The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Weekly News Summary.


HENRY Il. PERKINS of Rutland has been
appointed special pension examiner.
Mrs. LEWIS Conn of Walingford fell down
stairs Saturday and was fatally injured.
GEORGE GRAVES of Wheelock boasts OF
being the owner of a three-legged chicken
The grocery store of Jonas Hill at Bond
vile was broken into recently and $50 stolen.
DR.. SAMUEL j. ALLEN, a prominent physi-
clan of White River junction, died Sunday
evening.
In an obituary notice the Fair Haven Era
speaks of the deceased as shoemaker by
profession"
FLETCHER's store at Bridport was broken
into Sunday night. All that is missed is
$12 in money.
BY collision with flat-car an express
train was derailed near Brattleboro Friday
No lives were lost.
III. G. SMITH of Lyndonville, engineer ON
the Passumpsic road for thirteen years, goes
to Minneapolis to live.
TWENTY-FIVE Tribune fresh-air children
arrived at Bellows Falls last week. They
will remain two weeks
SENATOR EDMUNDs arrived in Burlington
last Saturday, and this week has gone fish
ing with party to Canada.
The store of w. G. Guernsey at Castleton
was entered Thursday night and the money
drawer rhed of its contents.
Two large barns filed with hay and grain
belonging to John NJ. Dyer of West Sails
bury, were burned last week.
HATTIE PIKE of McIndoe's, thirteen years
old, is in a critical condition from drinking
water which had poison ivy in it,
A LITTLE child of Mrs. Willxie of East
Burke fell through a stove-pipe hole in the
chamber floor and struck on its head. 1t
will recover.
CT
itf Barton, as he was locking them up for
the night, and three of them-Jerome, Bonn
bard and O'Clare-escaped.
NJ. NJ. GREEN, who used to drive the stage
between Burlington and Montpelier is now
visiting the former place, after an absence
in the West of thirty-five years.
/. w. MCCURDY, the man who swindled
Rutland people by selling them bogus
watches, was arrested and fined $50 for SELL
ing goods without a state license.
ST. ALBANs is to have the electric light
a dynamo is being put in at the Willard
Manufacturing Company's establishment,
whence the power will be furnished
YOUNG man acting as driver of Knights
delivery wagon was drowned in the Con-
necticut river, about two miles south of
Pompanoosuc station, Sunday afternoon. A
treacherous sand-bar was the cause.
THE Seventh Day Adventists of the state
hold their camp-meeting this year at Ver-
gennes. 1t opened yesterday and will close
the 18th. Elder Haskell of Massachusetts
and Professor Uriah Smith of Battle Creek,
Mich, participate in the services.
A. S. WADswoRTH of Brattleboro, a ma
chinist, shot himself three times in the head
at Springfield, Mass, dying soon after He
was fifty-seven years old and widower.
He had been out of work two weeks, was
Respondent and had been drinking.
RECENTLY, while woman in the east part
of the town of Holland was sitting at her
window, two young bears came into the
door-yard and played like kittens. Soon the
old bear came up and devoured a pail of
milk sitting in the yard, when the three
leisurely walked off to the woods.
AT caucus held in st. Adams on Mon
day night eighteen delegates were elected as
straight republicans to the county conven-
ton at Enosburg Falls to-day wednesday,.
The boilers, who were responsible for the
trouble in this county two years ago, have
this year only elected twenty-eight dele
gates to the convention, while the straight
republicans have elected fifty-four. A reso-
luton endorsing Edmunds, offered in the
Richford caucus, was defeated four to one.
AT the meeting of the Bennington Battle
Monument Association last week Thursday
Ex-Governor Fairbanks presiding, the di-
rectors and special committee were author
lied to contract for the foundation and
erection of a monument three hundred feet
high. Its site was also located in the center
of the highway on pinnacle in old Ben
nngton, now Bennington Center, in front
of the site of the continental storehouse.
Work will be commenced as soon as the
contracts are arranged.
THE joint exhibition of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society and the Champlain
Valley Association, to be held at Howard
Park, Burlington, September IL to II in
elusive, promises to be one of the most sue
cessful state fairs yet held on those grounds.
This expectation is justified by the unusual
interest manifested by exhibitors as well as
| by the fact that the grounds and buildings
| were never in better condition than they
are at present. Moreover, the premium list
| has been extended so that the total amount
| of premiums offered is 81 200, while the sum
offered in purses is 81 800. The buildings
have been thoroughly repaired and re-
painted, and experts pronounce the track in
perfect condition. 1t is expected that the
exhibition of blooded stock of all kinds will
be especially notable. The entries for all
articles and animals for exhibition except
exhibits for floral and mechanics halls
must be made to E. Selden, Burlington, VT.
and the time in which they can be made
will expire Monday, August Both.
Other Localities.
PETROLEUM has been discovered in the
suburbs of Chicago.
A SMALL town in Oregon, Lagrande, il
burned; loss 100000.
HENRY c. JARRETT, the widely-known
theatrical manager, is dead.
A FORMAL order retiring Colonel Fit
John Porter has been issued.
The town of Spencer, Wis, was nearl,
destroyed by forest fires Sunday.
GRAssHoPPERs have appeared in destruc
tive numbers in Northern Illinois.
THOMAS MOONLIGHT is the democratic can
didate for the governorship of Kansas.
OVER 1 900 people registered last week a
the Summit House, Mount Washington.
THERE are reports of Asiatic cholera a
Madison, Chippewa Falls and Miladore, Wis
CHARLES A. DANA and Samuel j. Randall
were among the pall-bearers at Mr.. Tilden'
funeral.
MICHAEL DAvITT has arrived in New Yorl
and given his views of the situation il
Ireland
THE increase in appropriations this yea
by congress, in round numbers, is thirty
three millions.
THE director of the mint reports a produC
ton of S3l 800, 900 gold and SOL 600 900 silve
for the calendar year
: THERE is semi-panic in the mining re
gions of Montana, owing to the recent rapi
decline in the price of silver.
, GENERAL LUcIEN FAIRCHILD of Wiscor
, sin is the new commander-in-chief of til
t Grand Army of the Republic.
AN elegant diamond badge was presente