The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-12
Weekly News Summary.


new Jail Sunday night of last week.
AN effort is being made to organize a
Grand Army Post in West Randolph.
JERRY LARoCK of Middebury cut one of
his feet severely with a Ratchet the other
day.
THE freight house at North Georgia was
burned recently with its contents. The loss
is small.
THE Vermont Lumber Company at West
more has about 100000 feet of lumber in
the lake.
THE house of Moses Cushing at Island
Pond was burned the other night. No in
surance.
LESLIE DURKEE of North Duxbury was
recently badly scalded in the face by escap-
ing steam.
PROPERTY belonging to the estate of j.
M. Haven was sold at auction at Rutland by
the assignee.
SEVERAL persons paid $3.50 each, fine
and costs, for catching trout in Bakersfield
before the LIST of May.
MORE than 800 taxpayers in Burlington
failed to fill out their inventories, and their
lists are liable to be doubled.
SATURDAY, May LIST, the remains of the
late Rev DIR. Goodel of st. Louis were in
tered in the family lot at St. Johnsbury.
THE Vermont Episcopal Institute at Bur-
lington will be open for the reception of
summer boarders during July and August.
WILLIE ELLIS, IL Slndll SOn Oh JdDeZ Ellis
of st. Johnsbury, was struck in the small of
the back by a baseball and severely injured.
=. j. REARDoN of Rutland was fined $40
and costs in the municipal court Thursday
for illegally voting at the last village cleo
ton
THE contract for the Brooks Public Lii
brary building at Brattleboro has been
awarded to Bartlett Brothers of Whateley,
Mass.
e. l.. RANsoM's grocery store at Swanton
was burglarized Saturday night Alfred,
Michael and Charles Medor of Swanton have
been arrested
THE annual meeting of the Caledonia
county Wonan's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at st. Johnsbury Center
June 10 and 49,
ALLEN ST. JOHN of Hubbardton recently
killed three four-years-old steers, the aver
age weight of each of which when dressed
being over 1, 300 pounds.
w. M. NARAMoUR's store at Bakersfield
was entered by burglars last week Wednes-
day night. Some watches and jewelry were
taken to the amount of about $50.
THE state treasurer thinks it will not be
necessary to levy state tax this year. The
taxes paid in last year amount to 5000 6S5,
while the tax levied was only 71,011.
THE boat race on Lake Memphremagog,
at Newport June 10, between Wallace Ross
and John Teemer, is for a purse of 5000,
subscribed by the citizens of the place.
AS freight train was passing through
Swanton, the other day, Hugh Donaldson
received a fearful blow and cut about the
head from piece of coal thrown from the
cars.
BUB DAVIS the young man who burglar
lied Bocash's store in Sheldon, pleaded
guilty to charge of burglary and was SEN
fenced to two years in the house of correc-
ton.
RoLLo j. LANNON'S house and two barns
in Cornwall were burned Wednesday. The
fire started from defective chimney, and
the loss will be $1,000, with $500 insur-
ance.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HENRY went to
New Hampshire Monday to subpoena about
twenty-five witnesses in the Libby case,
which will be retired at Windsor next week
in the United States court.
GEORGE w. FLAGG of Braintree and
Lester l.. Burton of Clio, Mich, wrestled
for best three in five falls, collar and elbow
style, at the Casino rink, Flint, Mich, April
20. Flagg won the second, third and fifth
falls.
A SECTION of iron pipe for the new pulp
mill at Newport has arrived. 1t was twelve
feet long, eight feet in diameter and
weighed 1900 pounds. The team which
drew it consisted of fifteen yoke of oxen
and one span of horses.
THE Rutland BARRIERS have recently re-
solved to close their shops on Sunday.
Rev. T. L. Drury preached sermon on
Sunday observance, in which he took occa-
sion to commend the action they had taken
to close their shops on the Lords day.
A GENUINE strike has been begun by the
students in the medical department of the
University of Vermont, who resent the APP
pointment to professorship of DIR. Leroy
M. Bingham man obnoxious to them, by
declaring their intention of absenting them
selves from his lectures,
THE stockholders of the Queen City Park
Association have voted funds to build large
summer hotel at the park. 1t will be three
stories high, of wood, the main part meas
uring thirty-tive feet by sixty feet and the
wing thirty feet by eighty feet, with piazzas
on three sides. 1t will be ready by
July LIST. The dining-room will be eighty
feet long and capable of dining two hundred
guests at a sitting
Other Localities.
ILLINOIS crop prospects are favorable.
THE Union Pacific brakemen's strike has
ended
SECRETARY MANNING is better and will e
to Old Point Comfort.
FIERCE tornado swept over Coketown
Penn, doing great damage.
By the fall of Brackets block, Mime
apolis fifteen men were killed.
THE Chicago police have found more dy
Mantle bombs in socialists houses.
THE President has sent to the house tw,
veto messages, each vetoing pension bill
IT is sad that Wellesley College has re
ceived legacy of 100000 for the art schoo
building.
AND now it is said that President Cleve
land will marry Mrs Folsom, and not tn
daughter.
WATERsPoUTs, hail and transforms hav
done much damage to crops in Kansas an
Missouri.
THE house has passed bill increasing tn
pension of bedrdden soldiers from S72 t
300 per month.
POLICE OFFICERS BARRRTT AND MILE
of Chicago died, making three victims c
the anarchist riot
HUNDREDS of birds were killed in Chicag
Saturday night by flying against the lanter
of an electric light.
A SPECIAL national assembly of tn
knights of Labor has been called to comba
ruinous dissensions
FoRTy-sEvEN of Senator Leland Stanford
trotters were sold in New York last wee
Wednesday for $46,S85.
KANSAS reports about half crop of wintt
wheat, and spring wheat is about the SAN
as last year and in excellent condition.
A TORNADO swept through Wayne count
Indiana, Sunday, leveling houses, barn
trees and fences. Three lives were lost