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

teThObt.
MoRRIsTowN now claims the oldest Mason
in New England, David Daniels, %.
AFTER a months freedom from the dis
ease, diphtheria has again appeared at New
port.
A. w. Bishops carriage-shop on the Gull
ford road from Bratteboro was burned Sum
day morning. Loss 81 900; insurance 5000.
THE Sophomore class of Dartmouth Col
lege will hold their class supper at the Van
Ness House, Burlington, some time this
week
Mrs. JOHNSON, an elderly lady of Hart
land, fell on the ice in her dooryard last
week Wednesday and dislocated her right
shoulder.
Tive little girls of Coventry, while coast
ing on sled, in crossing road ran under
the feet of a span of horses and one of them,
Jessie Gorham, was badly bruised.
SMALLPOX has broken out at West Berk-
shire and numbers have been exposed, but
everything is being done to prevent the
spread of the disease, many being vaccinated.
A PETITION in insolvency has been filed
by j. F. Day, dealer in doors, sash and
blinds at Bellows Falls. His unsecured liza
bilities are about $4,000, with very small
assets.
A BROKEN rail on the Central road at
Proctorsville threw three cars of a freight
train off the track Friday morning. There
motives.
Ex.GovERNoR FAIRBANKS received an adj
dition to his herd of deer, last week Tues
day, in the shape of a little fawn. This is
the second fawn which has been born in
this park.
THE Contractors Club of Montreal held
their ninth annual banquet at the Weldon
House, st. Adams, Thursday afternoon.
About eighty members were present. Music
was furnished by the Owl Glee Club of St.
Adams.
THESE patents have been granted during
the past week: Francis H. Cook, Rutland
feed mechanism for stone-sawing machine.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, st. Johnsbury, feed
water-heater. George Banister, Warren,
spring for vehicles.
A PORT HENRY ice-boat made the trip
from that place to Burlington forty miles,
in one hour. Young Tatro" crossed the
lake from the Spaulding place, Panton, to
the New York side and back-over four
miles-in five minutes.
Miss j. e. CLARK, who, with Miss n.
E. Weatherbee, has conducted young
woman's school at Rutland the past two
years, has made arrangements with Mrs.
Governor Page for her elegant house and
premises and the school will be henceforth
a young woman's boarding school.
E. r. HARD. prominent lawyer of Bur-
lington, has brought suit in his own behalf
againt the city of Burlington and its Off GERS
and has obtained an injunction from Judge
Taft, restraining the officers from drawing
or paying orders for police or other expenses
on account of the carnival The city has
appropriated about $500 for carnival ex-
penses, which Hard claims is illegal.
THERE have been II "Ben. Franklin "
colts sold in the vicinity of Rutland within
the past eight months, at an aggregate cost
of 81 ,S00 or an average of $3.50 EACH which,
considering their ages, is something unusual
The list included one four-years-old sold
for $1,000 four three-years-olds for $500
three two-years-olds, for 81 800; one one
year-old, for $500, and three weanings, fol-
$1,100.
AN interesting contest is now pending in
the probate court of Franklin county over
the probate of the will of Mrs. Katherine
Foster of St. Adams, widow of George w
Foster. Mrs Foster died suddenly a few
weeks ago in New York, while visiting Mrs
Hayes, an aunt, to whom she devised the
bulk of her property. 1t is generally ex-
pected that the will will be broken, on &C
count of mental unsOundness.
Other Localities.
THE Virginia legislature has passed loca
option law.
A HEAVY fall of snow is reported in
Northern Georgia.
THE house devoted Saturday to debate OF
the silver question.
REPORTS from the West indicate great
damage from wind.
LOWELL, Mass, is to have public library
building to cost $4,000
HENRY WATTERsoN is pronounced by hi
physicians to be out Of danger.
The Knights of Labor are opposed by thu
Catholic diocese of Milwaukee.
THE wind storm in New York city wa.
the worst known in fifteen years.
A HUGE grain elevator Is to be erected a
Buffalo to hold half million bushels.
AT Port Jervis, N Y, the Reformed
church was damaged $4,000 by the storm
The snow-storm was severe in Eastern
Massachusetts,, and travel was greatly i'm
peded.
MRS ANNIE HIGGINS of Cohoes, N. Y.
, was blown off her balcony by high wine
and killed.
! THE steamer Idlewild stranded in Long
Island Sound Friday, and six OF the crew
are missing.
THE wind storm, Friday, made sad havoc
with telegraph wires, west, south and nortl
of New York.