The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

GEORGE w BUZZEJL, a Barton mill-wrght,
has gone into insolvency.
SAMUEL Cook of Rochester dropped dead
while driving cows to pasture.
SEEMRI FoGG was drowned in Willoughby
lake at st. Johnsbury last week.
BURLINGTON has placed S12O 900 loan on
terms equivalent to 1856 per cent.
II. II. TwoMBLY of Barton Landing lost
1928 by pickpockets at the recent Newport
boat-race.
HOSEA WILKINS, seventy, was killed by
being thrown from his blackboard at Rut-
land Monday.
THE number of eggs entered at the st.
Adams custom-house during the month of
May was 4,AS,960.
HERBERT ALLEN of Bennington, who had
not left his room before in eight years, was
out on the streets last week.
W. j. THOMPSON of Vergennes had his
right arm dislocated at the elbow by kick
ing horse last week Wednesday.
THE st. Adams creamery disposes of the
milk and cream of 675 cows, and 1000
pounds of milk are handled daily.
JOHN JAMES of Castleton had a finger
nearly torn off the other day by getting it
caught between two slabs of slate
ROGERS & CONWAY of East Highgate have
drilled well in a solid ledge forty-one feet
deep, getting 900 pals of water a day.
LEWIS CAssAvAN, eighty-seven years old,
living near Hortonville, committed suicide
recently by taking dose of Paris green.
WILLARD & Co. of st. Adams contemplate
opening branch factory at White River
junction for the manufacture of overalls.
Mrs. WILLIAM e. ROWE attempted sui
eide at Rutland last Friday night by taking
dose of laudanum, but the doctors saved
her life after hard struggle
THE body of Edward Hammond, drowned
in Otter Creek eleven weeks ago, was found
June 10Th three-fourths of a mile below
where the boat was capsized
WHILE Mr. and Mrs. Newton of Walling-
ford were at church last Sunday burglars
ransacked their house, taking watches,
money, silverware and clothing.
JOHN BoLAN got one foot badly crushed
last week at a Fair Haven marble-mill
One toe was amputated but it is hoped that
the rest of the foot will be saved.
GEORGE ELY, about sixteen years old, of
Champlain, N. Y, had both legs cut off in
attempting to board a moving train on the
Passumpsic road at st. Johnsbury.
WILLIAM WHTCoMB, farm laborer in
Hartford, committed suicide Sunday by TAX
ing strychnine. Disappointment in a love
affair is attributed as the cause of the act.
A. H. MCLEED's Touring mill at st. Johns
bury was entered by burglars last week
Thursday night. They blew open the safe,
but were frightened away before securing
any booty.
JOSIAH GAGE of St. Johnsbury last week
attempted to board a train which was run
ming so swiftly that he was thrown into the
air and brought up against the fence at the
side of the track.
ONE day last week Henry Teachout of
Essex was struck in the face by horse
power lag, which caught on buzz-saw,
cutting cash under one eye and breaking
the bone in his nose.
LAST week Charles Goodell begged a
nights lodging of William Blaisdell of Cam
bridge, and when he left in the morning
stole watch and clothing belonging to Mr.,
Blaisdell valued at $50. -(
MRS. HIRAM ALLEN and Mrs II. E. SEQ
Vile of Essex, while walking on the lake
shore near Aliens hill in Sheburn, picked
up nineteen grape-shot. They are supposed
to have been left there during the famous
action at that point.
EDWARD LYMAN, G. G. Benedict, Theo-
dore A. Hopkins, c. E. Macomber, II. S.
Peck, G. E. Allen, w. w. Henry, d. F.
Hatch and Elias Lyman have been elected
directors of the Burlington Philharmonic
Society. The last May festival Melted S302.SO
"LooK here" said railroad street man
to the listers, as they were making their
figures on his real estate Saturday, ~ want
you to remember that there is a hereafter" "
EYES," responded one of the listers, " but
the tax-collectors will take care of that
81. JohnSbury Caledontdn.
FRANK ID. LIBBY, who was released on
$500 bonds after the last term of the circuit
court, because of disagreement of the jury
in regard to his violating the pension laws,
was rearrested at st. Johnsbury last week
by United States Marshal Henry. His bonds
men feared he would run away and gave
him up.
THE barn owned by A. c. Lang at East
Charleston was totally destroyed by fire,
with large share of its contents, last Fri
day night. Loss $780, insured for $50
On Saturday Warren Handy was arrested
on the charge of arson and was bound up in
the sum of $500 for appearance atthe county
court.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIsTs DAY was observed
at Rutland by the French-Canadian dele
gates and about thirty visiting societies. A
monster procession paraded the streets IL
the morning and high mass was celebrated
in the open air at the fair grounds in tn,
afternoon in the presence of 5000 people
The exercises closed with a concert in the
evening.
The Messenger says: Our Enosburgf
Falls friends are having some fun over Q
run on eggs by two merchants there, each
of whom have been paying twenty-foul
cents dozen for eggs and selling them TO
twelve. The story comes to us that severa
prominent citizens of that place who haG
setting hens have persuaded the fowls t.
give up setting on the ground that will
twenty-four cents as the price paid by mer
fool away any time raising chickens"
Other Localities.
THERE has been no rain for three years i
some places in Arizona.
NINE hundred anarchists are said to b
secretly drilling in Chicago.
ROGER WILLIAMS descendants held a r.
union at Providence last week.
SIX of a party of Providence excursionist
were drowned in the bay Sunday.
MORE murders by Yaquis and Apache
are reported from the Rio Grande border.
A FILIBUsTERING expedition, bound fc
Cuba, is believed to be fitting out at Me-
Orleans.
Two hundred six persons were killed an
over five hundred injured ON railroads i
New Jersey during 1885.
A LARGE number of quails, prairie chicl
ems and wild turkeys are sent from st. LOU
to England every season.
MRS. HARRINGTON, matron of the schot
for idiotc children at Barre, Mass, wa
killed by the cars last week.
A REMARKABLE cave, said to rival I'll
Luray caverns, has been discovered
Tucker county, West Virginia.
AT a picnic in Pennington, N. j., la!
week, 214 persons were poisoned by ic
cream. AT least six of them will die.