The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Weekly News Summary.
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in Castleton.
A BILL has been introduced in congress
for federal building at st. Adams.
REV. L. G. WARE of Burlington is recov
ering from an attack of pneumonia.
In the Ward arson case at st. Johnsbury
the jury brought in verdict of guilty.
SoLoN BURROUGHS house near Vergennes
was burned Monday. Loss $1,000; insured
for 81 800.
JOHN ANDERSON of Craftsbury, driving
load of hay, was struck by locomotive and
severely hurt.
THE state legislature of Massachusetts for
this year contains sixteen members who are
natives of Vermont.
ADoLPH GEBo, Rutland teamster, sick
and Respondent tried to cut his throat with
a razor. He may live.
AT Rutland Charles Russell, aged sixteen
years, fell from and under load of wood
and was badly crushed.
CHARLES ELLIS of Rutland received
painful injury to his thigh by falling on
pointed stick while skating.
MRS. KATE w. CLARKs house at West
Hartford was burned Monday morning
Loss 81, 900; insured for 81 600.
THE lodge of Good Templars in Irasburgh
holds the lead, with 131 members, and
Waitsfield comes next, with ia.
REV. /. MCANN, formerly of Vermont, is
now principal of the Boydton Institute for
Colored Scholars at Boydton, Va.
DRs. DUNsMoRE AND SHERWOOD of st. AL
bans and Baxter of Highgate have been
constituted a board of pension examiners.
COLONEL FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS has re-
signed as member of the republican state
committee, position he held many years.
S. G. CUMMINGS of South Royalton, who
was injured on the railroad, necessitating
a tut nj nj limbs
A MAN named Simpson, while driving a
load of hay across the track at Georgia re-
Gently, was struck by the express and killed.
p. G.. PIERsoN of Cuttingsville, while out
hunting with two companions, was mistaken
for a rabbit and received charge of buck
shot.
AFTER wandering about the state for
some time, seeking an abiding-place the
Rutland shirt factory has settled down at
home.
THE docket for the February term of Or
leans county court contains 12S law and
twenty chancery cases. The term begins
February 7.
JOSEPH LAFoND aged sixty-five years, of
st. Johnsbury, who was injured two or three
weeks ago by falling down stairs, died of
his injuries on the Sth instant.
SENATOR MORRILL, suffered from an attack
of Indigestion last week which confined
ulll W HIS HOlS6, DuI IL w dSllHBJOll ulSpdlCH
says he will be out again soon.
GENERAL w. w. CIRCUIT has sold his Bar
ton residence, and he and his sister Victoria
will make their home at his farm in Kirby,
where he is building fine house.
The executive committee of the grand
lodge of Good Templars have engaged
Lorin b. Kendall of Clinton, Mass, to work
in the interests of the order during the
winter
MAJOR THOMAS NELSON of Ryegate died
on the 9th, aged seventy-two years. He
served in the Third Vermont Regiment
during the war and was prominent man
in his town.
LELAND FAIRBANKS, aged ninety-four
years, died recently at Bennington and was
buried with Masonic honors. He was one
of the Oldest members of the Masonic fra
ternity and past master.
THE railroad commissioners have filed
their report of the accident that took place at
St. Adams on the death of Henry Coombs.
They find it was due to no fault of the cor
poration, but to the carelessness of the UNI
fortunate man.
DIPHTHERIA is more prevalent in the vii
lage now than at any time for many years.
Four deaths have taken place since January
Z and many more severe cases are reported.
The disease is confined principally to young
AUTHORIZATIONS Falls Cor.
FOLLOWING are the names of centenarians
in Vermont: Giles Benson of Castleton,
115 years; Perault Picard of Colchester,
107; Mrs. Evangeline Counter of Rochester,
101; James Works of Waterford, 101; Mrs.
Sarah Gibbs of Barnard, 100.
CoAL-DEALERs here do not anticipate any
advance in the price of coal growing out of
the strike in the coal regions. One promi-
nent dealer said "There won't be any adj
vance in the price of coal in this city. You
can state that as authoritative. "-Burling-
ton Free Press.
G. S. MELLEN, superintendent of the Bos-
ton q Lowell road, writes railroad officials
here that he will entertain any proposition
that the town of St. Johnsbury or any of its
people make with regard to the removal of
the railroad shops from Lyndonville to this
place.-CdledOnidn.
MRS. A. A. EARLE has gone to Wolcott
for few weeks, in all probability to see
her father, who is very low with cancer and
who cannot live long. In her place we
have housekeeper MRS. Fitch who is not
quite so handsome but good deal gooder.-
White Riuer Junction Landmark,
AT the annual meeting of the Missisquoi
Valley railroad, held at st. Adams January
IL, the following directors were elected W.
G. Smith, +. S. Stranahan and Il. G. Smith
of st. Adams, I. H. Perkins and Augustus
Russ of Boston, S. p. Carpenter of Richford
and A. w. Woodwork of Enosburgh Falls.
HE VI lHCtuuldTy lTtS Has CduStu
talk of raising insurance rates at Rutland.
An investigation shows that although fires
have taken place oftener in Rutland than in
her sister towns the losses have been no
greater than the average and the rate of
insurance is already greater than in other
towns.
MRS. MADISON MANLEY, an aged resident
OF Rutland, was instantly killed Thursday
at Hoosick junction. She attempted to
step off a moving train, slipped, was caught
between the car and station platform and
was twisted round and round. When picked
up she was dead, her chest having been
crushed.
CITY HEALTH OFFICER j. II. LINsLEY of
Burlington has issued letter advising pri-
vate funerals in all cases of death by diph-
iberia, and also advising that the news paper
notice of such deaths should name the dis
ease from which the death occurred and
also that no hour should be named at which
the funeral should take place.
JUDGE Ross of the Orange county court
has signed a decree for Preston S. Smith
of Washington, ID. c., and Daniel e.
Colby of New London for 81 1885 against the
Vermont Copper Mining Company of Yer
shire. This is the first case ever tried in
Vermont for damages to farm vegetation by
furnace smoke. 1t has been to the supreme
court and back to the county court through
years of litigation.