The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-14
Summary of News.


railway yard last Monday.
THE house of John Terril at Morrsville
was entered by burglars Wednesday night
and 500 in money and goods taken.
A MAN named Lavioette, while riding
with his son in Richford, was thrown from
his wagon and received fatal injuries.
THE docket of Caledonia county court
shows ninety-one civil cases, ten criminal
cases and twenty-seven cases in the chan
Gerry docket.
THE annual meeting of the Christian
Workers of New England is to be held at
st. Johnsbury, beginning December Is and
continuing over Sunday.
Two Rutland young men while coon hunt
ing cornered three young bears and shot
them as soon as it was light. They weighed
nearly one hundred pounds each.
T. C. CARY. postal clerk on the Newport
and Springfield railroad post route, slipped
on the platform at st. Johnsbury Sat
urday morning and broke his arm
THE veteran John b. Holenbeck of Bur
lington, nnety-siX years of age, voted for
Cleveland. He has voted at every presi-
dental election for seventy-tive years.
THE notorious 10 Bacon" saloon in
Burlington has been ordered closed. So
mote it be-" Let it be Theoretically sealed.
1t is the worst rum dive in Burlington.
ONE Joseph Lorraine stole from Ira
Twitchel in Weybridge a horse and har-
ness and took the train for Rouses Point.
He was caught and is now in Addison
county Jail.
AT the late election about 70 voters of Fer
risburgh were obliged to go about eight
miles out of their way through Vergennes
to reach the polling place, because of the
absence of a bridge.
SUIT has been brought by the estate of
Mrs Ruth II. Richards, who was killed at
the st. Johnsbury station September g.
against the St. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railway, claiming $4,000.
Hon. ORRIN BATES of Pownal and wife,
while driving last week Tuesday, were
thrown from the carriage and seriously in
jured. Mr.. Bates case is thought to be
critical, as his head struck stone wall.
FRED FLANAGAN, brakeman on a freight
train of the Delaware and Hudson railroad
bound for Whitehall, had his arm badly
crushed at Center Rutland about 3: 80 p. NJ.
last week Monday. Flanagan was coupling
cars when, in some manner, he got his arm
between the bumpers, and the bones below
the elbow were badly crushed.
A DARING robbery was committed in Ben
nington last Friday night. The safe of the
Bennington and Rutland railway was
broken and $50 taken. The door was blown
entirely off and torn to pieces. One chisel
and an empty powder bottle were left.
What is the matter with our sheriffs and
constables? They can not answer I'VE
are all right"
FRANK A. LELAND, a prominent citizen of
johnson, and for several years mail agent
between Swanton and Portland, met with a
fatal accident last week He was sliding
down from a hay NOW in his barn and fell
upon a pitchfork, which penetrated his
body to the depth of several inches. BY
the help of his little boy he was enabled to
reach the house, but died after much suf-
fering.
In General.
The Mexican International Railway is to
build branch to Monterey, connecting with
Tampico.
THE Jacksonville yellow fever statistics
to date shows the number of cases 4,436
deaths, 379.
AxwoRTHY, the defaulting Cleveland
treasurer, has written that he will return
and square his accounts
AN accident occurred last week Thursday
on the Hudson river railway by which
several people lost their lives.
JAcMEL, one of the insurgent towns in
Hayti, has been occupied by the govern
ment forces and the blockade has beer
raised
ANOTHER murder has occurred in London
which bears evidence of being the hand
work of the Whtechapel murderer. The
police are upon his track.
THE usual crop of burglaries is to be re
ported,-one in Haverhill, Mass, ant
another in Anderson, Ind. the most daring
and profitable to the burglars.
SANFoRD's great carpet mills at Canajo
harie will now reopen and run full tim,
with two thousand employees. 1t had beei
closed because of the tariff agitation.
THE London chief of police, General War
rem, offers free pardon to the accompliCeS o
the Whitechapel murderer if they will fur
nish evidence which will lead TO his con
viction
DURING family quarrel Saturday, Georg
Burdenbaker, a farmer residing four mile:
northwest of Centralia, Ill.,, became craze,
and shot and dangerously wounded hi
wife and two children.
FRIDAY seven-story factory in Roch
ester, \. Y, was burned and fifteen live
were lost, most of them from jumping iron
the third and fourth stories. The pecuniar
loss was 100000; insurance, $4,000.
A CUNARD steamer, Friday. collide
with German ship off the coast of Eng
land. and both vessels sank a portion G
the ships crew was saved, but the fate c
the crew of the steamer is now unknown.
THE interstate railway commission ha
made an important decision to the effeC
that it cannot interfere with the arrange
ments of the New York city emigration CON
missioners, and that there is nothing illega
in q railroad making special rates to EN-
grants as a class.
News of tragedy at Cortez, ninety mile
from Austin, Texas reached the latte
place on Saturday. An Italian name
Davis Balsani shot and killed Richard Hol
because the latter would not loan him som
money. A number of men took Balsani OF
and hanged him to a tree.
ANOTHER foolhardy Sam Patch jump ha
been made ,-this time from the great Pougl
keepsie railway bridge. His name wa
Stephen Brodie, and he is so badly injure
that it is thought he will die. His jun
was for a wager of $500 and a $500 gol
medal offered by the Police Gazette.
w. II. SCHUMAKER, at Carbon HILL Ala
and very prominent citizen, was shot an
killed Sunday by his wife, who is onl
seventeen years old. Since the electio
Schumacher has been drinking heavily an
in drunken frenzy, told his wife he Wa
going to pour kerosene oil on her and bur
her to death. She instantly drew revolv'
and shot him through the heart.
The Cunard steamer Umbria, which sale
from New York Saturday, returned Sunda
afternoon. During a dense fog she can
into collision with the French steame
Iberia, near Sandy Hook, striking her bow
on. The Umbria's stern was started and
hole was stove in her starboard box