The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-15
Summary of News,


was at work.
The acknowledgement has appointed
the following postmasters David Horton,
Mount Holly Frank Durkee, Pittsfeld
Mabel Hall, West Bolton.
PATRICK KELLEY, derrick man at the
Esperanza marble quarry, West Rutland,
fell sixty feet, to the bottom of the quarry,
and was instantly killed
MICHAEL s. KANE was killed by the cars
at Hoosac junction, N Y, Tuesday, May l.
He was employed on the Fitchburg road
and formerly lived at Bennington.
THE docket for the June term of the
Orange county court contains one hundred
sixty-four law cases and thrty-six in chan
Gerry. Russell s. Taft is presiding judge.
AT Craftsbury Silas Coburn was thrown
against circular saw and so gashed that
part of the liver and one lung were exposed
to view, and yet his recovery is thought
probable.
HENRY BALDwIN's house, barn and out
buildings at Monkton were burned last
week Sunday. They are supposed to have
caught fire from burning chimney. The
loss is estimated at $4,000
A. NJ. KENDALL, the post-ofce route agent
between Boston and Burlington who was re-
moved three years ago to make place for
a democrat, has been reinstated. His pres
ent route is from Boston to Troy.
ALFRED DAVIS of Holland was using a
fork recently when his little son, about four
years old, ran in front of him, and one tine
of the fork penetrated his temple two inches
or more. The child died in about an hour
C. b. f. PALMER. formerly of New Haven
and later of st. Adams, has just been APP
pointed chief clerk of the Interstate Com
mercial Association of Railroad Presidents,
of which Hon. Aldace f. Walker of Rut-
land is president.
CHARLES TUNsTALL was killed at the
Barton hill mine, Mineville, last week
Tuesday afternoon. He was coming out of
the mine in a car loaded with ore, and his
head was crushed. He was twenty-five
years old and married.
HARVEY G. LYON Of Swanton was
drowned, while fishing off Tabor's point,
Maquam bay last week Monday afternoon,
Two men with him succeeded in reaching
the shore. They were trying to get in a
large fish when the boat capsized
FREIGHT CONDUCTOR CHARLES DAILY of
the Central Vermont road was run over and
killed by the cars near Georgia one day last
week. Both arms and legs were cut off and
his head was badly crushed, so that death
must have been almost instantaneous.
FADE FREEMAN and David Phillips of
Shrewsbury have been arrested for the muir
der of Charles Brown, at Shrewsbury pond,
on Sunday of last week. The three were
out in a boat which capsized. Browns body
shows signs of violent handling, and his
coat-seeve was torn off.
JOHN MARCoT, shoemaker at Burling-
ton, was killed in the railroad yard there
last week. When the morning mail south
stopped at the Burlington depot Marcot
got aboard to speak with friend, and then
rode out into the yard short distance from
the depot and jumped from the moving
train. He was drawn under the cars, and
so injured that he died in about an hour.
THE Orange county supreme court as
sembled at Chelsea Tuesday, May I, with
Chief Justice Royce and Judges Ross. Yea
zey and Taft in attendance. But two cases
were heard-that of Darius III. Rowell
against the town of Vershire, on the de-
PENDANTS exceptions and that of the state
against A. F. Freeman, on the respondents
exceptions. In four cases the judg-
ment of the county court was affirmed
one was settled, seven were continued to
the general term and two were continued
generally. The court adjourned after
four-hours' session.
FOLLOWING is a complete list of the county
supervisors chosen by the several boards of
education on Tuesday May Z; Addison
county, f. A. HaSseltine of Bristol; Benning-
ton county, Professor E. w. Howe of North
Bennington; Caledonia county, Professor
w. H. Taylor OF Hardwick Chittenden
county, Professor j. S. Cilley of Jericho
Essex county, j. II. Walbridge of West
Concord Franklin county, H. Il. Rustedt
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Phelps Of South Hero; Lamoille county, j.
w. Redmond of Hyde Park; Orange county,
q. w. Goodhue of Wells River Orleans
county, Mason Stone of Westfed; Rutland
county, w. F. Walker of Proctor; Washing
ton county, Rev. |. p. Booth of Northfeld;
Windham county, G. p. Holt of Hinsdale,
N. H.; Windsor county, j. III. Dunbar of
White River Junction.
The business part of the village of Dan
vile was wiped out by fire in one hour Thurs
day, only the bank and hotel escaping
Twenty-tbree buildings were burned, eX-
Guiding barns, and twenty-seven families
are homeless, and these mostly poor people,
who saved nothing and carried no insurance.
A high wind prevailed, and there was no
water supply. The fire caught in f. X
Kittredge's barn, either from spontaneous
combustion or children playing with
matches. The loss will amount to from S40,-
600 to $4,000; insured for $4,000. The post
office was burned, with all the mail. Three
horses were burned, including one worth
$1,000. Among the property destroyed
were the town hall, Grand Army and Ma
sonic halls and furniture, the town library
and North Star newspaper office. Other
losers, some OF whom are insured, are T.. S.
Pierce, tin store, $500: Sylvester Day,
house and barn, 900; Methodist parson-
age, 1920; III. g. Danforth house and barn
$1,000; Mrs. Flora Haviland, house, 81 600
the old Eagle hotel, $1,000, and Judge
Palmer's house and barn, $1,000. Over a
dozen other families have losses under
$1,000 each. The fire burned over eight
acres, setting fire to the grass two miles
away. One thousand cords of slab wood,
coal-sheds and logging-tools, owned by l.. ID.
Hazen of st. Johnsbury, were burned at
Miles Pond. The loss is $1,000 to $1,000.
Domestic.
The New York celebration has demon
strated the possibility of nassing seventy
thousand militia in New York within fifteen
hours.
The new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls, to take the place of the one carried
away by cyclone last winter, was opened
for travel last week.
The widow of Captain Parker of San
Francisco lays claim to valuable guano
islands in the Pacific, which she says her
husband discovered thirty years ago.
p b. HARR attempted, with his wife and
two children, to cross a swollen mountain
stream near Braxton, West Virginia, and
all were drowned by the upsetting of his
canoe.
HAYES, the man whose attempted lynch
ing caused a riot and loss Of life at Biz
mingham, Alabama, last December, was
found guilty recently of the murder Of his
wife and children,