The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

FAST uay was not observed at RlChtord.
SrLAs NJ. YATES term of imprisonment
will expire in fifteen weeks.
ANOTHER party of Vermonters left for
Loyalton, Dakota, yesterday.
j. G. PAGES new mill at westmore was
burned last Thursday evening.
IRA NEWTON of Georgia recently had a leg
crushed by log rolling on to it,
ORsoN BUTLER, fourteen years old, living
in Plymouth, weighs 30i pounds.
THE holding of q summer Grand Army en-
campment is under consideration.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION of twenty men,
bers has been organized at Rutland.
LUKE TAYLOR of Springfield is making
$4,000 checkers for New York firm.
A NEW steamer in process of construction
at South Hero will be launched soon.
In the past three weeks there have been
fourteen cases of diphtheria in Sutton.
The musical festival of the Bennington
Choral Union will be held next month.
j. j. WEBSTER of Newport has refused
S12,0 for the patent on his typewriter.
WILLIAM Cross of Burlington severed
three fingers from his right hand last Friday.
DIR. j. N. NoRTHRoPs business block in
Castleton was burned last week Loss $1,000.
w. A. BURNHAM, a brakeman, had his
left leg badly jammed by the cars at Rut-
land one day last week.
GEORGE SMITH of South Wallingford has
apples in a perfect state of preservation
which were gathered in 1884.
THREE barns and house, owned by Sam
uel Phelps of Milton, were burned last week.
Loss $500; insured for $1,000.
The young son of Ashley Bigelow of Brid-
port stuck the point of knife in his eye,
recently, destroying the sight.
C,YApr nc n ZVpon q patiya of Rich ford
had two children killed by the cyclone at
Sank Rapids, Mimi, last week
THE governor of Massachusetts has signed
the bill appropriating $4,000 to the Ben
nington battle monument fund.
ALISON MILLS, sixteen years old, of AL
bany, was shot through the leg last week
while playing with loaded pistol.
MILE THOMPSON of Franklin was shock
ingly burned recently by her dress taking
fire. She lies in critical condition.
NORWICH UNIVERSITY and the University
of Vermont mines will play game of base
ball on the campus at Burlington May Sth.
FRED NJ. REYNOLDS of Rutland was found
unconscious, the other evening, and died in
a few minutes. 1t is thought his death was
caused by paralysis of the heart.
ATTACHMENTS amounting to $45, 900 have
been placed upon the Bennington wooden
mills property. The mills have shut down
and the company's store is closed.
A. w. STONE of Hartford was awarded
the second Smyth prize at the recent read
ing and speaking by the students of the
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts.
GENERAL CIRCUIT has appointed DR.. G.. B.
Billiard of st. Johnsbury, Hon. Roswell
Farnham of Bradford and Superintendent
Justus Dartt of Springfield committee for
the examination of candidates from the
second congressional district of Vermont
for vacant cadetship at West Point. The
examination will be held at White River
Junction on Tuesday, May IL, at nine
o'clock A. NJ. Candidates must be residents
of the district, between seventeen and
twenty-five years of age, at least five feet in
height and unmarried.
Other Localities.
THE widow of Wendell Phillips died in
Boston on Monday.
A TORNADO at Killeen, Texas, destroyed
buildings and crops.
A STRIKE in the Ludlow (Mass.) mills re-
suited in small riot.
THE losses by the flood in Montreal are
roughly estimated at 81 100000.
THE farmers of the Northwest have seeded
more than one-half of their spring wheat
THE New York assembly has passed the
bill repeating the Broadway surface road s
charter.
Two hundred special deputies have been
sworn in at Chicago to help the Lake Shore
road in its effort to resume traffic.
Ex-PREsTDENT ARTHUR is reported in a
critical condition from Bright's disease, but
his sister declares that he will recover.
REV. B. FAY MILLS has resigned his pas
torate of the Congregational church at West
Rutland and will hereafter devote all his
attention to evangelistic work
A LoYALIsT meeting was held at Glasgow,
Friday night, at which the speakers in
dulged in bitter invectives against Mr.. Glad
stone and all others who favor home-rule.
Two more st. Louis railroads have re-
sumed traffic, and it is generally conceded
there that the strike is dying out. Mr. Gould
has sent $500 to an officer at Little Rock who
was wounded in the discharge of his duty.
THE great fire at Stry in Galca, Austria,
ragged two days. One hundred people were
killed by falling walls or persisted in the
flames, of whom fifty were school children
800 houses were burned, and 1000 persons
are homeless.
A CANVASS of the senate has been made on
the tariff question. 1t shows that all the
republican senators save Van Wyck, Plumb
and ingalls, will vote absolutely against the
consideration of bill if one comes over
from the house.
BY the breaking of the dam at Mud Pond
reservoir, early last week Tuesday morning
the village of East Lee, Mass, was swept by a
resistless flood. Seven lives are known tC
have been lost by it, and the damage tC
property will not be far from quarter of q
million dollars. The path of havoc reaches
nearly four miles, and the individual suffer
ing in consequence is great.