The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-09
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


suicide on Friday by taking laudanum.
ANTI-ATKINs delegates were elected in
Underhill and Jericho to the democratic
state convention.
JOHN CLIFFORD of Windsor jumped from
train due in North Adams Friday night
He was instantly killed.
THE Burlington hardware firm of Ripley
& Holton has dissolved and Dea. Ripley
expects to locate in the West.
A CHILD of Albert Scribner's in johnson
swallowed bean, which lodged in its wind
pipe, causing death Immediately.
MALoNEY's billiard-saloon at Winooski
took fire recently. Two men in the build
ing narrowly escaped suffocation.
THE town of Bennington has voted to
give the Young Mems Association $1,000
toward the erection of an opera-house.
c. S. Kinsley, the former editor and pro-
prietor of the Burlington Clipper, is now
connected editorially with Chicago paper
THE Commercial Telegraph Company is
now engaged in laying direct line between
Burlington and Plattsburgh, across Grand
Isle.
FIFTEEN persons were received into the
Congregational church at st. Adams on
Sunday morning and eleven into the Bap-
fist church.
IT is understood that Mr.. Phelps will sail
for England on the 18th of June, after at
tending to some personal matters at his
home in Burlington.
A TRAVELLER over the Burlington & La
noble says that last week Wednesday he
rode three miles in Belvidere over four feet
of solid snow and ice.
ROBERT JOHNSTON of st. Johnsbury has
recovered $1,000 from the Boston & Albany
road for the death of his son at Boston
Embarrassing year ago.
THE acknowledgement has appointed
Miss Carrie f. Parker postmistress at
Pownal Theresa j. Cochran at Ryegate and
A. j. Wills postmaster at South Tunbridge.
JOHN MORRILL, of Corinth committed sui
eide on the ID by throwing himself into the
river. No cause is known. He was in
good circumstances and was about sixty
three years old.
THE trial of the Foster will case at st.
Adams ended Monday. The jury gave a
verdict sustaining Mrs. Fosters will, and
that the proponents recover their costs OF
the defendants.
JOHN H. BUCK of Westfeld has made ga
pounds of weighed sugar from ninety-eight
trees. According to latest reports Carmi
Osgood of Westford leads in the largest pro-
portonate yield-eight pounds to the tree.
OUR East Berkshire correspondent says
that Henry Stanley has lost thirteen cows
from empty-barn disease. Two years ago
twenty-eght calves and yearings died on
his premises of the same distemper. The
people are slightly indignant. "-nesSen9er
HENRY MCINTosH young farmer living
in the western part of the town of St. AL
bans committed suicide Sunday by shoot
ing through the temple. He was married in
November, but had had considerable trouble
with his wife, who refused to live with him
unless he gave up his drinking habits.
FRANK G. NUTTING has completed his
twenty-five years of service as the driver of
the stage between st. Adams and Bakers
field. Previous to beginning operations on
that route Mr.. Nutting had driven stage
from Montpelier to Mortified and in other
parts of the state for a period of twelve
years-making the very substantial record
of thirty-seven years of stage-driving.
JUDGE POWERS four DEGREES in favor of
the First National Bank as against E. A.
Sowles have been confirmed by decision of
the supreme court. The sum of about $50, 900
was involved in these cases. The property
covered by these DEGREES includes mort
cages upon real estate in Franklin county
and leases assigned by the defendant at
about the time of the failure of the bank to
secure certain Indebtedness of the de-
PENDANT.
THE board of railroad commissioners, in
the matter of the accident on the Rutland
division of the Central Vermont at Rocking
ham, April 6, state that the accident was
undoubtedly caused by the sliding away of
the ground, which had been suddenly soft
ened by a heavy thaw. The board recon-
structing the embankment at that place,
take such measures to guard against re-
currence of the slide as prudence and good
engineering may require, in view of the
revealed dangers of the place, and also
that the embankment adj iacent to this point
be so strengthened that there may be no
possibility of recurrence of this slide
there. The board would recommend the
construction of several additional sluices or
outlets from the ditch upon the upper side
Of that anly ole tha do nrth of &c
place, for the purpose of carrying off the
surface water from said ditch.
In General.
RUSSIA is instigating a Greek rising in
Macedonia.
arbitration.
THE decrease in the public debt during
April was S9,300000.
EMPEROR Dom PEDRO of Brazil is reported
seriously i'll in Milan.
ANOTHER abscess has broken in the Ger
man emperor'S throat.
A HAIL-sToRM in Indiana recently killed
one hundred fifty people.
CONGRESSMAN REED of Maine has been
renominated by reclamation.
SEVEN human beings persisted in burn
ing barn near Arlington, Neb.
THE Connecticut River Railroad Com
pdny mas purchased tne ASnuelOt ROAD.
A CIRCUS train was wrecked near Steuben-
vile, Ohio, and several persons were hurt.
MOUNT 1ETNA is now in a state of activity,
but the eruption has not yet assumed seri-
GUS aspect
Hon. p. A. COLLINS of Massachusetts has
been selected to preside at the st. Louis
convention.
GENERAL BoULANGER has written a letter
protesting against the warlike idea at
tributed to him.
SECRETARY Villas name is mentioned as
the probable second name on the next
Cleveland ticket.
THE National Park Bank of New York
has, it is alleged been robbed of 100000 by
its assistant cashier
Hon. w. L. SCOTT is to succeed w. III
Barnum as chairman of the democratic
national committee.
BISHOP PARKER and Rev. Mr.. Blackburn
recently died of fever at the Unyoro Mis-
sion, Albert Nyanza.
THE recent case of grating a rabbits
cornea upon human eye in Philadelphia
is said to be successful.