The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22
Vermont State News.

the past week.
THE Junior exhibition of the Middebury
College class of 1886 was held at the town
hall Tuesday evening of last week.
THE comptroller eli the currency has ex-
tended the corporate existence of the Wood
stock National Bank, Woodstock to April
II, 1905.
NAT. FARNswoRTH of Brandon, n young
man under twenty years of age, took NOR
phine Sunday night and died Mt the Brandon
House Monday morning.
JOSEPH FENNo's little girl, four years old i,
while walking on the ice on Fletcher's mill
pond at Brattleboro last week, fell in and
was drowned. The body was recovered
PETER MAYO of Westminster, seventy
years old, was found dead in his saw mill
Thursday morning. He was probably
struck by saw frame, His head was badly
bruised.
SEVENTEEN striking stone-cutters, for
merly employed at Carter's stone-yard at
South Ryegate, were locked up at st. AL
bans, Thursday. charged with intimidating
non-union men,
A TROUBLESOME cattle disease is prevail
ing in Hubbardton, especially among year
lings. The symptoms are running at the
eyes and securing and the animals die in
about thirty hours
OVER two hundred applications for rooms
and board for scholars at the Sauveur sum
mer school have already been received
more than double the number received up
to the same time last year
Four base ball clubs have been organized
among the students of the Vermont Acad-
envy at Saxton's River all acting under a
larger organization. known as the athletic
club, with a full code of laws.
PROFESSOR ToURJEE of the New England
Conservatory of Music, Boston, is negotat-
ing with the trustees of Lyndon Institute
for the use of the institution building dur
ing the summer vacation for his students.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Newfane Friday night. -Four We're
foreigners, and they are supposed to have
opened the doors of the Jail by means of
skeleton keys, or they had outside accom-
plices
A THREE tenement dwelling house at
White River Junction, belonging to John
Garien, was entirely consumed by fire
Thursday afternoon. The fire originated in
defective chimney. Loss $1,000 insured
for S1,700.
IT now appears that the suicide of Miss
Hapgood OF Essex junction was the result
of remorse. She left home in company
with a drummer, and her regret for her con-
duct is believed to have induced her to take
her own life by poisoning.
e. C. HAsKINs of Proctorsvlle tried to
commit suicide Saturday night by striking his
head with a stick and again Monday morning
by cutting his throat with razor, and after
wards with penknife He may recover
from the wounds, but says he will not live
Family trouble is the cause.
IT is announced that there is not dollar
in the Rutland treasury, the result of the
lavish expenditure of the trustees during the
last year In order to meet outstanding OBJ
legations and make necessary improvements
it is expected that a tax of fully twice the
usual amount must be raised.
FREDERICK HADLEY, who lives on the
Chal httr aGGpultaH a hx,
Patrick O'Mara, his hired man, who knocked
him down and kicked him so severely
that a physician was summoned. Officers
found OMara who was deeply intoxicated,
sleeping in the barn with dirk beside him.
DIR. L. F. WENTWORTH has resigned his
position as second assistant physician in the
Vermont insane asylum to take that of as
sistant physician in the Kansas state asylum
at Topeka. His place will be filed by DR..
w. E. Bowie of North Conway, n. H.. re-
cent graduate of the Dartmouth Medical
College
Two prisoners escaped from the Burling
ton Jail on Sunday morning and had not
been recaptured at last accounts. Their
names were James Sullivan and John Jeray,
and they had just been convicted of arson for
setting fire to the freight house in Winooski,
and had been sentenced to two years each
in the house of correction.
THE body of Patrick Marooney of Charles
town, N. H., who fell from the railroad
bridge at Windsor, January 7, has been
found in the canal at Bellows Falls in a
good state of preservation 1t had come
down the river thirty-six miles. A reward
of $50 had been offered by the railroad com
pany for its recovery, he being an employee
MARTIN ToBIN, porter at the Weldon
House, St. Adams, was stabbed in the left
breast last Wednesday evening by George
Prouss, bell boy. Tobins wound is not
dangerous; Prouss is about sixteen years
old, naturally bright and forward, but has
filled himself up with dime novel trash and
been thus led into rather dangerous way
of asserting his rights.
THAT truth is stranger than fiction " has
again proved true in the latest coasting ac-
cident at Underhill. frankie Root, eighteen
years DID, being capsized in some unaccount-
able way, got his tongue under the next
homecoming sled, and quite large slice
was so nearly taken off that it had to be
severed. The only explanation he could
give as to how his tongue could get so far
away was that he was laughing"
A THROUGH freight train on the Passumpsic
road ran into a freight car on the side track
at Bradford Monday afternoon throwing the
engine over an embankment about twenty
feet, completely demolishing it. Seven
freight cars loaded with lumber and hay were
piled into space of less than two hundred
feet in length. The accident was caused by
aswitch having been left open by a PaSsump-
the danger, but too late to avoid it, After
reversing his engine both he and the fireman
jumped and they were only slightly injured.
The damage is at least $4,000.
THE Bennington Historical Society held a
special meeting at Bennington, the 18th, to
devise ways to bring before the Battle Mon
ument Association in August, with the
opinion of competent engineers, architects
and builders, the cast, durability and sta
bility of a massive structure of commanding
height, built of Bennington stone and also
to consult with well known artists and pro-
cure a design based upon such opinion
This society is the originator of the Battle
Monument Association and is opposed to
Professor Wier's design. A committee OF
forty was appointed, with Ex-Governor Hi
land Hall as chairman,
WILLIAM HORN of st. Johnsbury died in
the Brattleboro asylum recently, after con
finement there for a year and half. He
was veteran of the late war, was shot il
the shoulder by rifle ball, which the sur
geons were unable to extract. For sixteer
years it remained in his shoulder, the wount
J making running sore, which was in con
slant discharge. Finally the rifle bal
worked its way down to Mr.. Horns side
and was cut out. The old wound theI
healed almost Immediately, but not lonJ
after signs of mental derangemement be
came observable. The opinion of the physi
clans is that his insanity was developed b,
the too sudden healing of the wound.