The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-17
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

| DuhLlNGION HAS All ice ydCIU CluD.
THE physicians of Rutland have formed a
medical society.
THE Salvation Army claim twenty-eigbt
converts in Burlington.
JOHN MCMAHON of Bellows Falls broke
| his right arm last week.
j. G. HINcH of Barnet lost three fingers by
a circular saw recently
RUTLAND has had twenty-four alarms of
fire in the past ten months.
ONE hundred workmen have Joined the
Knights of Labor at West Rutland
TWENTY names have been secured to an ap-
plication for Grand Army post at Castleton
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON of Morrisville was
thrown from a car, last week, sustaining
painful bruises
The freight traffic has been heavier on
the Central the last ten days than for nearly
| two years before
ALPHoNso KNowLToN of Bridgewater had
both bones of his right leg broken by kick
| from horse last week
SUGAR-MAKING has already begun in some
parts of the state. The yield promises to
be fully an average one.
THE International Lumber Company of
| Newport sold seventy-five carloads of lum-
Der in single day recently.
THE Philharmonic Society of Burlington
proposes to hold its next annual musical
| RECEIVER RICH of the st. Adams Trust
Company will have nearly $4,000 on hand
when the Norwood money is paid over to
him.
| THE initial number of a new weekly news
paper to be called the Rutland Express, will
be issued April LIST, with Jewett p. Cain as
editor.
THE Westinghouse of Albert Brayton at
| Alburgh Center was burned last week. The
| fire CanSpu nv the pXplOSiOp nf "a kpro-
sene lamp.
IT is expected that the first volume of the
History of Odd Fellowship in Vermont, COW
ering the time from 1915 to 1870, will be com
pleted during the year.
THE net proceeds of the Grout Guard en-
tertainment at Newport were about S125
The editor of the Express was voted the
| homeliest man in town.
LOUISE CLEMENS, claiming to hail from
Dorset, was arrested in Rutland last week,
on charge of forging notes. She denies
! the forgery, and awaits trial in default of
bail
MILES A. WyMAN of Chester, who has
| just completed a term in state prison for an
assault upon small girl has again been ar
rested for a similar assault upon a girl of
eight years
BENNINGToNIANs are DESTROYS that the
cornerstone of the battle monument be
| laid next August, so that the annual muster
of the National Guard may be held at Ben
nington at that time.
SEVERAL new cars have been put on to
| the Passumpsic road. In the summer they
will run from Springfield to Quebec without
change, being used as parlor cars in the day
time and sleepers at night.
THE insolvent estate of Lawrence Brain
erd was wound up at St Adams last week
The Trust Company, which had claim of
something over 1859 900 against the estate
frntc tic IiNri1 tl,a ,..f~ a.
369.S2.
A SUIT has been commenced against the
| Passumpsic railroad by Mrs. John NJ. Pot
| ter of st Johnsbury to recover damages for
the death of her husband and the severe in
juries she received last year in an accident
on the road.
THE Weldon National Bank, with capt.
tai stock of 100000, has been organized at
St. Adams Hon. j. Gregory Smith of ST.
Adams is president; e. C.. Smith of ST.
Adams, vice-president Henry L. Mills of
Boston, j. W. Hobart of ST. Adams, f. o.
Squire of Boston and j. M. Foss of ST.
Adams, directors; and f. Stewart Strana-
han of st. Adams, cashier. 1t will soon
begin business.
Other Localities.
FIFTEEN inches of snow fell in Colorado
on Friday.
THE Hancock fund was Friday increased
to total of Si0,636.
DR.. AUSTIN FLINT, the celebrated New
York surgeon, is dead.
The loss by the sinking of the steamer
Oregon is placed at 81 100000.
THE Connecticut legislature has refused
to enact " valued policy" law
THE Rhode Island democrats have nom
mated Amasa Sprague for governor
AT Canton, Ohio, 5000 people are afflicted
by peculiar epidemic like influenza.
FIRsT-oLAss round trip California tickets,
good for six months, are quoted at $40.
The burning of business block in Hot
Springs, Ark, caused loss of $4,000.
EX-SENATOR JEROME b. CHAFFEE of Colo
RADIO died in New York state last week.
THE winter wheat crop from Ohio to the
Pacific slope is eight TO ten per cent below
the average OF 1880
THE mayor of New York has vetoed the
bill looking to seventy-siX miles of cable
railway in that city.
ANOTHER Indiana county treasurer
books show a balance on the wrong side
The amount is $4,000.
A STEAMBOAT explosion near Viclxsburp
last week Thursday caused the death and
injury of several persons.
, IT seems that the constitutional con-
vention vote in New Hampshire will have n
majority of about $50 in its favor,
SECRETARY LAMAR has overruled a de-
cision of Commissioner Sparks which af-
fected thousands of settlers in Dakota.
The inmates of the almshouse at Lancas-
, ter, Penn, We're given paris green in their
coffee last week, but the quantity was
too great to cause death.
4 ONE car of railroad train near Eckford
3 Mich fell over an embankment, fatally in.