The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Weekly News Summary.

JUDGE A. o. AIDS is reported quite i'll at
his home in Washington.
SENATOR MORRILL, has been ill in Wash
ington, but is now better.
A CHARTER for a Grand Army post at
Felchville has been granted.
The Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain rail-
road has been permanently leased to the
Central Vermont.
JOHN KENNEDY, demented person of
Berkshire, was killed by the cars between
Richford and Abercorn.
Mrs. MAHALA BARTLETT of Addison
county Is 1903 years old and has lived in the
same house continuously for century.
ESSEX, Caledonia, Chttenden, Addison,
Windsor, Orleans, Orange and Washington
counties hold republican conventions this
week.
II. b. WRIGHT's house, one of the finest
in Middlebury, was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday forenoon. Loss, $1,000; insured for
$1,000.
AT Richford Sunday, William Moves, a
farmer, stabbed James Mudgett with a
pitchfork and then killed himself with a
revolver.
WALTER, aged four years, son of John
O'Brien of Burlington, fell from a load of
hay Saturday and was killed by one of the
cart-wheels, which passed over his head.
THE great international single scull race
on Lake Memphremagog, between Teemer
and Ross, distance three miles, was won by
Teemer by about boat-length in twenty
one and one-half minutes.
The committee having in charge the ar
rangements for the annual excursion of the
State Press Association has decided to go to
the Thousand Islands, starting on the
morning of Wednesday, July 14th.
Hon. BENJAMIN F. MARTIN, a prominent
and wealthy resident of Manchester, n. H.,
tod
Wednesday, aged seventy-three years. He
had figured in POLITICAL railroad and bank
ing matters.
JUDGE VEAzEY of the supreme court will
preside, and Judge Wheeler of the United
States district court will deliver the COM
memorative address, at the unwilling of the
monument to Theophilus Harrington, one
of the early judges of the state, which oc-
ours at Clarendon on the Sd of July.
LAWRENCE BARNES of Burlington died on
Monday, aged seventy-one years He came
from Nashua, n. H., to Burlington some
twenty-five years ago, and acquired large
fortune in the lumber business. He repre-
sented Burlington in the legislature in 1864,
was president of the Howard National
Bank, a leading member of the Baptist
church and liberal giver to religious and
charitable objects.
IT is expected by the committee in charge
of the Bennington battle monument that
they will be ready to break ground for the
foundation on the anniversary of the battle
August 16. All are working tremendously
and an important point in relation to the
method of construction was settled last
week. This may always vary greatly with
the same design and in the present case the
style of masonry has been altered and other
changes made which will reduce the cost of
the monument several thousand dollars, it
is estimated, but which will not detract
from its grand effect in the least. Work
has also been done in the direction of get
ting the case ready for submission to the
army board at Washington. The board
will decide promptly and then the associa-
ton will be in a condition for active build
ing operations.
Other Localities.
SAN FRANCISCO reports S230,0O0 fire.
HENRY WARD BEECHER sailed for Europe
Saturday.
DAVID VAN NosrRAND, the well-known
book publisher, is dead.
THIS years wheat crop is the heaviest
ever harvested in California.
Hon. A. A. TAYLOR is the republican nom-
inee for governor in Tennessee.
A COMPANY of convicts employed on 9
North Carolina railroad have struck.
The Maine prohibitionists have nom.
mated Aaron Clark of Baxter for governor.
The Spofford family had reunion in
THE Knights of Labor have called con-
vention in Wisconsin to nominate a full
state ticket.
THE business failures for the week ending
last Friday number for the United State:
IA and for Canada II.
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the bills
which were calculated to reform the cleo.
tons of New York city.
PRESIDENT AND Mrs. CLEVELAND held a
public reception in the White House last
week. The attendance was large
SPERRY & BARNES packing-house at New
Haven, Conn, was burned last week
Wednesday, causing loss of 100000.
EDWIN P WmPPLE, the well-known es
sayst, lecturer and critic, died of pneu
monia in Boston last week, aged sixty
seven years.
Cook and Denton counties in Texas were
swept by cyclone last week A mum
Der of lives were lost and the damage tC
property was great.
COLONEL j. w. STRONG, editor of the st
Joseph (Mo.) Herald, was assassinated by
DIR. S. A. Richmond. Richmond then at
tempted to kill himself.
A SEVERE wind and rain storm did 500
600 damage in Parker county, Texas, Satur
day evening, while other portions of tn
state suffered heavy losses.
The New England Institute building oil
Huntington avenue, Boston, was burne,
Monday afternoon. Seven persons perishe,
in the flames and the pecuniary loss wa
$250,000.
In the regatta of the Atlantic Yacht Gu
in New York Bay, Thursday, the Priscill
won. The Atlantic finished second, min
minutes later, and the Puritan came in third
thirteen minutes behind the Priscilla.
A GALVESTON, Texas, despatch says O
the recent disastrous storm: " Hail fe
varying in size from marble to a man
head, perforating iron and tin roofs Xix
seine nets, piece of hailstone being pickle
up that actually weighed seven pounds"
A DISPATCH says that the grand jury
Green county, Mo-, has returned two il
dictments against Mrs. Emma Molloy, char
ing her with being party to the bigamor
marriage of George Graham and Cora Lei
and as an accessory after the fact in til
murder of Sarah Graham.
A WASHINGTON dispatch to the Bosto
Journal says: "The supporters of til
oleomargarine bill have met with a ne
difficulty. The dairy interests are NJ
united The representatives of the chees
industry say that their business is as muc
at the mercy of the oleomargarine compel
ton as is the butter business, and they d
mand that the senate committee on agr
culture shall amend the house bill so thu
their interests shall also be protected. III
friends of honest butter on the committee al
determined to protect honest cheese, and IL
probable that the amendment desired by I'll
cheese manufacturers will be added to I'll
bill The opponents of the bill say that I'll