The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

"A POST-OFFICE mas Detn tSudullSutu ucdi
Canaan called Beecher Falls. Amasa Nc
Gaffy has been appointed postmaster.
REV. HOMER EATON, ID, of Burling-
ton has been elected agent of the Methodist
Book Concern at New York, to hold the
position till 1892.
PATRICK DALEY of Jay, aged twelve,
slipped while removing wood from bolt
ing saw, and his wrist coming in contact
with the machine, was nearly cut off.
THE widow of Michael Flynn, who was
killed at the works of the Vermont Marble
Company in Proctor last August, has
brought suit against the company for SlO,OOO
damages.
THE contest of the will of the late V, +.
Noyes, leaving about S1,000,00O to his
brother, Julius NJ. Noyes of New York. was
finally disposed of in the supreme court at
Burlington last Thursday by decision de-
nying the petition for a new trial
REPRESENTATIVE II. MANN, Jr., of Will
mington was recently rendered by Cover
nor Dillingham; the position of state com
missioner of immigration, an Office created
by the immigration bill introduced by him
in the house last fall, but was compelled by
other engagements to decline the appoint
ment
EDWARD DANA, states attorney for Rut-
land county, has made application to the
supreme court to summon special grand
jury at the March term of the county court
to hear the case of Calvin NJ. Inman,
charged with the murder of Patrick Sennott
at Poulney in August last. The result of
the application is not yet known.
MEMBERS of the College fraternity Delta
Kappa Epsilon in this state and vicinity
met at the Van Ness house, Burlington,
Friday evening and formed a Delta Kappa
Epsilon Association of Vermont, with fifty
members. The following are the officers
President, Rev. E. p. Lee; first vice-presi-
dent, Ex-Governor S. f. Pingree of Hart
ford second vice president, Il. G.. Smith
third vice president Rev. G. f. Carter;
fourth vice-president, Rev. j. A. Mead of
Rutland secretary, Professor G. g. Brill
treasurer, G. r. Wales.
ROBERT DoDD, who had been missing
from Richford for the past six weeks, was
discovered on Friday at work at the White
Mountain Freezer Companys works in
Nashua, n. II. He was discovered by en-
ployes reading description of himself in a
paper. The boy refused to give any account
of himself but had worked steadily there
since his arrival. Rev. Leonard Dodd, his
father, arrived the following morning and
took his boy to his home in Richford. The
boy seemed pleased to see his parent, and
finally expressed desire to see his mother.
He left home because he was reprimanded
by his mother for engaging in quarrel
with younger lad.
Domestic.
THERE was 100000 blaze in the Stand
ard oil-works at Constable Hook, n. j.,
Sunday, February 10.
News of the death of DR.. Purdy of Seneca
Falls, N. Y, while illegally imprisoned at
Panama, has reached his home.
TUESDAY, February II, was the eghtieth
anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin, and was celebrated in many states by
banquets and addresses.
Company in the Hooking valley has made
an assignment. This throws seven hundred
men out of employment.
OVER half million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by fire in Philadel'
phia on Sunday February 10. One fireman
was killed and two injured.
AMONG the new names mentioned at In
dianapolis last week. in connection with
the cabinet, was that of j. @. Thomas Of
Illinois as secretary of the navy.
A MAN was knocked down in the street
in New York last Saturday by the shock
from an electric wire that fell on him. His
arm was broken and he was stupefed.
THE twenty-second annual encampment
of the New Hampshire G.. A. r. was held
in Concord, n. H., last week Monday and
Tuesday. Colonel j. II. Grimes of Hills
boro was chosen commander.
THE book committee of the Methodist
church has increased the salary of bishops
of foreign missions to $1,000 per annum.
They are also allowed 81 900 for household
expenses. This puts the bishops on the
same footing as home bishops.
THE West Virginia senate strove in.
effec ually last week to come to decision
in the vote for United States senator. Five
ballot were taken Saturday and each re-
suited in tie, Kenna (democratic) and Gon
republican, each having thirty-nine votes.
York elevated railroad last Thursday An
unknown man tried to get on a moving
train in Brooklyn after the gates were
closed. He struck against the railing of the
station platform, fell to the street and was
killed.
THE main portion of the Park Contra
hotel, Hartford, Conn, collapsed Monday
morning, imprisOning in the wreckage about
fifty people, The exact number of the
killed and wounded is not yet known, bu
there were eighty people in the building al
the time and it is thought that only twenty
ESCAPED without injuries The loss is about
100000, S3S, 900 Of which is covered by in
surance. The cause of the &C ident is moi
known, but it is supposed to have resultee
from a boiler explosion in the basement
The force of the explosion threw bed witt
sleeping woman upon it far into the street
while one of the heavy doors of the house
landed block away.
THE Indiana senate, by practically
unanimous vote, has passed an antitrust
bill, which defines as unlawful conspracieS
to defraud, "all trusts. pools, contracts, ar
rangements or combinations now existing
or hereafte' made between persons or cor
porations, or between any person or per
sons and one or more corporations, with 6
view 70 prevent full and free competition
in the production, manufacture or sale o.
any article of domestic growth production