The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-26
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

eide last week by taking morphine.
THE question of bridge to connect
Grand Isle and North Hero is being agi-
tated.
THE republican county convention of
Windsor county will be held at Woodstock,
June 18TH
TWELVE freight cars were wrecked at
South Vernon, Monday, in collision OF
freight trains.
BURTON FARRAR of Richford was fatally
injured Thursday by the accidental dis
charge of his gun.
II. S. CLARK, son of DR.. S. S. Clark Of st.
Adams, has been appointed clerk in the
Weldon National Bank.
NELSON ELLIsoN's large steam saw-mill
at South Stockbridge was burned last week.
Loss large; no insurance.
THE body of young Graves, drowned in
the lake at Newport last fall was found on
Thursday at Adams bay.
Ex-GovERNoR ST. JOHN of Kansas is to
speak on temperance twice in this state in
June-at st. Adams and Mortified.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the wood
working shop of James s. Lindley in Ben
nington. Loss $500; partially insured.
MEN are searching the forests in Somer-
set for a missing peddler, j. III. Willis,
whom it is believed has been killed by wild
| beasts.
THE hearing in the Parker poisoning case
| at Rutland has closed, Justice Bailey refus-
ing to hold Mrs. Mason on the charge of
poisoning her son-in-law, ID. G. Parker.
THERE are fourteen places where liquor
is sold illegally in Fairhaven-more than
ever before. In Rutland there are eighty
four places where liquor is sold, and only
| four bakeries.
e. EELs of Middlebury, who shipped sheep
to South America about year ago, will
| Off rt wit nf nxyf IL
going to Montevideo, where he sold the
sheep last year.
The stage from Fairfax to Westford is
driven by Joseph Root, a man who will be
one hundred years old next March He
drives eighteen miles a day and rarely
misses trip.-Free Press.
The annual convention of the Vermont
| Baptist Sunday-school Association is to be
| held in Ludlow June i, and g. DIR. Black
all of Philadelphia will have charge of the
convention and the annual sermon will be
preached by Rev. Mr.. Clifford of Boston
AT meeting of the trustees of the Uni
versity of Vermont on.Thursday, Professor
Bingham rendered his resignation as pro-
lessor of surgery in the Burlington Medical
| College. The trustees accepted the resigna-
ton, having previously passed resolutions
sustaining DR.. Bingham.
DR.. G. B. BULLARD, a prominent st.
Johnsbury physician, has sued Druggist G..
W. Randall for SANDER, and claims 81, SOC
damages. The case grows out of accusa-
tions said to have been made by Mr.. Ran
dali that DIR. Billiard has stolen many ex.
pensive medicines from his store in recent
years.
A BUNDLE of papers was found May in a
pasture near William Bowleys in Newport
which proved to be part of those stolen
from the safe of Lane & Davis last fall, and
since then another bundle has been found
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property stolen except about $500, which was
the property of the firm
PLYMOUTH WHITE, better known a.
=" Plinn " White, who died in Reading, re
Gently, learned the printing trade in Mont
pelier, and was subsequently connected
with a Boston paper. Then he was en-
gagged for many years in extensive swind
ling schemes--hs operations amounting tC
S1,50O,0OO. He crossed the ocean sixteen
times to escape arrest.
PATENTS have recently been granted tt
Vermonters as follows HI. Fairbanks anC
G. III. Magoon, water heater; w. w. Rey
nolds, Rutland, design for supports o
scales; j. F. Billiard, Swanton, railway
switch; Jules Desjardin, Burlington, wind
mill; b. ID. Stevens, Burlington, blind oper
ator; A. Calhoun, Middlebury steam boiler
V. III. Lovely, Underhill, ash sitter; ID. G
Morgan, Rutland, railway time signal.
Other Localities.
SECRETARY MANNING's health is much i'm
proved.
THE Chicago police fund now amounts tc
about $4,000.
The President and Miss Folsom will b,
married June 9.
GREAT damage by floods in North ant
South Carolina.
Do LEWIS, in his will, requested that hi.
body be cremated.
A DISASTROUS fire is raging in the lumber
district at Wausan, Wis.
PROFESSOR TIMOTHY DWIGHT was cleo TEL
president of Yale College.
RUDOLPH ScHNABEL is now supposed to b.
the Chicago bomb-thrower.
SECRETARY LAMAR is to marry the widow
of General Holt of Macon, Ga.
THERE has been general failure of tn
eight-hour movement in Chicago.
A TEST of Keely's motor at Pittsburg OF
Saturday is said to have been successful.
STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS, a noted abol
zionist, spiritualist and linguist, is dead.
OVER forty persons have been killed i
Arizona in six weeks by the rading Apache'
The feeling against Martin Irons is yer
bitter all along the Missouri Pacific railroad
GENERAL DURBIN WARD, formerly
prominent Ohio politician, died on Satu
| day.
PROFESSOR BELL denounces as utterl
r false all of Wilber's affidavit's relating
!. him.
e THE acting secretary of the treasury hf
. issued a call for four millions of three p,
y cents.
!, - EASTMAN, Ga, boasts a red rose thi
= measures fully six inches across the top.
! was grown in flower garden.
r. THE New York legislature has adjourne
STOW atsaaf tsV
k and much unfinished business.
Is p. L. CABLE, once president of the Canat
J. Southern railroad, but lately living
d Texas, and millionaire, is dead.
!, DIR. Do LEWIS, the hygienic reforme
- died Friday, in Yonkers, n. Y, of erysip
~ las, after short illness, aged sixty-three.
THE Hon. George II. Pendleton, Unit
, States minister to Berlin, has lost his wi
~ by carriage accident in Central Park, Ne
~ York.
ANTON, Palm and other leading anarc
n lists in Milwaukee have been arrested aft
a a long search and much satisfaction is Il
as by the authorities.
G. EVIDENCE was presented to the graz
IL jury proving that the Chicago anarchis
a have been year planning riot, and thr
I'd leaders were indicted.
~ The legislature at Albany passed the b
III providing for the reduction of the Ne
rs York board of aldermen to fifteen, to
10 elected on general ticket
ar THE Ohio legislature adjourned Wedn,
% day to January 4, 1887 The democra