The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-01
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

4 TOCJOT ldSJ Wtths
BRISTOL has again voted against incorpo-
rating the village.
BURGLARS broke into several stores in Brs-
toll, Wednesday night and secured about
fifty dollars
JOSEPH DERwAY of Burlington lost two
fingers, last week Tuesday, by falling on a
circular saw
LIZZIE McINANy of Fairfield committed
suicide at Hyde Park last Thursday by
taking arsenic.
The wooden factory and blanket mill of
James e. Ashworth at Hartand were
burned recently.
CAPTAIN LAFoUNTAIN' house in Rutland
was damaged to the extent of 5000 by fire
on Monday of last week.
The postmaster-general has appointed e.
b. Williams postmaster at Jericho and Mrs.
Lucinda c. Harrington at South Windham.
JAMES N. HILL of Charlotte, aged fifty,
who was taken to the poor-house recently,
drowned himself in two feet of water few
days ago
CYRUS II. CURTIS of Bradford is restored
to his position as mail agent on the Richford
and Springfield route-a position which he
held for six years under republican admin
istrations
The two-year-old child of Mrs. Anna
Frazier of Castleton was found drowned in
a pool of water fourteen inches deep and
TWO lteU Ill ltuRl1, d SuOTb ulSIduCt lIOul
the house.
THE house and barn of d. c. Barrows at
Vergennes burned Wednesday night. The
property was insured for 81 $50. The barn
of Henry Labouchere, insured for 1888, was
also burned,
EUGENE HALLoCK of Monkton was fined
$40 for seven first offences against the pro-
hibitory law, and Charles Smith $50 for six
first offences of similar nature, the cost
being divided
MICHAEL CONE, aged about forty-five, was
found dead in his bed at Bennington last
week Tuesday. Trouble with his wife gave
rise to a rumor of suicide, but his death was
probably caused by exhaustion from drink.
A SYNDICATE of Vermont and Ohio capt.
talsts has purchased options in the min
eral properties OF six or seven counties in
the northeastern part of Georgia, on the
strength of reported discoveries of lead and
silver, with some gold.
THE store of Mrs. S. NJ. Williams at Lara
bees Point was broken into Wednesday
night, and about $3.50 worth of goods and
money taken The thieves made their way
to the place in a boat and effected an en-
trance through back window.
AS a result of the forced closing of the
Putnam house in Bennington, H. w. Put
nam, the owner of the property, refuses to
have anything to do with the project to
build an opera-house and without his
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A NOVEL method of government has been
introduced into the st. Adams High School.
A congress, consisting of delegates from
each class and the teachers, hears and
judges upon all cases of order, discipline
and general welfare This has been tried
in higher institutions, but rarely in the pub
lie schools
THE proposed testimonial banquet to
Secretary of War Proctor has been aban-
doned, the secretary having telegraphed
Judge Veazey, who was to preside, that it
would be very inconvenient for him to ar
range business matters so as to he present.
He thanks his friends for the proposed
honor, but is forced to decline.
THREE Castonguay boys, who live at the
head of Island Pond, went out fishing
Thursday night. Their boat filled and
overturned when only few rods from the
shore, the occupants being thrown into the
water. One boy, aged eleven years, chung
to the boat and was rescued but the other
two were drowned. The bodies were re.
covered.
MICHAEL MCGRATH, an old Central Yer
mont employe, was killed Wednesday night
in the railroad yard at st. Adams McGrath
was on the front end of the switching en-
CINE, and in crossing from one side to the
other he fell the engine passing over him
and crushing him so badly that he died in
half an hour. He leaves wife and three
children.
The Bennington authorities are meeting
many obstacles in their temperance crusade
Even the sacred precincts of the Jail have
been profaned. large quantity of seized
liquor was left there for safe keeping, and
the astute deputy-sheriff tapped barrel of
gin, drew off the contents, which he dis
tributed in bottles among his friends, and
filled the empty cask with water. The
hotels are still closed.
MARTIN d. COLE, cashier of the Poultney
National Bank, vanished one day last week
1t was at first supposed that Mr.. Cole had
loaded his vaise with the bank funds and
taken the Canada route, but an examina-
ton of his accounts has revealed no dis
crepancies. Mr.. Cole was not an embezzler,
but fled on account of business embarrass-
ments not connected with the affairs of the
bank. In a letter to the president of the
bank he resigns his position as cashier and
says he had not the moral courage to meet
the modification consequent upon the
financial failure of the firm in which he
was nterested-Ainsworth & Cole, slate
dealers He had paid all of his own small
personal liabilities outside of the firms in
debtedness 1t is estimated that the prop
erty OF the slate company is worth $4,000
and the Indebtedness will reach $50 900.
The only loss the National Bank of Poult-
ney will meet with will be the sum repre-
sented by the Ainsworth & Cole paper held
by them. Henry Ruggles has been elected
cashier. The banks correspondents have
been informed of the change, and its bust
ness will go on as usual.
Domestic.
YELLOW FEVER has broken out at Sanford,
Florida.
THE baseball season of the National
League opened Wednesday.
G. |. Brown, keeper in the state prison
at Albany, n. Y, was fatally stabbed last
week by a convict.
PATRICK CARROLL jumped from Brooklyn
bridge, last week, and escaped without
serious injuries.
To encourage the raising of sorghum the
Kansas legislature has exempted all sugar
plants from taxation until 1895.
FOUR prominent Indiana politicians have
been arrested for causing thirteen idiots to
vote the democratic ticket at the late
election.
OLIVER p. LEWIS, young New York
clerk, sent out invitations to his funeral
and then drowned himself in Central Park
reservoir one day last week.
MRS f. M. KIRKHAM, wife of st. Louis
Clergyman, was arrested last week for shop
lifting Twenty dollars worth of stolen
goods were found in her possession