The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-22
Weekly News Summary.

THE fifteen-year-old son of Lewis Wins
low of Newark was drowned last week.
WILL SHAMPoNY of McIndoe's, who lost
both feet the 18th of July, is nearly we'll
ID. l.. MOODY, the evangelist, will be in
Woodstock the 10Th and 26th of this month.
THE freshman class at Middlebury College
numbers twenty-five, two of whom are
ladies'.
A BASEBALL association numbering more
than sixty members has been formed at
Lyndon.
l.. BoARDMAN's five-year-old son of East
Middlebury had his hand badly injured in
corn-sheler.
Mrs. A. j. S1MoNs' barn in Brattleboro
was burned Friday night, with hay, grain
and two horses.
ELLIS COLE of East Burke fell from hay
NOV, striking on a fork-handle, which pene-
trated his bowels
ALLEN BROTHERS oil-safe manufacturing
building at Fair Haven was destroyed by
fire Saturday night
HIRAM A, SMITH of West Rutland was
thrown from his carriage last week and had
his shoulder broken
The dwelling house of Fred Hoyt at West
Arlington was totally destroyed by fire last
week. Partially insured.
T.. A. HIGGINs of North Clarendon was
severely injured at Howard Park last week
Thursday by an ugly bull
CHARLES PHILLIPS of Bennington was as
saulted and robbed one night last week,
and has not been seen since.
THE Castleton Slate Company's mill at
Castleton was totally destroyed by fire early
Sunday morning. Partially insured.
SYNDICATE dogs recently made sad havoc
in A. NJ. Hanilton's flock of twenty-five
lambs, killing and wounding eighteen.
THE national board of underwriters offer
Il
person who set the fire at South Royalton
August 3Oth.
EDWARD PALMER, Jr., of Vergennes re-
ceived wounds in the thigh and wrist the
other day by the accidental discharge of his
fowling-piece.
GORDON S. HUBBARD, a native of Wind
sor and one of the oldest settlers of Chi
cago, died in the latter place last week, aged
eighty-four years.
Z. G. BEATTIE of McIndoe's has sold to
the Connecticut River Lumber Company
5000 acres of timber land in East Haven
and CRANKY for S4S,00O,
A BLAST in rock at the Bennington
water-works reservoir threw chip of stone
400 feet and cut cash two inches long in
the head of an Italian laborer.
SEvENTY-FIvE carloads of hogs, thirty-five
carloads of beef and nine cars of butter,
etc, passed through St. Adams one day re-
Gently in transit from the West.
A MAPLE tree in NJ. NJ. Whtney's yard in
Bellows Falls has growing among its
branches a large blackberry bush, straw
berry vine and fine suntlower
CHARLES HEAToN's house and barn in
East Thetford, with nearly all their con-
tents, were burned on the 18th The origin
of the fire is unknown; partially insured.
I'M. TINKHAM has been appointed deputy
superintendent in the dairy department of
the Bay State Agricultural Society and will
look after the interests of the Vermont dairy
men
THE state convention of the Young Mems
Christian Associations will be held in Barre
October It'll Sth, 9th and 10th. j. II.
Humphrey of st. Johnsbury will lead the
singing.
REV. GRANVILLE YoGER, Congregational
pastor and superintendent of schools at
Townsend, Mass, has been elected to the
professorship of metaphysics in Middlebury
College.
JOHN POWERS of West Rutland, twenty
five years of age, fell "A distance of twenty
feet Friday night and was very severely,
if not fatally, injured. Two ribs and one
wrist were broken.
ICHABoD p. STEVENS a nephew of the
celebrated traveller, Benjamin Stevens died
on Sunday at Manchester, aged ifty-nine
years. He was born in New York and had
been real estate broker.
Pond the other night. His name is Wood
ward of Holland and he has already served
term in the house of correction and state
prison for similar offences.
f. W. MoRRis, a wel-known manufac-
turer of White River village, was seriously,
but not fatally, injured Monday by the
falling of platform on which he was stand
ing Two others were slightly hurt.
Mrs. REUBEN SIMPSON and three small
children of Bradford were out riding one
day last week, when the horse took fright
and ran away. Mrs. Simpsons arm was
broken, and her only son, three years old,
was instantly killed.
THERE We're forty-nne children confirmed
by the Rt. Rev. DeGoesbriand, bishop of
Burlington, in st. Dominick's church, Proc
tor, Sunday forenoon of last week Rev.
Fathers Mclaughlin and Coffey acted as as
sistants during the ceremony.
GEORGE BARNEY, who was sentenced to
five years imprisonment at the house of
correction for larceny, has Just been par
doned by the governor. He had served
nearly three years of his time, but has con-
sumption and will probably not live two
months.
Miss DEWEY of Rutland is to go to East
ern Turkey to enter missionary work, and
it will take her two months to reach her
destination. The last 300 miles of her jour
ney she travels on horseback Miss Dewey
expects to remain in Turkey ten years and
will teach in a seminary there.
FLINT BROTHERS of st. Johnsbury have a
curiously constructed watch Through two
round holes in the face appears in plain
figures the time of day, one marking the
hour and the other the minute. The figures
slip into place with absolute precision as
the minutes and hours pass along.
JOHN II. JONES of West Pawlet was found
dead and his body mangled in frightful
manner on the railroad track two miles
south of Granville Friday evening 1t is
supposed he had been drinking and fell
asleep on the track. He was about forty
years old and has a family in Wales.
SANDY MILLER of Bennington was taken
violently insane few days ago. and, pro-
curing an axe, started out for victims.
After IA desperate struggle he was captured
and tied up. Two of his captors were bit
ten in the struggle. Thursday he was con-
veyed to the insane asylum at BrattleborO.
THERE came near being disastrous fire
at George CUNTS at White River Junction.
The cause was kerosene The stove was
lit and was being filled by Mrs. Quint, when
the kerosene exploded and filled the room
with fire in an instant. The flames We're
extinguished by some men who happened
to be near at hand.
The old homestead built by Governor
Chittenden, NermOnts first governor still
stands in Williston and has been occupied
by six generations, A plain marble shaft
marks his last restng-place in the cemetery
tpl, G. 10, loo,