The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-14
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

e. II. MCLACHLIN of Westboro, Mass, is
the new principal of the Brattleboro high
school.
The annual regatta of the Lake Cham
plain yacht club took place at Burlington last
week Tuesday.
THE Channel Rock creamery at East
Poultney was burned recently. Loss 5000;
insured for $1,000.
N. NJ. PARKS has been made postmaster
at Waterford, and Mrs. L. j. WILDER at
Lower Waterford.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD son of A. j. Beebe
of Swanton disappeared from home the
other day and has not since been heard
from.
THREE barns belonging to Ebenezer
Brooks were burned at st. Adams Bay last
week Thursday afternoon. Loss $4,000 and
no insurance.
Hon. U. A. WOODBURY. of Burlington and
Charles Stimets of New York have bought
timber lands at Murphy, n. c.. and will
erect saw-mills.
CYRUS ALLEN of Bridport, eighty-one
wears of age. was thrown from wagon last
Friday morning and struck on his head, re-
ceiving fatal injuries.
A. r. PRESCOTT, electrician at Newbury,
has taken the contract to protect the battle
monument at Bennington from lightning.
The monument is 301 feet high.
EDWARD Brown of Dandy Four Corners,
having been away from home few days, re-
turned and found his wife lying dead on
the floor, and a new born babe on the bed
alive.
EMMA PATCH of Cambridge was seriously
injured last week Wednesday by being
thrown from a carriage Miss Patch was
fearfully bruised about the head and Shout
ders and remained unconscious for nearly
an hour.
AARON n. KING ofTunbridge, merchant
of more than thirty years standing and
president of the First National Bank of
Chelsea, was thrown from his carriage last
week Thursday, and, striking upon his head,
was seriously injured.
THE Office of deputy collector and in
spector of customs at Colebrook, n. H,
which is on the northern boundary of the
state, has been re-establshed by the treas
ury department, and John W. Twombly of
Whitetield, n. H., appointed to the office
OF the sixty odd candidates for teachers
certificates in Chittenden county at the re-
cent examinations, all but seven passed,
and there were one or two conditioned In
Rutland county, out of one hundred twenty
seven candidates examined, one hundred
sixteen received certificates.
THE third annual reunion of the First
Artillery, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers,
was held at st, Johnsbury last week Thurs
day. The following officers were elected:
President, d. j. Stafford Morrisville; vice
presidents, j. K. Eldridge, Warren, and j.
G. Jones, Chester; secretary, II. c. II.
Lewis Bellows Falls; treasurer, o. H.
Austin, Barton Landing.
The wife of Captain II. Smith of Chicago
missed several valuable articles from her
handbag while stopping at Brattleboro
hotel last Friday, Mrs. DR.. Maggie Miller
of New York, and temporarily stopping at
Newfane, was suspected and the sheriff
started in pursuit, overtaking her eight
miles from town, en- route to her summer
home. When the articles were found Sc
cd on har Mrg INN nod
from her carriage and fled toward the river.
She was restrained by the sheriff, who per-
mitted her to proceed to her home. No ar
rest has been made, her friends declaring
her insane.
THE Boston Journal is responsible for the
following: " Assistant District-attorney w.
T. jerome Of New York, while fishing in
Lake Champlain, caught muscalonge
longer than his boat whose side the brute
split with flap of his tail. Before the boat
sank Mr.. Jerome inserted the gait in the
creatures gills. This instrument the fish
promptly swallowed, handle and all, and
when the jaws came together two of Mr..
Jerome's fingers were between them. The
fish held on to Mr.. Jerome and Mr.. jerome
held on to the fish. Thus the former was
taken prisoner and the latter rescued from
watery grave"
THE position of the various companies of
the Vermont National Guard in line for
drill and parade at West Randolph encamp-
ment has been arranged as follows: First
division, Company G of Bradford, Com
pany | of Brattleboro; second division
Company Ii of Montpelier, Company Of
st. Adams; third division, Company ID of
st. Johnsbury (colors0 Company A of Rut-
land; fourth division, Company f of North
field, Company of Brandon; fifth division,
Company f of Barre, Company X OF New
port, Company of Richford; First Light
Battery. The ranking of the various com
panies in the First Regiment is in this order:
Bradford, Bennington, st. Johnsbury,
Montpelier, Northtield Brattleboro, Barre,
Rutland, st. Adams, Brandon.
Domestic.
PROFESSOR r. p. STANLEY of Bates Col
lege is dead.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's book has reached
a sale of 10000 copies.
THE Gentiles have gained the political
control of Salt Lake City.
A TREE was cut down at Orting, w. T.,
that measured 80 feet long.
GOVERNOR AMEs of Massachusetts, is
steadily regaining his health.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever in Chicago
has been caused by foul water
THE value of the Columbia River salmon
catch for this season is estimated at 81,
100000.
The large sugar works at Topeka, Kan,
were burned last week Monday. Loss
S250,000
ENOUGH Sioux have signeds the treaty to
open the reservation to settlement to make
the document effective.
A YOUNG barber at Newburg, n. Y, has
been notified by the German consul that lie
has fallen heir to S600,00
THE great coke strike in the Connelsville
Penn, region is ended the demands of the
strikers having been acceded to,
w. X PERRY, an aeronaut, had terrible
fall at Mount Holly, n. c., Thursday even
ing, and was probably fatally hurt.
The table glassware manufacturers of
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are
said to have formed a gigantic trust
PROFESSOR w. Il. HARRIS Of the Concord
School of Philosophy has been appointed
national commissioner of education,
Two men were killed and seventeen
wounded, Friday, two of them fatally, by al
explosion of natural gas at Pittsburg.
A LARGE tract of land has been purchased
near Manchester, n. H. for the establish
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