The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-02
Summary OF News.
NerInont.

THE trial of Calvin M. Inman for murder
will begin October at Rutland.
THE annual state convention of Vermont
Baptists began at Brattleboro on Wednes-
day of last week.
THE third annual fair of the Chttenden
County Agricultural Society was held last
week, beginning Wednesday.
ABOUT $4,000 has been subscribed by
Burlington business men for the new Young
Mems Christian Association building.
THE forty-fourtb annual exhibition of the
Windsor County Agricultural Society was
held at Woodstock last week, beginning
Tuesday.
DANIEL ROBINSON, late president of the
Troy ~ Boston railroad, died last week
Tuesday, at his residence at Bennington
Center, aged seventy-four years
AT the special town meeting in Grand
Isle, last week. there was voted $4,000, in adj
dition to the $4,000 voted last March, to
build bridge from Grand Isle to North
Hero.
WILLIAM JAMESON, a stone mason work.
ing on the st. Johnsbury road, jumped from
a moving express train at West Danville,
last week Thursday, and fell under a car.
One leg was badly injured.
Mrs. ROYAL REMINGTON of Underhill, aged
about fifty, was thrown from blackboard
wagon last week Wednesday and lived but
ten minutes after assistance, reached her,
The horse ran away, and in attempting to
get off Mrs. Remington's head was caught
between the box and the hub OF one wheel.
THE Vermont Brigade monument at Get
tysburg was completed last week by the
placing in position on the summit of the
tluted column the twelve-foot bronze statue
of Brgadier-general Stannard, the com
mander of the brigade whose position the
memorial marks. 1t is the tallest and most
expensive monument on the battlefield.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
Branch of the Womans Board of Missions,
held at Bellows Falls, these officers were
elected: President, Mrs. A. w. Wild,
Charlotte; honorary president, Mrs. Horace
Fairbanks, st; Johnshgry recording secre-
tary, Mrs. G. NJ Stone, ST. Johnsbury; home
secretary, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johns
bury; corresponding secretary, Miss Mary
G. Torrey, Burlington; assistant secretary,
Mrs. John f. Peck, Burlington; treasurer,
Mrs. T. NJ. Howard, st. Johnsbury; as
sistant treasurer, Mrs. G. NJ. Stevens, st.
Johnsbury; auditor, Walter p. Smith, st.
hnsbury. Nice-president for Windham
county, Miss S. e. Clark, West Brattleboro;
for Windsor county, Mrs. S. o. Seaver,
Woodstock; for Union conference, Mrs A.
B. Dascomb, Bellows Falls
Domestic.
NEW MEXICO is anxious to become a state.
MAJOR WILLIAM WARNER has declined the
appointment of commissioner of pensions.
THE constitutional convention of wy
oming has selected Cheyenne as the seat of
government.
A PORTRAIT statue of General Mcclellan
is to be erected on the south front of the
Philadelphia city hall.
AT a meeting of veterans at Belleville,
ILL.,, on Friday of last week, Corporal Tan
ner's name was loudly cheered.
JOSEPH II. PULITZER of the Ne,C York
World will be one of twenty-five to give
100000 to the worlds fair fund
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company
of Kansas has failed being unable to meet
guaranteed interest on Kansas land.
RICHARD P. RoTHwELL of New York has
been appointed special agent on the colec-
ton of gold and silver statistics for the next
census
THIRTEEN violators of the Edmunds law
were sentenced at Provo, Utah, last week.
to terms of imprisonment of from two to
six months.
THE report of the Utah commission says
that the election commission appointed re-
port that 10, 127 votes were cast last Novem-
Der for John I. Game, a Mormon, for dele
gate to congress.
THE governor of Michigan has surrendered
to the United States the unearned lands
granted the state of Michigan by the act of
congress in 1856 for certain railroads in the
upper peninsula.
HE tAplOSlOu Ol IL furnace OF nlOlUen ledu
in one OF Carnegie steel works at BraddOCk,
Penn, on Thursday of last week, perhaps
fatally injured General Manager w. Il.
Jones and several workmen.
THE Central Farmers League was formed
at Worcester, Mass. last week. The or
ganization will work for the election of a
state ticket pledged against the coloring of
oleomargarine to initiate butter.
THE following nominations were made by
Massachusetts rapuhlipapq lact VaJ
nesday: Governor, j. G. A. Brackets lieu
tenant-governor, William H. Halle; secre-
tary of state, Henry b. Pierce; treasurer,
George A. Marden; Encouragement, A. j.
Waterman.
ONE coach of passenger train on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road was
struck by Lake Shore & Pan Handle
freight train, at grade crossing in Chicago,
last week Tuesday. Five persons were
killed. The accident was due to the care
lessness of the freight train engineer.
In a fresh southeasterly breeze and a
heavy sea the much-talked-of race for 81, 900
between yacht fishermen ." Fredonia,"
owned by Commodore j. Malcolm Forbes
and others, and the pilot boat Hesper ."
was sailed last Thursday over forty -mile
course in Massachusetts bay, and resulted
in victory for the Fredona."
The fiftieth birthday of Miss Frances e.
Willard president of the National Woman
brated Saturday night by a huge gathering
in Evanston, Ill. Messages OF congratulation
were received from notables throughout the
country, including the poet Whittier and
ex-President Rutherford b. Hayes.
THE New York republican state conven-
ton, held Wednesday of last week. made
the following nominations; Secretary of
state, John |. Gilbert comptroller, Martin
w. Cook; treasurer, Ira NJ Hodges; at
torney-general, General James NJ. Var
mum; state engineer and surveyor, William
p. Van Rensselaer,; judge of court of APP
peals, a. Haight.
A COLLISION occurred on the New York
Central railroad a mile east of Paatine
bridge, Canajohare, n. Y, Saturday morn
ing, between the first and second sections
of the st. Louis express. The engine of the
first section broke down, and while it was
being repaired the second section ran into it
The eeper Kankakee, on the rear of the first
section, telescoped the one ahead of it and
two others were smashed and thrown from
the track Four persons We're killed and
many injured. The conductor of the first
section sent man back to signal the second
section, but the engineer of the latter did
not see him.