The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Weekly News Summary.

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Royalton, has been attached.
EDWARD DANIELS of Castleton fractured
his leg during game of baseball.
A LITTLE daughter of James Mullin of
West Rutland broke her arm last week
THE Catholic society of St. Johnsbury will
commence the erection of $4,000 church
at once.
JOSHUA SYLsBY's saw-mill at Lunenburg
was burned last week. Loss $4,000; in
surance $500.
Mrs. GEORGE AYERS of Windsor, who had
two ribs broken by a runaway accident, lies
in critical condition.
AN Oswego bass weighing twenty-five
pounds was found in Lake Bomoseen, near
Castleton, last week.
FRANK GREENwooD's house at Derby was
burned last week Tuesday, with portion of
its contents. Loss $500.
A LARGE mud-turtle was recently found
in the river at Huntington with " E. Fargo,
1852" branded on it's back.
HENRY GooDENoUGH's house at West
Brattleboro was entered last week by burg
lars, who took jewelry and other articles.
THE young son of Richard Foley of West
Rutland fell from a tree dislocating his left
elbow and fracturing the arm below the
elbow joint.
A SMALL barn owned by Mr.. Patrick Bar
u,
with its contents. The fire was lndoubt-
eddy of incendiary origin. Loss $780, in
sured for 500.
YESTERDAY the trustees of the Vermont
reform school and quite number of state
officials visited the institution, and to-day
they make an excursion over the lake and
to Lake George.
THE Spiritualist camp-meeting at Queen
City Park, Burlington, commences August
10th and continues to September 18th. Half
fare tickets will be sold from all stations on
the Central Vermont.
VERMONT farmers should be on their
guard. Illinois farmers report the appear
ance of large black potato-bug which it is
thought will prove more destructive than
the Colorado beetle.
The private creditors of Richard r.
Haines, representing large amount of his
Indebtedness, met at Bennington last week
and discussed their probable action in the
matter of contesting the Knower mortgages,
amounting to 100000.
LEVI BoYDEN, Guilford farmer is said
to have lost about $500 last week on the
circus grounds by the three-card monte
trick Officers followed the sharpers to
Bellows Falls and compelled them to give
up the money. Others have suffered similar
losses without recovery.
JOHN JOHNSON, aged forty, a Swede in
the employ of the Vermont Marble Com
pany, had his left leg crushed above the
knee by flat car at the dump in Suther-
land Falls Monday afternoon. An artery
was torn open and the man nearly bled to
death. The leg was amputated and he died
in the evening.
w. H. HAMILTON, aged fifty-three, a vet
eran of Company X, Third Vermont, who
enlisted from Williamstown and has been
well-known in Brattleboro for many years
as an onion farmer and peddler, was found
Haa1 in fl,n tipItt pix Loot Eri,
He was found floating in about eighteen
inches of water and is supposed to have
taken his own life.
PHILANDER DAVIS, a prisoner at the house
of correction, escaped Saturday afternoon
He was sent from Franklin county last
winter to serve sentence of two years for
larceny The fellow had been feigning
sickness and Superintendent Eayres, instead
of keeping him at work in the marble shop,
sent him up to clean the chapel. He swung
from the chapel window to an adjoining
roof and then jumped to the ground.
THE prohibtionsts of Addison county
have made the following nominations: Sen
ators, II. L. Bristol of Panton and o. p.
Mead of Salisbury; assistant Judges j. G..
Smith of Shoreham and George L. Meader
of Bristol; probate judges, j. e. Crane of
Middlebury and Lester f. Benton of Ver-
gennes; states attorney, ii. S. Foote of
Middlebury; sheriff Cyrus A. Bump of
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West Cornwall.
FLORA WETHERBEE, a saleswoman in the
Boston store at Rutland, has been arrested
for taking dry and fancy goods from the
store. The proprietors had missed things
for months, and a search of her house re-
suited in the discovery of several trunks
filled with silks, dress goods, scores of
gloves and lace. They believe their loss to
be 81 900, although only about $3.50 worth
of articles have been discovered. The young
lady was favorite saleswoman and was to
be married 10 wel-to-do young man soon
She is under 81 400 bonds for trial.
Other Localities.
MICHAEL DAvITT is coming to America to
lecture.
MELRosE, Mass, had eight fatal diph-
| liberia cases last week.
HUBERT o. THOMPSON a noted New
| York politician, is dead.
HEAVY rains are reported in Kansas an
Missouri after long drouth.
RAIN and wind did considerable damage
in Philadelphia Thursday night.
FRANCIS H. AMIDoN, the former we'll
known halter of New York, is dead.
SIX trainmen lost their lives in collision
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad.
IT is said that John Randolph Tucker will
succeed John Goode as solicitor-general.
MoRLAccHI, the once famous premier dan
seuse, died Friday at East Billerica, Mass.
| CHARLES HUTCHINs, the business agent of
' the American Board of Foreign Missions,