The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-27
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont,


The West Rutland Marble Company has
been formally declared insolvent.
AMOS INES eighty years old, was killed
by the cars at Castleton last Friday.
NYE HUBBELL's tub factory at North Dan
vile was burned Monday. Loss $500; no
insurance.
A. G. COLLINS house in Craftsbury took
fire, last week, and was damaged to the
amount of $50.
j. HoGABooM, freight brakeman of Nor
rsville, fell between the cars at Swanton
and was killed.
GEORGE w. LELAND of Barton committed
suicide Saturday. lie had lost property and
was Respondent.
A VERY disastrous fire occurred at Hart
ford last week Wednesday morning The
loss was about $4,000.
The postmaster-general has appointed as
postmaster at North Concord, L. 3. Bishop;
at East Charlotte, Annie j. Quinlan
Mrs. LOIS SHAW, who died in Fairhaven,
recently, was a sister of the prophet Miller,
the founder of the sect which bears his
name.
DELLA CoNNIGHoN, an employee of Gay,
Kimball & Gays shirt factory, at Rutland,
burned the back of her hand badly Friday
morning.
THERE are eighty-one Good Templar
lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand
Lodge of Vermont, representing member
ship of 1856, against j,041 last year
FIFrY-rHREE carloads of peas oats, flour
and currants were bonded at st. Adams on
Thursday of last week. en- route from Can
ada for export to England and Scotland.
AT the First National Bank in st. Johns
bury George May, for twenty years cashier
of the bank, has been presented by the di-
rectors with an elegant gold watch and
chain.
Mrs. PETER MILLER of Burlington, who
was the principal victim of the recent coach
ing accident, died last week. Until a day
or two since Mrs Miller was supposed to be
on a fair road to recovery.
RUTLAND has offered the Vermont Horse
Breeders Association, for their annual fall
meeting, the free use of the fair grounds in
that village, after putting them in proper
condition at the village expense.
MORTON c. DAVIS, the schoo-teacher who
shot Frank Dodge at the school-house in
Dummerston, December Goth, had his adj
journed examination in Putney, recently.
He was held in 81 800 bail to appear for trial
at the county court.
AN Albany man has, in the last year, and
mostly since September, shipped y car
loads, or over 300 tons of maple sugar, pur-
chased in the counties of Orleans, Caledonia,
Franklin and Lamoille. The larger part has
been sent to Chicago.
The managers of the Rutland Musical
Festival Association have decided to hold
the third annual festival of the organization
the last week in May, with five concerts,
beginning Wednesday evening, May 26, and
closing Friday evening, May %.
THE reported lease of the Boston & Lowell
railroad to the Central Vermont railroad
was wholly without foundation. In an in
terview with a Free Press reporter Cover
nor Smith said there was not the remotest
probability of such an arrangement.
A SPECIAL train on the Delaware & Hud-
son to Fairhaven, Wednesday night, struck
yoke of oxen with sled load of hay at
Reeds crossing in West Rutland. The
driver jumped from the team i'll time to save
his life, but both oxen were killed, and one
thrown fifteen rods.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Vergennes
Wednesday, from Knights Landing Cali
fornia, of the sudden death of George w.
Grandey, Jr., son of the Hon. George w.
Grandey of Vergennes. He has been miss
ing from Port Henry, n. Y, since Deem
Der IA, 1885, and was insane.
THE marine hospital bureau has discon-
tinued all inspection at Richford st. AL
bans, Rouses Point, Mooers Junction and
Ogdensburgh. The stations east of Rich
ford will be continued a short time longer,
as there is danger from smallpox, which
still exists in many places in Quebec.
Other Localities.
CONGRESSMAN RANKIN of Wisconsin is
dead.
THERE are thirty cases of smallpox in
San Antonio, Texas.
GoRMAN has been reelected United States
senator in Maryland.
Snow is drifted twenty-four feet deep in
some parts of Dakota.
DoRMAN b. EATON has resigned as civil
service commissioner.
THE temperature north of Lake Superior
is 40o to so below zero.
A PLAGUE, resembling measles, has killed
10000 hogs in Wisconsin.
The loss from the recent freeze in Florida
is estimated at S2,O00,000.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR JAMES T
FARLEY of California is dead.
HEAVY snow slides near Aspen, Col, have
buried large number of men.
A PASSENGER train on the Kansas Pacific
was blocked two weeks by snow.
THE wine shipments of California showed
gain of 100000 gallons last year.
III. w. CANNON, comptroller of the cur
rency, has rendered his resignation.
New WORKERS enjoyed the beautiful spec.
tacle of a rainbow on Friday morning.
FIVE inmates of the county poor-house al
Jackson, Mich. were burned to death.
AARON CULVER of Philipsburg, Penn, has
died from excessive drinking of cold water
The President assured Dakota delega
ton that justice shall be done to her claims
WALTHALL and George have been re-
elected United States senators in Mississippi
A CASE of stealing a brick house, brick al
time, is reported from Louisville, Kentucky
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has promised to
enforce the eight-hour law in government
offices.
a LOCOMOTIVE boiler exploded at Madi-
son, Wis, killing one man and injuring nine
others.
The st. Cloud hotel and other building.
in Philadelphia were burned Tuesday; loss
S250,00O.
ATLANTA was colder by five degrees thar
Washington during the recent severe
weather.
A REMARKABLE cavern, half a mile il
length, has been discovered in Kinney
county, Texas.
THERE were only two cases of varioloit
and one of smallpox in the United States
army last year.
THIRTy-sEvEN lives were lost by an ex.
plosion of fire damp in a Newburg, West
| Virginia, mine.
SEVEN brothers named Arnold at Mo
berly, Mo-, have been made insane 10y
! financial losses.
| A TY-THoUsAND-DoLLAR monument Il
General Grant will be erected in Fairmoun
Park, Philadelphia.
ATLANTA, Georgia, has an artesan bore
1000 feet deep in return for an expenditure
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