The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14
Weekly News Summary.

Mr.. PHELPS, the American minister to |
England is coming home on leave for sixty |
days
THE students of st. Johnsbury Academy
have a republican club, which they call |
The Lincoln"
THERE are seventy-fve boys and thirteen |
girls at the reform school-a less number of
girls than for a long time past.
SOUTHERN VERMONT is troubled by an
epidemic of measles, which in some places
has caused the closing of schools.
THE railroad managers of Vermont will
meet at White River junction March 81 to
take action regarding car heating.
RECEIVER WILLIAM V. REYNOLDS has APP
pointed f. ID. Bennett of Bennington super
intendent of the Lebanon Springs railroad
THE number of inmates in the house of
correction at the present time is sixty-one,
being about ten less than at the same time
last year.
THERE is no truth in the report which has
gone the rounds that Brattleboro is afflicted
with an epidemic of diphtheria. Physicians
say that there is not a case of the disease in
town.
D. p. WEBSTER an aged citizen of Bakers
field, died recently. He was lightweight
yeats old, a distant relative of Daniel Web
ster and said to be the first white male born
in Bakersfield
A MEETING of the Vermont Board of Trade
was held at St. Adams the 9TH, to decide
between st. Adams and Burlington as the
headquarters of the board After argu-
ments the board of directors decided in ia
vor of Burlington.
THE Vermont association of ex-prisoners
of war, originated at the recent annual meet
ting Of the Grand Army, is growing more
rapidly than was expected. There are now
enrolled over thirty per cent of the resident
prisoners of the state.
"PAPA," said st. Adams lad recently,
ARE they going to paint those electric light
poles ?" al guess So" said the parent.
"Well," said the lad, after thoughtfully
looking the pole over from top to bottom,
they'll have to begin at the top, or they'll
get their pants dirty. Messenger
THE labor party swept Rutland last year
and elected their entire ticket, but this year
the democrats and republicans nominated
a non-partsan union ticket composed of
leading citizens and representative business
men, and elected their ticket by an average
majority of over 200 in total vote of up
ward Of 900
THE North Hero bridge paid the past year
1921 in gross receipts, and the expenses for
toll-keeper, fuel lights etc, amounted to
about $500, leaving only 1924 net to pay the
$500 interest with due April /. The tolls
on single teams was put down from twenty
five cents to twenty cents and double from
thirty cents to twenty-five cents.
REV. w. j. JOHNSON expects to publish
in the columns of his Conference Reporter
the list of appointments of Vermont Meth
Odism from 1894 to 1915. in which year the
Vermont Conference assumed an ncorpo
rate existence by episcopal action. This
list has been specially prepared by Rev. A.
L. Cooper of Springfield, and it may after
ward be arranged in tract form for perma-
nent preservation.
A LARGE and enthusiastic rally of Addi-
son county republicans was held in Middle
bury the It'll. The Middlebury College re-
publican club attended the meeting in a
body, and delegates from the republican
clubs of Orwell, Shoreham, Bristol and
Cornwall were also present The address
was delivered by Frank Plumley, Esq. of
Mortified, who made powerful and con-
vncing argument in favor of the protective
policy. Mr.. Plumley also touched on the
question of political prohibition and showed
the unwisdom of the third party movement
Much enthusiasm prevailed.
In General.
The Lehigh strike is declared off
APRIL II will be Fast day in New Hamp-
shire.
THURSDAY, April 3, will be Fast day in
Massachusetts.
THE long-contnued war in Western
freight rates is ended.
THE silver wedding of the prince of
Wales was celebrated on Saturday.
ONE person was killed and twelve were
wounded by an accident Sunday on the
Erie railway.
A CATHOLIC priest in New York has been
suspended on account of his friendship for
DIR. McGlynn.
The Methodist University at Mitchell
Dakota, was burned Friday. Ten people
were injured, one fatally.
A SINGULAR case is before Judge Field of
Massachusetts, in which man died leaving
two widows and two wills.
EXCITEMENT is caused at Ottawa over the
proposition to admit Newfoundland into
the Dominion confederation.
The date for holding the prohibition ma
tional convention at In Annapolis has been
changed from June to May 30
WILLIAM B. MORRILL,, editor and pro-
prietor of the Exeter IN. HI Necs letter,
died suddenly last week of heart disease.
TwENTY-EIGHT lives are believed TO have
been lost by the sinking of the British
steamship City of Corinth by collision.
Hon. CHRISTOPHER c. MEMMINGER, who
was confederate secretary of the treasury
during the entire war, died recently at
Charleston.
THOMAS j. POTTER, vice-president and
general manager Of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company, died at Washington, after an
illness OF some weeks.
A DEFALcATIoN of between S37 900 and
phin county, Penn, and is charged to former
incumbents of the office.
THE department of agriculture's March
report states that the corn crop is the small
est since 1884 and the remainder on farms
the smallest in seven years.
MEMBERS of the Brotherhood of Locomo.
tive Engineers say that their organization
numbers $4,000 and that they have half q
million dollars in the treasury to draw upon
BETWEEN twenty and thirty people were
killed by the explosion of the boiler Of the
river steamer "Rafaee Reyes" on the
Diqua river, United States of Colombia
February 2l.
THE physicians in attendance on the
crown prince have signed a statement as tC
the princes condition, which seems to bt
more favorable than recent reports from
other sources.
DIR. HATTIE ALLEN of Waterloo, Iowa
has been chosen assistant professor of medi
cine in the University of Michigan. She il
the first woman ever selected for such
position at the West.
REPORTS from cities along the Hudson
river and in Connecticut state that tn
greatest snow-storm OF the winter occurre'