The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
summary Of News.
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was burned week ago Monday night.
RUTLAND has the largest population under
a town government in the United States.
A STATE branch of the society Of the
Sons of the Revolution " is soon to be or
ganized in Vermont.
SENATOR GEORGE HAMMOND of Middle
bury has bought lot of horses which he
intends to ship to South America some time
in April.
JOHN o. McKEEN, a well known and pop
ular hotel clerk dropped dead in the post
office at Newport on Tuesday evening OF
last week.
JOHN S. Brown fell from the roof of his
house in Brattleboro on Tuesday OF last
week, fracturng two ribs besides sustaining
other injuries.
FIVE of the Judges of the supreme court
of Vermont were born in the same year
1S25-aud four of them within four months
of one another.
The case of Calvin NJ. Inman, the Poult-
ney murderer, who was arraigned last week
in the Rutland county court, has been con-
tinued to the supreme court.
THE will of the late Sarah Burr of New
York has been sustained by the court of
appeals The Burr & Burton Seminary of
Manchester receives $4,000 by this de-
Cision.
THE Inhabitants of Cornish, n. H., and of
Windsor are trying to buy and make free
the bridge across the Connecticut, connect
ing the two towns. Cornish has apprOpri-
ated $1,000 for the purpose.
A MAN at North Bennington has spent
his spare time for fifteen years inventing
machine to put bristles into brushes. He
has at last hit the correct combination and
the machine is in full blast.
THE largest meeting ever held b. the
Masons of the seventh district was held at
St. Adams last week Tuesday. About three
hundred were in attendance, including
many from lodges outside the district.
NORTH MARYLAND has two elm-trees in
fourishing condition that were planted over
a century ago One measures eighteen feet
and two inches and the other eighteen feet
and eight inches round two feet from the
ground.
JACK O'BRIEN, railroad section man,
met with severe accident on Tuesday after
noon at Enosburgh Falls. While at work
in the railroad woodshed he slipped and fell
across circular saw, which sawed nearly
half way through the arm.
THE cotton mill at Windsor will soon
breathe IFS last. The management is clos
ing out the works as fast as possible and
discharging the employees, and expects to
move the machinery to Mobile, Alabama,
early next month, in accordance with plans
made several months since
THE state board OF trade voted last week
to remove from Burlington to St. Adams,
unless the citizens of the former place took
measures to provide for the speedy mate
REALIZATION of a building for cold storage.
The Burlington business men proceeded to
hustle and the board will stay there.
THE town of South Hero has voted 81, 900
to aid in the construction of the Grand Isle
bridge. The varous towns within twenty
FIVE miles of the bridge will be given a
chance to contribute, and the authorities in
charge of the finances expect to bleed each
81 t1,n,. tl,nt & brnn hon M
THE granite ouarries of Ascutney noun
tain are to be reopened this season. The
greater part of the mountain is composed of
syenite and granite of the best quality. The
granite has been shown experts, who pro-
nounce it the finest in New England, and
predict that it will soon become as noted as
that of Quincy or Barre.
Hon HENRY MORT of Alburgh, accom-
panied by Mrs. Mott, was driving across the
ice from Isle La Motto to Rouses Point,
last Thursday, when the ice suddenly gave
way and the team plunged into the water.
They We're within two hundred feet of the
shore and an attempt was made to save
them. Mr.. Mott was rescued, but Mrs.
Mott sank and was drowned. Her body
was recovered shortly after. The horses
were lost.
SIMoNps' block at Brandon was totally
destroyed by fire Monday morning March
IS. The block was built twenty years ago
the county. 1t contained four stores, Of
fees, lodge-rooms and Masonic hall. The
total loss is estimated at 100000; insured
for $4,000. party of Brandon gentlemen
have thus early signifed willingness to
form a syndicate and rebuild the block at
once. 1t is probable there will be a new
building erected within sixty days.
Domestic.
PRESIDENT ROBINSON of Brown University
has resigned.
PRESIDENT HARRTsoN's daily mail con-
aims from 700 to 900 letters.
FRANK JONES big Portsmouth brewery
has been sold to an English syndicate.
THE city hall in Dover, N. H., was burned
Friday and two churches were damaged by
fire.
THE annual report of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy road shows a deficiency
of S4,33l ,425.
Two men were annihilated by an explo-
sion in a dynamite factory at Lakewood, N.
j., last Thursday.
HERBERT w. LADD has been nominated
for governor by Rhode Island republicans,
and d. G. Littlefeld for lieutenant-gov-
ernor.
Two workmen were killed and another
seriously injured by the falling of the roof
at colliery in Pottsville, Penn, last week
Monday.
The deputy postmaster OF New Bruins
wick, n. j., stole softly away last week
Tuesday night, leaving hiatus of $1,000 in
his accounts.
STATE SENATOR CHACE of Rhode Island
has resigned His pay as senator was n OF
sufficient to warrant further neglect of his
business interests.
THE big car and paint-shops at Ashley,
N. j., employing three hundred men, were
burned Wednesday morning of last week
The loss is 100000.
SENATOR STANFORD of California has sent
his check for So 900 TO the committee in Bos'
ton engaged in raising fund Of 100000 for
Mrs. Philip II. Sheridan, widow of the late
general.
BOSTON pawn brokers are objecting to a
rule requiring them to furnish the police
daily with accurate descriptions of all ar
ticles taken in pawn, and the persons pawn
ing them.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER's country-seat al
Peekskill, n. Y, has been sold to q. III
Butler for 1000. 1t comprises thirty-siS
acres and gothic mansion. Mr. Beecher il
said to have expended S250,OO0 on the prop
erty
A HORSE with the blind staggers plunged
through a plate glass window in New
York clothing house last Thursday and