The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-11
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

vance in prices
REV. l.. G. WARE of Burlington is criti-
cally i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. DANIEL ID. HOWARD, formerly of
Burlington, has just died in Paris.
REV. T.. j. RANsLow of Wells River has
accepted call to his old pastorate in
Swanton.
THE new Academy building at Saxtou's
River is pronounced the finest school build
ing in the state.
EDWARD LYMAN of Burlington has OBJ
served the fortieth anniversary of his be-
ginning business in that city.
THE school in the mill district, Westfeld,
has been postponed two weeks on account
of the prevalence of diphtheria.
THE maple sugar product of Vermont
averages annually about 12,O00OOO pounds,
and it brought last year $4,000.
j. ID. WILSON of Greensboro has flax
wheel made by William Allan Wright, Kill
burney Bridge, Scotland, in 1902.
NJ. II. WARREN, manager of the Warner
Home, st. Adams, died suddenly of apo
plexy on Monday, aged sixty-eight years.
DIR. A. 7. GRINNELL of Burlington has
received the appointment of medical di-
rector of the Central Vermont railroad
company.
ROYAL TowLE is the champion fox hunter
of Vermont. He has killed twenty-three
the present season in the towns of Lyndon,
Burke and Kirby.
THE fourteenth annual convention of the
Vermont Bee-keepers' Association is to be
held at the Van Ness House, Burlington,
January Is and 10.
THE seven children of Mr.. G.. j. Hodges
of Ripton who have had diphtheria are
recovering, and there are no new cases at
his house or in the town.
THOMAS II. CHUBB, a manufacturer of
fshing-rods, employing one hundred men,
at Post Mills, will come to Rutland if suff-
Gent inducement is offered-Herdld.
WILLIAM G. ELKINs of North Troy had
large barn on his farm blown over Decem-
Der 90. Five head of cattle were crushed to
death and many others were seriously in
iured.
j. II. STRATToN of the st. Adams House
for the past year has leased and taken
possession of the Cushman House at Ma
lone. j. V. Rhoades takes the st. Adams
House.
THE steamer "a. Williams " made her
last trip for the season Friday, and went to
the harbor in winter quarters Saturday.
Last year the last trip was made Decem-
Der 3lst.
JUDGE TAFT of Burlington owns the first
law book ever printed, having been pub
lished shortly after William CaXton in
vented the system of printing from type
centuries ago.
MARY COLE, thirty-eight years old and in
sane, left her home saying that she was 60
ing to a neighbours. As she did not return,
search was made, and she was found in the
cistern, drowned Windsor Special
LEON GoTETTE was using dynamite in
working up cord wood at Rutland and had
three ribs broken, besides being otherwise
badly hurt, by piece of log thrown against
him with great force by cartridge.
Mrs RANDOLPH KNIGHT of West Dunn
nl,. ,..ftl hsa,v
registered letter belonging to the East Dunn
merston post-office while assistant post
master at Dummerston, was honorably
acquitted.
SOME of the Bennington descendants of
the Brunswickers who fought for the British
are talking about raising funds to erect a
suitable monument on the Bennington bat
tle-field in memory of the Brunswickers
that fell there.
F. S. SHEPARD of Fair Haven has just
published very interesting pamphlet of
one hundred pages embodyng full report
of the reunion of the Fourteenth Vermont
Regiments survivors at Fair Haven last
Fourth of July.
AT st. Adams, January 3, a horse driven
by Mrs. Henry ID. Sabu, accompanied by
two ladies, became frightened by a traverse.
The horse ran away and the occupants of
the sleigh were thrown out. The ladies
were badly hurt.
The postmaster-general has appointed the
following postmasters in this state: George
w. Monkey at East Albany, Otis G.. Sawyer
at Sharon, Isaac n. Randall at Bakersfield
ID. f. Millington at Halifax and Arthur p
Cobb at Morgan.
PATENTS recently granted to Vermonters:
II. Paddock, St. Johnsbury, platform
weighing scale; n. f. Reed, Hyde Park
whtfletree hook; E. r. Whitney, ST. Johns
bury electric therapeutic device; G. w.
Bradley, Sunderland, riveting machine.
Hon. GEORGE HOWE, ex-Unted States
district attorney for Vermont and for several
years past engaged as special agent of the
pension department at Washington, is at
his old homestead in Vernon seriously i'll
with a complication of heart and kidney
diseases.
CHARLOTTE, daughter of Colonel A. H.
Keith, now of Pittsburgh, Penn, but form
erly of Sheldon, VT, has Just won prize of
$50 in gold offered by the Pittsburg Press
for the best short story by pupil of the
grammar or high school. She had forty
competitors.
The fourth annual meeting of the Ver-
mont Woman's Suffrage Association will be
held in the Methodist church at Bellows
Falls Tuesday evening and Wednesday,
January II and Is. Members of the associ-
alton wishing free entertainment will adj
dress at once Miss E. h. Campbell, Bellows
Falls.
A DoUBLE-HEADER special freight drawn
by the Middlebury and the " Dunmore -
ran into the rear of the local freight Monday
at Proctorsville and the two engines were
badly broken up, especially the Dun
more which was totally wrecked. There
were also ten loaded cars which were badly
smashed.
THERE is a rumor that a railroad will be
built from Burlington to Colchester Point,
thence across shallow water three miles to
the south end of Grand Isle, thence to
Nichols Point, and across the Gut to Bow
and Arrow Point, to Pelot's Point and across
anarrow stretch of water to Alburgh Tongue
forming connection with the Delaware &
Hudson.
AT meeting of the Rutland & Burling
ton railroad last week. to fill vacancies in
the board of directors caused by the resigna-
ton of five members, the following were
elected: Colonel LEG. b. Cannon, General
b. III. Bristow, Hon. Frederick Billings
James Roosevelt and III. g. Young. The
four gentlemen first named are directors in
the Delaware & Hudson company and Mr.
Young is general manager of that company
The board now consists of these five al
ready named, Hon. j. W. Stewart, Will
lam Wells, p. w. Clement and G.. III. Bal
of Boston.
AMONG the more prominent natives OF