The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Weekly News Summary.


Andrus of Hubbardton, fell into his fathers
mll-pond and was drowned.
EDWARD A. SMITH, formerly of st. Adams,
has been appointed general manager of the
Worcester Mass steel works.
WEBSTER BRowN, aged twenty-five, com
mitted suicide at Brattleboro. His brother
committed suicide a few years since.
COLONEL HOOKER says that he expects as
many as one hundred Vermonters to accom-
pany the republican delegates to Chicago.
AT Clarendon recently occurred the trial
of man for licensing "A vicious dog-the
first trial of the kind, it is said, in Vermont.
CHARLES JACKSON, son of Josephus jack
son of Sudbury. hung himself with rope
on the 9th Dependency is said to have
been the cause.
Mrs. Lou MORTON of Rutland aged forty
five, took a large dose of corrosive subl-
mate. She said she was tired of living.
She died the next day.
The will of Mrs. Pamela Bruce of Wal
lngford, which leaves 1000 to the town,
and by a codicil $500 to niece, will be con-
tested by the heirs. Undue influence and
improper execution are the grounds for the
suit.
HERBERT HAsCALL, aged twenty-five, of
Rutland, engineer on the Bennington &
Rutland railroad, while assisting in making
flying switch of a freight-train at Danny
fell from the top of a car and was instantly
killed
THE Brandon Union says that "the Ben
nington Retormer of last week contained in
its political columns an article soberly dis
cussing the probabilities of Roscoe Conk-
ling's nomination at Chicago-this about
one month after Mr.. Conkling died.
COLONEL b. b. SMALLEY, Vermont mem
Der of the democratic national committee,
did not accompany the delegation to st.
Louis as he has not yet recovered from his
recent severe illness. He has said that he
intended to resign his position as a member
of the national committee He will be sue
ceeded by Hiram Atkins.
In General.
JEFF. DAVIS has celebrated his eightieth
birthday.
SIX women persisted in burning building
in London.
ARMENIANs are forbidden by Turkey to
come to America.
MANY persons have been killed by light
ming in Louisiana.
Mr.. BLAINE has had an attack of influenza
and malaria in Paris
A FIRE occurred at Meriden, Conn, caused
by lightning. Loss 100000
FIVE persons of one family were burned to
death at Ufiington Ontario.
A GANG of bandits from Dakota are raid
ing the southern portion of Manitoba.
RUSSIA proposes to build railway from
her European lines to the Pacific ocean.
ALL Jews except merchants of the first
guild have been ordered to quit Moscow.
G. W. CURTIS has been reelected presi-
dent of the Civil Service Reform League.
ELEVEN persons persisted in the burning
of the Mundine Hotel at Rockdale, Texas.
Mrs RAwsoN, complainant in a divorce
case in Chicago, shot her husbands at
torney.
A CYCLONE in Washington county, Ark,
wrecked many houses and killed seven
persons.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has signed
the bill substituting electricity for the
gallows.
and the Emperor of Brazil continues to
improve.
A PLOT of German socialists against the
crown prince and Prince Bismarck has been
thwarted.
FREQUENT light earthquake shocks at
Columbia and other points in South Carolina
are reported
HENRY WILLARD is planning an eXpedi-
ton to the south pole under powerful Ger
man auspices.
THE house in which General Grant was
born is now on exhibition in Cincinnati
under canvas.
ANDREW GRANDsTAFF, who confessed the
murder of a whole family, was lynched in
Viroqua, Wis.
The Presbyterian General Assembly re-
fused to condemn responsive readings in
church service,
REV. S. b. HALLIDAY, for many years as
sistant pastor of Plymouth church, has sent
in his resignation.
THREE men were killed and others hurt
by the explosion of boiler in the iron works
at Wyandotte, Mich.
BoULANGER's motion for urgency and re-
vision of the constitution was defeated in
the French chambers.
REPORTS of widespread damage to crops
and property by rain, hail and wind-storms
in the West continue.
DIR. GEORGE w. CALVIN of Boston was
terribly bitten by bull mastiT belonging to
patient he was attending.
THE st. Paul, Mimi, knitting works have
been burned, throwing seventy-five men out
of employment. Loss 100000.
BOTH branches of the Massachusetts legis-
lature have passed a measure providing for
the Australian system of voting.
EIGHT HUNDRED buyers attended the big
auction sale of tlannels in New York. Some
$500, 600 worth of goods were sold.
FRANCE has seized one of the Channel
Islands. Lord Salisbury will maintain
England's claims to its possession.
THE Etruria lowered the record, max
ing the trip from Queenstown to New York
in five days and twenty-three hours.
THREE men were killed and two fatally
and three seriously injured in collision on
branch of the Union Pacific railroad.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided that if
Mr.. Cleveland is reelected and he tenders
him a cabinet portfolio not to accept it,
THE steamer " San Pablo" was captured
by pirates off the China coast, and fifty of
the pirates were killed in an explosion fol-
lowing the capture.
BARNUM, the Snowman, announces his
intention to present a 100000 building to
the Fairfield Historical and Scientific So
ceties of Bridgeport.
A FIRE which broke out in the Hotel
Roma at Panama entirely Quilted ten large
houses 1t is estimated that $500, 900 worth
of property was destroyed.
ADyIcEs from Japan state that go houses
were destroyed by a contiagration on the
Sth of May at Tourangeka, and at Kameka
the next day no houses and temple,
THE Methodist General Conference has
adjourned sine die. 1t extended the term OF
presiding elders from four to six years and
voted to hold the next general conference in