The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-09
Summary Of News.
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SOClAtlOn mel AT falr Haven hOnuaN.
THE postmaster-general has appointed
Mrs. Iettice postmaster at West Holland.
THE free postal delivery system was in
augurated at st. Adams on New Years day.
Hon. ELIHu Il. TAFT of Rutland will
make a trip through Europe, starting Jan
uary 10.
A FIRE at Rutland, in the basement of T.
A. Clilford's drugstore, caused loss of
81 200; insured.
CHARLES f. WEEKS of Summervlle has
been appointed postmaster in place of Vol
ney w. Powers.
Mrs. HIRAM F. DICKINSON of Barre com
mitted suicide last week by poisoning her
self with morphia.
FosrINA W. WILLIS, who has been on
trial in the Orange county court for bgamy,
was last week found not guilty.
A. III. PORTER who kidnapped a boy, has
been sentenced by the Rutland municipal
court TO two years in the state prison.
JOHN GALATIANS barn at West Rutland,
with the contents, including two cows and
horse, was burned last week Friday.
THERE were forty-six deaths in Wood
stock in the past year, among the number
being sixteen persons over eighty years of
age.
The Sherman quarry property at West
Rutland has been sold to 7. w. Clement
for 100000. Clement says he is acting
for others.
GEORGE ARNOLD of Rutland, while riding
horseback, was thrown, having his right
arm broken and receiving bad cash on the
back of his ear.
GANG of burglars has been travelling
through Franklin county lately, blowing
open safes, stealing horses and robbing pri-
waite dwellings.
w. ID. & j. l.. SToCKwELL's store at
West Brattleboro was burglarized last week
IRfsI lac 4 l. 1
of $50 were taken.
THE executive committee of the Horse
breeders Association meets at Burlington
tonight to decide on the place for holding
the next exhibition.
REV. G.. w PERRY, the state geoogst.
and pastor of st. Paul's Universalist church
at Rutland, has resigned both positions on
account of failing health
G.. III. HADLoCK, agent for the Boston &
Maine road at Thetford, disappeared De-
cember 20, and an examination of his books
shows an Indebtedness of $500.
Mr.. CHARLES E. NELSON of Derby Line
has been appointed deputy collector and
inspector at that place, to succeed George ID.
Wyman, who resigned the Office.
The advent of the new year was cele-
brated by the st. Adams police by a raid
on the saloons, resulting in the seizure of
large quantities of the cheering fluid.
WILLIAM STRATToN of Rutland was
kicked by horse last week. one of the
calks entering the skull so that the brains
oozed out. At last accounts he was alive.
THE jury in the Cheney Calderwood breach
OF promise suit at ST. Johnsbury found that
Or. Calderwood did promise to marry Miss
Cheney and awarded her $500 damages and
costs. She demanded 81 900. The case will
go to the supreme court.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that St. Johns
bury voted at special meeting held not
long since to sustain the action of its
trustees in the electric light question the
village elected an entirely new board at
the annual meeting last Wednesday.
The Vermont Dairymens Association
meets next week Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday at Burlington. The session
will open at ten o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. The railways will carry for fare one
way and the hotels have made low rates.
S. l.. GRIFFITH of Dandy has contracted
to furnish the Walter A. Wood Moving
and Reaping- machine Company of Hoosck
Fails, n. Y, with 100000 feet of birch and
maple lumber, in addition to 10000 feet of
the same lumber previously contracted for,
making an aggregate of l,000, 600 feet of
hardwood lumber to be delivered within
the next three months.
The first person to be sentenced under
the new liquor law, which went into effect
with the new year, was Michael Parry, who
was tried for intoxication in the city court
az burlington ldSu week. Inc new law per-
mits both fine and imprisonment and
Parry, who was up for his third offence,
was fined S2S.0l and sent to the house of
correction for two months.
HENRY BENT and Bert Roberts were ex-
ahmed last week before the Bennington
municipal court for an assault upon Lewis
Walder OF Woodford committed three
weeks ago. Walder's injuries have not yet
terminated fatally, but his skull was crushed
ana pieces OF bone three inches square have
been taken out Bent and Roberts were
held in $1,000 each to await trial by the
county court,
Domestic.
THE Maine legislature assembled and Or
ganized last week Wednesday.
FIVE hundred callers visited President
elect Harrison on New Years day.
LESTER WOODS of Paris, ILL.,, was fatally
stabbed in scuffle at Sunday-school So
ciable.
ADAM FoREPAUGH presented his enormous
elephant "Pipo" to New York city as a
Christmas gift.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's New Years re-
ception was the most brilliant ever held in
the White House
JAMES G. BLAINE, accompanied by Will
lam Walter Phelps, arrived in Washington
last week Thursday.
The Burlington strike has ended the
conference committee having come to an
agreement last Friday.
A sIX-sToRY business block was burned
in ST. Louis New Years morning. The
loss will exceed $10O0,0O0.
GovERNoRs AMEs of Massachusetts, Bur-
leigh OF Maine and Luce of Michigan were
inaugurated last week Thursday
ANTHONY CoMsTocK was assaulted and
severely beaten while rading gambling
den in New York one day last week
HUGH j. GRANT was sworn in as mayor
of New York city on New Years day, in
the presence of large crowd, at the city
hall.
REV. G. E. REED of New Haven, Conn,
has accepted the presidency of Dickinson
College, to which he was elected last week
Thursday.
MARY b. SHERMAN, a freshman at Oberlin
College, shot and killed herself last week
Wednesday. She had become insane from
overstudy
Two Kingston, N. Y, lawyers engaged
in asparrng- match for keeps in court last
week Friday. The judge fined them both
for contempt
THE New York LEGISLATURE met at lhanv