The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-24

thus furnishing accommodations to the SUO
horses expected at the August meeting.
Members hip tickets were reduced to $50.
The track, which has been repaired, was
accepted
THE following Vermonters have been
granted pensions: Original, Neal MCGEE,
Henry ID. Chamberlain, Orange Hunt,
franklin Blackmer, Francis l.. Merritt,
George Fradenburg; reissue, William II.
Castle, Polly, mother of Stoughton Wood,
and Charlotte, widow of George Fraden-
burg.
THE society of the First Artillery,
Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, will hold its
third annual reunion at st. Johnsbury on
Thursday, August g. The business meeting
will be held in Grand Army hall at three
o'clock p. NJ. There will be an address in
the evening in Music hall by Rev. Arthur
Little, DID,, followed by a banquet and
campfire at the st. Johnsbury house.
THE Bennington Banner says: "The Sons
of Veterans have in hand the laudable ob-
ject OF building a memorial hall, to be
located in Bennington. 1t is to be state
affair." as far as this organization is con-
cerned. The proposal is to build three
story brick building, to cost from $4,000 to
$4,000. The first floor will be finished for
stores, the second story as memorial rooms
for relics of all kinds the upper floor to be
used for purposes of the order-a meeting
room and rooms to drill in, with Access
sories-in short, permanent place, with
out charge, for the Grand Army of the Re-
public to use during the declining days of
that organization. 1t is probable that the
opening of next spring will find the ground
broken for this building, and its COM
pletion in the autumn of 1890 is certainly
predicted by the committee"
Domestic.
THE Russ house at Fresno, Cal ., has been
burned,
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER JOHNSTON of
Princeton is dead.
A RECENT fire at Dubuque, Iowa, de.
stroyed property to the amount of $4,000
HIRAM HoADLEY killed his wife, her
father and himself at Edgerton, Ohio, Sat
urday.
COLONEL WILLIAM H. VEAzEY, aged sixty
eight, prominent citizen of Brentwood,
| n. H., is dead.
A CAVE has been discovered near St.
Helena Dakota, in which were eight hui
man skeletons.
THE steamship Mars " was lost on AYES
coral reefs. Her crew were saved and have
reached Philadelphia.
THOMAS SHEA, an Irish immigrant says
the poor authorities in Ireland will ship
$50 Irish families to America.
BIDS for furnishing postal cards for the
next four years have been opened. The
amount involved is $1,000, 0O0
THERE is a movement on foot looking to
! the consolidation of all the natural gas
companies in the Ohio and Indiana field.
CHARLES l.. BENT of the fifth Massachu-
sets district Cambridge has been ap-
pointed a cadet at the Military Academy.
A WELL of impure water is the supposed
cause of thirty cases of typhoid fever, some
of which have proved fatal, at Path Valley,
| Penn.
JOHN j. LoUTH, a real estate broker, is
charged with forging the name of Julius
Gottberg and securing securities valued at
$4,000.
NATHANIEL G. GREENE, formerly editor
of the Boston Post and second son of
| Colonel Charles G. Greene, died on July
| in Brussels.
IT is reported that lots of bills of the
national democratic campaign committee
are still unsatisfied and that recourse will
| be had to the courts.
THE hotel men held convention at Buff
| falo last week, but did not form the ma
tional organization contemplated. Fifteen
states were represented.
FOUR men in Lincoln, Neb., were over
come by foul gas in their attempts to re-
cover watch from cess-pool into which
! it had fallen. All have died.
PROFESSOR ALBION w. SMALL, Ph.D., has
been elected president of Colby University,
/
George d. b. Pepper, resigned
LAST week Wednesday train on the
Pennsylvania railroad carrying miners to
their homes was wrecked near Shamokin,
Penn. Two persons were killed.
REV. j. S. LINDSAY DID. rector of St.
Johns Episcopal church of Bridgeport,
Conn, has accepted the pastorate of st.
Pauls Episcopal church in Boston.
EARLY Friday morning a severe cleo
| frcal brplya Cincinnati Ohio
deluging portion of the city and causing
a loss OF $4,000 to property. No lives lost.
A TRAIN of seven cars was thrown fifteen
| feet down an embankment near Cairo. H.,
last week. The accident was caused by a
broken truck. Twenty passengers were in
iured.
ED. ROE, a young Englishman, while
swimming in the Cumberland near Jack
sonville, Fla, was struck by shark,
which bit off the calf of his leg, He bled to
death.
PROFESSOR LINTNER of New York the
state entomologist, has discovered an insect,
hitherto unknown, in the form of a micro
scopical parasite upon the destructive clover
nudge.
MRS LOUISE ScHELLING of Trenton, n. j
| seized four children of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Seigel, Saturday, and is holding them for a
debt of S35, which she claims the parents
owe her.
A SUBWAY charged with gas exploded on
the corner of Broadway and Twentieth
street, tearing up about twenty feet square
of pavement and hurting two tons of cobble-
stones into the air.
THE stables and one hundred horses of
the Lowell Horse Railroad Company, the
Hotel Belmont and other buildings at
Lowell, Mass, were burned July Is. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
SEVERAL witnesses examined in the
Kemmler hdbeds corpus proceedings de-
clared that they had received electric cur
rents stronger than those the state has
provided for killing criminals
JOSEPH READY, young man employed
in the city hall building, Fall River, Mass.
slipped from a ladder Saturday, and fell
three stories and, striking the iron gratin g
in his fall, was instantly killed.
CORNELIUS DONOVAN, aged thirteen years
fell from the tower of st. Patrick's church
in South Lawrence Mass, last week
Wednesday, fifty feet, striking on the side
walk. He may recover from his injuries.
WHILE III. Bristol & Co.'S circus was
showing in Milford, Mass, last week, a sec.
ton OF the seats gave way, precipitating six
hundred people to the ground, No one was
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