The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-07
Summary Of News.

THE house of Edward Knapp on North
avenue Burlington, was burned last week
Wednesday.
IT is announced that a new newspaper is
soon to be published at Middlcbury and
called The star.
LYMAN GooDR1cH, one of the oldest cit-
zens of Vereennes, was found dead in his
bed last week Tuesday morning.
SENATOR EvARTs has purchased the Israel
Hall farm in Cornish, n. H., on the oppo
site side of the Connecticut from his Wind
sor farm.
THE Corona Marble Company, Brandon,
has expended $4,000 in enlarging the
works and will soon employ about seventy
five men,
AN old teu-pound cannon, the landmark
between Vergennes and New Haven, has
been unearthed 1t was found buried fif-
teen feet under tan-bark and earth
THE repairs on the soldiers home at Ben
nington are rapidly approaching compile
ton. Every bed is now occupied and APP
plications are on file for fifteen more.
THE firm Tim, Walerstein & Co., at Rut-
land, employs thirty persons in their new
steam laundry and about 1916 in their shirt
factory. They intend to enlarge their build
ings so as to employ 800.
THE long-talked-of race on Lake Cham
plain between the steam yachts Nymph
and Dolphin, owned respectively by DIR.
Webb and Major Wetmore, occurred Thurs
day and the Dolphin won by 800 seconds
in 6I mile course.
THE st. Johnsbury Cdiedonidn shows
pretty conclusively that in the matter of
the post Office removal there has on the
part of the government been as great
dearth of good faith and honor as there was
of woman's tears when the soldier lay dy-
ing in Algiers.
JOHN f. EGGLEsToN, Wallingford hotel
keeper who has Just served a thirty days
= ,.1l
ing liquor was upon his return home met
by brass band and large number of citi-
zens, who escorted him to his hotel and
banquet was served in his honor.
THE state convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association will be held in Mid
dlebury from the Sth to the 18th. II. f:
Williams, secretary of the international
committee in New York city, S. X. Flanders
of Yale University and other prominent
workers will be present The Middlebury
association will entertain the delegates.
PENSIONS have been granted as follows;
To Alfred III. Clement, West Topsham adj
ditonal pension from 81 to SO month and
$500 arrears; Lewis G. LaBounty, Franklin,
an increase from S12 to S27 a month; Henry
G. Preston, Marshfed, 50 month and S72
arrears; S. Warren Steele, Mortified, SIG
month and $50 arrears: BENJAMIN Po-
land, Waitsield, additional pension from
SIS to $40 a month, 5000 arrears: James II.
Bolton Wolcott an increase of pension to
SIS month; Eli Andrews, Carlo, Me-, 50
month and 81 800 arrears; Charles G. EN-
cry North Monroe, n. H., an increase to
S1S month: Nathan II. Holmes, Jetfer-
son, n. H., an increase from IS to S12 a
month and $40 arrears; Freeman Nc
Laughlin, Whiting, S12 month and 81, 1914
arrears Nathan b. Stark, Leominster,
Mass, formerly of Vermont, an increase
from "a to IS month; James Sheridan,
North Dorset. an increase from S16 to SIS
month and $500 arrears; John r. Wilson,
Worcester, an increase from IS to $40 II
month"; Charles N. Celley Berlin, SIS a
month and $500 arrears.
In General.
CARDINAL NEWMAN is seriously ill.,
THE corn crop this year is the largest ever
raised in the United States.
WHIsKEY is causing, as elsewhere, trouble
among the Navajo Indians.
A HAYTIAN man of war has captured an
English schooner laden with arms for the
insurgents.
THE Rand & Avery Co., Boston, will go
into insolvency, and the business will be
closed out.
POLICE INSPECTOR MOUNTAIN turns up at
St. Stephen New Brunswick beyond
Uncle Sans bailiwick
THE Chicago anarchists are to commem-
crate the anniversary of the hanging of
Spies and his associates.
tana territories estimate the population at
1892 and 40, 000 respectively.
THE empress of Austria is soon to depart
for the West Indies whence she will start
upon tour through the United States.
OK the Rio Grande railway locomotive
ran away down mountain. Two men were
killed and the engine went over precipice.
THE government of the Province of Que
bee is taking steps to induce French Cana
dams in the pitp1 States rpturn tO
the land of their birth.
MANITOBA is in turbulent condition,
growing out of the railway troubles. A late
attempt has been made to blow up and burn
Canadian Pacific bridge.
THE two hundred eightieth asteroid has
just been discovered There is flock of
these little planetoids flying, between Mars
and Jupiter, around the sun.
MRS FRANK A. DE GRooT of Millbury,
Mass, gave birth to four girls Friday after
noon, and all of them are likely to live,
while the mother is doing nicely
MONDAY, six negroes tried to cross Ar
kansas river thirty miles from Little Rock,
in boat. When midway in the stream the
boat capsized, four Of them drowning.
THE boiler of a steam threshing machine
exploded Friday forenoon on the farm of
Jonas Spayd in Bern township, Penn, kill
ing five men and injuring many others.
A RAILWAY train containing the Russian
royal family has met with an accident by
which twenty persons were killed. 1t is
thought TO have been an attempt to kill the
cZar.
WHILE Mrs. Salie Sieble was burning
brush near Wichita, Kan, Wednesday, heI
clothing caught fire. Her little daughter
dress also took fire and both were fatally
burned.
TREASURER AxwoRTHYs bondsmen have
been lucky enough to find $4,000 of secu
rites, but they will sell for only abou
$4,000. The city of Cleveland needs
S725, 900 to carry it through the year.
A DISPATCH from Paris states that ter
rife explosion occurred Saturday in the
Campagnac coal pit in the department o
AveyrOn. Eighty miners were killed
Twenty-Five bodies have been recovered.
JOHN b. NORRIS, manager of a New Yorl
dime museum, has written a letter to Lore
Sackville, in which he offers his lordshiI
the sum of 5000 per week for holding tw'
levees of two hours duration daily at hi
museum.
WEDNESDAY afternoon some men whit
were working in the woods near Browns