The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Weekly News Summary.


scription for their centennial next year
Miss MARTHA KNAPP has been appointed
postmistress at Slab Hollow. Dummerston.
FRANK BRADLEY of Woodstock was sun
struck Saturday, and lies in critical condi-
ton.
Mrs O. Il. DUTToN of White River June
ton slipped and fell, sustaining fracture
Of the hip.
COLONEL julius j. EsrEY, with his two
eldest sons, start on six weeks trip to
Europe to-day.
The number of female convicts at Wind
sor is now only four. There are eighty-six
male prisoners.
HAzEN II: MINER of St. Johnsbury while
playing ball, stepped into a hole, dislo-
eating his left ankle
WHILE one Hartwell of East Haven was
driving he ran against rock and was
thrown out and killed.
Oracle NEWTON of North Bennington
broke both bones of her right arm Friday
by falling from fence.
SUBSCRIPTION papers are being circulated
to raise money to build a soldiers monu-
ment in st. Johnsbury.
III. n. MANDIGo of Bellows Falls fell a
short distance in a barn, last week, and has
since died of his injuries.
JOHN CURLEY crushed the thumb on his
right hand while coupling cars at Factory
Point last week Monday.
FRED SMITH of Reading, aged twenty-five,
was drowned in the Connecticut river Tues
day evening of last week
WILLIE ToLE of Bellows Falls cut one
fore-tinger off at the knuckle Joint while
chopping wood last week.
A FEW days ago a young child of A. W.
Sheldon of North Troy was poisoned by eat
ing piece of green toy paint.
The railroad station at Brooksville, on
the Rutland division, was burned the other
evening, with most of its contents.
THE drve-wheel at Plumleys steam-mill
in Sherburne broke loose the other day and
flew in all directions, doing 5000 damage.
THE prohibitonists of Vermont will hold
a convention in Burlington Wednesday,
July21, for the purpose of nominating state
officers.
WHILE Clarence Cook of Landgrove was
at work in the woods he struck his axe into
his foot, splitting it from the toes nearly to
the instep.
A. n MCCORMICK & Co.'S blacksmith
shop at ST. Johnsbury was robbed recently.
The robbers took over two hundred pounds
of horseshoes.
The Casteton post-office was made an in
ternational money-order Office eight years
ago, but the first order was not drawn until
week before last.
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arrived home from Japan last Wednesday.
He has been absent about year, returning
via San Francisco.
A. FLEMING's boy of Evansville fell back
ward into a stone pit recently, fifteen or
twenty feet. He struck on his head, receiv-
ing severe injuries
BENJAMIN SWIFT has been elected gen.
eral secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association of Burlington, and his duties
will begin August 1st
A LARGE derrick fell at the Evergreen
slate works at Fair Haven, last week, and
one of the guys struck Hiram Wilson in the
back, injuring him severely
Mrs. JOHN SHELTUs of st. Adams Bay, in
going down cellar, made misstep and fell
dislocating her shoulder-bade and cutting
her head and face quite badly.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HENRY has ar
rested man named Alphonse Forgue on
the charge of taking a registered letter from
the mail in Burlington which did not be-
long to him.
SOME boys, while fooling with a pistol at
Woodstock, managed to fire it, and the bull
let went through Clarence Boyce's finger
and then into the right breast of George
McCane, going through the lung. McCane
will recover.
THE Howe Scale Company of Rutland has
Just made an ingenious weighing arrange
ment which registers a persons weight
when five-cent piece is put into a slot be-
side the recording dial. No heavier or
lighter coin has any effect.
A SERIOUS forest fire has been raging on
the mountain in Jamaica and the local fire
department was called out to protect build
ings in the village. Fifteen hundred cords
of wood and many cords of bark and rail-
road ties have been destroyed.
THE following patents to vermonters are
announced: Joel Linsley, Burlington re-
frigerator; Rodney S. Willard, St. Adams
stocking supporter; George f. Atwood,
Swanton, garment supporter; Ambrose S.
Vose, Windsor, try and bevel square.
NJ. II. BUcKHAM of Burlington, E. Conant
of Randolph, Justus Dartt of Springfield,
Judah Dana of Castleton, j. NJ. Hit of
Mortified and S. w. Landon of Burlington
We're chosen vice-presidents to represent
Vermont at the recent meeting of the Ameri-
can Institute of Instruction at Bar Harbor,
Maine.
S. W. MANNING, general eastern agent OF
the Santa Fe route, has telegraphed Major
Hendershott, instructing him to meet the
Vermont delegation, G.. A. r., at Chicago,
and accompany the delegation thence to the
reunion at San Francisco Major Hender-
shott will be accompanied by his son, who is
an expert tifer.
THE Soldiers Home commission will
probably use the Park Home at Bennington
The estate contains two hundred acres and
the building will hold fifty inmates. Trenoi
w. Park decided the property in order tC
establish Home for Aged Women, but il
was never endowed, and the trustees now
offer it for Soldiers Home.
DURING the thunder storm last Saturday
lightning struck the house of Newton Rog
ers of Cambridge, setting it on fire. TIL,
family barely escaped before the house wa,
burned to the ground. The flames also
communicated to the barn and destroyed
that, nothing being saved. In anothe
place in Cambridge the lightning struck
tall elm tree. The current ran along tn,
ground to carrage-house, entered buggy
and then went to the pig-pen and killed
pig.
The monument erected by the state to tn
memory of Judge Theophlus Harringto
at the Chippenhook cemetery in Clarendon
which was dedicated July Sd, in the pres
ence of nearly two thousand people, is
square shaft, twenty feet high, of Barr
granite, and cost 800, the sum having bee
appropriated by the legislature of 1881
Judge Veazey presided, and in few IT
marks in behalf of the commissioner deliy
cred the monument to the people. AZ
dresses were made by Judge Wheeler {
the United States court, Chief iustC
Royce, Hon. e. p. Walton, Judge Barrett
Hon. Il. ID. Nicholson, Judge Dunton an
Hon. Daniel Roberts.
Other Localities.
BUFFALO is to have a supply of naturi
gas.
SECRETARY MANNING is gaining rapid
in strength.