The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-13
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

was chosen mayor and II. s. Peck (repub-
lican), city Judge.
THE Rogers Slver-ware Manufacturing
Company is looking over the state for de-
srable site for a factory in some town where
they will be exempted from taxation for ten
years.
REV. DIR. CORNELIUS THOMAS, Vermont's
veteran Baptist minister, died at Brandon
March 6, aged eighty-nine years. Dr.
Thomas was pastor of the church in that
place for forty years.
A WALLINGFoRD barber, named Knapp,
was arrested under the new liquor statute
for selling jamaica ginger. Knapp was
building up an extensive trade and bought
the drug by the gallon.
HAROLD FLETCHER, the crack catcher of
Essex Junction, has signed to play with the
Boston league team during the spring
games. The new man stands six feet one
inch, and weighs 207 pounds.
A BURLINGTON policeman, named Suli-
van, has been convicted of ordering and
secreting liquor for a dealer in that COM
modify, whose premises adjoin his own.
He was fined twenty-six dollars.
A NOVEL enterprise, that of raising frogs
for the New York market, is the latest pro-
posed venture of A. w. Barker of Lake
Bomoseen island farm. The projectors of
the scheme expect an enormous revenue
from the industry.
THE chorus which is to sing at Buring-
toms festival in May now numbers over
best that can be obtained in New York and
Boston, and the instrumental music is to be
rendered by an orchestra of twenty-four
pieces.
THE Washington centennial commits
sioners for Vermont have completed ar
rangements for the attendance of the Ma
tional Guard at the New York celebration
on April 30. The commission has secured
tne elegahI ana cohuioul0ns passenger
s.ed,nGt 't Ivy VI hawaenre oi .he Nor
WI i ~. NJ VIC POI a. ~ VI un9
opS iiI,i hoe .'e% 49, i1ondom i 10 Ne" & anu
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and arrangements have been made accord.
inglv. The various commands have volun-
teered their services and the men have
voted to turn over to the ouartermaster-
gene al their per diem allowance for two
days drill and parade authorized by the
governor, eo Inns allowance amounts TO
nearly @a,oVo, IN auulIioh 10 Whlcn tne men ,n
propose 10 lurnlsh thelr own ratlons. Inc
Pehses Oh .ne Trip r,ust De raiseu Dy p4pu-
lai s"o'oi iP'ion' ihe Viip Will occupy lour
Domestic.
sion of his law-ofice in New York city last
Thursday.
M,pv r poor,, Of Now Yorl, u,ho o,os
for many Years editress of Horp,sr,s Bor "','
died Tuesday, March 3,
SrnNEy RARTIErT the oldest and host.
known LAWYER in Boston, died last Wednes.
day at the ape of ninety wears.
H,,nvnr M, WV Nv, vor,, oasbiar
~ oLLANhf, Ne So 40 do,k casiilSi
mno nau eii1 i n ta SI,ooo rom his
Tnasdsv inst after ON ordar Of arrest nrocess
had been served unon him.
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n. uhShNaL =, aiH Ran Eoff, 2rr anu SENATE
lesioenV ". o. oarr, have pegun proceed
ings IN court against governor wilson OF
Mest Virginia; eacli 10 coihPei the surreh-
uer 10 MIN Vi the goNernorship oI the state
FIVE students IN Dartmouth Ooliege nave
been suspended LOT the remainder OF the
college year LOT uisoruerly CONDUCT among
the number Is the pitcher OF the college
nine. Iwenty-one others nave Deeh put on
probation.
DUKE MCLACpttN shot and killed his
young bride, Clara Canadian. aged thirteen
and then shot himself near EselvilIe nj
last week Wednesday. The young couple
had eloped and the girls father was on
their track,
A FRR,cur trsi, 40, tl,o nt;ss;s,;,>; x,,t,o.
railway ,yas ,'nao ~ J' 49, aiiey
n1jIos ehoye V;ntssh'ro, Nj I,.. my
Thm 1n huo'o oriod IniIss', aast week
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u"y anu i"iteu us nlie, nun Wnoin ne was
sep"i aeeu, " 'he uooi, anu, alter asking
nei qG unI snoI an" rr klileu her' anu
; tnGn hi'ieo himself Inc cause was
JoalouSS'
WILLIAM GRIMM was instantly killed at
Az SUn inIt Ia TGm IN Hi .asu weSh Htn-
10y drS Co. ny Ia iais u,Stance VI .iiree
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instantaneous
AN engine hauling train on the Iron
mountain railroad near ST. Louis Mo-,
jumped the track last week Thursday and
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er ft En9 "a ms itss liau W pe
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SIR HENRY PoNsoNBY, private secretary
to Queen victoria, has written as follows to
gentleman IN W ollaston, Mass, who re-
quested Her Malesty's autograph: p" Sir
Henry fonsonDy IL commanded to express
the queen regret that your request can
not he complied with, The immense