The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-18
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

erected large hennery.
ALL the private telephones have been
taken out in Woodstock.
Mrs. G. C. HARD of Arlington committed
suicide by drowning last week.
A NEW bicycle club of twenty members
has been organized at Brattleboro.
JAMES BURNS of Colchester, while hunt
ing, was fatally shot by companion
BRATTLEBoRo merchants close their stores
at six o'clock three nights in the week.
THREE French families at Newport have
lost twenty-five children by diphtheria.
BENNINGToN's subscription to the Grant
monument fund was seventy-five cents
REV. w. b. BUCKINGHAM accepts the rec
torship of the Rutland Episcopal church.
WIN. BARNEY of Richmond shot golden
headed eagle on the wing in Hinesburgh.
2. VANTINE of Alburgh raised from one
hill 900 potatoes, half of them being large
enough to eat
LOUIS LAMoINE of st. Johnsbury was
badly burned last week by the explosion of
Kerosene lamp.
MANCHESTER has had but two persons in
its lookup in two years, and mourns that it
does not pay expenses.
GEORGE j. BROOKS, wealthy citizen of
Bratteboro, will give the town q handsome
public library building.
THE estate of Enoch p. Dutton of Newark
was settled in insolvency last week for
twenty-one cents on the dollar.
GEORGE w. STILES of Waterford has set
tied his affairs in insolvency, paying nineteen
and one-tenth cents on dollar.
THE centennial history of the Congrega-
tional church in Cornwall will be written
by Rev. Mr.. Stebbins, its pastor.
HENRY HosMER of Evansville was recently
injured by bull, which attacked him in the
stable and tossed him out of the door.
ST. francis XAvIER (Roman Catholic)
church at Winoosl<i has purchased a chime
of bells, which will be hung this week.
A SHED and 500 cords of wood, belong
ing to the Passumpsic railroad, were
burned last week. Loss $1,000: insured.
REV. DR.. SAMUEL II. VIRGIN of the Pilgrim
church, New York city has declined the call
from the Congregational church, Rutland
PEOPLE in St. Johnsbury are consulting
with a Burlington firm to put in private
telephones, the instruments to cost from $40
to 1915 year
run over and probably fatally injured by a
hand-car, while walking on the track at
North Clarendon last week
REV. S. w. Dixie of Rovalton read a paper
on the Home and Sunday-school " before
the New England Sunday-school convention
at Boston last week Thursday.
BURT FIELD, student of Saxton's River
sticks of wood, when the oil ignited, burn
ing him severely about the eyes
THE committee appointed to erect town.
house in Bellows Falls, with view to
gathering information on the subject, will
visit several public buildings in the state.
JOSEPH WHITE, an employee of the Howe
scale works at Rutland, left his family,
October 81, saying he was going to Brandon,
and his wife has not heard from him since.
THE stage-driver between Greenfield and
Leyden, Mass, found man named Worden,
a resident of Halifax, this state, dead by
the roadside, near an overturned threshing-
machine one day last week.
JOHN P. HOWARD was at the time of his
death assisting worthy young man through
college in Burlington, and by the kindness
of Miss Louisa Howard he will be enabled
to complete his intended course.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont
Woman's Suffrage Association will be held
at Dandy December 9th and 10th. Besides
local speakers, Mrs. Lucy Stone of Boston
will be present during the convention.
R. C. PARSONS of Derby Line has the
tomahawk which Hannah Dustan of Deer
field, Mass, took from the Indians and
with which she killed them while they
slept, thus rendering her escape possible.
CURTIS e. FOSTER, brother of the late
General George P. Foster died at Lynn,
Mass, November 10th, of consumption
aged thirty-two years. His funeral was
held in Burlington on Thursday of last week
FOUR dwellings owned by Charles and
George Miner, together with most of their
contents, two barns, the produce therein
and one COW, were destroyed by fire at West
Dummerston last week. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $1,000
Hon. AMOS HOBART of Essex Junction
died last week. He represented Westford
in the legislature in 1916. He was one OF
the early abolitionists and one of the found
ers of the republican party. He had been a
member of the state senate.
PATRICK GAHEEN of Brattleboro caught a
piece of griste in his throat while at supper
and was in fear of choking to death. His wife
at last succeeded in pulling it out, but tore his
throat so badly that he was unable to swal
low anything for several days.
THE Woodstock Baptist Association voted
last week to dismiss Edward Green from
the ministry because of a change of faith tC
Unitarianism Green is a native of Haver
hill, Mass, and was pastor of the Baptis
church in Bellows Falls year ago.
THE brake of a freight-car on the Addison
railroad gave way at Orwell, Thursday night
while the car was being switched. There is
steep grade at that place, and the car
dashed down the grade and collided with
two other cars, which were badly broken.
SENATOR MORRILL, has gone to Washing
ton for the winter His wife and son arr
with Mrs. Morrills sister, Miss Swan, il
Stoughton, Mass, where Mrs. Morrill, ha,
been seriously ill for some time. The ladie
will go to Washington later in the season.
WARREN GREEN, cripple and Patricl
Fitzgerald, employees in a livery stable a
Rutland quarreled. and Green struck Fitz
gerald blow on the head with a crutch
fracturing the skull. Green is held to avail
the result of Fitzgerald's injury which ma,
prove fatal
THERE are twenty-four camps of the Son
of Veterans in the state, as follows: il
Windsor county, fve Rutland three Gale
donia, three: Bennington. two: Addison
two Lamolle, two Washington two
Windham. two; Chittenden, one Orleans
one; and Essex, one.
AT the convention of the New Englan
Sunday-schoo Association. held in Bosto
last week, Hon. Franklin Fairbanks of 81
Johnsbury was elected one of the vice
presidents. Rev. j. III. Babbitt of Swanto
and Rev. G. III. Merrill of Brattleboro ar
the Vermont members of the committee.
JENNIE WILSON MOORE, the Salvationst
who was recently arrested at Elizabeth n
j., for bigamy, has been acquitted 1t vii
be remembered that one of her hus
bands was c. III. Frye of st. Adams. TIL
trial took place last week, and Rev.
McAnn, who married the parties in st. A
bans, was summoned as witness.
A WOMAN who arrived at Windsor froi
Montreal attempted suicide by jumping int
a brook, but changed her mind and DulIe