The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

dOnlun auNeruSeS Une ONCE LOT SAFE
HENRY HAMMoND's house at Middlebury
was burned last week. Insured for 5000.
C. G. SrEBBINs' bone-meal mill at st.
Johnsbury was burned April 4. Loss about
81 800; insured for $500
THE Congregational church at Bridge
water has extended a call to Rev. S. l..
Vincent of West Hartford.
THE Central Vermont is considering the
building of branch railroad from Chateau
gay to Chateaugay Chasm, N. Y.
NEARLY S1s,5O0 were expended in the
new buildings and furnishings of the Mary
Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, last year
THE new post-office recently established
in Victory is called Gallup Mills, in honor of
o. NJ. Gallup, who is engaged extensively
in numbering.
THE docket for the supreme court in Or
leans county on May % contains but eleven
cases. The presiding judges are Ross, Taft,
Rowell and Tyler.
WILL II. LEGG, superintendent of the
Hartford wooden mills at North Hartland,
was thrown from a sleigh recently and lies
at the point of death.
Hon. G. S. PAGE of Hyde Park has been
elected director of the st. Johnsbury q
Lake Champlan road in place of the late
Ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks.
AT the session of Essex county court, just
held there were no jury trials. Twenty of
the fortythree cases on the docket were
disposed of and twenty-one new ones added.
AT the village meeting in St. Adams the
electric lighting system for streets was
adopted by pa majority. The sum of about
$4,000 was voted to pay current expenses,
including S10,500 interest, but not including
the cost of lighting streets. A highway tax
of ten per cent was also voted.
THE selectmen of North Hero, who have
been hunting up the S5I9 belonging to the
town, the most of which was collected on
the Burlington subscription paper which
was being circulated for the purpose of
raising funds to be used in building the
new bridge, have succeeded in tracing it to
Charles b. Russell, who, upon being con-
fronted, denied his guilt, but finally con-
fessed and promised that he would restore
it to the town. Mr.. Russell has held sew
eral town offices and was for several years
Judge of probate for Grand Isle county. 1t
was while selectman two years ago that he
collected this money and used it for his own
private purposes. He is about sixty years
of age. Wednesday he sold a horse and
raised sufficient other money to make full
restitution, save the interest, amounting
to about $50. Mr. Russell is the man who
was few months since appointed post
master at North Hero through the efforts of
Hiram Atkins, who, it is stated, threatened
to take steps to have the Office discon-
tinued. -Free Press.
The night express for Rutland leaving
Boston at seven P. NJ, left Bellows Falls at
eleven o'clock Friday night on time and
proceeded north as far as Rockingham-fve
mles-where it encountered washout.
The engine and baggage and eXpress-cars
left the track. The engine was dumped
over the bank and nearly into Williams
river, ninety feet down the embankment,
and the engineer, Moses Pratt, and fireman,
John Pratt, both veterans in the service of
the road, were instantly killed, the latter
being terribly mangled. The baggage and
express-cars took fire and burned. No other
cars, fortunately, left the track, or there
would have been a most horrible disaster,
as the road at this point is high above the
river. There were fifty passengers on the
train, several of whom were badly shaken
up, but there were no serious injuries The
bodies of the two employees were taken to
Bellows Falls. Among those injured were
V. E. Burdick of Middebury, sprained left
ankle, scalp wound, back injured; serious.
Mary Lovely of Essex Junction, cut in back
of hand and arm; not serious. Mrs. Lewis
Moore, Burlington, injury to left leg, and her
child, Anna Moore, aged i've years, injured
in left groin. Mrs. Clark Gibson, Sheldon
Springs, injury to head shoulders and hip.
Moses Pratt, who was one of the Oldest en-
gneers on the road, lived in Rutland. He
was found on top of the wreck dead John
Pratt, the fireman, was nephew of the
engineer and about twenty-three years old.
In General.
| BISMARCK is reported seriously i'll.
MAJoR-GENERAL KING of the regular army
is dead.
PATTI sang to a 1900 house in Rio
Janeiro.
BoULANGER has been elected deputy for
| Dordagne.
THE debt reduction during March was
| S11 $3.50, 559.6S.
MANY washouts are reported on Mime.
sofa railroads.
THE emperor's condition causes serious
alarm in Berlin.
THE Wabash valley is having an cpl
demic of measles.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is contemplating
another southern trip.
Mr.. BLAINE has engaged passage on a
steamer to sail on June IL.
SENATOR MORRILL, will speak on the
presidents message to-day.
FIVE prisoners persisted in the burning Of
a Jail at Friar's Point, Miss.
The damage by water-spout in Hungary
on Friday is 100000 forms.
Mrs. YATES Jewels were stolen on the
day of her husbands funeral.
f. E. SMITH of North Carolina has beer
appointed minister to Liberia.
FLOODS in Massachusetts are causing con
siderable damage to property.
MAJoR-GENERAL ALFRED II. TERRY has
been placed on the retired list
THE special election at Newport, r. L.
was carried by the republicans.
Four thousand Irish left Queenstown las
week for the home of the free"
KING HUMBERT has given $4,000 for tn,
sufferers by the floods in Germany
THE defendant in breach Of promise sui
in Philadelphia is eighty years old
THE steamer Rio Janeiro" has beer
lost; 100 passengers were on board.
The dervishes of Tablet, Morocco, hav,
declared holy war against the sultan.
GENERAL BoULANGER declares that tn,
new French ministry will be short-lived.
THE plan is proposed of annexing tn,
British West Indies to the Canadian Do
minion.
FORTY persons were killed and abou
800 injured by a tornado at Dacca, India
Saturday,
A CHANGE of policy in the knights of La
Dor order is announced. There will be NJ
more strikes.
OF eighty-two counties in Missouri, thirty
three have voted for prohibition and forty