The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Weekly News Summary.


NEW l.. II. O1EWAHI OI OOuU0 burlington
dropped dead last Thursday.
THE farm buildings of William Calvin of
Ripton were burned last week.
j. EDWARD PORTER fell off load of hay
in Rutland and broke his right arm.
Mrs JOHN T.. WHITcoMB committed sui
eide at Mclndoe's Falls last Monday.
EDWARD PINNEY of West Randolph had
one of his hands mangled in planer.
M. j. TINNEY of Hydevile was found
dead in his stable one morning last week.
RUTLAND Universalists are moving to
build church, and "a, 800 have been pledged
ARIA WYMAN of Sherburne, while split
ting wood, cut cash five inches long in his
foot.
BETWEEN thirty and forty wooden mill
hands have left Winooski for North Adams,
Mass.
Two Rutland men have contracted to fur
nish a New York confectionery firm three
tons of maple sugar
REV. L. p. WILD of Newport is on an ex-
tended western trip. The pulpit will be
supplied during his absence.
JOHN MANAGAN of West Rutland was
struck on the head by falling chain, the
other day, and seriously injured.
HENRY RICE, eighty-fve, one of Newfane's
Oldest residents, was killed last week by
falling down cellar-way in his house.
MIX. VI. w MlLllMOhE VI AlllnSlOh
received an order for 600 of his patent car
wheels, which amounts to over $4,000.
HENRY e. BARDY, arrested on suspicion
of setting fire to his store aud the old scale
works at Brandon, was put under $1,000
bonds.
SEvENrY-FIvE cutters in the Lake Shore
slate quarry at Castleton struck last week
for an advance of ten cents foot in tun-
neling.
Nv rTburc1ay no aotinO ntrollpr Of
the currency authorized the Weldon Ma
tional Bank of St. Adams to begin business,
with capital of 100000.
THE Bradford telephone exchange is now
connected with ST. Johnsbury, Passumpsc,
East Barnard and McIndoes. Other places
will be included very soon.
PATENTS have been granted recently to III.
Riggs, Montpelier, carriage standard; a. f.
Billiard, st. Adams, coal SITTER S. r. Will
cox, Bennington, digital forceps
JOHN LAvELLE of Burlington lost all of
the main barns on his farm in Shelburn to-
gether with fourteen cows, five calves and
eight sheep and lambs, by fire last week.
The loss will be 81 800, on which there was
only $500 insurance.
Other Localities.
PROFESSOR THATCHER of Yale College is
dead.
A FLOOD has done much damage at Gin
cinnati.
A FIRE at Lacrosse, Wis, destroyed rop-
erty valued at S500,0O0.
THERE is no particular change in Secre-
tary Manning's condition.
THE Northwestern roads have united in
restoring rates to st, Paul.
THE Irish nationalist in America gener-
ally approve of Gladstone's bill.
EDITOR PULITZER of the New York World
has resigned his seat in congress.
Hon. JOHN WELSH, ex-minster to En-
gland died in Philadelphia on Saturday.
A SMALL steamer was capsized by wind
on the Ohio river and three persons were
drowned.
In an interview in New York Jacob
Sharp denied that be had bribed any of the
aldermen
SENATOR JACKSON of Tennessee has re-
signed to accept the circuit judgeship of the
United States sixth judicial district
Ex-ALDERMAN MILLER is believed to have
joined Waite in turning states evidence
against their colleagues, the New York al
dermen of 1854.
THOMAS GAY, of Portsmouth, n. H., who
died last week, was one of the daring sailors
who blew up the rebel ram Albemarle "
in Cape Fear river, n. G.
THE house has passed the Curtin resolu-
tons so amended as to provide for an in
vestigation by a special commission into the
troubles between the knights of Labor and
Jay Gould.
THE east-bound Hoosac Tunnel passenger
train, due in Greenfield, Mass, at five min
utes past six o'clock Wednesday evening,
went over an embankment between Bard
wells Ferry and West Deerfeld, about
eighty feet, into the Deerfield river. The
cars took fire and added to the horrors of
the catastrophe. The victims of the disaster
number, so far as known, thirty-nine, of
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The dead are Engineer Littlejohn of North
Adams; Brakeman NJ. T. Spencer of
Waltham; Merritt Seeley, superintendent
of the New England division of the Ma
tional Express Company; three travelling
salesmen-C. III. Dugan, 9. A. Temple and
agent for the Chicago & Atlantic railroad
j. II. Gould of Milbury, Mass, and two
children-nephew and niece of Engineer
Littlejohn. Many of the injured were
badly hurt. But five passengers escaped
injury. AS to the cause of the accident, the
belief among railroad men is that the frost
working in connection with the recent
heavy rainfall, caused loosening of the
earth at the curve. The width of the bank
ing on the outside of the track was not ex-
tremely great, and the passage of heavy
freight train just before the Inflated express
is believed to have assisted in the work OF
disintegration
Foreign.
THE revolution in the Argentine Republic
has ended.
PUBLIC opinion in England is apparently
hostile to Gladstone's bill.
THERE is a rumor that Greece has de
clared war against Turkey.
BISMARCK s bill exproprating the Poles il
Posen passed the lower house of the Landtag
The Montenegrins took hand in tn
Eastern belligerency, attacking Turkish out
posts.
The Canadian fishery police has bee
brought to halt in the proceedings agains
American vessels, pending diplomatic action
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL made tn
chief speech, Monday, in opposition to Mr.
Gladstone's Irish scheme in the house o
commons.
AN American woman, Mrs. Jane Whit
comb of Minnesota, having met with heav.
losses at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo
made three desperate attempts at suicide
and was placed in an asylum.
Thankful Mother.
Dr. Royce: Dear .Sir-It is with feelings {
deepest gratitude that place at your dis