The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-30
Summary of News.


GEORGE LANGDoN, employed at the Bran
don electric light plant got his right hand
caught in the crank shaft, neCeSsitating the
amputatiou of two fingers.
o. II. MANNING Of Pittsford, employed by
Smith 4 Randall, wood merchants, on Wick.
wackett Mountain, was struck by suck OF
wood aud killed last week.
Sr. JoHysBURY's post-ofice controversy
has been finally settled for the next ilve
wears. \ renewed lease of the present
quarters has been assured for that period.
The Vermont commission to arrange for
the states representation in the Washing
ton Inauguration centennial met al Bur
lington, last week, and organized by the
election of Ex-Governor j. q. Smith as
chairman and Colonel G. 5. Forbes as sec
rotary,
THE examination of Henry Bent and Bert
Roberts for the murder of Lewis Walder,
December IT, was held Friday. This is the
second preliminary trial the first being for
assault with intent to kill. On the first
charge the prisoners were held in $1,000
each Walder died Thursday, January II.
PATENTS have been issued to Vermont
ers as follows: w. A. Chase, Norris
vile, for an indicator for lamps; w. S.
Davenport, st, Johnshury, concentrated
weighing machine: j. A. Sancier Holland,
planng-machne; f. Il. Smith, Bennington,
mop wringer; Il. f. Tufts, Springfield,
pedals for velocipedes.
EDWARD H. SMITH was seriously, and
perhaps fatally, injured at Montgomery
last Thursday by the fall of a lalge smoke
stack which was being boiSted to the upper
floor of factory. His left ankle was so
badly crushed that it was necessary to
amputate the leg below the knee. His right
leg was broken and head and neck severely
bruised.
THE forward trucks of the engine of
special freight-train, bound north,
broke last Wednesday night just west of
Hartford bridge, the scene of the great dis
aster two years ago, deraiing the train and
dumping the engine and eight cars down an
emhankment. The engineer and fireman
jumped and saved themselves. The track
was quickly cleared and trains but little
delayed
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out early Thurs
day morning in "A barn adjoining Pease's
hotel at Hartford, and the barn, the hotel,
and two houses were burned. Seven horses
in the barn were also burned. The aggregate
loss is estimated at $4,000 covered by
sol, 200 insurance. The hotel will be re-
membered as the place to which the in ured
We're carried at the time of the Hartford
bridge disaster, two years ago. The fire is
supposed to have been of incendiary origin.
JAMES MILLER, prominent and well-to-
do farmer of Charlotte, lost his life by the
accidental discharge of pistol last week.
young man by the name of Sheldon, of
NerPtnntS, WAS NlSlluB MT. MlIltI az MS
home, and Miller was showing him some
weapons that he owned, among them being
self-cOCkng pistol. Mr.. Sheldon took
the weapon and asked if it was loaded, and
received the reply that it was not He
then pulled the trigger in the same position
in which it had been handed him. The
pistol was discharged, the ball entering Mil
ler's right limb at the groin, completely
SCATTERING the bones, death resulting from
the shock to his system.
Domestic.
CHARLES A. b. SHEPARD, of the firm of
Lee x Shepard, is dead
SEVEN sailors were drowned in Massachu-
sets Bay during tile gale of last week Mon
day.
G. l.. RUCKsAMEN, a retired broker, shot
himself in his room in Hoboken, n. j., last
week
Mrs. BENJAMIN HARRISON arrived in New
York last week Thursday night from In
dianapols
A REPUBLICAN member of the Tennessee
legislature was expelled by party vote last
week Thursday.
A HORSE became entangled in an electric
wire torn down by the storm in New York,
last week, and was instantly killed,
Two colored labor agents were lynched
last week in North louisiana for attempt
ing to entice laborers away from planters
lineman, fell to the ground while repairing
a wire, one day last week, and was instantly
killed.
PATRICK KILEY, carpet-weaver, of
Yonkers, n Y, fell from a freight-train at
Poughkeepse, and had both legs cut off.
He will die.
REPRESENTATIVE BURNEs of Missouri was
stricken with paralysis last week Wednes-
day, in the house of representatives, and
died soon after
Two men were killed and two seriously
injured by the premature explosion of a
blast in quarry at Shawmont, Penn last
week Wednesday.
JOSEPH A. Moon, indianapolis agent of
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, is accused of defalcations to the
amount OF S5OO,OOO.
THE boiler of new locomotive on the
Pennsylvania railroad exploded last week
Tuesday, killing Hugh Cannell and njur-
ing William Scott and T. A. Panrey.
Two men were instantly killed, one fatally
burned and three others seriously injured
by an explosion of gas in mining shaft at
Nanticoke, Penn, last week Thursday
SEVERAL persons were injured and one
killed by collision on the elevated rail
road in New York on Thursday of last week
The accident was caused by thick fog.
john ID. CRITCHEIELD, a lawyer of Mt
Vernon, Ohio began a suit against his
mother-in-aw last week Wednesday. He
wishes to recover S100000 damages for the
alleged larceny of his wife's affections.
On Tuesday night of last week burglars
robbed New York store within block oil
police headquarters, after padlocking the
front door on the outside and cleverly di
verting the suspicion of the policeman on
the post.
THERE is a possibility that the electoral
vote of Texas may not be counted, owing tC
the blunder made by the electors in not
afXing their signatures to the envelope
containing the record sent to Washington
They have been summoned to meet ant
rectify the error
JEANETTE PARKER OF Rockport, Mass,
fell from the fifth story into the elevator
well at the Young Women's Christian Asso
citation building, in Boston, and was killed
1t is thought that the door was left opeI
through carelessness. Miss Parker was
twenty years OF age.
a FLY-wHEEL, fourteen feet in diameter
and weighing six tons, in the engine-houst
- of the Northwestern ParlOr Suite Company
in the outskirts of Chicago, burst, with a
terrific crash, wrecking the engine-hOust
and killing the engineer Some OF thu
pieces landed six blocks away.