The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-24
Summary Of News.


BRANDON is to be lighted by electricity.
JUDGE ADDISON SMITH of Addison county
is dead
CHARLES L. WARD of Cavendish has been
granted patent on door-fastener.
Hon HENRY c. FISK of Morrstown has
been appointed consul at st. Johns,
Quebec.
A ROCHESTER fisherman recently paid
$50 for catching six trout less than six inches
in length.
DRs. CHARLES NEwCoMB and II. A. Lee
have been appointed pension examiners at
Wells River.
mission to the Medical College at Burling-
ton in the next class.
AT recent birthday celebration in Fair
Haven thirteen persons were present whose
ages aggregated ,013 years.
A FIRE at Mddletown Springs July &c.
consumed the Keefe block and A. Thomp-
sons dwelling. Loss $4,000.
Chilly PEAsE escaped from the Jail at
Bennington, Sunday night, where he was
confined on charge of burglary.
JOHN BEFoUR mistook muriatic acid for
ice-water in st. Johnsbury store and drank
little. His condition is critical
Hon HENRY BALLARD of Burlington is
to deliver the address at the Orange county
reunion, August 15-the second day.
DR.. HosKINs Of Newport has about twenty
acres devoted to choice varieties of beans,
which he is growing for seed-deaers.
JERRY REAGAN, an employe at Freedley's
quarry, East Dorset, fell about twenty-five
feet, Friday, and was instantly killed.
AT Essex Mr.. Austin, a young horse
trainer while training horse at G. NJ
Rouse'S had both bones OF his right arm
broken.
The body of a man, supposed to be that
Of John Carton Of Westmoreland, has been
found floating in the Connecticut at Brat
tleboro.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD son of Eugene Smith
of Fair Haven, visiting in Hampton, n. Y,
had the top of his head blown off while
fooling with gun
PREMIUM LISTS for the state fair have been
issued, and are now ready for general dis
tribution by the secretary, G. w. Brownell,
Jr, Burlington, vt.
A BOY named Keefe, living in Williston,
died recently from the effects of paralytic
shock caused by diving into the river when
his blood was heated.
HIRAM III. HARRINGTON of South Burling-
ton committed suicide, last week, by hang
ing. He had been suffering for some time
past with nervous trouble.
In Burlington during June there were
fifteen marriages, thirty-fve births and
eighteen deaths. No two deaths are re-
ported from the same cause.
THE S. w. Hindes Camp, Sons of Veterans,
Hyde Park, are in receipt Of a nice flag
presented it by S. w. Hindes of that place,
after whom the camp was named.
THE Lamoille Valley Veteran Associa-
ton will hold its reunion August 10 and IA
at Morrisville. Governor Dillingham; will
deliver the address on the second day.
Mr.. ERAsTUs BALDWIN, ST., one of the
wealthiest men in Vermont and a man
well known, died last week Tuesday night
Of Bright's disease, at his home in Wells
River.
The Olcott Falls Paper Company, manu-
facturers of paper and pulp, have bought Of
st. Johnsbury parties 1900 acres of land at
Victory, with 100000 feet of logs ready for
manufacture, for 100000.
The William Rogers Cutlery Company of
Hartford, Conn, that wanted to go to
Brattleboro, has decided to locate in Nor
witch, Conn, the Board OF Trade of that
place having raised $4,000.
TIMOTHY CHEEDLE, who is sixty years
old, and Mary Chaplin, sixteen years old,
daughter OF George Chaplin, residents Of
North Chittenden, went to Granville,
n. Y, July a. and were married.
HENRY HoEY, young man from Rut-
land, aged twenty-five, while bathing in an
eddy among the falls at Bellows Falls, Sun
day, was drawn into the current and down
through to Rocky Gorge and drowned.
SELECTMAN NJ. l.. THOMAS Of Rutland
was attacked by bull, last week, receiving
severe if not dangerous injuries He was
leading the animal to Pittsford when the
brute, without the slightest warning, at
tackled him.
THE total appropriations made by the
state for monuments, grounds and expenses
to commemorate Vermont valor at Gettys-
burg amount to 1880, in addition to
which sum contributions aggregating 81 :
1880 have been made by citizens Of the
state to the monument fund.
ADJUTANT LILLIs OF Brattleboro, acting
under orders from Colonel j. j. Estey has
sent out orders to the commissioned officers
OF the state militia inquiring the date OF
enlistment Of all members and the dates Of