The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

The house, barn and contents belonging
to p. Hutchinson of Boston, in Chester,
have been burned. Loss, $500.
JAMES Works of Waterford who passed
his one hundredth birthday last December,
died last week Tuesday morning.
MYRoN REED, while driving cattle from a
railway track in Underhill was struck by
an engine and his arm was broken.
AN eighty-year-old lady in Barnet, named
Mrs. Mcdonald, fell down stairs and was
badly injured but no bones were broken.
THE docket of Caledonia county court
shows ninety-one civil cases, ten criminal
cases and twenty-seven cases in the chan
Gerry docket.
THE Vermont Live Stock Company has
declared dividend of six per cent on
capital stock of So, 600 and carried So 900 TO
the surplus fund.
THE Tippecanoe veterans at Rutland held
notable banquet last evening" with music
and speeches by prominent persons in the
state. The leading state officials were in
vited, and there were accommodations for
$50 persons.
A YOUNG lad named Whitcomb, of Dan
vile, while playing with calf in pasture,
tied one end of rope around his own neck
and the other around the neck of the calf.
He was dragged all over the pasture and
nearly strangled.
THE sale of the Weldon House at st.
of the property to Messrs. Greenway and
Bell in consideration of $4,000. 1t is still
maintained that it is to be kept open as
summer hotel only.
WHILE Winnie Thayer and Tracy Phil
lips of Newport were seated on rustic
bench in b. f. Moore's grounds, bullet
whizzed between them and buried itself i'll
the back of the seat. Some men on the
railroad bridge did the firing.
In General
THE Reading road refuses to participate
in cut rates.
LINDAUER Bros & Co, of Chicago have
failed Liabilities S400,00O assets, $3.50, 600
THE British steamer Black Watch has
fOundered and the fate of the crew is un-
known.
THE republicans of Boston have nomi-
mated for mayor Thomas n. Hart the can
didate of last year.
THE strike among the Pittsburgh iron
men is increasing. Five hundred more pud-
dlers struck last week Thursday.
WARREN p. Corr who has been tax col
lector of Saugus, Mass, for several years is
short $4,000 in his accounts.
EXTENSIVE prairie fires are raging in
Dakota, but as the wind has gone down
they will be kept under control.
THERE are ugly rumors from Chicago and
other western cities that anarchism is re-
wing. 80 III seems the - snake was only
scotched, not killed"
DoUGHERTY, the actress Mary Anderson's
prosecuting lover, has been sent to the in
sane asylum. He has written a long state
ment of his love for the actress.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred iron workers at
Pittsburg have struck against the change
in the hours of labor, made necessary by
the scarcity of natural gas during the day
time.
MANY coal-operators will meet this week,
when, owing to the low price of coal, they
will probably agree to close some of their
works, throwing 5000 men out of employ
ment.
A TRAIN of seven coaches on the Rich
mond and Danville railway jumped the
track caught fire from the car stove and
totally consumed. Eight passengers were
injured.
r. S. KNIGHT of Milton Falls, n. H., be-
came missing November 6, and yesterday
his body was found in the river at Great
Falls 1t is supposed he was accidentally
drowned.
THE twelfth general assembly of the
knights of Labor is now in session at Indian
apolis. The recent difficulties will prob.
ably be harmonized and Powderly will re,
main at the head of the order.
A CATTLE train of twenty-five cars went
through bridge on the Missouri Pacific
railway. The engine and ten cars were
completely wrecked, one hundred cattle
killed, many crippled, and the engineer
fatally hurt.
THE amount of defalcation of the Saugus
collector, Copp, is now put at $4,000 in
stead of $4,000. There seems to be a curl
GUS state of affairs down there. The town
does not even now know how much it has
lost, if anything,
THE yellow fever scourge in the South is
nearing its end. The quarantine against
Jacksonville and other cities has been raised
and physicians think it safe for citizens &c
return. For the first time in three months
passenger train left Jacksonville, Thurs
day, but the passengers were locked in and
not allowed to leave until reaching Macon.