The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-31
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Vermont. {.
BENSON has voted $1,000 for a soldiers
| monument.
A NEW Catholic school-building is to be
erected in Rutland.
A. DEMER1TT of johnson had hand badly
jammed the other day.
The selectmen of Sheffield have purchased
a farm for the towns poor.
AN effort is being made to establish a tele-
phone exchange in St. Adams.
A HOUSE belonging to Wilbur Jones of
! Craftsbury was burned the other day.
A DELEGATION from the vicinity of South
Royalton left for Dakota last Monday.
The playhouse of Burbank & Williams
Coventry, was partially burned recently.
w. j. SKINNER of Center Rutland drove
crowbar nearly through his foot last week.
AN attempt was made last week Thursday
night to burn the entire business portion of
Brandon.
L. d. HAzEN, administrator, has sold the
A. L. Baldwin property at Groton Pond to
Erastus Baldwin for $22,500.
Four hundred twenty-eight fourth-class
postmasters have been removed in this
state under the present administration.
AMAsA, son of James Newell of East
Burke, while splitting wood, accidentally
cut a bad cash in his little brothers head.
Mrs. JULIA G. r. DoRR has given the new
| library at Rutland $500 volumes, mostly
works on political science and memoirs of
statesmen.
THE post-office building at Bellows Falls,
which has been used as clearinghouse for
nearly fifty years, is to be removed to make
| room for the new town-house.
| RECEIVER RICH has petitioned the court
of chancery for an order to distribute moneys
now on hand to depositors in the ST. Adams
| Trust Company. A hearing on the matter
will be held tomorrow.
The Baptist Theological Institute of ver-
mont is in session at the First Baptist church,
Burlington, this week, and the exercises
| thus far have been very interesting. The
railroads sell tickets for fare one way.
Mrs. S. L. GRIFFITH of Dandy, who was
granted a divorce from her husband recently
on the ground of intolerable severity, was
the next day paid $4,000 alimony by Mr..
Griffith He was allowed one year in which
to pay the money, but chose to square up
at once.
THE working tools of the old Hiram Ma
sonic lodge of Pawlet are in the possession
of ID. w. Bromley. The Bible was printed
! in England in 1772. The seal and apron of
the chapter are ancient, and bear the date of
1776. The jewels are of solid silver and
cost CT los.
THE Burlington street railroad is to re-
ceive an overhauling as soon as the frost
is out of the ground. The gauge of the
road will be changed from four feet to four
feet, eight and half inches. The Pearl
street branch will be pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible. Two open cars, each
capable of seating forty persons, will be put
upon the line the coming summer.
Other Localities.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is better
A HEAVY snow-storm prevails in Wiscon-
sin.
nj cd frn
Dakota.
THERE is serious strike in West Virginia
coal mines.
ALL the street-car lines in Pttsburg
Penn, have struck.
The condition of Secretary Manning is
somewhat improved.
RAND, AVERY & Co., printers, Boston, are
in financial difficulties.
EMPLOYEES of the Broadway street railroad
of Brooklyn are on strike.
SEVERAL mill strikes have been satisfac-
torily settled the past week.
THE house passed the $15, 100000 river
and harbor bill last Monday.
THE First National Bank of Wahpeton,
| Dakota, has closed its doors.
ArToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND is confined
to his house by severe cold.
CITIZENS of Galveston have invoked mill
tary protection against the strikers.
Ex-JUsTIcE WARD Hunt of the United
States supreme court died Thursday.
A NATIONAL bank in Minneapolis has sus-
pended on account of losing speculations of
its officers in wheat.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS BLACK has
withdrawn his charges against his prede-
cessor, General Dudley.
THE total number of removals of fourth
class postmasters from March A. 1885, to
March s. 1886, was S,635.
The Rhode Island republicans renomi-
mated the present state officers with the eX-
ception of the encouragement.
ASSISTANT TREASURER CAPTAIN MUTT,
who was shot by Dukes in Pennsylvania, is
found S42, 800 short in his accounts.
w. ID. BRoCKToN, of wealthy family in
YonlSers, has created a sensation by marry
ing his mothers English seamstress.
THE large car and locomotive shops of the
Northern Pacific at Branerd, Mimi, were
burned Sunday night. Loss 100000.
PROFESSOR THURsToN of Cornell Univer.
sity says the Missouri Pacific strike is one
of the most unfortunate blunders yet com
mitted by the labor element.
AT Harrisburgh, Penn, 1000 men and
boys, employed at the Summit branch an
thracite coal mines, have struck for an in
crease of ten per cent In wages
Miss LOUISA p. WILLIAMS, a prominent
young lady OF OXiOru, Conn, was fNileu on
Monday by rejected sutton, Jay Andrews
who subsequently committed suicide.
, GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PCwDERLN
of the Knights of Labor says that every
strike must be confined to the section II
which it originates and be settled there.
. THE schooner Kioto, which sailed from
" Baltimore for New York February %, AM
: has not since been heard from, may hav
q been the vessel that ran into the oregon.
?. A FART of Maynard's shovel works il
v Northampton, Mass, is destroyed by hire
n with heavy loss, and young lady, Mr.
b Maynards private secretary, persisted in tn
!. flames.
II THE engine in Keene Brothers shoe fac
J, tory, Lynn, Mass, was shut down Frida
h by the engineer at the order, IL is said, o
the knights of Labor. This affects othe