The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-23
Weekly News Summary.

will be Memorial day orator at Wells River.
LUCAS e. HUTCHINSON of South Canaan
committed suicide while suffering from
temporary insanity.
IT is announced that the st. Adams Point
Hotel will lie run this season by Mr.. Law
ender of the Weldon.
A YOUNG man in Rutland recently sent
Mrs Cleveland box of arbutus and re-
ceived very gracious reply.
S. w. EMERSON, aged ffty-two years, was
caught in the gearing of Bartlett, Joslyn ~
Co.'S mill at Barton Landing and killed
II. CHARLES ROYCE of St. Adams is to
locate at Vergennes where he takes the
office of the late Hon. f. f. Woodbridge.
LORENZO CARLISLE, a Plymouth farmer,
committed suicide on the 10th instant by
hanging. No reason is assigned for the act.
A YOUNG child of II. A. Folsom of st.
Johnsbury narrowly escaped death from an
overdose of medicine to which it helped it.
self.
COLLECTOR AND Mrs. SMALLEY have re-
turned from Washington to their Burling-
ton home, both having recovered from their
recent illness.
REV. ASA FARwELL of Ludlow died sud-
denly May IL from heart disease. He was
seventy-six years old and was a retired
Congregational clergyman,
PETER LARosE of Hnesburgh who car
ried on a farm in Monkton, fell under
large farm roller, which passed over him,
and he died in about two hours.
REV. A. B. FLANDERS, rector of st. Pauls
Episcopal church at White River Junction,
has accepted a call from the parish at st.
Adams and will go there about June l.
c. r.. BARTLETT, one of the wealthiest
farmers in Coventry, has been sued by II.
f. Banister for defamation of character, as
alleged in saying that Banister set fire by I.
A. Chase's store. The suit is for $4,000.
J. A. WRIGHT of Middlebury and G. r.
Witherell of Cornwall have just shipped
four horses and twenty-one Spanish merino
sheep to Buenos Ayres. Il. o. Porter and
A. b. Colby sailed on the same steamer
with four horses.
AMONG the indictments returned by the
grand jury in the United States court at
Windsor was one against Seward j. Aims
worth of Wallingford, who is charged with
selling liquor without having taken out
United States license.
Mrs. HARRIET MACON, who was found
guilty of violating the internal revenue
laws, was brought into the United States
court for sentence, whereupon the court
sentenced her to be imprisoned in the house
of correction at Rutland for the term of six
months and to pay fine of $1,000
EX-JUDGE BARRETT has given an opinion
concerning the legal status of the Vermont
Medical College which suddenly sprung
into existence at Rutland last autumn and
became the subject of much newspaper COM
ment 1t is found to be properly incor-
porated according to the laws of the state.
THE Vermont State Board of Trade began
operations last week at Burlington under
favorable auspices, with an attendance of
over one hundred producers and buyers
from Boston and New York. The following
directors were chosen: George Hammond
of Middlebury, c. II. Nichols of Essex, T.
M. Deal of st. Albans A. d. Evarts of Ver-
gennes and r. b. Galusha of Jericho.
FRED r. GORDON, railway mail clerk,
was arrested at st. Adams on Friday night
for robbing the mail and was taken to Con
cord, n. H., and jailed A special agent
put letter in the mail at Nashua, n. H.,
addressed to himself at st. Adams, and en-
closed five 81 bills marked He went on
the same train with it, and when he called
for it at the st. Adams postoff the letter
had not been received. Gordon was imme-
diately arrested and the marked money and
letter were found on his person. Gordon
belongs in Manchester, n. H., and worked
in the post-otfice there before his appoint
ment as paper clerk on the Boston and st.
Adams run. He is about thirty years of age
For the accommodation of all who desire
to attend the republican convention at
Chicago June 10 round-trip tickets will be
sold from st. Adams at $50, by way of the
Central Vermont to Rutland, thence Uia
Niagara Falls and Detroit to Chicago.
iiNhOlo VIII NC BOOu SOlHR OH any regular
train from June IA until Monday, June Is
inclusive, and good returning until June 2S
inclusive. The $50 rate applies to the fol-
lowing stations st. Adams, Essex juno
ton, Cambridge Junction, Waterbury,
Montpelier, Wells River. Northfeld. Ran
dolph South Royalton, White River juno
ton, Windsor, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro,
Chester, Ludlow, Proctor Brandon, Lei
cester Junction, Middlebury, Vergennes,
Burlington and Rutland, The rate in the
chartered Wagner car from Rutland to
Chicago will be So per berth. Headquar-
ters of the Vermont delegation will be es-
tablished at the Leland Hotel, where
Colonel Hooker has secured twenty rooms
for Vermonters. The indications are that
at least one hundred prominent republicans
OF the state will accompany the delegation
to Chicago.
In General.
The emperor of Brazil is convalescent
The Emperor William continues about
the same.
FIVE hundred persons have been drowned
by floods in Mesopotomia.
STRIKERS on the Burlington system are
trying to renew the boycott,
A REHEARING of the telephone case was
denied by the supreme court.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR of Tennessee was re-
nominated on the fortieth ballot.
THE railway conductors refuse to form a
coalltlon with other organizations.
THE defenceless condition of England is
still the uppermost topic in London.
A MOB near Palmero was fired on by SOL
diers and several persons were killed.
AN angry lawyer stabbed a iudge in
GAINESVILLE, Ark, for ruling against him.
OUTLYING towns, with 100 900 population
voted in favor of annexation to Baltimore.
The parliament of New South Wales
passed bill to restrict Chinese immigration.
JUDGE julius ROCKWELL died from ac-
cidental injuries at his home in Lenox Mass.
THE Methodist general conference con-
cluded to appoint women to act as deacon
esses.
The local option law of Michigan has
been declared unconstitutional on technical
grounds.
PREMIER MERCER of Quebec is believed
TO be plotting to place Canada again under
French rule.
THE great flood that now prevails along
the Mississippi river has been equalled but
once-in 1851
BY the collision on the Santa Fe road
seven persons were killed and fourteen seri
ously injured.
ELEVEN persons were killed and thirty
n hU a oil m ha