The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-02
Weekly News Summary.
vermont.

THE Siamese embassy is to visit the Rutland
marble quarries during their travels through
New England.
THE farmers in the vicinity of Woodstock
complain that the hay crop will be the lightest
in many years
IT is rumored that the Passumpsic railroad
has been leased to the Connecticut River Rail-
road Company.
THE foundation for the new Memorial Hall
in Rutland is now being laid. Over fifty car
Dads of marble will be required.
Two large slate quarries at West Pawlet were
shut down July for two weeks. The demand
for slate is not equal to the supply.
The Vermont Marble Company has sold its
marble mill and water-power at Baskerville
Station, in Salem, N Y, to the West Rutland
Marble Company for $4,000.
GENERAL o. E. BABcocK recently drowned,
is reported to have left an estate valued at
nearly 81, 100000 He had relatives in Berk-
shire, who may come in for a share.
EDWIN WHEELER of North Adams, Mass,
has been arrested by Deputy Sheriff Bixby on
the charge Of having one wife in Stamford,
Vermont, and another in North Adams
EDWARD BURNHAM of Springfield was fined
1904 last week for selling liquor, nineteen
offenses being proved. He afterwards escaped
from the constable and is not to be found.
At the North Pownal freight depot Willie
Richards, aged six years, jumped upon bale
of cotton weighing four hundred and eighty
pounds The bale tipped over and fell upon
the boy, killing him.
A sToRE-HoUsE owned by o. F. Woods with
groceries stored in it, was burned at Bellows
Falls last Saturday Loss So, 900, no insurance.
E. A. Eaton loses $1,000 on stock of hard
ware, with small insurance.
FIRE, originating from spontaneous COM
bustion among paint and OIL occurred in the
fifth story of the Vermont Farm Machine Com
pany mandatory at Bellows Falls, last Sunday
morning. causing 81, 900 damage
ABOUT one hundred and fifty cords of wood
belonging to the Central Vermont railroad
were destroyed by fire at Alburgh the other
night The fire is supposed to have taken
from an engine that was saving wood at that
place.
THE other day Rutland man went to trade
Off horse which did not suit him. He came
home with another horse, watch, ten bushels
of potatoes, six dozen eggs, ten pounds of
butter and $50 in his pocket as the result of
his trade.
THE Lake George Steamboat Company has
elected lie Grand B. Cannon of Burlington
president, and V. p. Noyes secretary and treas
urer. Thomas Dickson, lie Grand B Cannon
J. V. Baker, A. L. Inman and w. S. Eddy are
the directors.
THE Addison county Jail was opened for the
season on Monday, June 9. Previous to that
date the Jail was empty, but the arrivals since
have been 50 numerous that on Sunday and
tne MONDAY lOlloWlnS nine guests were enter
tanned in the Jail.
Miss GRACE WILLIAMS of Sunderland re-
ceived the Skinner prize of $50 for the greatest
improvement in scholarship at Burr and Bur-
ton Seminary, Manchester, during the past
year, and Timothy Billings of Ripton received
the Skinner prize of S25 for the best essay.
JOSEPH Pho and Joseph Emery, two St.
Adams boys about twelve years old started on
berry wing trip last week Sunday morning and
have not been heard from since. 1t is supposed
they went also to the lake, and fears are en-
tertained that they may have been drowned.
THE Fall Mountain Paper Company, Bellows
Falls, are to put in two Edison electric lights
of five thousand candle power each. They
will have six hundred drop lights. They are
also building tower on the east side of their
mills, which will be used as finishing room.
THE gold mine at Plymouth will be overrun
with diggers if it sends out many such stories
as this: President Blum of the mining com
pany and his superintendent found two mug
gets of pure gold last week, one weighing seven
and three fourths and the other eight and one
half pounds"
THE new fork factory property at Walling-
ford, which was built about ten years since,
but which has been closed for several years.
was recently sold to Henry L. Bean of New
York city for $4,000. 1t is expected the man
ufacture of forks will begin soon. The first
cost OF the property was 100000.
road between Rutland village and West Rut-
land will begin as soon as possible Surveyors
are now busy upon the final location of the
road, and as soon as the land can be acquired
the grading will begin. The road is to be
built in the interest of the marble business
AT Bloomington boy by the name of Jones,
employed at Henry Preston's mill, packing
shingles, by some unknown cause got caught
in the shatting, and had one leg torn COM
pletely off. One of his arms was jammed 50
that the bones projected through the flesh and
he was bruised considerably in other ways.
He lived about an hour
WHILE c. B. Ranney an old farmer of Fair
Haven, was attempting to cross the railroad
tracks near the depot, in Fair Haven village, he
was struck by fast train and thrown quite a
distance. His limbs were broken, and Mr.
Ranney is probably fatally injured. The horse
was killed. Ranney was deaf and freight cars
standing on the track INSTRUCTED his sight
The Woodford correspondent of the Troy
Times says. During recent thunder shower
ball of lightning resembling small meteor
entered the Pine valley steam saw-mill and
passed out at a rear door, when it exploded,
alarge dry tree, which smoked for several days.
Several persons near by were somewhat
shocked by the lightning.
The Rutland Bicycle Club will open theiI
new rink for the first time, July 4, with bicycle
tournament, to be attended by the Troy Bicycle
OluD Ill Il DOuy. Inc UullulllS Is ABOUT one
hundred and twenty seven by one hundred and
eighty feet, will cost S13, 900 and has a skating
floor Of about ninety by one hundred and fifty
feet. 1t is to be managed by man from Wins.
lows skating rink in Boston.
A TELEPHONE company has been organized
to extend the lines from Bethel and Rochester
over the mountain to Rutland, by the way Of
Sherburne, with a branch to Killington Peak
which is becoming one of the most popular
summer resorts in the state 1t is over foul
thousand feet high, and commands view o.
the valleys between the White Mountains anC
the Adirondacks. Since it has been made &C
cessible by stage the patronage has been rapidly
increasing each year.
THE first annual encampment of the Vernon
Division of Sons of Veterans was held in Rut
land on Friday. At the present time there arr
in Vermont nineteen camps, having tota
membership, as the reports show, of about five
hundred, Nearly every camp was represented
at this meeting. The officers elected for thu
year ensuing are as follows Colonel, l.. V
Green, Rutland; lieutenant-coonel, c. f. JENNIE
Brattleboro; major, g. 4. Terrill Underhill
chaplain, 4. w. Parsons, Bellows Falls sur
geOn, ii. T. Woodward, Brandon f. Morse
Rutland, G. L. Terrill, Underhill and f.
Hill, Ludlow, were elected delegates to til,
grand division encampment. G. +. Cheney
st. Johnsbury, and f. d. Proctor were elected
delegates to the commandery-in-chief encamp
ment, which meets at Philadelphia. The othe
business transacted consisted chiefly in change
in the bylaws of the society. Supper wa