The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04
Summary of News.
Vermont.


day evening.
THE new building of the Black River
Academy at Ludlow was dedicated last
week Tuesday.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE opens September
49, and the buildings are undergoing re-
pairs in preparation for the new school
year.
A. w. WILDER of st. Adams lost the
sight of one eye last Friday by being struck
by fragment Of stone while working on
foundation.
JOHN A. BRIGGS who died few days ago
in Brooklyn at the age of seventy eight,
was native Vermonter, but afterward an
Ohio lawyer.
IT is reported that there was no insurance
on the Central Vermont passenger station
at Middlebury, which was burned week
ago Saturday.
L. NJ STEVENS, prominent citizen of
Jericho, dropped dead on Thursday morn
ing of last week while assisting the thresh-
ers in his barn.
HECTOR, the sixteen-y ear-old son of Henry
Berneau, was killed by an engine in the
Boston & Maine railroad yard at Newport,
last week Wednesday.
Mrs. c. H. WHEELER, wife of Rev. G. II.
Wheeler of Providence, r.. | died suddenly
at Middlebury last week Thursday. The
cause of her death was supposed to be heart
disease
A FREIGHT train on the Central Vermont
road ran into the rear car of the New York
last week, injuring several passengers and
damaging the engine and car.
L. e. ABBOTT of Barnet, freight brake
man on the Passumpsic division of the BOs-
ton x Maine railroad fell from a car at
Norwich last week Wednesday morning
aud both legs were badly crushed below the
knees.
GEORGE SENNoTT of West Pawlet was
killed Thursday morning by falling into a
slate quarry. His foot was caught by tag
rope and he was dragged over the edge of
the quarry. He was seventeen years old,
and son of Thomas Sennott of West Paw
let.
THE state superintendent of education
and the county supervisors met for con-
sultation at Burlington last Friday. They
were agreed that teachers institute should
be held in each county during the next fall
and winter, and that home talent should be
employed as far as possible to conduct
these institutes.
INCOMING Collector of Customs Benedict
authorizes the statement that a dispatch
from Richford, asserting that he has asked
for the designations of all democrats in the
Richford office, was grossly incorrect. The
facts are that several of the deputy collec-
tors in the district, including one or two of
the seven deputies at Richford have tend
cred their designations to the retiring col
lector but no general sweep of democrats
in any office, or in the district as whole,
has been made, nor attempted or asked for
by Mr.. Benedict.
THE ninth annual meeting of the Wind
sor County veterans was held at Windsor
last week Wednesday and was the largest
and most enthusiastic one ever held. Dele
cations were present from all over the
county A procession, composed of six
bands and several hundred veterans, formed
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cipal streets to Evarts' grove, where sump-
tuous dinner was given. AT two o'clock the
exercises opened with an address of well
come by Colonel Stephen NJ. Pingree of
Hartford. Colonel w. G. Holbrook and
w. ID. Guthrie, both of New York, gave
stirring addresses. The evening closed
with a campfire held in the grove.
THE fifth annual exhibition of the YER
mont association of road and trotting horse
breeders was held last Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday at the driving park in Rut-
land The attendance was unusually large
and the meeting was the most successful
one that has been held. Ten thousand peo-
pie were at the park on the second day.
On Thursday the announcement of pre-
miums was made by President Hooker.
The list of awards for standardized stall
lions are as follows: Sweepstakes herd pre-
MUM for stations ten years old, with four
of their get: First premium, 500, Arstos,
entered by Lester Fish, Rutland; second,
$50, Ben Franklin, entered by III. L. Cults,
Orwell Standard bred stations under ten
years old: First $50, Leicester, entered by
&. b. Hall, Leicester; second, $40, Alexander,
entered by E. F. Brownell, Burlington;
third 500 Ned Wilkes, entered by T.. Bow
man, Rutland. Standard trotting stallions
First, $50, st. Julien, entered by S. Y. Eel
ton, Sudbury No other entries were made.
STANDARDIZED stallion colts four years old
First, $40, Alcman, entered by L. F. Brown
ell, Burlington; second, $50, Aristos, en-
tered by S. Y. FELTON,, Sudbury. Standard
bred stallion colts, three years old first,
$50, Harry Lambert entered by Il. Whit
ney & Son of Willston; second, SIS, Sherry
wood, entered by l.. r. Joslyn, Waitsfeld
Standardized stations, two years old: first
$50, Billings, entered by E. f. Brownell
Burlington; second, SO, Chico, entered by
III. S. Burnham, Putney. Standard bred
stations, one year old first, SO, Duke
mont, entered by II. G. Burwell & Son.
Bridport; second, SO, George r.. entered
by William M. Partch, New Haven.
A SERIOUS railroad accident occurred near
Brooksville station, on the Rutland division
of the Central Vermont railroad, Friday
night, resulting in the death of two railroad
employees and one passenger. The trains
which collided were a passenger train of
seven coaches, which left Rutland at half
past six with eXcursionists returning north
from the horse breeders meeting, drawn by
engine John Crombie, with Engineer Will
liam Embery of st. Adams, Fireman Perron,
and Herman Blodgett, conductor, and the
south-bound train oftwenty-one cars Of hogs,
drawn by the engine George Nichols Eng-
neer W. II. Chillson, Fireman Robson and
Conductor George w. Button of st. Adams.
The hog train should have set off at New
Haven and met the passenger train at that
point. Instead of doing so, it passed New
Haven, southward-bound, about the same
time the passenger train left Middlebury,
the two trains coliding on sharp curve
about a quarter of a mile from Brooksvlle
station, Both trains came on to each other
so suddenly that the tranmen were not
warned of the danger in time to Jump. The
engines came together with a crash, and
were thrown from the track. The next car
to the engine was passenger coach, which
was badly smashed. In this coach were
Conductor Blodgett, who was instantly
killed, passenger, Mr. w. w. Allen Of
Panton, who was also killed, and several
other passengers, who We're bruised and
badly shaken up. The engineer of the pas
senger train, William Enbery, was buried
in the wreck of his engine and killed. EN-
berry stuck to his post as did also his fire.
man, Perron, who had one leg fractured in
half dozen places Engineer Chilson of
the freight train was badly injured in the
back and ribs, but will survive. Fireman