The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Summary OF News.


closed Wednesday,
THE " Crescent won the cup in the steam
yacht race at Rouse's Point last Saturday.
BosTwIcK Posts new hall at Underhill
was dedicated Wednesday last most auspi-
ciously.
CHARLES Bowers, twenty-five years old,
was drowned in lake in Brandon, Sunday,
while fishing.
REV. NJ. G. STEBBINs, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Cornwall, died there
on Thursday.
The Champlain Valley Horsebreeder's
Association began its exhibition at Yer
gennes last Monday.
A. E. ToUzAL1N,. president OF the Bur
lington, Cedar Rapids 81 Northern railroad,
died at Bennington, Friday last
THE Bennington monument can not be
dedicated till 1891, as no money has been
appropriated by the legislature yet.
DELLA WALKER of Bellows Falls, aged
nineteen years, committed suicide by drown
ing at I,angdon, n. H., Friday night.
THERE are over two hundred students in
the Vermont Academy at Saxton's River
the largest attendance in the history of the
school.
CHARLES JENCKs of STAFFORD, who took a
dose of laudanum because his girl attended
an entertainment with another man, will
recover.
THE forty-second annual fair of the Gale
donia Agricultural Society was held at st.
Johnsbury on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of last week
LYNDON INSTITUTE opened with an at
tendance of 1875. The number will be in
creased to 100 or more. 1t is the largest fall
term opening it ever had.
CAPTAIN LAFAYETTE TEBBETTs of Man
chester, n. H., took, by requisition, from
Burlington, last week, George Gilbert, who
had been arrested for larceny.
THE barns on the Vance place at West
Glover, owned by E. o. Randall, were
burned recently. There is no way to account
for the fire, except by incendiary.
THE fifteenth annual meeting of the Yer
mont Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion is to be held at the First Baptist church
in Burlington, September Is, 10 and 20.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER TRACY of the
Grand Army is quoted as saying that the
removal of Corporal Tanner will be consid-
cred by the veterans as direct slap in the
face"
THE fall term at the University of Yer
mont opened Thursday very auspicously
with large attendance. The Freshman
class is larger than last year, numbering
nearly fifty.
DANA l.. MORSE, whose parents live in st.
Johnsbury, suddenly took his departure
from Medford, Mass, last week. 1t is said
that he borrowed some money of his EN-
ployer and that he was about to be married.
j. T. CUNNINGHAMs creditors at Lyndon
vile have filed petition in insolvency in
his case. The liabilities are upwards of
$4,000 Most of his Indebtedness was in
CURED as security for his brother Ira w.
Cunningham.
THE body of Fred w. johnson, the col
ored engineer, who has been missing for
nearly week, was discovered Wednesday
in the woods north of Lake View cemetery,
Burlington. He was stretched stark and
rigid on his back under maple tree and
around his neck was piece of rope.
The annual meeting of the Fairbanks
Scale Company was held at st. Johns
bury Wednesday last. The following
directors were elected Franklin Fair
banks and Henry Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury, Samuel S. Brown of Boston, Jonathan
Ross of st. Johnsbury, James s. Gardiner
and John j. Howles of New York and III.
n. Turner of st. Johnsbury. The treas
urer's report showed a net profit of twelve
per cent on the capital stock during the
year
THE trustees of the Soldiers Home held
their annual meeting at Bennington last
week with fourteen of the eighteen present
the largest attendance since the organiza-
ton. The old board of officers was elected
as follows: General William Wells, Bur-
lington, president; Colonel G.. c. Kinsman,
Rutland, secretary General p. p. Pitkin,
Montpelier, treasurer; Major A. B.. Valen-
three-Judge Henry, General Pitlin and
Major Stearns-was appointed to take into
consideration the building of IA hospital for
the Home.
The subcommittee on design Of the Ver-
mont Gettysburg monument commission
met at the Henry Bonnard Bronze com
panys works in West 10th street, New
York, on Saturday, to inspect the bronze
statue of General Stannard which is to sur
mount the column of the main Vermont
monument, on the field of Gettysburg. Last
week General William Wells and Lieuten-
ants Greenleaf and Stranahan, of the COM
mittee of the First Vermont cavalry reg-
ment, visited Barre and inspected and ac-
cepted the monument which is to mark the
spot where that regiment charged the line
OF Laws brigade. No doubt now remains
that the Vermont monuments will all be in
place at Gettysburg, before the day set for
their dedication, on the 9th of October.
Domestic.
THE national greenback convention met
at Cincinnati on Friday.
CONGRESSMAN S. S. Cox died at New
York Tuesday night of peritonitis.
UHLMANs hop house at Malone, n. Y,
was burned, Friday, with loss of three and
half tons.
THE United States senate committee on
relations with Canada began public hear
ing in Boston, Wednesday.
ELEVEN miners were drowned last week
in the White Ash coal mine near Golden
Col, by the rush of water from a shaft near
by.
JOSEPH MATT was killed at New York
Friday, by coming in contact with an cleo
trio wire He was burned to a horrible
mass.
In the constitutional convention at Santa
Fe New Mexico majority refused to per
init the incorporation of the woman suffrage
plank,
Hon. NATHAN II. WEEKS of Plymouth
N. H., aged sixty-four died Thursday. He
was prominent in New Hampshire business
circles.
WILLIAM D. TRAIL shot and killed Con
ductor Lemon of the Louisville & Nashvill,
road for ejecting him from the train for non
payment of fare.
THE committee on the West Virginia cleo
ton returns report that Judge Fleming, tn,
democratic candidate, had pa votes NOR
than General Golf.
BODIES continue to be taken out of tn
debris and the rivers as the waters reced
from Johnstown, Penn. On an average tw
ho1ipS ara found a daV