The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-07
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


been discontinued.
Forty kinds of patent medicines are man
ufactured at Enosburgh Falls.
Mrs WILLIAM Cory of Newport fell down
stairs last week and broke her wrist
WEsTFoRD will soon have two butter
factories running; 400 cows are pledged.
DANIEL A. FAY of West Bratteboro has
been granted patent for folding table.
HUGH SAVAGE of Hyde Park broke his
right leg while lifting boy " stiff-heels."
THE next annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut Valley Masonic Association will be held
in st. Johnsbury.
AVERY, son of j. f. CallSins of Richford,
ran under an uplifted AK, and will have
crippled hand for life
A DRY-HoUsE filled with clapboards be-
longing to Burbank & Williams of Coventry
was burned last week.
THE house and furniture belonging to
John Steele of Hubbardton were consumed
by fire early last week.
BURGLARS entered several stores and
shops in Swanton last Sunday night, but
secured but little booty
PATRICK, son of Thomas Doan of Rutland,
caught fsh-hook in the center of his left
eye, destroying the sight.
LUDLOW is said to have man who is 108
years old. He celebrated his last birthday
by walking several miles.
CYRUS WEBSTER of Eden has erected a
cabin containing forty logs, no two of which
are of the same kind of wood.
CONDUCTOR Sol. EsTY of st. Adams was
instantly killed last week on the Ogdens-
burg & Lake Champlain road.
CHARLES S. SHAw's farm buildings in
North Danville were burned last week.
Loss $1,000; insured for 81 600.
EDDIE BoNvILLE of Fair Haven was
thrown from velocipede, breaking his arm
and putting his elbow out of joint.
VERMoNTERs at Washington have ordered
from a st. Johnsbury farmer 300 pounds of
sugar for their annual sugaring-off."
SEVEN writs have been served upon Cate
x Bunker for damages resulting from the
explosion at their mill in North Wolcott.
WALTER c. CRAWFORD of Putney, a deputy
sheriff, has been missing for three weeks.
No cause for his disappearance is known.
A CAsTLEToN man has shipped 600 willow
shoots to Wyoming Territory. 1t is hoped
the soil will be favorable for their growth.
BRATTLEBoRo holds special town meet
ing next Saturday to appropriate more
money-probably about S4,0O0-for sol
diers' monument.
NATHANIEL N. CANFIELD of Manchester
was recently gored by bull The animals
horn entered the breast, breaking one rib
and penetrating lung
GEORGE w. PERRY of Woodstock fell
from barn, the other day, breaking both
bones of one leg and his colar-bone, besides
brusng his head badly.
SIR THADDEUs FAIRBANKS of st. Johns
bury fell, the other day, spraining his left
hip badly. His extreme age causes serious
apprehension as to the results.
JAMES BUzzELL, charged with robbing the
mail at Newport Center, has been bound
it,t has nf2 for at
the next term of the United States court
at Windsor.
Mr.. EDWARD HAMMOND of Rutland was
drowned in Otter Creek, last Saturday, by
the capsizing of a boat. A companion
grabbed hold of the tail of large spaniel
dog and was drawn ashore.
w. f. ROBERTSON of Readsboro, with six
French laborers, while crossing a bridge
with team last week, were precipitated
into the river by the bridge giving way.
Robertson and three of the men were
drowned.
THE firm of Trim, Wallerstein & Co., shirt
manufacturers, having five factories in New
York state, are to start branch factory at
Rutland. They expect to employ from 45C
to 800 girls, the payroll amounting to nearly
$780, per month
A CHINAMAN who passed through Island
Pond, the other day. on his way to Cali
fornia, was bonded through the Canadian
territory just as piece of baggage would
be, entered on the customs manifest as
one live Chinaman."
HENRY GoRHAM's two tenement-buildings
and j. K. Manleys wooden block at West
Rutland were burned, with most of their con-
tents, last Saturday. Loss S4 900: insured
for S3,400. An Italian lost $3.50 in money
and Frenchman $50. Origin of fire I'M
known.
AMONG the late Miss Louisa Towards be-
quests is one of $4,000 to the Howard Re-
lief Society of Burlington to establish a
mission house after the society has out
grown its present quarters. She also leaves
$1,000 to the medical department of the
University of Vermont
GEORGE T. SHANKs, editor of the London.
derry SITTER "a paper run much in the style
of the Richford Gazette, was arrested last
week, on charge of criminal libel brought
by Post-otfice Inspector Lamson-the al
legged libels growing out of post-office con-
test. Damages of $4,000 are claimed.
RECEIVER RICH has been ordered to pay
a dividend of two and one-half cents to the
creditors of the defunct st. Adams Trust
Company, making forty-two and one-hal
per cent of the claims This dividend comes
from $75 900 in his hands, a large part of il
the proceeds of the recent sale of part O.
the Norwood property.
JOE SoUCI, thirty-four years old, hare
character OF st. Adams, was shot dea(
early Saturday morning by Sarah Deforge
keeper of a house of ill-fame. The woman
fired from window at the man, who wa:
talking to her from the front gate. She wa
found hidden under the hay in her father
barn and confessed that she fired the shot.
Other Localities.
SEVERAL more of the mill strikes are ter
minated.
New HAMPSHIRE will have Legislative
reunion in June.
GERONIMO and other captured Apach,
chiefs have escaped.
In fire at Bronson, Mich, two person
were burned to death.
THE reduction in the public debt 70
March was $14 ,250 900.
FIERCE tornado at Helena, Ark, las
week, did much damage.
The final canvass of the house on tn
bankruptcy bill is favorable.
THE President has appointed Caleb w
West of Kentucky to be governor of Utah.
ALTHOUGH Secretary Manning is better,
is probable he will retire from the cabinet.
FROM four to fifteen inches of snow fell i
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin last Thursday
A COTTON factory at Prattville, Ala, ha
been undermined and fallen in. Loss $50, 0Ot
Two factories and the Catholic church 8
Westboro Mass, are burned. Loss $75, 00t
ONE of the girls in Vassar College ha
been expelled for thieving from her fellow
students
EIGHT prominent citizens of Californi