The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
Summary Of News.


Vermont.
The Bello,rs Falls Times has been sold to
Keene, N. H., parties.
THE Presbyterians of the state hold con-
ference at South Ryegate this week.
THE Fairbanks Scale Company of St.
Johnsbury sent $500 to the Johnstown suf-
ferers.
SENATOR GEORGE f. EDMuNDs and Gem
eral William Wells have gone on months
fishing in the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
THE second annual reunion of the Thir-
teenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, was
held at Cambridge last week Wednesday.
VERMONT postmasters: NJ. d. Grove at
Lincoln, 9. w. Gay at Montgomery, f. ID.
Richardson at Vershire, Ora Bishop at
McIndoe's Falls, Alas p. Roscoe at New
Haven and f. G. Dennison at Pittsford.
JOHN WEIGH, an employee at the Yer
mont Marble Company's mills at West
Rutland, was crushed in the side Friday
morning by a large marble block. He was
hurt internally, and it is feared that the re-
suit will be fatal
MITCHELL AND SoRRELL, the Grand Isle
fishermen, were brought before Judge
Powers in county court, at Middlebury last
week Wednesday, and discharged j. A.
Brown aud ID. J. Foster of Burlington APP
peared for the petitioners.
BENJAMIN f. BINGHAM, principal Of the
n1Hn SClOOl AT bTdIUleDOTO SlnCe 1000, ultU
of apoplexy last week Monday He was
taken i'll in the school-room Friday, but his
condition was not considered dangerous,
and he was expected to resume his duty
Monday, it being the last week of the term.
Hon. VICTOR ATWOOD, prominent hard
ware dealer of St. Adams, died Friday,
aged eighty-two years He was born in
Cambridge and had been in business
continuously for sixty years. He was a
member of the state senate in 1867 and 1874,
had held other positions of trust and was
vestryman of st. Luke's Episcopal church.
REPORTS from all over the state show a
large amount of damage done by recent
storms. At Montgomery more destruction
resulted than has been known for many
years. Six bridges were carried away.
Lambras saw-mill was completely ruined,
and his loss is nearly $1,000. The town it.
self loses nearly 50, 600 on roads and bridges,
while the losses by individual farmers in
the utter destruction of crops will run into
the thousands AT Watervile the fresbet
swept away bridges and washed out the
highways. 1t carried off two bridges in
Belvidere. James Brown had about four
thousand logs in his pond when the boom
gave way and the logs started, and they
are scattered along to Cambridge. Frank
Laraway lost number, how many can not
be told, as the boom lifted and the logs
went under. Lightning struck the belfry
of the old factory, making the splinters fly
in all directions. The sluice-way at the
foot of the Chaffee hill choked up and the
water poured over the road. Allen Mann,
who lives at the foot of the HILL was obliged
to go into the chambers, the water flooding
the lower floors. The bridge below Lara
ways mill was carried away, also the wing
of the covered bridge, besides several small
bridges in town. The rain was accom-
panied by hail, which broke some glass.
The water was the highest known for forty
two years.
Domestic.
FoRTY-oNE houses were burned recently
in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, which was
entirely destroyed seven years ago by
tornado.
THERE was disastrous cave-out in Penn
sylvania coal mines near Wilkesbarre last
week. No lives were lost, but the damage
to property was great.
AT the meeting of the national demo-
cratic committee in New York, last week,
Calvin S. Brice was elected chairman. to
succeed the late William III. Barnum.
AT the republican legislative caucus held
at Concord, N. H., Thursday evening, to
nominate candidate for United States
senator, the voting resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes 1877; necessary for a
choice "a; Gilman Marston, 9; Jacob II.
Gallinger, 60: William K. Chandler, 125.
WHILE four men, engaged in "pillar-rob-
bing," or cutting away the coal supporting
the roof of the nottingham colliery, Ply
mouth, Penn, were eating their dinner, ten
tons of top coal and rock fell on them, in
stantly killing three and fatally njuring
the fourth. The injured man had both
legs and an arm broken.
THE coroner's jury in the Cronin case at
Chicago rendered their verdict last week
Tuesday evening They found that DR..
Cronin was decoyed from his home and
murdered that the body was thrown into
the catch-basin where it was found, and
that the murder was the result of foul and
brutal plot by members of the Clan Gael.
The town of Plainfield, n. H., was the
scene of double murder last week Mon
day night. Lucius Freeman who lived
with his mother, Mrs. Mary freeman, bru-
tally murdered John Morgan, "a quiet and
respectable citizen, who was in bed at the
time, and subsequently his mother, infict-
ing terrible wounds on the neck of each
with an axe. Insanity was the cause.
A DESTRUCTIVE washout occurred at
Holyoke, Mass, last week Tuesday night,
which swept out about one hundred feet of
the solid stone wall on the east of the lower
level canal, demolished twenty or thirty
feet Of the west wing of the Water Power
Company's mill and wrecked a bridge owned
by the Connecticut River railroad AS near
as can be estimated, the loss will be from
$4,000 to 100000.
The coroner's jury in the Cronin case de-
cided to hold Alexander Sullivan and the
three prisoners arrested for completely in
the murder of the doctor. Charles McDon-
aid and John j. Moroney of New York were
arrested by Inspector Byrnes on orders
from Chicago, on charges of completely in the
murder. Both prisoners acknowledge they
are Clan-ne-Gael men. Sullivan has been
released on $4,000 bail
The "Trenton and Vandalia," which
were wrecked at Samoa last March, have
been abandoned by the government, and
their names will be stricken from the navy
list, All the valuables of both vessels, in
Guiding the batteries, have been recovered
and are now en- route to San Francisco on
the steamship Alameda" Admiral Kim
berly and the remaining survivors are on
board and expect to reach this country
about July s.
THE robbery of the First National Bank
of Atchison, Kan, which occurred last
September, was disclosed last week. A
man entered the bank about noon, and tell
ing the cashier, who was alone, that some
one wanted to see him outside, went behind
the counter and helped himself to 1923, 900 in
bonds and money. The matter was kept
quiet, and last March the securities were re-
covered, being handed over in Denver by a
go-between on terms not disclosed.