The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-24
Summary OF News.

ganized for another year.
THE Catholic church at Underhill Center
was burned on last week Friday.
REV. ARTHUR e. Cox of Carolina, r. l.,
has been called to the pastorate of the Free
Baptist church at Lyndon Center.
CAPTAIN THOMAS w. WALKER, who died
at Norwich Conn, December ., was at one
time president of Norwich University
THE Brandon Union claims that Thomas
Davenport of that town had telegraph
line in operation there in $780, long before
Professor Morse had made his inventions.
L1EUTENANT-coLoNEL G. b. SToUGHToN
son of the late Henry e. Stoughton of Bel
lows Falls, is under arrest at New York for
exacting an illegal pension fee of 81 900 from
client.
In the case of the state against Norman
Gotta, for assaulting Officer Bates of Yer
gennes with an axe with intent to kill, tried
at Middlebury last week, the jury disagreed
and was discharged.
w. CLARK HENRY of Rochester, car
penter and joiner cut his throat with fatal
result Sunday night. He was forty-five
years old, and leaves wife and four sons.
The cause was dependency.
The first snow blockades of the season
occurred last week. On the Rutland divi.
sion of the Central Vermont the five o'clock
morning train from the South did not reach
Burlington until ~; % in the afternoon.
GRAND COMMANDER w. f. LEWIS of the
Grand Commandery knights Templar of
Vermont has appointed Edward V. Ross of
Rutland grand treasurer, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Frank Ii. Bascom.
Boston dealers in turkeys say the large
importations from Canada do not affect
the price perceptiby. They are certain
that it is not higher on account of the duty
than it would be If there were no importa-
lions.
FRANK WHEELER, living of late in Nor
risville, is just now at Montreal, where he
is held for forging E. l.. Noyes' name to a
$500 draft He is also wanted at Hyde
Park for forging notes to the amount of
800 or so.
Ollie PENDLE, alias Obey Huber, who had
been employed about the premises for three
weeks, stole several articles from the dwell
ing of T. Cady of North Williston, Sunday.
He was arrested at Burlington, and the
articles were recovered.
The Brandon House at Brandon was
burned on Saturday A part of the fur
niture was saved, but many of the guests
lose all their effects. The hotel, which was
owned by John j. Paris, was valued at
1900; insured for S10,500. The house
was built in 1S4S.
THE two hundred SEVENTEEN anniversary
of the landing of the Pilgrims and the COM
memoration of the first centennial of the
Congregational church of Middebury We're
observed in that place on the Dist and 22d
instants. Rev. George n. Weber, DID,,
spoke on the first evening, and on the
second banquet was served.
KILOGRAMS received at Rutland from p.
W. Clement, president of the Rutland Rail
road Company, announce that the Central
Vermont railroad has released the Rutland
railroad for term of years from January /,
1891. The lease is made by the directors of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
who are said to own the road individually
and not as a corporation. The terms of the
lease are not yet known further than the
fact of the lease and the date.
THE third of the series of the farmers
meetings under the direction of the State
Board of Agriculture was held at Irasburgh
on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
d. III. Webster presided, and eXLieutenant-
governor E. p. Cotton delivered the address
of welcome. Professor Cooke spoke on the
dairy, and Hon. William Chaplin on farm
crops The meeting was well attended.
A successful meeting was held at Crafts
bury on Thursday and Friday.
Domestic.
THE Sawtelle murder case was begun at
Dover, n. II last week.
CHARLES F. FOLEY Boston carpenter,
was burned to death Sunday night by fire
which destroyed his shop.
FAVORABLE progress is reported in the
cases WDlCl are Delng treated AT new
Haven, Conn, with DIR. Koch's lymph.
THE city of New Haven voted last week.
amid much excitement, not to furnish free
textbooks to Catholic parochial schools.
JOHN LINDSEY, an old-time stage.driver
and hotel proprietor in New Hampshire,
living at Lancaster, died on last week Fri
day.
A FIRE, involving a loss of one hundred
fifty thousand dollars, occurred at Athol,
Mass, ON Sunday. Two tiremen were
killed.
THE oldest Episcopal church in New York,
at the corner of Thirty-sixth street and Fifth
avenue, was burned last week Wednesday
night.
The Louisiana lottery war has got into
the courts on a suit to compel the secretary
of state to promulgate the vetoed constitu-
tional amendment for action by the people.
AN anarchist named Fritz Beal started
two incendiary fires at Danbury, Conn,
Saturday night and Sunday morning, caus-
ing loss of $4,000. He has been arrested.
THE house of Senator German at Laurel,
Md, was burned on Wednesday morning
OF last week. Mrs. German and her daugh-
ter escaped in their night clothes, and not
a thing was saved.
GEORGE n. CRUISE of Gardner, Mass, sec
rotary of the local Helping Hand Society,
changed an order for Sl5 for one weeks
sickness to $50 for four weeks, lie was
arrested and placed under bail.
THE Idaho Legislature elected Governor
H. Shoupe, w. j. Mcconnell and Fred r.
Dubois Uuited States senators on last week
Thursday. Shoupe's term ends in 1891,
McConnells in 1893 and Dubois in 1897
SUcCI finished his fast of forty-fve days
on Saturday night, and then took a long
sleep. When he awoke, he ate a dinner
which occupied his attention for two hours.
He has gone to Boston to exhibit in a mu-
scum.
A SEVERE snow-storm and gale occurred
throughout the Eastern States, as far south
as North Carolina, on Wednesday and Thurs
day of last week. Much damage was done
to telegraph and telephone wires, and along
the coast to shipping
AT Amigo, Wis, Walter Mosher pleaded
guilty to shooting and killing his brother-in-
law, Phil Maloney, in quarrel about work,
and within forty-eight hours after the crime
was committed he was on his way to the
penitentiary to spend the remainder of his
life.
PRESIDENT POLK of the National Farmers
Alliance has named February 6. 1891, as the
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