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

The Khedive at Cairo on Friday
opened the international medical con-
gress which is meeting there. Near
ly every country in the world is re-
presented.
The grandl jury, London, Eng, has
returned true bill against Col
Lynch, M. p, charged with high
treason in having fought with the
Boers.s The trial is set for January 2.
Official announcement was made in
Paris on Saturday that the Humberts
are concerned in the most gigantic
swindle of recent years, the Crawford
will swindle. Arrests occurred in
Madrid this morning which caused a
sensation throughout the city. Those
arrested included Monsieur and Mad
anne Humbert, Emile and Marie
D'Aurignac.
William eTayTor Of ShamoEin died
on Saturday When twelve years and
nine months old he enlisted as a drum
mer boy in the Saith Pennsylvania reg
iment, August, 1861, and fought
throughout the civil war. He is said
to have been the youngest soldier in
the Union army.
1t has been arranged that the re-
mains of Gen. Wagner Swayne, who
died i'll New York city Thursday,
shall be inferred in the National GEM
etery at Arlington with full military
honors.
The French legation presented to
the PERUVIAN government on No vem-
Der claim for SIG, OIL, $40, in favor
of the Dreyfus brothers of Paris, in
accordance with the finding of the
Lausanne court of arbitration The
government has made no reply and
the French legation has repeated it's
request for settlement in stronger
language.
The Hon. John Costigan will in
troduce resolution at the next ses-
sion of the Canadian Parliament re.
affirming Canada's sympathy with
home rule for Ireland.
The Santa Fe management has de-
cided to replace all light rails on the
road with 75-pound rails. During
the next year the road will lay 1886
miles of the new rails between chic
ago and Albuquerque. The Pacific
lines will receive like treatment
Henry Watterson, in the Louisville
Courier Journal, advocates the
breaking loose from the Monroe doc
trine. He says this is as good an OPP
portunity as another for the Govern
ment of the United States, and back
of the Government for the people of the
United States, to consider the Mon
roe doctrine, it's origin and meaning,
its import and intention, with the
serious purpose of readjusting, if need
be, to the prevailing national and
internationl conditions.
Oil has been discovered oozing
from the banks of the Coon river,
near Grant City, Iowa. A quart of
the oil sent to Ames college for anal
ysis is said to have been found 80 per
cent pure. The discoverer, a woman,
has quietly leased 5000 acres in the
locality.
A Halifax dispatch says: While at
tempting to rescue her two children
from drowning in Benacadie pond
near Grand Narrows, @. B. Saturday.
Mrs. Stephen M. Smell, aged 30 years,
lost her life and the two boys, aged
s and II years respectively, also per-
ished
1t is said at the war department.
that Gen. Chaffee will succeed Gen.
Young as lieutenant general of the
army upon the retirement of Gen.
Young, who will succeed Gen. Miles.
Y A demand for more pay, affecting
$50, 900 railroad men, was made Satur-
day of 40 railroads west of Chicago.
The men affected are passenger and
freight conductors and brakemen. An
answer is demanded by Jan. 8. The
increase asked for amounts to 20 per
cent,