The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-27
Weekly News Summary.

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lightning.
THE three-year-old son of Lewis Tarshas
of Burlington was drowned by falling into
a cess-pool.
REV. A. f. KEITH of Providence, r. l.,
has been called to the Congregational
church at Middlebury.
COLLECTOR AND Mrs. SMALLEY and daugh-
ter have gone West for a trip over the
Northern Pacific road.
A UNION depot is being erected at the
junction of the Missisquoi and Boston q
Lowell railroads in Sheldon.
The proposed Masonic monument on
Killington Peak has been abandoned for
the present, after the idea had become
year old.
Ex-Governor SMITH will build an addi-
ton to the Congregational church in st.
Adams, at cost of $1,000, and present it to
the society.
Thursday morning burglar entered the
house of Arthur Wilder in St. Johnsbury
and stole gold watch and dress belong
ing to Miss Jennie Giles
LIGHTNING struck the house of E. f.
Lamoureaux in Isle La Motte severely but
not fatally iniuring Mrs. Lamoureaux, who
stood near the stove. The house was con-
siderably damaged.
JAMES JoHANNoT, for many years prom-
nent in educational work and the author of
number of popular school!books died re-
Gently at Tarpon Springs. Florida He was
born in Bethel, VT, in 1928
WILLIAM WALDO, Brandon drug clerk,
aged twenty -four, attempted suicide by
shooting himself because he had been
notified that his services would not be
wanted after September.
REV. M. A. WICKER, superannuated
Methodist minister of Charlotte, committed
suicide on the Goth by cutting his throat
with razor. He had shown signs of in
sanity. His age was sixty-two years. a
brother committed suicide ten years ago.
OUR Bakersfield correspondent writes thus
of rather late sugar party: Your cor
respondent was invited to sugar party
given by George Stone on June 10. The
sugar was waXed on snow taken from drift
two feet deep and thirty feet long,
Messenger.
THE annual reunion of the Second Vermont
Regiment was held at Burlington last week,
Colonel Tracy of Middlebury making the
address. The Fifth Vermont Regiment will
hold its reunion at Burlington the Goth.
Henry Ballard will deliver an address in the
afternoon. The secretary has sent circulars
to 521 survivors.
IT is expected that Governor Ormsbee
and party will leave Vermont for Gettys-
burg Thursday morning, June %, arriving
there the next day, and having time on the
30th Saturday to attend to any matters
connected with the Vermont monuments
that may need attention. Gettysburg will
be visited by large numbers of veterans
during the anniversaries occurring there the
first week in July, but the Vermonters will
turn out in most force when the state and
regimental monuments are dedicated later
in the season.
THE annual excursion of the Vermont
Press Association will take place Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, July II, IS and
10, and will be to Saratoga and Lake
George. One party will leave Rutland on
the arrival of the day trains from the south
and east and another party will leave Bur
lington in the morning by boat both reach
ing Saratoga together. STAYING over night
at Congress Hall, the next afternoon they
will go to Lake George, remaining that night
at the Sycamore Hotel at Bolton Landing.
There the annual meeting will be held and
the parties will return their respective ways
the next day in season to connect with the
evening trains for home.
In General.
SERIOUS damage has been done by freshets
in Mexico.
DR.. PATTON has been inaugurated presi-
dent of Princeton College.
MOURNING for the dead Emperor Fred
erick is universal in Europe.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has sent a peaceful
message to President Carnot.
THE expulsion of Paris correspondents
from Berlin irritates the French.
BUNCo men got $1,000 in bonds from
Thomas Cook, New Bedford merchant.
The New Hampshire prohibition state
convention nominated DR.. Edgar l.. Carr
for governor.
AT Cincinnati Major Thesis, city editor
OF German paper, was overcome by the
heat and died.
The loss by Mondays fire at Dubois
Penn, is 81 100000. Three thousand peo-
pie are homeless.
A LOCOMOTIVE has been built in the Penn
sylvania railroad shops in eighteen hours
and tifty-five minutes
GERE, PLATT * JoHNsoN's champion
grain drill works at Oswego, n. Y, have
been burned. Loss 100000.
FOUR HUNDRED French fishermen were
drowned and thirty vessels wrecked on the
coast of Iceland last month in gales.
The Berlin Post declares that the German
policy toward Russia and France will not
be changed, but unjust attacks will be
promptly met
RUMoR that Henry NJ. Stanley, the
African explorer, was dead prevailed in
London and Paris, but it is discredted in
Zanzibar and Belgium.
ASA w. WIcKEs, ex-cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Troy, was arrested on the
charge of appropriating about $1,000 of the
funds of the bank to his own use.
DlSMARtk Has uOllleu U1e powers,
including Russia and France, that it is En-
peror Williams most sincere desire to
maintain friendly relations with them.
AT Webster, Mass, three Indians con-
nected with Forepaugh's circus were
knocked from the top of a car. One was
killed and the others seriously injured.
GEORGE BERKELEY, proprietor of the
Riverside Hotel at Saranac Lake, was shot
and killed by Charles Brown, a guide, on
Friday, because the former refused him
liquor.
THERE were 81 deaths in New York city
last week, Mercury ninety eight degrees
in the shade on Saturday and many cases
of heat prostration. Several deaths from
the heat in various places.
FoREPAUGH has settled with Mrs. Berth.
wick, whose husband was killed at Spring
field, Mass, by one Taylor, IA circus employe
for $1,000, besides paying the funeral ex
penses. Taylor has not been arrested, as
was reported.
A PINKERToN detective arrested Adams
Express Agent Huber at Sunbury, Penn.
for stealing $4,000 from the company in
1886 Eighteen thousand dollars was re-
covered at the time of the arrest in Huber's
house. young man who has been in
prison for two years, charged with the