The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16
Weekly News Summary.


leader OF the 81 AlDanS Danu'
ELEVEN hundred dollars have just been
raised for the Burlington band.
GEORGE G. SMITH of st. Adams has been
granted patent for pipe-wrench
THE acknowledgement has appointed M.
i. Whitney postmaster at Stamford.
DIR. VINCENT has sold his Burlington
drugstore to George f. Pope x Son.
Miss FRANCES NJ. DUNToN and Miss Howe
will give a concert in st. Adams about June
9th.
A BEAR weighing three hundred fifteen
pounds was killed near West Dover re-
Gently.
ABOUT twenty-five are in attendance at
the Mary Fletcher Hospital training school
for nurses.
ST. ALBANs has two flourishing trade as
sociations-the Board of Trade and the
Produce Exchange.
COLONEL AND Mrs. DUNToN and Miss
Dunton have returned to Brattleboro from
their winters stay in Florida.
NINE thousand barrels of oil are to be
stored at Burlington which is the distri0-
uting point of the Standard Company.
LEWIS MINRAD of Bellows Falls, was re-
Gently reunited in St. Louis to a sister
whom he had not seen for forty years
LYMAN b. RAY, recently nominated for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ON the Illinois republic
can state ticket, is native of Vermont.
ALEXANDER MCLEOD of Bellows Falls,
Scotchman forty-four years of age, fell down
an embankment Friday night and was killed.
OTTER CREEK was swollen to a great ex-
tent by the severe rain of last week Thurs
day night. The entire valley was over
flowed.
RECENT mysterious fires in Rutland are
now attributed to deliberate villainy. The
authorities are to look after the guilty
parties.
a hos old from
STAFFORD, was killed in Stanley Canada,
while playing among some mill-logs in Cars
saw-mill.
BISHOP BIssELL was taken i'll in Rutland
while making his annual visitation there,
but not so severely but that he returned
home next day.
LIGHTNING PLAYED havoc with the tele-
phone poles at Mount Holly last week
Thursday night. About thirty poles will
have to be replaced.
THE Californian announces that Arthur
F. son of Editor c. NJ Stone, will leave his
position on the Fall River NeUs and enter
the Californian office.
A GRIsr-MILL on the Connecticut river at
McIudoe's Falls, belonging to Charles Nc,
Farland and valued at $4,000, was carried
away by high water on Saturday.
HEMAN WARES farm-barn at Whining
ton was burned last week, together with six
sheep, twelve to fifteen tons of hay and
farming lIlDleubDlS. lJOSS % ,OOo dhOC
500
THE famous stallion Lambertus, -
valued at $4,000 died at the Bread Loaf
stock farm in Weybrdge last week He
was owned by John Porter of Ticonderoga
NY.
THE docket of the May term of Windsor
county court contains lightweight law,
twenty-one divorce, five state and seven
teen chancery cases. The term will begin
May 90.
ENos ID. HOPKINS, well-known former
resident of St. Johnsbury and for many
years member of the Vermont conference,
died at Conant, Florida, April 30. His last
charge was at East st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. AND Mrs. b. b. SMALLEY of Burling
ton, who have been the guests OF Senator
Morrill, in Washington for the past month,
have gone to Old Point Comfort, accom-
panied by Senator Morrill, and Miss Swan.
Mrs. CATHARINE PossoM wife of Rev
w. l.. Possom of West Addison, patient al
Albany On. " Hospital jumped from a
fourth-story window and was instantly
killed. 1t is thought she was temporarily
insane.
Mrs. u. G. WALLACE of Indiana, widely
known as the " Deborah " of the Nationa
Womans Christian Temperance Union, is
expected to come to Vermont early in june
for series of lectures on "Woman's En-
reimbursement"
A pocKET-BooK containing 50 and valu
able papers, which Mr.. f. b. Gleason
of Brattleboro lost in Boston ten years ago
was returned to him through the mail re
Gently, the finder explaining that circum
stances prevented its earlier return.
PARMLY BILLINGS, eldest child of Hon
Frederick Billings, died at Chicago, Ma,
Z, aged twenty-five years. The funera
service was held at Woodstock Mr.. ant
Mrs. Billings have the sympathy of a larg
circle of friends in their sad affection.
w. II. PARKER of Cambridge will delive
the Memorial day address at West Burke
Rev. A. b. TruaX of Montpelier at Water
bury Center, Rev. u. Martin of Benningto
at Bennington Frank Partridge of Procto
at Ripton and Rev E. Snow at Enosburg
Falls.
STOCK train bound south struck WOO
train being loaded two miles north of Bethe
at fifty minutes past three Friday afternoon
killing a boy named Conner from Canad
and severely injuring one of the crew {
the wood train. The engines of both train
and six cars were badly damaged. The ell
gineers and firemen jumped and escape
injury. The passengers of the Montrei
and Boston express were carried by, cau
ing several hours delay.
In General.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH of Toronto is dead.
TENNESSEE democrats Endorsed CLEVELAND
A SEVERE earthquake is reported in Japa
WIGGINs predicts an earthquake in Cal
fornia.
A FIRE at Oil City, Penn, did $500
damage
THERE was snow-storm in Michigan q
Monday.
JAMES G.. BLAINE has arrived in Par
from Italy.
PROFESSOR LEON LEVI, the econom
writer, is dead.
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the Crosl
high-license bill.
REV. DIR. A. A. MINER of Boston was hu
in a carriage accident.
A STEAMER was sunk in the Seine, Franc
and fourteen lives lost.
HUNDREDS of immigrants are destitu
and starving at Toronto.
A NATIONAL LEAGUE meeting at Sligo co
demned the pope's rescript.
LORD STANLEY of Preston is gazetted
encouragement of Canada.
CRIcKETs are destroying vegetation a
causing pestience in Algeria.
The differences between the United Stat
and Morocco have been adjusted.