The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-05-14
II. A. SLADE
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Confectioners' Review says:
The Michigan Underwriting Com p any
of Detroit has completed a combin of
the peanut industries, and that the
American Edible Nut Company will
soon be Incorporated in New Je rsey
with 81, $50, 900 of Z per cent. prefe rred
and 50, $50, 900 of common stock, and
will absorb the eighteen plants n ear
Norfolk, Va, where the general fiji
ces will be located.
Both branches of the Philadelp hia
city councils have passed resolut ion
permitting the taking of the Old
Liberty Bell to Boston on the ooca-
sion of the 12Sth anniversary of the
Battle of Bunker Hill, June II. IA
special committee of council will ac-
company the revolutionary relic
Secretary Hartzell Of the McKin ley
Memorial Association has received a
check for $500 from the superintend-
ents and clerks in the Boston Postoffi ce
and branchese
Senator W. A. Clark Of Montana
has bought from Sol Chacles of the
Rosario mines the famous Guadaloups
group of mines in Chihuahua, Mex.
Unconfrmed reports say the price was
$500, 900.
During a strike riot at Greenwich,
Conn.,, on Friday, striking Italian
laborer was shot to death by one of
! his fellow countrynen who was at
tackled by a number of strikers in an
effort to induce him to quit work.
The Gorham manufacturing COM
pany, silversmiths, have recently
inaugurated their plan for pensioning
the employees of their establishments
in New York and Providence. The
plan provides that any employee W hose
record is satisfactory to the company
and who has been in its employ at
| least 20 years, shall receive thereafter
a pension equal to l per cent. of his
wage at the time of retirement for
each year of service. The company
employs $500 people in its factory and
stores.
The annual council of the diocese
of Florida of the Episcopal church, in
session at Jacksonville, Fla voted in
favor of changing the name of the
church from Protestant Episcopal
church to the American Catholic
church, by vote of q to IS.
Agnes Sorma, who has been regarded
as the greatest actress on the German
stage, has entered an institution near
Berlin, suffering from nervous NAL
ady. She is seeking a divorce from
her husband, Count Minetto, formerly
second secretary of the Italian en-
bassy at Washington.
After a lively session, which devel-
oped several sharp tilts over the plat
form the Kentucky Prohibitionists have
nominated a State ticket and adj
journed. A minority report favoring
female suffrage was voted down. The
ticket is headed by Col. L. B. DEM
aree for governor.
1t is announced that Films of all
classes have decided to issue an appeal
on May ~ to the peoples of all west
ern countries, in which they will pro-
test against the violent measures of
the Russian government that are being
enforced in f inland.
Freiherr Won Rheinboden, Prussian
minister of finance, intends to visit
the United States for the purpose of
studying the economical condition of
this country. He will remain here
six weeks. His mi ssion is not to be
political.
The report comes from Rome that
country ten years ago, is endeavoring
to get the Popes consent to her
divorce from her husband, Prince An
tome of Orleans. They were married
in 1886.
Albert Alonzo Ames, former mayor
of Minneapolis, has been found guilty
of accepting bride of 5000 while
chief executive of that city. The
usual motions were made for stay
and an arrest of Judgment, and now
will come the fight on appeal. The
verdict came as severe shock both
to the defendant and his wife.
According to an agreement made by
the Emperor of Austria and the King
of Saxony the ex-Orown Princess of
Saxony, whose elopement with M.
Giron caused such CONSERVATION, is to
receive an annual income Of $4,000,
and may retain her new born child
| tbraa months Int she will not ne al