The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t has become known that Ferdi
nand Peck of Chicago, and his asso-
ciates there, are the chief stockholders
in the Northeastern Siberian com
pany, which holds valuable mining,
trading and development concessions
for the operation of large section
of Siberia bordering on Bering sea
and the Arctic ocean. The company
has established several important
trading stations on the Siberian coast
and has begun the development of
mining and fisheries resources.
Thomas Tobin, who butchered
Captain James b. Craft of Glen Cove,
L. l., in a New York resort, has been
sentenced to die in the electric chair
during the week beginning February
8, next.
When Rev. DR.. Parkhurst was mott
fed of General Green appointment
as police commissioner of New York
he sneered CONTEMPORARY and said:
Another military appointment, more
red tape. More saluting, the same
old gang of toughs to advise him,
same corruption in the precincts of
officers that has been growing for a
generation and reached it's full for
escence under Devery old fail
ure in the end.
Thomas Sharkey, who killed Bank
er Nicholas Fish last September, has
Sing prison.
Blondin, the convicted wife murd-
erer, has formally waived his motion
for new trial in the superior crimi-
nal court and was again remanded for
sentence. Counsel for the defendant
and the government announced that
they had practically agreed upon a
substitute bill of acceptance to go
before Supreme Court.
Before closing the Glover Bay sta
ton for the Christmas holidays Marconi
ent messages to prominent Italians in
their native language, and they were
taken at the Cornwall station by oper-
ators who had no knowledge OF the
Italian language. Christmas greetings
were sent by Macconi to his co-direc-
tors in London.
BY a gasolene explosion Wednesday
afternoon in a club house at Hot
Springs, Ark, two persons were fatal
ly, tour seriously, and more than a
score of others more or less severely
injured.
David w. Grover of Dartmouth,
Mass, and his daughter Bessie aged
fourteen, were killed, and another
daughter, Clara, aged eighteen, seri-
ously injured in collision of pas
senger train and buggy in which
they were riding near North Dart.
mouth Wednesday evening. The elder
daughter lost both limbs.
Four persons were burned to death
Thursday in the house of julius King
of Piercefield prominent pulp and
paper manufacturing town in the
AdirOndacks.
A dispatch from Rome says that
Bishop Conaty, rector of the Oatho-
lie University at Washington, appears
to have the best chance of appoint
ment to the bishopric Of Los Angeles,
Gal.
Forest Gale, thirteen year-old
boy attached to the Salvation Army.
was fatally burned Christmas night
while playing Santa Claus to 300
poor children at Hamilton, Ohio.
Nate Salisbury, controlling partner
in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show,
died Wednesday at his home in Long
Branch, at the age of fifty-seven
years. Buffalo Bill is with the show
in London.
The sheep barns of the Union Stock
Yards company at South Omaha,
burned, Thursday, together with 500
sheep, entailing loss Of $50, 600.
The cityEhallEata Marlboro, Ks Mass,
was burned Thursday morning, the
total loss being about $500, 600. The
city's public library, with twenty
five thousand volumes, located on the
first floor of the building was burned,
also the armory of Co. f, 9th regt.
The city records were saved.