The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-25
Weekly News Summary.
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lican league clubs in the state
THE headquarters of the Vermont dele
gates at Chicago will he at the Leland
House.
The annual excursion of the Vermont
Press Association will probably be made to
Lake George early in June
A BRAKEMAN named Joseph l.. German
slipped under the cars at Shelburn and had
both legs cut off He lived but few hours.
ORANGE COUNTY SUPREME COURT will
begin its sessions May LIST. Ofnineteen cases
on the docket not more than thirteen will
be tried.
A NEW lodge of the order of Railway Con-
ductors was organized at Bellows Falls last
week delegates coming by special trains
from Boston, Springfield and st. Adams.
A PROMINENT resident of Burlington, in
making out his list for the assessors, put in
his carriage horses at 500 each. The gem
tlemanS wife, when she looked over the list
and saw the valuation put upon the horses,
said "Well, If those horses aren't worth
more than that l want a new span"
THE Weldon House, St. Adams, which
was put into the market at $4,000 some
tine ago, has been sold to Thomas Lavender,
who was its landlord several years, and he
has taken possession. He has not given up
his interest in the junction House at White
River Junction. Mr.. Merrifeld, late man
ager of the Weldon, has gone to Boston to
take charge of cafe.
The most important case before the
Franklin county court, now in progress at
st. Adams, with Judge Veazey presiding,
is the Foster will case George w. Foster,
who was wealthy man, married Miss
Catharine A Foote, an orphan, who was re-
siding with her aunt, Mrs French, in Ben
nington They moved to Swanton, but
their domestic relations soon became bitter
and he had her taken to the insane asylum
at Brattleboro. Through the influence of
her aunts she was released, and when Mr.
Foster died she went to St. Adams. Mrs.
Foster died suddenly, of heart disease, some
time ago and left will involving some
$4,000, the bulk of which she bequeathed
to Mrs. Julia Hayes (and one or two others)
of New York city. Mrs Foster at the time
of her death was at Mrs. Hayes home in
New York. Deceased was peculiar
woman, by some regarded as a trifie off"
and Immediately on the contents of her
will being known j. ID. Shafter and Della
S. Dickinson of New York stepped in to
contest the same, on the ground of alleged
incompetency on Mrs. Fosters part to make
awill, besides alleging undue influence.
The case was in probate court for long
time, and Judge Bailey there gave decision
for the legatees 1t was carried to the
county court on appeal. There is quite an
array of counsel on both sides. Noble &
Smith, Burleson & Ballard, Harrington &
Post and j. n. Hayes appear for the legatees,
and Wilson & Hall, Cross & Start, Jed. p.
Ladd and Governor Ormsbee appear for the
contestants.
In General.
REAR-ADMIRAL G. S. BoGGs is dead
Mr.. CoNKLING's estate is valued at
100000.
QUEEN VICTORIA is en- route from Florence
to Berlin.
SMALL-Pox prevails in several sections of
Philadelphia.
In oil + DO,
banker, is dead
THE prospects are good for large peach
crop in Delaware.
THE revolt of the Roumanian peasants
has been suppressed.
The business portion of Monmouth, Maine,
was burned last week.
FOURTEEN business houses were destroyed
by fire at Exeter, n. III.
THE winter wheat crop will fall consd-
erably below the average.
TEXAS new state-house was opened to
the legislature on Saturday.
DEXTER" the famous trotting horse,
died on Saturday, aged thirty.
THIEVES stole $4,000 from an old Italian
residing in the City of Mexico.
e. G. SoUIER, a writer on Central Ameri-
can antiquities, died last week.
BRAZIL seems now fairly committed to
the policy of liberatng her slaves.
SENATOR CULLoM announces that he is
not candidate for the presidency.
Mr.. MORLEY thinks this is not the
golden age of politics " for Ireland.
A. S. ABELL, founder of the Baltimore
San, died last week, aged eighty-one.
a TOWN in the Philippine Islands has been
partly destroyed by fire. Loss 81 100000.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN has decided to leave
the liberal marty and enter the tory ga hinpt
SMALLPOX is prevailing at Tarrytown,
n. Y, among operatives on the new aque-
duct.
WESTERN crop reports indicate chance
for full crop of all products except winter
wheat.
MOSES FRALEY, leading speculator in the
ST. Louis grain markets, has failed for
100000.
A NATIONAL convention of democratic
clubs is to be held in Baltimore in early
summer.
RELIGIOUS strife again prevails in Quebec
between the Anglo-Canadans and French
Catholics.
Mr.. PoLIKoFF, the Russian railway
king, is dead. His fortune is estimated
at f6,0000OO.
The republican convention at Lebanon,
Ohio, nominated Henry L. Morey of Hamil-
ton for congress.
BENJAMIN F. ALLEN, Boston merchant,
was run over by bus on Washington
street and killed.
THERE was S250,0OO fire at Winona,
Mimi, and 100000 blaze at Eau Claire,
Wis, on Saturday.
AT Athens, Greece, the chief clerk of the
treasury has been arrested for embezzlng
five million francs.
THE republican convention nominated
Jacob j. Pugsley for congress from the
twelfth Ohio district.
EMPEROR FREDERICK has given orders for
the prosecution of all newspapers guilty of
insulting the empress.
The Russian government has enjoined the
press of the empire against disparaging the
German crown-prince.
n. p. b. WELLS, secretary of the Seneca
Falls IN. " Savings Bank, is under arrest
as defaulter in $4,000.
REPRESENTATIVE MCKINLEY has been nom
mated by reclamation by the eighteenth
Ohio district republicans
LORD HARTINGToN declares that the pre-
vention of Ireland's independence depends
on the British democracy.