The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

don, was damaged by fire on Monday after
noon of last week.
THE ninety-fourth annual meeting of the
Lamoille Baptist Association was held at
Richford last Thursday.
The Vermont State Sabbath-school Asso-
citation will meet at Middlebury, October
22-2i. An attractive programme is in pre-
paration
CHARLES r. SANFoRDs house at Benniug-
ton Center was burned to the ground last
week Tuesday. 1t was an old building and
the loss is small.
THE Central Vermont station at East
Clarendon was burned last week Monday
1t was small wooden structure and the loss
will not be large.
NJ. A. BINGHAM of Essex junction has
been appointed special inspector of customs
for the state He is member of the Chit
tenden county bar.
THE Sheldon Marble Company of Rut-
land is to furnish the marble work of the
entrance hall and staircase of the new pub
lie library building in Boston.
AN unknown man was seriously and
probably fatally injured at Swanton juno
ton, last Friday afternoon, while trying to
cross the track in front of an engine.
THE following postmasters have been APP
pointed in Vermont: Charles f. Hubbard,
Cambridge; Charles f. Ovtt. West Enos-
burgh; Owen w. Williams. West Pawlet.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM II. WILBUR of Sax
tons River has accepted the appointment
to the chair of mathematics and natural
science at Colby Academy, New London,
n. II.
EDWARD Brown was run over in the Rut-
land railroad yard at Bellows Falls, Friday,
and fatally injured. He was sitting under
freight car when the train started suddenly.
His home is at Bradford.
FRANCIS II. Cooke of Bridgewater slipped
while Disseminating from train at Sara
toga last week Monday afternoon, and his
right hand was horribly crushed by a car
wheel Mr.. Cooke is seventy years old and
in feeble health.
CHARLES G. PECK, postmaster of Middle
bury for more than four years past. has sent
in his resignation to the department, and it
is probable that his successor will be named
within a short time Mr.. Peck was APP
pointed by President Cleveland four years
ago last May and took charge of the Office
on the first of June, 1885.
BERT FRENCH the baggage master on the
night mail train south on the Passumpsic
railroad, fell from the train last week Mon
day night and was not missed until it
reached White River junction. He was
found twenty-five miles north of that place
beside the track with his left arm broken
and probable internal injuries
JAMES c. DUNN, a wealthy and prominent
DuSlubSS man VI hullduNl, ultu TIludN tNGu-
ing, aged ffty-nine years. He left a widow
and three sons. He had been a village
trustee, seeCtman and connected with the
fire department and board of trade, and was
director in several banks and corporations,
and was senior member of the firm OF Dunn
& Cramton, who did wholesale and retail
business in stoves and tinware.
THE steam yacht " Bertha" owned by
Captain Hawley and F. D. Lapelle of Swan
ton, crashed into sunken pine stump last
week Thursday while steaming down the
MisSisquoi, and sunk in six feet of water.
In less than five minutes after the accident
the keel OF the craft was resting on the bot
tom of the river and the small party on
board had barely time to get into the tender
which, fortunately, was in tow.
THERE was great excitement at Norwich
last week over the finding of human bones,
evidently those of man, in sandy soil, be-
tween the farms of Lorenzo Kinney and
Austin Stevens, the skeleton being turned
to light by workmen who were operating a
road machine. DR.. Annabell examined the
| bones and gave the opinion that they could
not have lain more than twenty years. The
mystery associated with this discovery has
revived recollections of the sudden disap-
| pearance, nineteen years ago. of one John
Bartlett, seventy.two years of age. He was
a man of wealth and regarded as somewhat
| misery and eccentric. AT the time of his
| disappearance it was commonly believed he
had been foully dealt with, as during the
night following the last time he was seen
alive, horrible screams were heard issuing
from the direction of his house. Living
with him was a man and wife, who, when
| questioned, would only say that Bartlett
had gone to live with the Shakers. The
latter were visited, but no trace could be
| found of the missing man. For some rea-
son, although there are alleged to have been
many circumstances indicating murder the
town authorities never pushed the matter.
Domestic.
Two Montana towns have been destroyed
recently by forest fires.
THERE was a 100000 fire at Winona,
Mimi, last week Thursday.
| TWENTY-FIVE negroes were killed last
| week during the race troubles in LeFlore
| county, Miss.
THE trial of United States Marshal Nagle
| for killing Judge Terry was begun last week
Thursday in San Francisco
No progress was made in the Cronin case
| at Chicago last week. The time was spent
| in the vain attempt to secure jury.
GENERAL LEGITIME, ex-president of
| Hayti, arrived in New York last week
! Thursday on the steamer Manhattan"
A CONFERENCE of the coal miners and
coal operators at Joliet, H., has resulted in
a settlement of the wage troubles through
out the northern Illinois coal fields
DAN LAMONT, formerly Grover Cleveland s
private secretary, has accepted the presi-
dency of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Rail
road company at a salary of $4,000 year.
The Douglas Axe Company of Boston is
insovent, Treasurer Dana having emigrated
with the assets, while the liabilities will eX-
coed 100000. The factories will be shut
down.
The iron industries of Reading, Penn.
and its vicinity, after period Of idleness
have resumed operations, giving much
needed employment to twenty-five hun
dred men.
THE New York Liquor Dealers Associa
ton in convention at Rochester, last week
adopted platform denouncing high license
and the state prohbitonist convention al
Syracuse did the same.
GREAT excitement prevails at Pierre
South Dakota, over the third attempt within
a week to burn down the place. No great
damage has been done, but the people are
nervous over the situation.
PENNSYLVANIA has new law requiring
miners to pass an examination in English
before they enter the mines or continue tC
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