The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-02
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

last Friday while fishing.
THE Memorial day exercises throughout
the state were largely attended.
ALL the students but ten have returned to
the Burlington Medical College,
FRED wIGGINs of Bloomington broke his
nose while playing ball the other day.
CONSIDERABLE snow fell on Mount Mans
field and Cancels Hump last Wednesday.
WILLIAM II. ORDwAy, dealer in agri-
cultural implements at Sharon, has failed.
AN effort is being made to secure the loca-
ton of the Soldiers Home at Bellows Falls.
THE marble industry at Brandon is grow
ing rapidly. Business matters look hopeful.
ARTHUR DION of Charleston had hand
badly injured by the bursting of gun-barrel.
HENRY LAKE Of Wells was thrown from
his wagon, the other day, and received some
very bad bruises.
THE little son of Peter Loiselle of Rutland
was dangerously scalded by falling into a
pail of boiling water
JAMES REYNOLDS of Brandon, while in
toxicated, attempted suicide, but was pre-
vented from doing so.
THE Caledonia county court began its
June term yesterday. The docket contains
1913 law and 90 chancery cases.
PATRICK TRAINoR, an employee of the scale
shops in st. Johnsbury, had a foot badly
THOMAS CuRREY of Underhill lost two
fingers and thumb by bringing his left
hand in contact with a circular saw.
THE name of Loyalton, Dakota, whittier
so many Vermonters have gone to make a
home, is to be changed to " Vermont City"
III. ID. MACON Of Westmore was thrown
from wagon recently, dislocating Shout
der, breaking two ribs and bruising him
severely.
CAPTAIN A. G, FOSTER of Weston, ar
rested for an alleged assault on the person
of his ward, Miss Wyman, has been bound
over in $500 for appearance at county court.
THE body of a man found in the river
near Fort Smith, Ark, May IS, has been
identified as that of Lawrence Howard, a
native of Rutland. His age was thirty five.
THE date of the Windsor county republi-
can convention is June 23d, instead Of that
enormously given last week. The Orleans
county republican convention will also be
held June 23d.
THE residence of Marcus A. Dunn, about
mile south of Pownal, was burned by an
incendiary fire last week. Loss $1,000; in
sured for $1,000. There have been four in
cendiary fires in that locality within year.
| ONE night last week masked men entered
| the house of Warren Maston of Derby
knocked him down, tied his hands and de.
manded his money. He had deposited
uilt ldy anu luey you ITO DOOty.
THE soldiers monument at Brandon was
dedicated on Saturday. 1t is substantial
one, twenty-five feet high, of Barre granite
and cost $500. An grafton was delivered
| by General l.. A. Grant; the presentation
address by Ozro Meacham and response by
| Lieutenant-governor Ormsbee. Letters were
received from General Sherman, Governor
| Pngree, Senator Edmunds, ex-Governors
Smith and Barstow and Others Among the
prominent gentlemen present were General
| Thomas, General Pitkin, General Wells
Ex-Governor Proctor, Colonel j. B. Mead
Colonel George L. Childs, Mayor Woodbury.
of Burlington and General Corliss of Albany
Other Localities.
The potato crop on Long Island is likely
to be failure.
JOHN r. BARTLETT, author and biblio
graphist, is dead.
A FIRE in Franklin, Mass, last week, de
stroyed property valued at $4,000.
THE striking chair makers in st. Louis
have voted to go back to ten hours.
A CONFEDERATE monument was unveiled
at Camden, Arkansas, on Saturday.
THE New Jersey prohibitionists nomi
mated Gen. Clinton B. Fiske for governor.
THE town of Gorham, Maine, has cele
brated its one hundred fiftieth anniversary
AMONG the large fires reported is on,
which destroyed the village of Runkels, Wis
In Woodbridge, Conn, Schoolmaster Eli
OFT, in self-defence, killed pupil named
Bailey.
SATURDAY was observed as Decoration
day in Chicago. Four thousand veterans
were in line.
THERE was tremendous hail-storm il
Illinois and a whirlwind in Michigan las
week Thursday night.
| ba uor 1apartnant 10 Joubta1 tJo
General Miles has offered rewards for In
dams, " dead or alive"
A FIRE broke out in Bedford Clark q Coz
publishing house, New York, resulting in
loss of nearly million dollars.
A CONSPIRACY of certain New York Knight
to GUST Grand Master Workman Powderl,
is said to have been unearthed.
JAY GOULD is alleged to have ordered the
i discharge of all knights of Labor employed
in his Southwestern coal mines.
A HUGE grist-mill at Grand Rapids, Mich.
fell in from the great weight of grain store'
there. The damage was 100000
Two immense gas wells near Pittsbury
were struck by lightning. The flames ex
tended two hundred feet upward.
The national house on Saturday devote,
most of its time to oleomargarine, and de
clined to make the tax less than ten cents.
BALLS statue of Daniel Webster, pre-
scented to Concord, N. H., by b. p. Cheney
will be unveiled with impressive ceremonie
June 18th.
A wATERsPoUT struck house and BARI
in Abingdon, Va, destroying them and in
juring the inmates. One lady was carried
half mile away.
THERE is bigger run of salmon in tn
Penobscot this year than for many seasons
Fish weighing from fifteen to twenty-fiv
pounds are plenty.
THE fisheries question is looked upon il
Washington as a matter to be amicabl
settled, unless our fishermen, through pas
sion, resort to force.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, a rich iron master {
Pittsburg, Penn, has given quarter of
million of dollars to the city of Alleghan
for free public library.
Two girls, seven and fifteen years of age
and boy of twelve, were burned to dealt
at Nashville, Indiana. The house took fir
and they awoke too late.
on has been struck in the heart of Der
ver Colorado. This discovery creates
. sensation by opening the prospect of larg
new oil fields not hitherto dreamed of.
, A NEW fast express will be run by tn
Wabash road between st. Louis and Me-
York, making the trip in thrty-seven hours
This shortens the time about six hours.
FIRES are raging in the timber lands alon
the Escanaba river, Wisconsin, involving
loss of thousands of dollars, and also
Junction City and in the vicinity of Stu
geon Bay
, REV. T. c. JEROME of the Congregations
church in Marlborough, n H., and his tw
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