The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.
K inches of snow at Middlebury.


THEY had good sleighing in Burlington
Sunday.
THURSDAY was an unusually rough day on
Lake Champlain.
REV. Il. j. BEACH, pastor OF the Benson
Congregational church, has resigned.
ABOUT 215 converts are reported as a re-
suit of the revival meetings in Burlington
THERE are two hundred sixty girls at
work in the new shirt fartory at Rutland.
THE Pittsfeld Congregational church has
extended call to Rev. H. w. Conroy of
Litchfeld
GENERAL MANAGER HoBART's condition
has improved, but he is still very i'll with
acute bronchitis.
MRS ]. II. GILMAN Of Vershire, who was
injured two weeks ago by falling down
cellar stairs, died last Friday
Mr.. CHAPMAN of Burlington succeeds A.
l.. Parsons as secretary Of the Middlebury
Young Mems Christian Association.
THE Bradford musical convention, con-
Quoted by II. G. Blasdell, was successful
The concerts were all well attended.
THERE were thirty students present at
the opening lecture of the preliminary course
at the Medical College in Burlington.
THE new blocks at South Royalton are
being rapidly pushed forward, and the own
ers hope to occupy them before the lst Of
January.
THE depot at Barnet was entered by
burglars October 30. They took So and
broke open four trunks, taking about $50
worth of goods.
BURNIcE WEEDS house and barn at Paw
let were burned on Thursday. The barn
contained about fifty tons of hay and large
quantity of grain.
FRANK A. CURTIS, nephew of Colonel G.
w. Hooker, has been appointed route agent
on the Bratteboro and Whitehall railroad
to succeed G. b. Hyde.
r. G. SMITH of St. Adams has made an in
genious travesty on the tiresome chestnut
bell by covering cell block with natural
chestnuts and giving it tongue to match.
A clock is placed on one side of the affair.
AMONG the patents granted last week
were the following to Vermonters: Charles
f. Morse, Randolph assignor of one-half to
j. ID. Denison of West Randolph, expansion
pulley. Frank NJ. Farchid West Derby,
bench-dog.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM FLEURY of the Con-
struction Company's schooner Noble"
was drowned on Saturday between the
Rouses Point breakwater and Isle La Motto
shore. Captain Fleury was an unmarried
man, and was considered one of the best
sailors on the lake.
Mrs. JANE PENDRIDGE, a poor St. Johns
bury widow who went to England, her ma
| tive country, few weeks ago, has brought
| back with her to this country several hum
dred dollars which was owed her husband,
but which she was unable to secure while
| living at ST. Johnsbury
AT Especial village meeting at st. Adams
| Monday it was voted So to ~ that the
trustees be authorized to make contract
with the st. Adams Electric Power COM
pany, for lighting the streets with thirty
lights of two hundred candle power each,
for period of five years, at a rate not to
exceed the average price paid in other New
England villages and cities.
In General
A SECOND Suez canal is proposed.
MORE rioting has occurred in Belfast.
HEAVY storms have visited Scotland,
causing loss of life.
CHARLESTON has experienced % earth
| quake shocks so far.
THE business portion of Chelsea, Wis, is
| burned. Loss $4,000.
BOB INGERsoLL has consented to appear
for the condemned anarchists
THE Walker horseshoe works in Balti.
more are burned; loss, So, 900
AN average of fifteen new cases of cholera
is reported at Genoa every day.
FIRE has destroyed the town of Battleford
in the British northwest territory.
THE fire loss in the United States anG
Canada in October was S12000,0O0.
The abscondihg president of the Peoria
bank has been arrested in Montreal.
A TRAIN on the Erie railroad ran into 6
gang of Italian laborers and killed four.
TWENTY-FIVE wooden buildings at Dial
housie, n. B., are burned. Loss, $4,000.
ELEVEN inches of snow in Pennsylvania
and from three to seven in New York state
A STEAMSHIP line has been established
between Newport News Va, and Liverpool
THE proposition to hold constitutional
convention is undoubtedly carried in New
York.
A CONFEDERATE monument was erected
by Maryland battalion on the Gettysburg
} battlefield Saturday.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was expe
rienced at Sumter, and other places in Soutl
Carolina Friday noon.
Ex-ALDERMAN MCCABE, whose trial fo
bribery by Jake Sharp is impending, is of
ticially pronounced insane.
AN area of 100 square miles has beer
burned over in Holland, ILL.,, and many
, well-tilled barns are destroyed.
, The court house and all the Coos county
records were burned at Lancaster, n. H.
last week Thursday. Nothing saved.
SENATOR SAwYER's gift of 100000 to til,
town Of Oshkosh, Wis, for the founding o
a free library there, has been accepted.
THE president has appointed George w
Baxter of Cheyenne to the governor o
Wyoming Territory, vice Francis f. War
rem suspended.
The rumor to the effect that the Canadian
f Pacific had bought the Stanstead, Sheffort
3, and Chambly and the Waterloo and Magol
; railway is not correct.
PAsTEUR has informed the academy o.
sciences that he has treated during the pas
> year :, 400 persons who had been bitten by
e animals, and that out of this number only
, ten had died
!, LOSSES by a fire in the Barker block a
! Omaha Friday night will reach 100000
! with only partial insurance. The building
, was occupied by dry-goods and grocery
n stores and real estate offices.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND had fine recep
, ton at Harvard College Monday. There
/ was also public reception at Faneul hall
e in the afternoon, and another at the Ven
v dome in the evening which was attended by
9 5000 people
/, A WICHITA (Kan.) special says; NJ. M
t Kettleman of Kansas defeated Charles Glib
$ son of California in $50 yard foot race fol
a the championship of America and 5000
r His time was 142 seconds. Over S10O,0Ot
g was wagered on the result
!, RETURNS received thus far from the cleo
margarine tax show that the business is
bigger than any one suspected, and that
the tax will not restrict trade in the imita
ton article nor benefit the butter men
, Pittsburg will collect quarter of a million
dollars and Chicago nearly a million dollars