The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
Weekly News Summary.


Vermont.
EDWIN w. MORE of Fair Haven, while
splitting wood, cut off a big toe.
OVER ST., 600 of the stock of the Rutland
Electric Lighting Company has been sold
JOHN BROWN Of Westfield was run over
by team and had his ankle broken twice.
RoLLIN b. DART has been appointed post
master at Monkton and X. III. Wiles at |
Stratton.
TwENTy-sIx societies will take part in the
parade at the French celebration at Rut- |
land the oath.
f. w. BOOTH of Essex junction will put
down 10000 dozen eggs this season for the
winter market.
ELDER GRAY of North Hyde Park fell
from load of lumber the other day and was
severely injured.
EDGAR MORTON, a wealthy farmer of Mil
| ton, was killed last week by being thrown
| from a load of lumber.
| GEORGE HAwLEY of East Albany was
| hooked by COW few days since. One eye
/ was torn out of its socket.
THE semi-annual meeting of the Vermont
| State Medical Society will be held in Bur-
lington June oath and 25th.
Mrs. CHARLES MITCHELL of st. Adams
| attempted suicide recently by taking sui
phate of zinc. She will probably recover.
NEARLY one-half of the scholars and some
| of the teachers of Brattleboro are down with
the measles and the schools are to be closed.
JOSEPH MACE, prominent business man
at White River Junction, left home June Sd
for st. Adams and has not been heard from
| since.
REV. Mr.. GRANGER of st. Johnsbury, a
former presiding elder of the st. Adams
district broke one of his legs between the
ankle and knee recently.
Mr.. SCoTT of Rutland was the only Yer
monter present at the recent national con-
vention of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation secretaries held at Harrisburg, Penn.
l.. p. MORTON of New York has offered
to donate to Middlebury College $4,000,
provided sufficient additional amount can
be raised to enable the trustees to found a
professorship of modern languages.
CHARLES NOLAN of Bellows Falls, while
working near some shafting in the paper
mill, got his clothes entangled in a set
screw, tearing out hole in his breast nearly
to the lung and breaking collar bone.
The eight-years-old daughter of Henry
Austin of Rutland fell down flight of stairs
last week. Her head struck a stone step,
inf1icting severe confusion at the base of
the brain. She is in comatose condition.
FRED WAITE of Brattleboro expects to
pick from his nine-acre strawberry patch
fifty bushels daily during the season. most
of which will be shipped to Montreal. In
addition to this the florist, @. E. Allen, ex-
poets a crop of from ten thousand to twelve
thousand quarts.
The National Car Company have elected
these officers: President, James r. Langdon;
secretary and treasurer, f. S. Stranahan;
auditor, 10 d. Hatch; directors, James X.
Langdon, 10 ID. Hatch, M. Hall Stanton,
Gilman Cheney, Herbert Brainerd, e. Cur
tbs Smith and Henry L. Mills; executive
committee, j. r. Langdon, Herbert Brain
erd and f. Curtis Smith
THE grand jury at st. Johnsbury found
bills of indictment against Timothy ID. Alb
bolt, j. X. Brown and Frank Wright for
conspiracy in attempting to remove wit
ness. Frank Wright for adultery, was ar
raigned, pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to thirty months in the house of correction.
j. ID. Randall, druggist. forfeited his $500
bonds in liquor prosecution.
In the Windsor county court last week.
divorces were granted to Charles II. Sim
clair from Eta M. Sinclair, and Ellen A.
Kendall from Tom w. Kendall. In State
as. Darius Jacobs, respondent was SEN
fenced to the state prison for two years. In
the case of Town of Pomfret as. Town of
Hartford for relief from assessment to re-
. pair bridge at West Hartford, judgment
was rendered for the petitioner
Other Localities.
JOHN KELLY left his property to his widow.
A TORNADO has occurred in Valley City,
Dakota.
MEMBERS of congress are buying up Union
Pacific stock.
The Old Colony railroad station in Boston
was burned Thursday.
The long drought in the Northwestern
wheat section is broken.
A SALE of blooded yearlings in New York
realized total of S39,325.
THOMAS SEAY is the nominee of the Ala
! bama democrats for governor.
FoRTY-NINE of the Milwaukee rioters were
arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
Two hotels at Rawley Springs Va, were
burned, causing loss of 100000
The oleomargarine bill will be opposed in
, the senate by southern democrats
BISHOP HENDRIcKEN of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Providence died Friday.
RUBENsTEN, the distinguished pianist,
will shortly make tour of America.
THE Missouri Pacific fails to sustain its
case against the thirteen indicted strikers.
WnKEsBARRE is afflicted by one of the
!, periodical sinkings of the earth which charac.
: terize its history.
8 THE Rhode Island legislature has con-
r firmed the reelection of Mr.. Aldrich to the
: United States senate.
. TRAIN-wREcKERs ditched night express
: train in Georgia. killing the fireman and Sc
verely injuring the engineer.
! HYDRoPHoBIA has broken out at Yankton,
q Dakota, among the cattle, horses, hogs and
= dogs, and is creating scare.
. THE democrats of the second Maine dis
), trict have nominated Ex-Governor Garcelon
: for representative to congress.
f COLONEL RICHARD M. HOE widely known
as the inventor of the Hoe printing-press,
has died suddenly in Florence, Italy.
s Miss CLEvELAND's new novel is named
e "The Long Row." The manuscript has
!. been received by her Detroit publishers.
a CoNGREssMEN DINGLEY, Milliken and
). Boutelle (republicans) of Maine have beer
. renominated in their respective districts.
;. THE President and his wife left Deer Parl
h last week Tuesday for the White House. Nc
n reason is given for their unlooked-for return.
[. THE New York state senate pays Roscoe
n Conkling and Clarence Seward each $40, 900
d for conducting the investigation into Jack
n Sharp's bribery cases.
!. The Maine state republican convention al
8 lie vision nominated Hon. j. II. Bodwell Of
:. Hallowell for governor by eight hundred
:, eighty-two votes against two hundred one
d for DR.. A. c. Hamlin of Bangor
l., Foreign.
s. A LARGE Montreal glass factory has beef
d burned. Loss $4,000.
/ THE political excitement in Pesth culmi
i mated in serious rioting.
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