The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-04
Weekly News Summary.

ST. JoHNsBURY is to have law and order
| league.
Music HALL, St Johnsbury is to be rebuilt, at
a cost of $l2, 800.
DR. TANNER, of fasting fame is soon to
| lecture In Rutland.
SEVERAL bears are reported on the noun
tains east of Ruta and
RUTLAND is the grave of the grandfather Of
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
THE snow fall in Glover the past winter was
twelve feet and six inches.
| THE number of oxen IN Vermont in 1850 was
$4,000; there are now Only $4,000.
| JOHN KILEY of Pownal was run over by cars,
while intoxicated, and literally cut to pieces.
GLOVER has citizen who wears shoes
twenty-five inches in length and eight inches
in width.
A RUTLAND gentleman has a quarter of a
dollar of the date of 1923, for which Boston
party has offered him 800.
In looking over some waste paper from
mail car Richford man found a check for
81 800 1t was returned to the sender.
CHARLES HAMMER of Lincoln, while driving
near the Notch bridge. was pitched off his
skeleton wagon and killed. 1t is alleged he
was intoxicated.
| l.. H. POTTER was accidently shot In the leg
at Sucker pond, near Bennington, while hunt
ing with companions. The ball has been ex-
JOHN MCMAHON, the wrestler, having re-
Gently strained himself, will not be in a condi-
ton to wrestle for some time to come, and
it is extremely doubtful if he will everagain
appear in public.
EMERY CLoUGH of Derby is man with very
steady nerves. He has written the Lords
Prayer on one eide of a round piece of paper no
| larger than dime. The writing is so plain as
to be easily read with the naked eye.
Inux Mo~yrco.,upy IN ooad 1aptiarnap
| left Eden for Wolcott some two weeks ago.
and has not since been heard from. Parties
are out searching. 1t is thought that he has
wandered away and persisted from exposure.
THIS years drive of logs, amounting to 81
| 100000 feet, has passed Wells River They
will be due at Brattleboro in about ten days
The water has been at good height from the
start, and the season is the most favorable
| for years.
| The shavings room of Messrs Bronsons,
| Weston, Durham & Co.'s lumber mill in Bur-
lington took fire one night last week, and the
| flames were only extinguished after long and
arduous effort on the part of the firemen. The
loss is not large.
DR. BARRIER has recently placed several
thousand trout and salmon in Shrewsbury
pond and has ten thousand more trout which
are to be placed in the pond next week The
pond is being depleted OF its fish by seines and
dynamite, 50 the Rutland Herald asserts.
THE fifteen lodges of the Knights of Honor
| in Vermont paid into the widows and orphans
benefit fund of the order, during the year 1883
the sum of $31, 1923. 80 of which Rutland lodges
paid So, S22-Rutland lodge, No. 1881, ST.
1880; Protection lodge, No. 2, 400, $1,02450.
| Miss NELLIE DOYLE, who lives near South
Royalton, and had been visiting at st. Adams
with her sister, died suddenly, on Lake street.
| Wednesday evening, while walking with a
| friend Just before she fell she was chatting
| md lauuhiuu with har nil nd nod
in her usual health.
A PRIZE fight for 500 side took place in a
secluded spot just over the Canada line from
| Swanton, between Thomas Mallon of Winoosk
and Lawrence Kiey of Burlington. Ten rounds
were fought with hard gloves Kiley had the
| best of the fight, but Mallon was awarded the
stakes on foul blow. Both were badly pun
| ished.
PATRICK DoUGHERTY. thirty.fve years old,
an employee of tue st. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain railroad, WAS killed at Cambridge juno
ton last week Tuesday. He was turning a
hand-car when the crank caught inshis watch
chain and he was thrown on the track, the car
passing over him and breaking his back. He
leaves wife and three children.
SATURDAY of last week, as the evening train
from Fabyan's was approaching South Lunen-
| burgh it stopped, as usual, upon the bridge
across the Connecticut river An unknown
man, a passenger on the train evidently under
the impression that the station had been
reached, aighted, and fell through the bridge
into the river, and was drowned.
The Vermont Farm Machine Company was
dana ged by fire and water on Friday to the
amount of about $1,000. The fire originated
from a hot box in the woodworking shop.
The building was owned by the Bellows Falls
Canal Company and is fully insured. The
agency building of Sherman & JENNIE of Brat
tleboro was damaged about $500: no insurance
BRATTLEBoRo S railroad meeting for further
| ing the projected road to Wilmington was at
| tended by many of the business men, who
advocated building the road. 1t was finally
decided to ask the selectmen to call a town
meeting soon to vote aid to the enterprise. 1t
| is believed if Brattleboro will bond for twice
its grand list, or about S66, coo, the road is
assured.
SOME roughs from Barre ON Sunday, May
25th. were fishing in stream upon premises
of Daniel K. Sargent, about one and half
miles from West Topsham, and when remon-
strated with for so doing by Mr.. Sargent, one
choking and beating him, and striking with
his fist daughter of Mr.. Sargent who ran to
the assistance OF her father.
The Hartford lodge, Knights of Honor, No.
| 167l, proposes to observe the anniversary of
the founding of the lodge by having free
public address by G. O. Boyce, Esq, of Barre,
grand dictator of the state lodge, and ban
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evening, June 90. The Windsor lodge will be
| invited to participate in the festivities of the
occasion, and possibly other lodges.
THE first meeting of the creditors of Law
renee Brainerd of st. Adams, recently adj
| judged insovent, was held last week. Some
| thirty-three claims, amounting TO little more
than 1886, 800, were proved. The largest cred
itors are: St. Adams Trust Company $268, 059;
the National Park Bank of New York, $40, 295 /;
the Vermont National Bank of st. Adams,
Smith NJ. Weed of Pattsburgh, n Y, $37 400
l.. O. CoIBURN and Frank Plumley of Mount
Holly caught a wild cat Friday, May %. He
seemed to he in hot pursuit of a deer. The
deer, in his fight, ran near to bear trap, and
the wild cat, seeming the bait. stopped to take
a short lunch, was caught and the deer went
free. The cat weighed forty-five or fifty
pounds, and was about three feet long. He
was in good condition, very large one, and
was not at all p eased with the presence of the
man who tended the trap.
BARNET was considerably excited last week
by the arrest of Ezekiel Hale, a young man
Just starting West with his lately married wife.
at the in. tlgaton of Hamilton Brock, a New
Yorker, who sues him for 1000. Brock
claims that Hale, who has just come into prop
erty worth 100000, promised him the sum
sued for if he would help get it. This he
claims to have done, but Hale denies it. Hale
is held in $50 600 bonds. 1t is generally be-
lieyed that Brock is only trying to scare the
young man so as to get the "swag."
THE family of David p. Bond, formerly of
! Topsham, has within a very few weeks been
swept away by death. Mr.. Bond was residing