The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

ASA HINES of Newport recently cut Sc
we're cash in his foot
E. Roy of St. Johnsbury had thumb
badly cut by circular saw.
MARSHALL j. BAKER has been appointed
postmaster at Clarendon Springs.
II. G. BRIMMERs tenement-house, in
Pownal, was burned the other day.
RUSSELL WOOD of Brandon lost two
fingers by circular saw last week.
JONATHAN HOLMAN, prominent Braintree
farmer, dropped dead last Saturday.
ANsEL M. HAWKINS has been postmaster
at Starksboro more than forty years.
HOMER BAKER of Pttsfeld got his hand
crushed between two logs last week.
The Circuit Guards of Newport intend
holding fair February 25th and Goth.
II. w. MARTIN of Bennington has ready
for market several tons ofspruce gum.
HARRY DARLING, Putney dentist, died
the other day from an overdose of chloro-
form
HELEN, daughter of E. C. Crosby of Brat
tleboro, fell from a table, last week, and
broke her collar-bone.
THE Central Vermont Masonic Associa-
ton will hold its seventh annual reunion at
Woodstock next Friday.
Mrs. EMMA SMITH of Franklin had leg
badly broken at the hip by being thrown
from wagon the other day
THE Rutland Musical Society has invited
the Burlington Philharmonic Society to take
part in the next May festival.
THE Harris Manufacturing Company of
Rutland has received an order from a Massa-
ehusetts firm for 1900 chairs.
MRS. BETsEY d. STANLEY of Hubbardton
aged seventy-eight, has just completed a
bedquilt that contains 1862 pieces.
The next annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars will be held at
Newport on Wednesday, October 18th.
MASONIC HALL, Rutland was dedicated
by the officers of the grand lodge last week
Wednesday evening. 1t was the most
notable Masonic affair ever known in town.
A SYNDICATE of New York milionaires
has purchased large tract of land on the
lake shore in Shelburn. 1t is said that sew
eral princely summer residences will be
erected, which will be occupied by New
York gentlemen.
MELVIN, son of Ira Ayers, residing in the
east part of Brandon, was arrested last
week, charged with assault with intent to
kill, his aged mother being the victim. He
had struck her with crow-bar, breaking
her arm and int1cting other serious injuries.
THESE officers of the Vermont Interna-
tional Telegraph Company have been
elected President, Franklin Fairbanks;
secretary, G. w. Hendee; treasurer, w. II.
Fairbanks; general managers, Horace Fair
banks, O. S. RiXford, Waldo Brigham and
ID. f. May. Its lines are $50 miles long and
it pays dividends on the original stock.
LIEUTENANT ELLIOTT j. ARTHUR died at
Burlington January Goth, aged thirty-six
years. He entered the Naval Academy in
1865, graduated four years later, and had
served on several vessels. After retiring
from active service, few years since, he
made his home in New York, where he
practiced law for awhile, and then removed
to his native place, Burlington.
A GOOD story is told of the delegation from
st. Johnsbury to the Burlington military re-
unions, which is vouched for by the parties
themselves. General Ide, Captain Blodgett,
Denis May and S. w. Parkhurst occupied
the same room at the Van Ness House.
After retiring it occurred to General Ide
that the room was "close," and he arose
and lowered the window. He Immediately
saw perceptible improvement and was re-
freshed. Soon after, Captain Blodgett
thought that still more air would be bene-
fetal, and gave the window another pull
down. Then all was serene and satisfac-
tory, and the verdict was g perfect ventila-
| ton" Imagine the surprise of the party
when the discovery was made the next
morning that the window was double, and
that only the inside one had been lowered,
Other Localities.
ANOTHER cold wave is sweeping over the
| Northwest.
THE Mississippi river is blocked by ice
for sixty-five miles.
IMMENSE damage was done to wheat lands
near Stockton, Cal, by floods.
FOURTEEN firms were burned out in
Philadelphia fire; loss 100000.
A MAINE man recently sent Thousand
skunk-skins to Boston in one lot
SECRETARY MANNING has issued call fo
$4,000, 600 of three per cent bonds.
NORTHERN Iowa reports snow-drfts on'
thousand feet long and twenty feet deep.
Two families of nine persons, travelling
near Muscogee I, T., were frozen to death.
THE jury in the famous bribery case o
General Shaler of New York failed to agree
THE Ryan drug-house and other stores a
ST. Paul, Mimi, were burned Friday Los
$250,000
Four persons were killed and severa
injured by collision of trains near Chicag
Junction.
THE wife of Secretary Bayard, who ha,
long been an invalid, died in Washington
Sunday. The immediate cause of death wa
congestion of the brain, brought on by tn