Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-03
ALL OVER THE STATE.
WHAT A WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN THE
WAY OF NEWS.
Brief Items of Interest from Every Corner
of Vermont-Personals.M Mapufactur-
ing Notes, Crimes, Casualties and
Minor Events.


A Chester woman recently dislocated her
shoulder in making her bed
Lieut. H. R. Tyler of Brattleboro and of
the navy, is at Apia, Samoa.
A county temperance mass convention is
to be held at Rutland early next month.
Monday at Irasburgh, Grant Place, aged
10 years, was instantly killed by falling
tree.
NJ. H. Gibson is about to commence
aking brick near Ryegate station, on a
big scale.
w. Starr Cutting, formerly of Brattle-
boro now holps the professorship of modern
language in the University of Dakota.
j. w. Murkand of Boston has taken
contract to build ono or more spool ma
chimes for a Wilimantic, Conn, party.
Hon. Alfred c. Chaplin, Rutland boy,
now mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y, is prostrat-
ed with serious illness at his residence in
that city.
Several persons in Rutland have received
a number of blackmailing letters recently
from two women who seem to be experts in
the business.
The Rev. Dr. McGlynu spoke to a we'll
filled house Thursday night in Rutland on
Glow to Abolish Poverty His lecture
was eloquent
The steam mill of Foster & Jaquiths,
manufacturers of chair stock at Weston,
was burned Sunday. Loss $40, 900; insur-
ance $4,000.
Col. George B. NJ. Harvey a Peacham
boy, is no longer connected with the Jour
nal, Newark N. j., having gone back to
the New York World.
Miss Laura Watson, one of the teachers
in the academy at st. Johnsbury, has issued
a book called cart Topics for the use of
clubs and private study.
Mrs. Brennan of North Walpole, N. H., ,
while going TO Bellows Falls to take dinner
with her sister, Christmas day, was killed
near the depot by switching engine.
The roof of one of G. H. Mobiles cow
stables at Rutland fell through Sunday
morning, crushing valuable yearling colt
to death and badly injuring two others.
There has been no year in the history of
Odd Fellowship in Vermont when there has
been so marked an increase in membership
as there has been during the past year.
Edmund Deschenes, boot and shoe ealer
! St Albans, Vt. who lately failed, with
liabilities of some $4,000, has compro missed
with his creditors at 45 cents on a doll ar
S, L. Griffith is building a mill in the
north part of Peru 30xS4 feet, with an ell
36x36 feet for a clapboard mill. He will
get in quite lot of logs the present winter.
The new town hall at Westminster will be
dedicated January s. This hall has been
erected on the site of the old church, built
in l7i0, and destroyed by lightning June
/ &, 1888.
The slate business on the west side OF
Rutland county is unusually brisk for this
time of the season and allthe mills are work
ing full time. Most of them have orders
ahead.
Father Boissonnault, the popular priest
of the st. Johnsbury Cathalic church, was
presented an elegant English beaver coat
lined with mink fur by his friends Oh
Christmas.
A. j. Markham, the campaign singer who
was recently appointed to government
position ut Washington, is in Vermont on a
few days vacation. He returns to Wash
ington on January 6.
Col. G. w. Hooker of Bratteboro has be
come a special partner in the flour, grair
and feed firm of Minor & Co. of that town
the style Of which has now been changed tC
w. II. & f. s. Minor.
John A. Browns big barn at Albany, anC
90 head of cattle, swine and calves, hay
grain, and farming tools have been burned
Cause of the fire unknown. The insurance
on the property is $1,000.
A farmer who resides in Tinmouth Wen
to Rutland Thursday and sold woman
large roll of butter in the centre of whicl
she found stone wighing half pounC
when she came to use it.
Grayses, manufacturers OF chair stock il
Morrisville, have sold out there and arrang
They will employ about 10 men, and ge
out a car load of stock daily.
The youngest of Philip Dutelle O
Pittsford, Dan Dutelle, was killed on tn
Boston and Albany road December "a b
being struck by a locomotive. He was em
ployed as watchman by the railroad com
pany.
The scaffold is coming down rapid
from the Bennington battle monument, an
the beautiful proportions of that structure
now seen to be a work of art become NOR
and more apparent as the disfguration
, removed.
, Wesley Green of Rutl and, lumber man
| had his right arm crushed Friday, in Chit
tenden, between two logs, which he an
another man We're putting into position t
be sawed. His arm was amputated aboy
the elbow.
5 At the annual meeting of the survivor
of the 2lst New York regiment held a
Gettysburgh on the evening after the ded
- cation of its monument on the battlefield
Rev. ID. h, Lowell d. D., of Rutland wa
elected chaplain.
+ A. j. Fuller of Brandon was waylaid
Q three men on the night of Dec. % on his wa
/ home from Rutland. They took him out {
A the carriage and robbed him of his money
Q amounting TO S12, and his overcoat. Ther
e is no clue to who the men We're.
l Mr.. f. Merrifield of Brookline and hi
D hired man recently cut "A hemlock tire
s measuring five feet at the butt-end, an
after six logs had been cut from it sti
7 measured three feet thr ough. Vermont ha
| some good sized trees we'll as the West
t Judge Fullerton, who has spent considers
$ BILE time at the Hardwick quarry, is enthr
+ siastic over the prospect. The supply seen
(, to be inexhaustible and the quality equal
o any in New England, at least, with IL
n possible exception of the Rhode Island.
The bennington Rifles are making elabo