bus day.
Admiral Dewey has decided to make
| a tour of the northern islands of the
West Indies during the approaching
| holidays. He will remain at San
Juan until the 23d, when reception
and ball in his honor will be given.
The admiral will then cross the island
and return to San Juan, p. II. to join
the Mayflower using this vessel to
visit St Thomas and other ports.
The flagship New York, flying the
pennant of Rear Admiral Casey left
, San Francisco, Wednesday, for Santa
Barbara and will remain there until
after Christmas. The departure of
! the New York leaves San Francisco
without warship but Admiral Casey
! expects to return there in about three
| weeks
/ The Great Northern and the North
/ ern Pacific railroad companies are to
contribute $50, 600 jointly for the cele
bration in Oregon next year of the
! centennial of the Lewis and Clark ex-
ploriug expedition.
Governor elect Mickey unconscious
ly paraphrased David b. Hill S famous
utterance when he said today: I
am Methodist. There will be no
ball at my Inauguration. The de-
cree has gone forth. Low-necked
dresses, spike-tail coats and the ct
ceteras of the usual social function
will be conspicuously absent at the
Nebraska State House. Lincoln society
is weeping and wailing and the bust
ness men wear gloomy countenances,
because the Inauguration ball has al
ways been profitable one to both
classes. But Gov. Mickey is obdu-
rate. His sturdy Methodism has
caused him to say, am opposedd to
dancing. | am a trustee of Wesleyan
University, and it would be as much
as my good name is worth to counten-
ance such a function, much less at
tend it.
Local coal dealers in Schenectady,
N. Y, say there is no hope of the coal
famine being relieved this season.
The merchants say if they cannot get
coal they will have to lose their stores.
depot opened by the Citizens AS
socitaion was thronged again today,
we'll to do persons touching elbows
with the most abject poor in quest of
fuel
General Nord, having been pro-
claimed president of Hayti by the
army, took possession of the national
palace on Thursday.
General Peanuts who for a
number of years was one of the best
known midgets and clowns connected
with circuses. was found dead in bed
yesterday in New York He was a
Japanese, thirty eight years old, and
was two feet, one inch high.
J. S. Frost, referee in the affairs of
the imperial council, Order of United
Friends, has reported to the Supreme
Court at Albany, n. Y, that he finds
the corporation hopelessly insolvent,
and recommends it's dissolution. An
order to this effect will be entered,
Belgian claims against Venez-
uela amount to several million
francs. They rose chiefly from the
non-payment of interest on Venezue-
Ian governmet bonds issued as pur-
chase money for the water works
at Carcasas, which was promoted by
Belgian company. A despatch to
! the London Daily Telegraph from the
Hague, however, says that all rumors
that Holland is acting against Ven
ezuela are at least premature. The
Dutch government intends t.. remain
strictly neutral in the matter.
Floods are feared in southern West
/
Ohio are bank full, and heavy rains
continue. A million dollars worth
of timber is ahoat on the Guyandotte
and Big Sandy rivers.
Unofficial advices are to the effect
that China intends to pay the next
installment of the Boxer indemnity in
silver. All of China revenues are
payable in silver and the great finan-
cial strain makes it impossible to OBJ
tain gold.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Yerkes has decided that druggists and
Others who sell soda water drinks,
claret soda or 81 nilar beverages to
which distilled or any compounds of
spirits are added in any quantity,
however small, are required to pay
the special tax as liquor dealers under
the internal revenue laws.
Three officials, two soldiers and 100
natives, mostly children, were killed
INxyt l..,, H., l.. II.