The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-17
Summary of News.

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A Posr-oFF1cE has been established at
South Newfane. b. f. Morse is postmaster
LAKE CHAMpLAIN opened to navigation
Thursday - two weeks earlier than last
season
Mrs. SECRETARY PROCTOR is at her home
in Proctor and will not go to Washington
till the fall.
THE headquarters of the Granite Cutters
National Union for the next two years are
to be in Barre.
COLONEL LYMAN f. KNAPP of Vermont
has been appointed by the president gov
ernor of Alaska.
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY quail have been
distributed in the woods about Rutland by
the local gun club.
FISH COMMISSIONER BRAINERD has dis
trbuted 1900 young trout in the small
streams about Rutland.
A rEN-yEAR-oLp son of Ephraim Whalley
of Richford was drowned in the Missisquoi
river Thursday afternoon.
STATE School SUPERINTENDENT PALMER
of Waterbury will deliver the address at
Richmond on Memorial day.
THE Bennington battle monument has
been uncovered and work on the tall tower
resumed. The present height is 1913 feet.
FRANK DAY, yardmaster at Brattleboro,
had one leg cut off by a switching train on
Monday of last week, his foot being caught
in a frog.
A MEETING of the State Cattle Commits
sion was held at Vergennes, last Wednes-
day, to discuss the cattle epidemic, which is
reported to be spreading.
COLONEL L. X. FULLER, one of the Wash
ington centennial commissioners, has re-
signed, and b. b. Smalley Of Burlington has
been appointed to the vacancy.
THE barn of John Barnard in South Bris-
toll, together with two cows, buggy and
quantity of hay, was burned Monday morn
ing of last week. Loss 5000; no insurance.
GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM and staff and the
Vermont centennial commissioners Will
have quarters at the Fifth Avenue hotel in
New York during the week Of the cele-
bration
WILLIAM WOOSTER, until a year ago
resident of Middlebury, fell through the
well of an elevator in mandatory at
East Orange, N. j., recently, ana received
serious injuries.
THE acknowledgement has made these
appointments: G. II. Green, Canaan; w.
j. Hadley, Chester; f. G. Blanchard,
Peacham; Hector Russell, Gallup's Mills;
e. w. Odds, Norwich.
THE liquor raids upon the Bennington
hotels resulted Thursday morning in the
closing of the Putnam and Stark houses,
leaving Bennington without hotel accommo-
dations. Over $500 worth of liquor was
seized at the Putnam house.
Miss SoRosA S. ALEXANDER of Brattle-
borO has had verdict in her favor, given
at Chicago, for 500, S47 against the estate OF
her deceased brother, f. S. Alexander.
The sum is remuneration for her services in
taking care of their parents, according to an
agreement with her brother.
JAMES HAYES was at work in black
smith shop at Hydeville, welding bar OF
iron, when spark from the iron ignited
some powder in keg. The explosion threw
him under mass of debris. He managed
to put out the fire that was burning his
clothing and person. His face and hands
were badly burned
ISAAC THORNTON, who died recently at
Washington, was formerly Middlebury
boy. He was an officer on board the " Kear-
sarge" at the time she whipped the Ala
bama.' AT the time of his death he was
assistant chief of the assessment division OF
the bureau of internal revenue, which office
he had held for several years.
Hon. H. c. BATES of st. Johnsbury on
Friday rendered his resignation as judge adj
vocate general to Governor Dillingham;.
The governor accepted it and appointed F.
E. Alfred of Newport, who was recon-
mended by Senator Bates and others. Mr..
Alfred is the law partner of Hon. w. ID.
Crane of Newport and is serving his second
term as states attorney for Orleans county.
The annual session of the Vermont
Methodist Conference opens at Morrisville,
Thursday. Bishop Hinde will have head
quarters at G. W. Hendees. During the
session an extra daily stage will be run
between Waterbury, Stowe and Morrisville.
The official visitors who will be present are
W. A. Spencer, DID,, assistant secretary OF
the Church Extension Society; G. II.
Payne, DID,, LII. D., secretary of the
Board of Education; j. s. Chadwick, ID. D.,
assistant secretary of Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Educational work; G. G. McCabe,
DID. corresponding secretary of the Mis-
sionary Society; A. II. Gillett, ID, gem
eral agent of the Sunday-school work in
the South; A. S. Weed, publisher OF lions
Herald; G. r. Magee, agent of the New
England Book Depository
Domestic.
LIBBY Prison is to be removed to Chicago
and rebuilt
THE storm of Sunday, April 7, covered
Chesapeake bay with wrecks. Many sailors
were killed.
THE NewYork Yacht Club has accepted
Lord Dunrovens challenge to sail for the
American cup.
DR.. RAYMOND, the new president of Wes-
leyan University, will be inaugurated at
the coming commencement.
p. f. PRATT, cashier of the first national
bank of Anoka, MINI, is in Canada His
defalcations amount to 100000
THE railroad companies have extended
cursion tickets from four to twelve days.
LEWIS PILE, the " marker of a German
rifle club of New Britain, Conn, was fatally
shot through the head last week Tuesday.
THE explosion of cast at foundry in
Youngstown, Ohio, last Thursday, killed
one man and seriously injured four others.
THE Milwaukee street car lines are tied
up. The cause was the reduction of the
mems wages from ten to four cents an hour.
A LICENSE for the marriage OF man sew
enty-two years old to a child OF fifteen was
issued at Pittsburg, Penn, with the con-
sent of the child's father.
WILLIAM PHELPS, head sawyer in mill
at Titusville, Penn, was entangled in a
windlass, last Thursday, and wound around
the shaft eight times, killing him instantly.
RUSSELL HARRISON was arrested last
Thursday and held in 5000 bail, in a suit
for 100000 damages for alleged libel on ex-
Governor John Schuyler Crosby in his
Montana paper
MRS. CoNKLIN, a mulatto, had a quarrel
last week Tuesday with her husband at
Port jefferson, l.. l. He attacked her with
an axe and threatened his son with knife,
The wife got the axe and buried it in her