The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

f. w MCGETTRIcK of St. Adams has gone
to Michigan to stump for the democratic
party.
PETITIONS are being circulated and largely
signed protesting against the division of the
town of Rutland.
Mrs WARREN GIBBS, daughter and son of
st. Adams, have gone to Glyndon Mimi
to spend the winter.
THREE tons of honey will be disposed of
by Thomas Fisk of Vergennes, as the prod
uct of his bees this season.
FRANK GUILD of Windham, while trying
to remove a coon from a trap shot off one
of his toes with revolver.
RUTLAND lawyers are talking of building
a barrister's hall where all law Offices will
be located and a law library be formed
REV. THEODORE A. HOPKINS has secured
subscriptions of 81 600 toward the payment
of the debt of st. Andrews church in St.
Johnsbury.
A DAM thirty feet in height and one hum
dred fifty feet wide is to be built on Sax
tons river for the Fall Mountain Paper Com
pany of Bellows Falls.
NJ p. DOUGLASS, formerly of Randolph,
was killed. recently, in a mill at Little
Creek, Mimi, by his person coming in con-
tact with the machinery
LEWIS REYNOLDS employed by the Con-
necticut River Lumber Company, fell on a
saw AT bellows rails, ana was man0leU
fearfully, probably fatally.
THE Kingsley Guards, Rutland, have
voted to reOrganize the company, retiring
all but thirty-five of the old members and
mastering in twenty new men.
GEORGE MURPHY of Bennington fired at a
big hawk with an old Springfield musket
The gun burst, piece of metal splitting his
nose and the powder injuring his eyes.
PRESIDENT SMITH, General Manager Ho-
bart, Nice-President Smith and Colonel
Childs returned Saturday from a western
trip, after an absence of some ten days.
GRIFFITH q MCINTIRE of Dandy have pro-
cured thirty French Canadians, who will be
employed at their charcoal works in the
places of knights of Labor recently dis
charged.
THE dam in Nottingham at the outlet of
Sadawga Lake is to be raised six feet, MAX
ing reservoir covering seven hundred
acres and varying in depth from six to tif-
teen feet.
Bennington celebrated the fiftieth anniver
sary of their marriage Wednesday, at the
residence of their son, Mr.. II. A. Hartman,
in Rutland.
THE Unitarians of Brattleboro have for
mally accepted Rev. S. NJ. Crothers' resig-
nation as pastor and presented him with
800. He has accepted a call to Unity
church at st. Paul. MINI.
THE Burlington Coasting Club which
numbers three hundred, has decided to have
another carnival this winter. Over five hun
dred tobogganS are owned in the city and
one hundred traverses or bob-sleds.
FRANK HACKETT of Troy attempted sui
eide Friday, but the overdose of carbolic
acid and morphia and prompt medical as
sistance resuscitated him Since then
Hackett has cut his throat, but is yet alive.
G
list church at South Vernon, was killed
while walking on the track of the New Lon
don Northern road, Friday afternoon. He
was fifty-five years Old and leaves a family.
Mrs. SARAH MCCLELLAN WATTS, aged
about forty-ive years, committed suicide
the 10th, at Jay with ribbon tied to bed
post while the family attended church.
Insanity through domestic trouble caused
the deed.
The master of transportation of the Cen
trail Vermont said last week that they had
orders for nearly 800 cars which they could
not fill, and the Central Vermont is one of
the best equipped roads in the country
Free Press.
Hon. HARVEY Button died at his resi-
dence in Wallingford October IS. He was
born in the town of Clarendon January |,
1900. He graduated at Middlebury College
in 1873. He was prominent lawyer, and
had been probate Judge.
THE President has partloned Edwin w.
Smith of Rutland who was sentenced in
December, 1885, for one year for violation of
section 546S, revised statutes. Smith was
only eighteen years old, and there were ex-
tenuating circumstances
AT Fair Haven some miscreant forced an
entrance into the Riverside slate mill Fri
day night, and cut every belt in the mill in
two, and the engine belt was cut in eleven
pieces. This is the second time that belts
have been cut in the mill
THE house and barn of Ora Bishop, occu-
pied by John E. Clement at McIndoes
Falls, We're burned the 11th with all the
contents. The family saved but little. Mr..
Bishops loss is about S1,200; insured for
1913 in the Vermont Mutual.
IT is rumored that a change of editorial
control of the Rutland Herald is likely to
be Occasioned before long by the resignation
of Colonel Albert Clarke, who has not
found his task an easy one. 1t is also under
stood that the Rutland Telegram is for sale.
Free Press.
GRAND MASTER n. P. Bowman of st.
Johnsbury has issued a call for a conven-
ton of the Rebekah lodges of Odd Fellows,
to be held in Burlington November /. A
new lodge will be instituted there and the
work will be exemplifed by the Benning-
ton Lodge of Rebekah.
A COMPLAINT has been entered against
Wllllam sloan OF StraffOrd, whose wife
was recently found guilty of the murder of
her child, for criminal assault upon little
Marsh girl, twelve years of age, who also
lives in STAFFORD. Evidence is being gath
cred and it looks like bad case for the
fellow.
THE Hartford Wooden Company has been
organized, with a capital of 100000, for
the purpose of manufacturing various kinds
of wooden goods. A new factory will be
erected, employing 1875 operatives. Ephraim
Morris is president of the company, Ed
ward w. Morris secretary, Charles NJ
Cone treasurer and V. Y Brennan SUPER
intendent.
PERSONS with remarkable memories are
sometimes charged with remembering
events that occurred before they We're born
1t appears, from statement in the Popular
Science WOnthiy for October that this is pos
sible; " A little girl in Burlington, VT, had
inherited so good memory of an uncle,
whose funeral had been attended by her
mother not long before this little girls birth,
that she could give full description of him,
and knew his picture at once the first time
she saw it,"
ALL the buildings on the Jake MCGOWAN
farm, owned by Mrs. Jennie Sheldon, near
Highgate Falls, were burned the 18th.
lost most of his household effects; also two
produce Potter has no insurance. Mrs.
started. She was awakened by the glare OF
the burning barns and ran barefooted and
in her night-dress for help, three-fourths OF
a mil IAag La