The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-21
Weekly News Summary.


Vermont.
w. II. II. MURRAY is building new steam
yacht at Burlington
THE training-school for nurses at Burling-
ton opens with class of fifteen.
N. f. BAIL of West Derby cut his foot
quite badly with an AK recently.
JAMES DEER, an engineer, was badly
scalded at Hyde Park last week
WELLINGTON g. BOURNE of Rutland expect
te raise / 900 chickens this spring.
NATHAN PARSONS of williston made a
second attempt at suicide last week.
A BOX of maple sugar costing $l.75 was
sent from this state to California the other
day. The express bill was $3.50
REPRESENTATIVES, CIRCUIT will appoint a
cadet TO West Point in June. He has de-
cided to have the selection of the applicant
made by committee.
j. A. CHURCH's sash and blind factory at
Brattleboro was last week damaged to the
amount of $4,000 by the explosion of the
boiler No one was injured, although there
were several narrow escapes.
Mrs. N. p. SWEET of Richford is under
arrest, charged with cruelty beating little
girl she took from the almshouse. 1t is said
that she stuffed the child's mouth with rags,
bound her and used whip over her feet,
Gripping her for life.
AT meeting held for the purpose in St.
Johnsbury, last Saturday, it was unani-
mously voted to authorize Colonel f. Fair
banks and General ii. X. Ide to offer $1,000
to the state upon consideration that the
Soldiers Home is located at that place.
Other Localities.
THE Dutch ministry has resigned.
THE French cable is broken 900 miles
from our coast.
HosTnrr1Es have begun between the
lie md
SAMPSON Low, the well-known London
publisher, is dead
ANOTHER plot to assassinate the car has
been discovered in Russia.
THE casualties by the Minnesota cyclone
are "a killed and 215 injured.
The Earl of Shaftesbury committed sui
eide while riding in London cab.
SIX roughs have been arrested in St.
Louis for firing on railroad guards.
A DOZEN more of the New York aldermen
Of 1884 have been arrested for bribery.
DIVERS state that nearly all of the cargo
Of the steamship Oregon will be saved.
THE schooner that sunk the Oregon is now
supposed to be the Charles II. Morse of
Bath, Maine.
ANsoN X. WARNER of Greenfield, Mass,
injured in the Deerfeld railway disaster,
has since died.
THE American Dairymen's Association
recommend a tax of ten cents per pound on
artificial butter.
CONDUCTOR FOSTER and woman, injured
in the Deerield railway disaster, are not
expected to live.
The tone of the British press is almost
unanimously unfavorable to Gladstone's
land purchase scheme.
THE fire in the Pemberton mills, Law
renee, Mass, killed ten men and caused a
property loss of 100000.
MR.. AND Mrs. DoUTHETTE, an aged couple,
were burned up in their house near Xenia,
Ohio Foul play is suspected.
SwITCHMEN on several railways centering
in Chicago struck because non-union men
were employed by the companies.
THE senate has confirmed j. III. Oberly of
Illinois and Charles Lyman of Connecticut
to be civil service commissioners.
FIVE men were fatally burned and many
others injured by an explosion in Pitts
burg, Penn, iron foundry last Saturday.
THE Ohio legislative committee divided
partywise on the question of Paynes right
to his seat in the United States senate
THE Empire Protective Association has
ordered a strike on all the horse railroads in
New York city except the Eighth and Ninth
avenues.
j. 1. CASE has sold his famous young
stallion, Phallas, to G. c. Lyford of Mime
apolis for $4,000. The animal cost Case
about $1,000.
IT is formally announced in London that
the United States government has author
lied the purchase of foreign ships for the
carrying trade.
THE st. Paul city council voted $1,000 in
cash to aid the cyclone sufferers, and Gov
ernor Hubbard dispatched a carload of pro-
visions to Sank Rapids.
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