The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-17
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Vermont.
VERMONT had two suicides from love in one
day recently.
MIppLFBuRY is agitating the question Of
village water and sewerage system.
DEPUTY SHERIFF CLouGHs barn, at Putney,
with contents, was burned the 10th.
BENNINaToN's artesian well has got down
1000 feet and still there Is no water
A NORTH Troy woman has 5000 in bills Of
the suspended Exchange bank, Montreal.
THE Howe scale works at Rutland paid off
their employees Saturday, for the month OF
August.
THE outbnildiugs OF the Mary Fletcher hos
pitaI, lately destroyed by fire, are in process
Of reconstruction
Six divorce cases were heard at the recent
term Of Chittenden county court but In only
two Of them was divorce dpcreed.
ABOUT 81 600 worth of small articles was
taken on Thursday night bv thieves who broke
into r. G. Speprers store at st. Johusbury.
AGA HOWE If Jamaica claims TO have pota.
toes of the early Vermont" variety. ten OF
which will fill half bnshel and heap 1t up.
BLACK diphtheria has made Its annearance
in the southern mart OF Albnrgh. and ia raging
with terrible malgnity. Three deaths have
occurred
RosrRr MEADFR Of Danvile. who was sent
70 state nrison a wear ago last June for three
years on account Of perjury, has been par
donad ont.
JOHN E. DoLLoTF If St. Johnshrrv has se-
cured a persion NJ 80 q month and $3.50 arrears
and Ransom O Smith Of Lunenburg "a a month
and 1915 arrears
THE liabilities NJ Union Dnrant, a rener man
ufacturer and hotel knnnnr at Wells River, are
between 1925 nm and $4,000. He is expected
70 pay A good dividend.
HENRY BARRows ~ Brandon has heen COM
vniss,oned "a rpc-nitne officer OF the Union
veteran Army: stems will be taken to organize
company In that town.
THE Methodist Eniscoral church will hold
nm eight dave convention at Bristol. com-
mercine Sunday. Ootohe- q, and continuing
through Sunday October %.
At the athletic tournament held in Montreal,
the 9Th inst, High RI Baxtar NJ Rnt''nd won
the amateur championship NJ Canada for pole
Wanting. doing nine feet and one inch.
NATHAN REMINGTON of wsllinoford has
Just lost hen which had reached the I'D
vancpd age OF rinatean years ard elk months.
The average age Of the hen Ia about six years.
DELAY In getting the necessary furnitn-e has
deferred somewhat the opening of the s.. Al
bans hospital; bnt II IL exrected that II will be
open this week. One application for treatment
has been received.
FRANK PLUMLFY, L o. Co'hnrn, r. Plnm-
lev and f Curriar NJ Shrewsbury cartured a
abe hear RECENTLY which WEIGHED 21n ponnds
THE makes the thi~d bear taken Ia that vicin-
ity since Augnst %
A NEW "golden text" was Brought ont In
a A. Johnshurv Sunday school recentlv, when
q little fonr-year-o'd girl rose and repeated foI
her lesson the following: 81 thank bod for my
new baby BROTHER"
MARTIN RICHMoND's barn at Hineshurv II
Guilford. with eight cows woke of Oxen hay
Hl 1s~t,A vxtr IN
moving; loss estimated at SO 900, insurance
u, 3nO In the Farmers Mutual.
JOSEPH MAssEY aged eighty wears, and AM
Fuller, forty years old. both Of whom live ~
the town farm in Ponltney. recent'v obtained
leave ct absence, called upon r minister in al
adjoining village and we're married.
THE Free Press savs: "Tha college senior
have sens'bv awaited themselves of the Cen
trail Vermont's cheap excursion rates IN visi
the museums Of Boston, instead OF taking tn
usnal geological trip to some less favored 10
cality."
On the night Of October lat thieves hrok
into the drug store NJ Sylvester Moodv at Yves
Burke, and carried off number nj watches
chains. cigars. knives and other fancy gnod
contained In his show case, to the amount @
nearly 800.
ZIBA MASON, aged ahont aixtv years, for
rnerlv of Rochester. committed snicida nv cn'
ting his throat with shoe knife, in his Mac
OF business, at West Brattleboro, adjacent
his Ron's house, where he was living. d.
epondency WAS the cause
ONE Of the fastest trains In Vermont IL III
night express over the Burlington and l.
noble railroad The other night the thirty
five miles between Cambridge Junction an
Burlington were made, including eleven stor
In fifty minutes, and the run is very frequentl
made inside of AN hOnr.
ONE night last week a young woman died
Middlebury In the Pierce house nnder rath'
suspicions circumstances and since her deaf
facts have come ont which lead tn decide
belief among the people NJ the town that ri
died from an attempt at abortion. The either
are demanding an investigation.
THE Vermont pharmaceutical association mi
at the Brattleboro opera hall the 10th An
the usual routine husine was over the reti
ing president Fl G. D'v Of Bradford, gave
Interesting address. Several papers were p i
read and discussed These officers were elected
President. George f. Green NJ Brattlebor
vica-presidents, f F. Dutton OF B 'rton and
H. Chapman NJ Rutland; secretary. George
Crosaman Of Brandon; treasurer, f. G. Lew
OF Rutland.
THERE has been some newspaper and mu'
private comment over the fact that 8 \
Waite, confined In the honse of correction
Rutland for robbing the Brattleboro bank, HI
been allowed To appear In the village and
the railroad station without keeper. ind
Wheeler, at the recent session Of the Unit
States court at Rutland, had Snperintpnda
Eayres hauled up before him and read him
sharp lecture upon the improprety OF such ~
formances, and Waite will probably be Ike
from the public view hereafter.
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