The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-13
Summary of News.
Vermont.

JAMES LEoNARD's house, near North Ben
nngton was burned recently, and with it
800 bushels of potatoes.
MORE than 500 accidents have occurred in
the numbering districts of Vermont since
snow came, few resulting fatally.
TwENTY.THREE members of the Rutland
Shakespeare Club went to Boston last week
Thursday to see " Hamlet" played.
CENTRAL VERMONT officials have been at
Hartford to select site for large ice-house
which the company intends to build, TO hold
5000 cords.
JUDGE w. G.. VEAzEY will supply the
place of Judge Powers at the Bennington
county supreme court, the latter being un-
able to attend.
Mrs. ROBERT GILLIs of South Barton has
a pulet six months old which has laid
three eggs that measured six and one-fourth
by seven and three -fourths inches each
THE following patents were issued to
Vermonters February .: To George Cooper,
Bennington, for circular knitting-maChine
to A. f. Moore, st. Adams, for a spittoon.
THE commissioners on the new insane
asylum held their final meeting at Water
bury last week Thursday and decided, by
vote of four to one, to locate the institution
in that place.
DIR. w. SEWARD WEBB has purchased five
farms in Shelburn adjoining his property
Shelburn farms The prices paid aggregate
100000 and the average price per acre is
between $50 and 5000.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the board
of the Vermont Baptist state convention in
Rutland Tuesday, February 3, sums were
appropriated to churches in need of assist
ance varying from $50 to $500.
THE business men of Springfield have or
ganized commercial protective union for
protection against customers who run bills
as long as they can at one store and then,
without settling, go to another place to re-
peat the game.
GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM has issued an
order granting permission to military or
CARNATIONS of other states to pass through
Vermont enroute and returning from the
presidential Inauguration at Washington
and the centennial celebration of the in
auguraton of Washington in New York.
A SCHOOL district in Westminster West
has a present population of 49, There are
more persons in the district over eighty
years old than there are children under five
years, more over seventy years than chill
dren under ten years, and as many over
sixty years as there are young people I'M
der twenty years.
THE New England association of alumni
and past cadets of Norwich University of
Mortified held a reunion and dinner at
the Quincy house, Boston, Tuesday. Feb
ruary D. and elected the following officers;
President, DR.. Joseph Stedman of Jamaica
Plain; vice-presidents, Colonel G. II. Louis,
Colonel II. o. Kent, Colonel Thomas Clark,
Hon. Samuel Cross, Edgar Parker seCre-
tary, Professor n. Louis Sheldon; treasurer,
George ID. Thomas.
Domestic.
CAKES AMEs, a cousin of the governor of
Massachusetts, has eloped with a pretty
postmistress.
BLAINE of Maine has engaged a house in
Washington suitable for his position as
secretary Of state.
IT is announced that President Cleveland
will return to the practice of law in New
York city after March 1.
COLONEL WALKER, Governor Lees private
secretary, shot himself in the capitol at
Richmond last week Thursday.
SEVENTEEN loggers were drowned in Full
ton county, New York, last week Tuesday,
while drawing logs across the ice.
A CHICAGO newspaper man shot his wife
through the head and then performed a
similar Office for himself one day last week.
THE secretary of war has awarded the
contract for the construction of seven dyna-
mite guns to a New York company for
1885,, 800
CoNsUL-GENERAL SEwALL has been sum
marily dismissed from his position in Samoa
because he did not agree with Secretary
Bayard's policy.
AN entire family of five persons was
drowned Sunday, February 3, at Bismarck,
Dakota, by breaking through the ice while
crossing the Missouri river.
Two reporters OF Birmingham, Ala, fol-
lowed a supposed eyewitness of the famous
Hawes' murders two thousand miles, Sc
curing his arrest at Middleton, Tenn.
SECRETARY BAYARD has accepted Prince
Bismarck's proposition to resume the con
ference in Samoan affairs between England,
Germany and the United States at Berlin
WHILE James Reagan and John McCor-
mick, both intoxicated, were staggering,
arm in arm, along the Shore Line road near
New Haven, Conn, last week Monday,
they were struck by train and killed.
A HEAVY wind at Omaha, Neb., last week
Monday blew down a portion of the Max
Meyer building, which was recently dam
aged by fire. Two adjoining buildings were
crushed by the heavy wall in its fall and six
persons were killed. Many others received
serious injuries.
GEORGE HEIDEL, young Indiana farmer,
attempted to brighten an old negro by mas
querading as ghost and appearing to him
on his way home The negro carried an axe,
and in his fright struck the supposed APP
partition terrific blow, splitting Heidel's
head open down to the shoulders.
LEO WILEY, an inmate of the Baltimore
insane asylum escaped last week Tuesday
and rushed through the streets, slashing at
every one he met with large sheath-knife.
He killed Francis Valentine, an aged fruit
dealer, and injured others before he was
overpowered and returned to the asylum.
THE great strike of New York street-car
employees was officially declared "off " by
the executive board of the Knights of Labor
on Tuesday night of last week. The strike
lasted seven days and cost the companies
100000 The loss in wages to the strikers
amounted to 100000. Scenes of violence
and conflicts between the police and the
mob We're frequent, but the only fatality
occurred on the last day, when James Nc
Gowan, who was hurting stones at a Boule-
ward car, was shot through the head by a
policeman.
Foreign.
THE German consul at Samoa is to be re-
moved for having exceeded his instructions.
THE New York Herah began on Saturday,
February 3 the publication of London
edition.
THE Panama Canal Company dissolved
last week Monday. A new company is
soon to be formed
KING HUMBERT has signed decree au-
thorizing the foundation of national mu-
scum of antiquities at Rome.
IT is reported that General Boulanger
has applied to the pope for divorce on the
hail te ia