The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-03
Weekly News Summary.

grounds.
THERE was a light furry of snow at SPRING
field, tuesday morning OF last week, on the
highlands.
FrFrY-FIvE cases are set to be tr ed by jury
at the coming September term of the Rutland
county court
WILLIAM BEAN of South Wheeock recently
picked four thousand and two kernels of wheat
from one stalk
H. B. STEVENS of Bradford has owned
livery horse eeven years which has earned
$4,000 in that time.
STEPHEN SwIrsER of SUIT IN FIJI from
sugar house he WAS shingling, the other day,
and broke his liar bone
X +. CARTER of South Ryegate Is just put
ting the closing touches upon VIZ OOo Inonu-
ment, soon to b, shipped Wes'.
EUGENE GIFFIN of Hardwick was thrown
from "A horse he vas riding to wa er recently,
and his collar bone was broken.
DURING republic an rally at Putney the
Blaine nd L gan flag was cut down by some
miscreant and dragged in the mud.
THE st. John-buly Academy opened last
week eday with two hundred aud fifty
pupils and a omise of three hundred.
CHARLIE NJ MARSH, a we l-known law and
insurance man of Woodstock was taken insane
recently, an removed t. private asylum in
Burlington
THE post-office at South Royalton vas broken
con ents, including stamps, stolen About
$500 was taken.
sc. c. DURKEE's saw-nill at Brlndon, with
the machinery, was burned last week thurs
day, The fire caught from the engine smoke
stack. Los 5000.
The Spring Grove campmeeting, at New
Haven, was attended by four tn Iusahd people
Sunday, August "a. Z. q. Frost delivered
temperance add ess
BOY named Noble had his foot caught in
the machinery at Gimores W. ste-marble dump
at Rutland, and the member was so badly in
juled that amputation was necessary.
JUSTICE WAYNE BAILEY has decided the case
of Mrs John Quinn If West Rutland for poison
ing her husband, and has bound her over to
await the action of the grand jury in Sep
TENDER
SATURDAY morning, the 23i ult Mrs Caleb
Moulton of Sutton was thrown from wagon,
while going down the hill near their house,
breaking two ribs and receiving other bad
bruises.
THE new national bank of Springfield seems
to be An assured success Some $4,000 or
$4,000 of the capital stock has already been
subscribed for, aud there is lit doubt that
800 600 will be taken up in short time
DURING the severe wind and rain storm on
Tuesday of last week child of Fred d. Corliss,
who lives in the east part of Swanton, on the
road between st. Adams and Highgate, was
blown into a well and drowned. The child
was twenty-five months old.
ONE of the skeletons found upon the Ben
nington battlefield by G. W. Robinson has
been presented by him to Williams College, and
will be placed in Clark hall, " subject to the
order of the Bennington Historical Society
The bones were set up" in a very ingenious
and skilful manner by Dr. Jennings.
In Rutland there is a Canadian family
named Guenette that counts five generations.
The Observation-Disclosures Madame Hen
richou, is ninety-five years of age; the great
grandmother, Madame Gongeon, is seventy
five; the grandmother, Madame Valiquette is
ty-three; the mother, Madame Ducharme, is
thirty, and the daughter of the latter is seven
years old.
AT the Caledonia county fair, to be held at
St. Johnsbury on September Is, II and Is, there
will be the largest exhibition of imported
thoroughbred and CRAZE cattle ever shown in
the state One exh btor wi enter over one
hundred head; besides, there will be some
oxen that weigh six thousand pounds per pair,
the largest ever on the grounds. Eight hun
on the third day.
THOMAS KENNEDY of Rutland met with q
serious, and what may prove fatal accident, the
9th. MIR. Kennedy is conductor of what is
known as the " marble train" which runs be-
tween Rutland and West Rutland, and while
in the act of uncoupling cal, which the engine
was throwing on track at West Rutland, lost
his hold and fell upon the track and was run
over by the forward trucks of the engine. His
case is considered very critical.
BERNARD BURNS an employee of the Vermont
Marble Company at West Rutland was fatally
injured last week Tuesd ~ forenoon, while at
work in the company's mill. He was assisting
in removing sawed slabs of marble from the
gangs and had placed his hand on a slab, with
the intention of lowering it upon a stone boat,
when he slipped and fell under the falling slab
1t struck him on the head, crushing in his
skull. He lived but an hour after the accident
dying unconscious. Burns was young man
only twenty-three years old, and leaves wife
and child.
A TEAM OF horses belonging to the Poultney
slate works recently met with fearful acct
dent They were being driven W to the edge
of the quarry to load up with stock. The team
becoming frightened, backed off into the
quarry, distance of seventy-fve feet Di
rectly under where the horses fell three mer
were at work, two of them striking and the
drill happened to look up just in time to SET
the rear wheels of the wagon coming over the
bank and spoke to the other men, and they raj
out of the way. The wagon and horses wen
down, and one OF them struck on the drill il
such manner as to drive it completely
through its neck.
THE prisoners in the jail at Bennington at
tempted to break out Saturday. There WERE
three confined. viz, Laraby, for bigamy Rob
bins, for horse stealing, and Dunn, for having
Dttu CODCtrntu III All luCtuuihTy uFt ln
first two only were concerned in this attemp
to escape. Laraby has twice before attempted
to break Jail. The pris 'ners had gained pos
session of an iron bar and their first effort wa
made thr ugh the ceiling of the Jail and into
the courtroom, They succeeded in prying VI
a portion of the floor, but were not successful
They then tried the door of the hall, and ha,
just pried it open about three inches when OF
ficer Cook, returning from the republican rail,
at Rutland, surprised them at the work. Th
prisoners were secured by him without out
side aid
WILLIAM W. CHENEY Of jamaica oldest so
of Wales Cheney and a section hand on tn
Brattleboro Whitehall railroad, had a narroN
escape from death on Tuesday afternoon, tn
18Th ult. He had taken refuge under pin
tree from a sudden thunder shower, and wa
standing with his back against the tree. whe
it was struck by lightning. The electric fui
came down the tree, until 1t came in contac
with his back, from which point his clothn
was torn into shreds in its course, his heav
kip boots being tor0 to pieces as il blown u
with dynamite, the fluid tearing up furro'
in the ground for some distance from where
left e CHI foot, moving large stones in its course
His body and limbs were quite severel
burned, and he had no use of his lower limb
for some time after recovering consciousness:
His escape from instant death was almost
miracle.
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