The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Summary of News.

dedicated ON Thursday of last week
HARVEY HITCHCoCK, father of Judge l..
/. Hitchcock, died at Burlington last'week
Tuesday.
The funeral of the late II. S. Meacham
took place at Pittsford on Wednesday of
last week
w. ID. LANES green house at Rutland was
burned on Wednesday of last week. Loss
about 81 800.
A NEW hotel will be built at Queen City
Park, Burlington, on the site of the one re-
Gently burned.
WILLIAM HENRY WELLS, former resi-
dent Of BrattleborO, purposes to give a
fountain to that village.
NEWELL HAsKINs and Hollis Atwood of
Lincoln were arrested on Friday of last
week for counterfeiting silver coin.
THE annual meeting of the Congrega-
tional Club of Western Vermont was held
at Rutland on Tuesday of last week
THERE were LOO applicants for teachers
certificates examined at St. Johnsbury on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
CHARLES WELLS lumber-mill at Victory
was burned Saturday night 1t was insured
for $500, which will not cover the loss.
A HISTORY of the town of st. Alba will
soon be published by New York concern.
The author is IL. X. Adams of st. Adams.
CAPTAIN EUGENE VIELE of Rouse's Point
died on Thursday of last week. He was a
gallant member of the Ninth Vermont Reg
iment.
COLONEL HERBERT L. TAYLOR of Brattle-
boru has been appointed special inspector
of customs and assigned to duty at St.
Adams.
DIR EDWARD MCGLYNN is to lecture at
Poultney, under the auspices of the Del
phiau Society of Troy Conference Academy,
December &.
The new Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton building at Burlington was dedicated
last night, aud additional services will be
held his evening.
THE 1homson-IIouston Company at
Winooski is arranging to put in 200 horse
power engine at the electric light station
for use during the winter.
LAST week Mrs Cole of East Arlington
and Mr. Odtnan were united in marriage.
The bride IN eighty-One years of age and
the gr ON is seVenty-SeVen.
The late S. S. Thompsons bequest of
$4,000 to Lyndon Institute was conditioned
that certain others will contribute specified
sums in all making 500
WILLIAM BLANCHARD, a sailor, OF Hol-
land, has been arrested at Charleston,
charged with shooting Charles Calkins,
blacksmith, of Stanstead, p. q.
"QUEEN ESTHER was presented at Brat
tleboro last week Tuesday evening. The
chorus numbered over 100 voices, accom-
panied by the First Regiment orchestra.
JAMES SUMNER of East Middlebury was
killed at the Severance quarry, Middle
bury, by the falling of a derrick on Tuesday
OF last week. The mast of the derrick broke.
THE st. Adams jail-breakers were SEN
fenced on Friday of last week. Bertrand
and Brooks were each given two years in
the state prison and Ricard received four
years.
Alison BLACKMER fell distance of twenty
feet into quarry at Brandon on Wednes-
day of last week He was picked up I'M
conscious, but it was found that no bones
were broken.
THE Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Rail-
road Company has purchased lot on the
corner of School and State streets, Reads
boro, and the coming spring will erect
suitable station.
THE store of e. & T. Fairbanks & Co.,
at st Johnsbury, was totally destroyed by
fire early last week Friday morning. The
loss will approximate $4,000, and the in
surance is $4,000,
The churches of Middlebury have pro-
tested against the running of trains during
the hours of Sunday services. President
Smith of the Central Vermont road has
promised to remedy the nuisance.
New machinery has been put into the adj
diton recently made to the merino wooden
mills al Winooski, the capacity of the fac
tory being also considerably augmented to
meet the increased demand for its products
A MEMORIAL tablet has been placed on
the walls of the Congregational church at
Bradford in memory of Dr. Silas McKeen
by his only surviving daughter, Miss Philena
McKeen, principal OF the Abbott Female
Seminary of Andover, Mass.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at West
Rutland last week. John McDeed, about
seventy-ive years old who acted as der
hickman on the bank of the old ellison &
Woodfn quarry, fell into the quarry, dis
lance of two hundred feet, and was crushed
into shapeless mass.
AT meeting of the Spruce Butter-tub
Association at st. Adams, last week
Wednesday, it was voted to maintain the
prices established last year. These officers
were elected: j. l.. Clark, Parishville,
n. Y, president; G. II. Stearns, Johnson,
w., secretary and treasurer
THE Brattleboro Ph0nir, speaking of
Brattleboro's famous singers in Paris, Miss
Mary Howe and Mrs. e. r. Pratt, says:
I" Mrs. Pratt and Miss Howe are both pur-
suing their vocal studies with great dill
gence and unmistakable success Miss
Howe is perfecting her voice-culture and
adding several new operas to her repertoire
under Nine. Marchesi, who pronounces her
her most promising pupil"
HENRY e. CUNNINGHAM, principal of the
parochial school at st. Johnsbury, has sued
Matthew Caldbeck for libel in the sum of
5000. The alleged libel consisted of a
letuer winch CdluDtCk printed Ill Il local
paper, claiming that it was written by Gun
ningham. The case will be called in the
Bennington county court next month. This
is the outcome of newspaper controversy
between the two parties on the parochial
school question.
THE death of George l.. Linsley of Bur
lington occurred in New York on Wednes-
day of last week. Mr. Linsey was a ma
tive of Middlebury and was fifty-five years
of age. He was engaged for many years in
building railroads. Besides several in the
West, he assisted in building the road from
st. Albans Junction to St. Johns, in Can
ada. He had been manager of the Burling-
ton & Lam)ille road since 1880, and was
also engaged in the lumber and wood and
coal business. The funeral took place at
Burlington on Friday.
The seventeenth annual reunion of the
Vermont Cavalry Association was held at
Mddlebury on Tuesday evening of last
week. The following officers were elected;
President II. O.. Edison, Rutland secre-
tary, S. II. Wood, st. Adams; treasurer,
W. l.. Greenleaf, Burlington executive
committee, g. r.. Bagley, b. A, Nc
Kenna and John Smith, all of Montpelier,