The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Summary of News.


neCuOn WIFI inc lTult lalT'
The fifteenth annual convention of the
state Woman's Christian Temperance
Union formally opened in Burlington,
Wednesday.
COLONEL WILLIAM w. THOMPSON of AL
bany, n Y, has been appointed special
pension examiner for the states of Massa-
chusetts and Vermont.
COLONEL A. NJ. DIcKEY, postmaster of
Bradford, has resigned. Harry f. Parker
and Hon. Henry G. McDuffee are mem
toned as his successor.
A DAUGHTER, four years old of Fred Bleau
of Winooski lately swallowed button,
which lodged in the windpipe, and, despite
the efforts of physicians, death resulted.
A MEETING was held at Lyndonville
WEDNESDAY last to organize an agricultural
society and make arrangements for holding
a fair on the Byndonville trottng park the
first Wednesday in October. l., b. Harris
was chosen president; II. p: Davis secre-
tary; Charles Folsom, Joshua Bemis, Charles
ingalls,, c. b. Hubbard and Henry Chase
executive committee. The society is to be
called the Northern Caledonia Fair Asso-
citation. There will be thirteen or more
thoroughbred herds of cattle exhibited, be-
sides large amount of other stock and
horses.
GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM and the committee
of arrangements of the Vermont Gettys-
burg monument commission met at the
Van Ness House Wednesday evening to
perfect arrangements for the coming dedi-
cation of the Vermont monuments on the
field of Gettysburg. 1t was decided TO in
vite President Harrison, NiCe-President
Morton, the members of the cabinet and
General Schofeld commander-in-chefo of
the United States army, to be present. The
exercises at the main state monument will
comprise the presentation of the monument
to the Gettysburg Battlefield association by
,1,n,, of In
same on behalf of the Battlefield associa-
ton, by Judge w. G.. Neazey; address by
Senator George +. Edmunds and poem by
Mrs Julia G. Il. Dorr, to be read by some
good reader, interSpersed with suitable
music. Brief addresses explanatory of the
parts taken in the battle by the different
organizations of the Vermont troops will
also be made at the monuments of the first
Vermont brigade, First Vermont cavalry
and Vermont sharpshooters by members of
the several organizations Excursion tick
cts ranging from SD to SIG apiece, accord
ing to route and distance for the round
trip, from Vermont to Gettysburg and re-
turn will be on sale at nearly all passenger
stations in Vermont.
Domestic.
The first snow of the season fell at New
burgh n. Y, Thursday.
New JERSEY republicans have nominated
General f. Burd Grub for governor
TUEY GwAY YING, the new Chinese am
bassadOr, arrived at San Francisco Thurs
day
SECRETARY TRACY has decided to build
two 5000 ton cruisers in the government
navy yards.
LETTERS of the daughter of the witness
lie Caron say that Cronin was murdered by
British spies.
SECRETARY WINDOW is collecting data
,t,l,
decides to lay one before congress.
ACTING COMMISSIONER STONE of the gen.
eral land Office says he has failed to dis
cover any general system of fraud on the
part of Western settlers.
AN eight-year-old boy named Joseph De-
Burron stabbed with pocketknife and
killed Herrick Lopes, aged thirteen, in a
quarrel at Wareham, Mass, Thursday.
THE body of Mary Ann Kenney was
found in chimney fiue at New York, last
Wednesday. 1t is thought she was trying
to hide, imagining that a creditor was
searching for her.
THE site for the worlds fair at New York
has been chosen. 1t includes the northern
end of Central park and a strip extending
about midway up Morningside park COM
prising about 425 acres.
Mrs. EVA HAMILTON was on Thursday
found guilty of assault on the nurse, Mary
Imprisonment. She fell in swoon when
the verdict was announced
THE engineer, fireman and a colored
train hand were burned and parbOiled be-
yond recognition in a wreck on the Column
bus railroad in Georgia, Wednesday, A
frog was Intentionally blocked.
THE secretary of war has decided to ac-
cept the offer of the Indian rights assOcia-
ton to purchase a tract of land in North
limo for ,ni5 .Nf To
now confined at Mount Vernon barracks.
THE state department is lending its assist
ance to the navy department in collecting
the national and patriotic songs of the ma
tons, which are being compiled by John
Philip Sousa, the director of the Marine
band at Washington.
THE cruiser Chicago" finished her
speed trials Wednesday, and made the
slowest speed of any of her trials-four and
one-half knots an hour for one mile. The
weather conditions were good, the wind
light and the sea calm.
The statement that the president was
guarded by detectives when leaving Wash
ington, week ago Saturday, is denied by
President Harrison. He said he never
travelled more unattended and that instead
OF protecting himself from the Grand Army
of the Republic, he would turn to them for
guard if he ever needed one.
The directors of the Concord & Montreal
railroad corporation met at Concord Thurs
day. The agreement for union between
the Concord and the Boston, Concord &
Montreal railroads, executed in accord
ance with the vote of the stockholders, was
read and copy spread upon the records of
the meeting b. A. Kimball, j. II. Pearson,
W. NJ. Parker, g. A, Bussel and l.. G..
Pattee were appointed a committee to draft
code of bylaws to be submitted at an adj
journed meeting to be held next Thursday.
Foreign.
SILAs DENsMoRE and wife of Nashville,
Ind, are supposed to have committed sui
eide at Windsor, Ont.
ADvICEs from Tangier say that the Moors
have issued proclamation at Tetuan warn
ing the natives not to harm Christians on
pain OF death.
THE London dock and wharf trust COM
mittee have resolved to ask Parliament to
authorize the formation of a trust that will
absorb all existing dock and wharf interests
MAJOR FIELD, formerly secretary of the
British American Mortgage company, was
sentenced at London on Thursday to twelve
years imprisonment at hard labor for forg-
ing coupons OF the company.
THE province of Xii, in the southwestern
part of Japan, has been visited by the great.