The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

on Sunday
SHEPARD & MORSE, Burlington, are to
rebuild at once the structures recently de-
stroyed by fire.
RUTLANDs fire department was called out
on the 18th by a burning hen-coop. The
firemen went back disguised.
The semi-annual meeting of the Vermont
Medical Society will be held at the Weldon
House, st. Adams, June % and 20.
A YOUNG man while rowing on Tnmouth
pond fell overheard and was drowned. His
name was Jeff. Risdon, son of John Risdon
of Dandy.
WILLIE BURRAGE, aged fourteen, was
drowned in the White River at Hartford
while bathing with a crowd of boys, none
of whom could swim.
OCTAVE THIBAULT was called to a certain
house to shave corpse, which, to his sur
prise, got up and walked away at the con-
clusiOn of the operation.-Erchdnge.
AMONG the patents granted last week are
the following to Vermonters: Lucius o.
Barrett, Bratteboro, double gauge Colvin
II. Fitch, Poutney, prescription weighing
scales
DIR. FREDERICK l.. MORSE, for fifteen
years well-known physician of Windsor,
died June II. He was superintendent of
schools for some time and was a prominent
Mason.
MILE FRENCH of Mendon, notorious
character who has served term of two
years at Windsor was taken there again
last week to serve a term of two years for
burglary.
REPUBLICAN county conventions will be
held as follows Windsor county at Wood
stock June IS; Franklin county at Enos-
burgh Falls July III Wndham county at
Newfane, June 30
DR.. JOSEPH II. L1NsLEY of Burlington,
formerly health officer of that city, has been
appointed instructor in chemical microscopy
in the New York Postgraduate Medical
School and Hospital.
FRED HALE of St. Johnsbury, with a COM
panion, went to Woodsvile, n. H., Satur-
day, where liquor was obtained. Returning
on the morning express, Hale fell off the
platform and was killed.
A YOUNG mems republican club has been
organized at Rutland with membership
of one hundred and the Jackson club of
young democrats starts off with member
ship of one hundred seventy-five.
Docs killed eleven fine sheep belonging
to Silas G. Holyoke of Georgia. The owners
of the dogs came up squarely and offered to
pay for the damage done. The loss to Mr..
Holyoke will aggregate some $500.
JAMES SMITH of Pittsford was found hang
ing from the limb of a tree on his farm the
other morning He was about forty years
of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Financial troubles made him respondent.
A FIRE destroyed the Albion steam laun-
dry in the Gallar block, st. Adams. The
second story, which is occupied as a tene-
ment, was badly damaged by smoke and
water. Loss on the laundry about 81 500;
no insurance.
c. II. FRENCH of Chelsea was arrested,
charged with forging notes against the es-
tate of the late Hon. l.. G.. Hinckey. On
the 14th he was sentenced by Judge Powers
to three years and six months in state prison
and fined 500 for forgery.
THE wife of Job Pierson Fonda of Rut-
land mail messenger on the Bennington &
Rutland railroad, is to be the recipient of
$4,000 by the terms of the will of her grand
father, Hon. jefferson Gardner of Lansing
burgh, n. Y, who died recently.
In the Caledonia county court the case
of the state against Sias Cheney, on two
counts for liquor-selling, closed. On the
first count thirty-three offences were proven
and on the second count ten offences. The
fines and costs will amount to about 900
WILLIAM SHEA of Rutland has been ar
rested at Boston, Mass, for kicking hole
through the portrait of the late John Clark,
whose burial had taken place a few days
before in New Hampshire. Shea had no
prOvocation and never knew the original of
the portrait.
JOHN DOYLE, who was recently arrested
for marrying Mary O'Brien of Williston
while he had a wife and child living in
Orwell, was arraigned on his own request
in the Burlington city court on the charge
of bigamy to which he pleaded guilty. He
was sentenced to serve one years imprson-
ment in the state prison.
In General.
MARY n. PRESCOTT, the writer, is dead
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the Australian
ballot bill.
KING KALAKAUA is once more in control
of his realm.
Do to
France under an alias.
THE Mormons have bought 400, 600 acres
of land in Chihuahua, Mexico.
THE president has approved the bill to
establish department of labor.
THE Belgian elections have resulted
largely in favor of the Catholics.
THE emperor of Brazil has completely
recovered from his recent illness.
ANDovER graduated twenty young men,
for all of whom churches were ready.
A CIRCUS tent was blown down at Odell,
ILL.,, and fifteen persons were injured.
AT the Tammany Hall ratification Gov
ernor Hill made tariff reform speech.
WINNEBAGo Indians feasted on baked
dog and beans in the "medcne dance"
THE statue to General Israel Putnam
was unveiled at Brooklyn Conn, last week
THE president has decided to extend the
SEVERAL members of the national league
have been arrested in Ireland as result of
secret inquiries.
PORE LEO decides it is unnecessary to in
struct Irish bishops further on the subject of
his recent rescript
THE monument to General Stonewall
Jackson was unveiled at Fredericksburg,
Va. on Friday last.
GEORGE MOVES, the publisher of the Mas
SdchuSettS PlOughmdn, died suddenly last
week in Dorchester.
BISHOP, the mind-reader, who is at Homo
lulu, is a mental wreck from the effects of
cocaine and morphine.
IT is now said that Roscoe Conkling' s
estate will net from $780, 900 to $500 000 all
of which goes to his wife.
THE Australian colonies will appeal to
the home government for a treaty with
China regarding immigration
CHRISTIAN X. Ross, the father of the lost
Charlie Ross, has just been reapponted
master-warden for the port of Philadelphia,
In the Rhode Island general assembly
Jonathan A. Chace was reelected United
States senator by a majority of both houses
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