The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-19
Weekly News Summary.

is reported to have failed.
IT is expected that Benjamin f. Butler
will be the principal orator at the state fair.
Four tons of fshing-rods were recently
shipped to England from Chubbs factory
at Post Mills.
IT is reported that j. ]. r.. Randall of
Rutland is to be appointed national bank
examiner for Vermont.
REV. j. II. BABBITT of Swanton is attend
ing the international Sunday-school execu-
tive committees meeting at Chautauqua.
IT is announced that the first meeting of
the Vermont Horsebreeders' Association
will be held at Howard Park, Burlington.
PROFESSOR CHARLES f. BAILEY, an expe-
rienced teacher. late of Barre, has been en-
gagged as principal of the Rouse's Point
schools.
AN insane man named Skinner, who was
sent from st. Adams as a transient" some
time ago, has escaped from the Brattleboro
asylum.
IT is rumored that an effort is making to
procure the removal of Hon. Daniel Roberts
from the reCeiverShip of the First National
Bank of St. Adams.
MARK w. CASSIDY a former resident of
Rochester and a brave Union soldier, died
of sunstroke in Washington, ID. c., last Sat
urday, aged tfty-two years.
BRATTLEBoRo claims that she can con-
tribute more members to the proposed legis-
JatlNe reunion AT MOntne1er, tlllS 1all, IMAM
any other town in the state.
A FIvE-YEARs-oLD son of II. w. Kinney of
st. Johnsbury was attacked with hem
orrhage of the lungs Monday night August
10, and died in ten minutes
FOURTEEN ffty-dollar shares of the stock
oftheBellows Falls National Bank were sold
at S102 share to George II. Babbitt of the
American Express Company.
Mrs. FRED ALLEN of West Newport was
cprioug1v If IN fatally wnun1p6 last SIM
day by being struck in the head by stone
thrown by some unknown party.
ALFRED LACoUsE of Biddeford, Maine,
was arrested in st. Johnsbury for stealing
S125 and lot of jewelry in Biddeford. He
has already served two terms in prison.
THE drug store of Flint & Laythee at Rock
Island Grove, near Derby Line, was entered
by burglars last week Thursday night. The
safe was blown open and $50 distracted.
Two men attempted to burglarize Places
store at Highgate, Saturday night by
breaking through glass door. The clerk
heard them and fred at them, but they
capped.
A LITTLE daughter of John Lavine of Bur-
lington about one year old, fell down stairs,
one day last week, and dislocated her neck,
dying about an hour and a half after the &C.
cident.
RUTLAND has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages by two citizens for keeping defective
the deaths of two children of one and one of
the other
THE slate and pencil quarries in North
Castleton are filled with water from the lit
tie deluge of last week, and thirty or forty
hands will lie on their oars until the pump
ing is over.
j. V. STEVENS store and dwelling at
Waterville were burned last week Wednes-
day morning. The fire started from the
bursting of an oil stove. Loss 5000; par
TALLY insured.
SHERIFF MILES of Orleans county was
getting off the train with prisoner for the
work-house at Rutland, when pistol in his
pocket accidentally exploded, making an
ugly wound in the hip.
Mrs. CHARLES CHURCH of Westminster,
while watching the memorial procession,
caught her heel on some steps and fell,
breaking one wrist, spraining one foot and
cutting cash on her face.
DIR. H. A. INGHAM, a resident of Yer
gennes and manufacturer of Ingham's pain
killer, was found dead in bed last week
Friday morning at Asbury Park, n. j.,
where he had been visiting.
A NUMBER of artists are preparing sketches
and views of the more interesting scenery
and places of Vermont, with descriptions,
which will be published by the Central
Vermont Railroad Company.
CURTIS c. DAVIS, farmer residing in
Athens, committed suicide by hanging early
Monday morning of last week. Pecuniary
troubles had unsettled his mind. He leaves
widow and seven children.
WHILE Mrs. A. o. Williams of Burke was
eating green peas for dinner, one OF the peas
lodged in her throat and nearly choked her
to death. A physician was Immediately
called, who soon relieved her.
SAMUEL A. HUNTINGTON of Rochester
committed suicide Wednesday forenoon by
hanging. Dependency is supposed to be
the cause. He was sixty-two years of age
and leaves widow and five children.
PATENTS were issued to Vermont invent
ors for the week ending August 11th as
follows George w. Lepper, st. Adams,
cultivator; Leonard d. Howard, st. Johns
bury, combined try-square and bevel.
THE youngest son of Mr.. Glenn, who lives
about two miles west of McIndoe's Falls,
was playing with a common bedstead cas-
ter, and falling out of chair, nearly am
putated the thumb below the last joint.
THE following is a list of Vermont post
offices in which the special delivery system
will be inaugurated October LIST: Benning-
ton, Brattleboro, Burlington, Winooski,
Rutland, st. Adams and st. Johnsbury.
A FAMILY in Dorset by the name of
Maloney, and consisting of a mother and
her two grown sons. was poisoned last
week from taking some narcotic poisoning
with their food. They are all now out of
danger.
HENRY IBEE of Alburgh Springs under
took TO kidnap Lizzie Bean, seven years
old, Saturday. He was captured and kept
in custody until Monday, when he was al
lowed to go, on condition that he leave the
state.
SILAs G. DUNToN's house in Rutland was
burned Monday night. The contents of the
house were mostly saved The building
was valued at $1,000, and the Vermont
Mutual Company had $500 insurance upon
the house and contents.