The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-05
Summary OF News,
Vermont.

Destitute children at burlington.
JOHN HAYES of Winooski sustained a
compound fracture of the left leg by falling
from building one day last week.
COLONEL ALBERT CLARKE OF Rutland will
move his family in a few days to Boston,
where he will make his home in the future.
THE people of Wells River are agitating
the subject of organizing a stock company,
with capital of $4,000, to start paper
mill.
CHARLES POWELL, railroad section
hand, was fatally injured at johnson by a
hammer which slipped from the foreman's
hand.
The stereoscope works of b. G.. Surdan
and II, L. Cushman at North Bennington
were burned Wednesday morning of last
week. The loss is $1,000
ONE night last week Brakeman Hurd was
thrown from the top of beef car, near Mil
ton, by the failure Of the brake-dog to catch
in the cog. He escaped with the dislocation
Of an elbow.
SECRETARY OF WAR PRoCToR arrived
home from Washington, last week Tuesday
morning, in response to a telegram an
nouncing the critical illness Of his twelve
year-old son, Redheld,
WEDNESDAY morning of last week man
by the name of Lavalle, aged ffty-fve, fell
of house on which he was working, and,
striking on his head, was fatally injured,
living but short time.
THREE children of Charles Paronto, in
Enosburgh, while playing in the barn Sun
day forenoon, May 26, set fire to some straw,
and the barn was burned, together with
seven-year-o boy. Paronto was so badly
burned in trying to rescue the child that his
recovery Is doubtful,
WHILE a twelve-year girl was sitting
on the steps at ST. Joseph's convent, Bur-
lington, recently, with teacher, a ritle-bul-
let whizzed by the latter's face and struck
the child in the arm, passing completely
through it and dropping short distance
away. IL came from wood short dis
lance away, where some one was shooting,
in violation Of the law
On Wednesday night of last week the six
rear cars of a freight train bound north
parted from the rest of the train, near High
gate Springs, and Brakeman Brooks stepped
off in the dark and fell to the track. He
managed to throw himself out in season to
escape being crushed, but the car wheel
caught his foot, tore off shoe and made an
ugly flesh wound on his instep.
The trial of Professor l.. b. Folsom, prin-
cipal of the Rutland high school, for al
legged assault on Guy G. Parkhurst, pupil,
son of e. A. Parkhurst, took place in the
municipal court, before Judge Butler and a
Jury, on Monday afternoon of last week.
Tuesday morning the jury took the case.
After an absence of half hour they returned
disagreed, standing three for conviction and
three for acquittal.
THE United States court convened at
Windsor at two o'clock Monday afternoon,
May q. There being no business for the
petit jury, they were discharged for the
term. In the case of the United States ys.
Nathan A. Carpenter for distilling and re-
failing liquors without payment of special
tax, bail was fixed by the court at / 200 in
each case. The respondent appeared in
court and furnished the required bail.
Amount of bail was also fixed in several
other United States cases. No further BUSH
ness appearing, the court then adjourned
until Wednesday, June 26.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY is excited over a
hshlng case. Henry Mitchell and Peter
Sorrill were arrested Saturday, May %, on
the charge of illegal fishing in Lake Cham
PLAIN; The men pleaded guilty, and, being
unable to pay the $3.50 fine, were taken to
the house of correction to serve ont a ca,
tence of no davs. 1t was th~o"~h ,ano -
.orrs Of B; r. Anterior, son of Fish Com
missioner Anterior, that the men were de-
tected and the following Tuesday the ma
tives turned the tables on the young man.
He was arrested and arraigned on the charge
of having seventeen lake pike in his posses
sion. The fine amounted to SS5, and Ath-
erton appealed to county court He claims
that the pike found in his possession were
purchased by him of one of the illegal fisher
men in order to ascertain how many fish the
man had in his box Popular sympathy is
naturally with the poachers, one of whom
has family of nine children dependent
upon him
Domestic.
PRESIDENT HARRISON reviewed the Memo
rial day parade in Brooklyn.
Hon. f. j. PHELPS will deliver the Phi
Beta Kappa Grafton at Harvard this year.
THE coroner's jury found that Washing
ton Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, was
dead when the autopsy was performed.
DICK HAYES, convicted in Birmingham,
Ala. of the murder of his wife and children,
has been sentenced to be hanged July -.
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
which has been in session in New York city,
has adjourned. The next meeting will be
held at Saratoga.
A CYCLONE crossed the Santa Fe road
two miles west of Clements, Kansas, and
seven or eight persons have been killed and
many houses and barns destroyed.
REV. II. GREENFIELD ScHoRR, the assistant
rector of st. Paul's church, the largest and
most fashionable church in Baltimore, COM
mitted suicide recently by shooting himself
through the head. He was disappointed
in love.
THE decision of the Maine law court, sus-
tanning the validity of Governor Bodwell's
veto of the medical registration bill in 1887,
settles a long-vexed question. This was the
case where the governors signature was
first affixed to the bill and then erased
AT Evansville, Ind, last week, Albert
Wilson fatally shot his young wife, and
then sent bullet through his own brain,
dying instantly Wilson was about thirty
years old while his wife was much younger
They had no children and lived happily to-
gether until about three months ago, when
he became jealous.
GEORGE A. JEssUP, cashier of the Scran-
ton City Bank, Scranton, Penn, was ar
rested recently on the charge of embezzling
100000 of the banks money. He had been
connected with the bank for six years and
was interested in various enterprises re-
quiring large sums of money. The exact
amount due depositors is 1882, 600.
A CASE of apparent unparalleled cruelty
has been brought to light in New York
police court. A woman named Mrs. Annie
Boyce is charged with inhuman treatment
Of her stepdaughter, Della Boyce. The
wretched child is emaciated in the extreme,
and, according to a certificate OF a physi-
clan who examined her, there being no
bodily ailment, it is due to want of nourish-
ment. The child's body is covered with
scars, scabs and sores, caused by burns in
tentionally produced by the cruel step
mother.