The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-22
Weekly News Summary.
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A NEW hotel, called the Bellows Falls
House. is being built at Bellows Falls.
HARMON. the Swanton bigamist, has been
taken to Windsor for n two years stay.
THE Lyndonville camp-meeting will be-
gin Monday, August "a, and close on Sat
urday.
AN effort is being made to start $4,000
stock company in Brattleboro to manufacture
a patent rifle.
LOUIS MARTIN, a Burlington man, died
suddenly of heart disease on Thursday,
while on the beach near the city.
MARY McDoNoUGH of Rutland, seventy
years old, fell down stairs Saturday and
broke her skull. She died in few hours.
GEORGE b. HOWARD of Windham, twenty
seven years of age, committed suicide Thurs
day night, by shooting, on account of i'll
health.
A DETACHMENT of the Salvation Army has
reached Burlington and quarters have been
opened in the rooms formerly occupied by
the Commercial College
SAMUEL S. BREWER of Mendon, sixty-fve
years old hanged himself Saturday. He
was in his right mind and no cause is known
for his committing the deed.
EDDIE BULLARD, a horse thief, broke Jail
at Hyde Park Sunday night, by digging
hole through the ceiling of his cell. He was
evidently assisted from the outside.
ST. ALBANs is mentioned as the next meet
ng-place of the Vermont Press Association,
and it is suggested that Saguenay be the
scene of the next annual excursion
THE trestle on the Burlington & Lamoille
railroad at Jericho is to be thoroughly re-
timbered II is estimated that il will re-
qure about fifty thousand feet of lumber to
do it.
THE gold fever has struck the town of
Reading, and already fortune hunters are
at work. The rock is said to yield SIS ton
n. 4 4, n,N foot aud
at ten feet.
A. F. NICHOLS, prominent lawyer of st.
Johnsburv. while attempting to capture
supposed burglar in his house, accidentally
shot his son. aged fourteen years, in the
abdomen, with revolver.
A PLEASURE boat is to run on Lake Cham
plain this season which uses kerosene for
fuel, at an expense of fifty cents day. 1t
is twenty-six feet long and is expected to
run eight or nine miles an hour.
THE Vermont Marble Company is getting
out large order for the wainscotting, steps,
ETC., to be used in rebuilding the court
house in Cincinnati destroyed by mob
during the late riots in that city.
ARTHUR LEONARD, eighteen years old,
was drowned Monday at Brattleboro, while
bathing in MILESTONE brook. Two young
ladies went into the stream and brought out
the body, but too late to resuscitate
A. OsTRANDER of Castleton fell in an cpl
leptic fit on his scvthe while moving, Friday
nearly cutting off one finger and cutting
cash eight inches long and an inch and
half deep in the heshy part of his thigh.
A DUMMERsToN man has a cannon-ball
which his step-father picked up on the Ben
nington battlefield seventy-five years ago
1t weighed four pounds, and was undoubt-
eddy fred at the battle of Bennington in 1777.
THE annual report of the Rutland Rail
road Company for the year ending June 80
shows receipts of 1858 191, including bal
ance on hand July 1, 1884, of SIT All pay
ments were S306, 305, leaving cash on hand,
$46,8S6
WoRKMEN began Thursday morning on
the site chosen for the soldiers monument
at Brandon, but the digging was postponed;
as Deputy-sheriff Stearns of Rutland served
an injunction :forbidding them to do any
further work.
STEPHEN TRACY of Franklin, while out
hunting, slipped and fell in getting over a
fence, striking his gun against tree and
discharging the contents into his left hand.
Half of the middle finger was blown away
and some of the others badly mangled
WILSON WALKER and Frank Williams of
Casteton were thrown violently from a
buggy Thursday by runaway horse that
they were driving for the first time, and
Walker was badly bruised on his head and
about his body. Williams was unframed.
HENRY MCPHERSON of Orwell hung him
self Tuesday morning of last week at his
home. He had been little off for some
time. He was found by Walter Ray and
his son, with strap around his neck, which
was fastened to peg in the side of the barn.
THE Baldwin Refrigerator Company of
Burlington has received export orders for
the Baldwin refrigerators for Australia,
Mexico, British Honduras. Island of ia
maica, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Argen-
tine Republic and other South American
places.
of KpntnpkU will
into this state in September, Mrs. Lathrop
of Michigan in October, Miss Lucia Kimball
of Chicago in September, and lecture on TEN
perance. These lectures will be under the
auspices of the WOmap's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
THE claims already fled in the Windsor
county clerks Office against S. NJ Waite 8
insolvent estate amount to about S124 900,
while to offset these the assgnees return
1000, which, with other claims to be filed
and necessary expenses out may pay ten
per cent to the creditors.
Mr.. A. n BAILEY of Queen City Park
near Burlington has made an accurate count
of the number of trees which were blown
down at that place by the recent storm. He
finds one hundred ninety-one trees either
torn up or broken off, one hundred fifty
being large, well grown trees.
THE First Congregational church at Corn
wall celebrated its one hundreth anniversary
Wednesday of last week. Addresses were
made by Rev. S. T. Blake of Fitchburgh,
Mass, Rev. Hiram Bingham of Windham,
o., Rev. NJ. G. Stebbins of Cornwall and
Rev. Lyman II. Blake of Holyoke, Mass.
RODNEY BAssETT had narrow escape from
death Monday morning at st. Adams He
was watching the morning mail train, which
stood in the depot, and did not notice the
approach of the shifting engine. He was
knocked down, rolled over and badly shaken
up, but no bones were broken. His bruises
are very severe.
GEORGE ARCHER of Fair Haven while
walking in what is known as the " Marsh y
saw a rattlesnake, seized it by the neck and
was bitten, but finally killed the reptile.
He soon after found another, captured it,
and has it now on exhibition, safely Gagged
1t measures four and one-half feet long
Archer is apparently uninjured.
EDWARD PHELPS son of Hon. John III
Phelps, news agent, who was one of the
sufferers in the railroad accident above Bar
ton was forced through window, cutting
and bruising his face. He can hardly move
his arms, and his right leg is fractured be-
low the knee. He sleeps most OF the time
and there are fears of internal fatal injuries
SIX different village residences We're en-
tered by burglars during Thursday night o
last week at Brattleboro, who secured some
$500 in money from the pocket-books OF the
several jewellers and decamped without
identification. The burglars are supposed
to have been the same who have beef