The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-26
Summary of News.



torate over the First Baptist church mt Bur
lingtOn on Sunday last.
THE Mssisuuoi Valley Methodist camp
meeting began at Sheldon ON last week
Thursday. 1t will continue week.
THE machinery for one of the new sloe
shops at Burlington has arrived, aud it, is
expected that the shop will be opened in a
few days.
A SECTION Of the temporary bridge at
Swanton fell one day last week, carrying
with it into the river two-horse team with
n man and five boys. All escaped with
bruises.
DIR. HIRAM II. ArwATER Of Burlington
died on Wednesday Of last week lie was
attending physician at the Mary Fletcher
hospital until 1885. lie leaves a widow and
five children.
EX-GovERNoR PINGREE, one of the rail
road commissioners, says that his nspec-
ton of the rOadbedS Of the Vermont rail-
roads has shown him that great improve
ment has been made by the companies dur
ing the past year.
Two more Vermont towns are about to
embark in business. Windsor is TO utilize
Mt. Ascutney for granite qua'rying, and
Newbury has voted to accept an offer TO
stock and run shoe factory II CitiHenS VIII
furnish the building.
A LARGE bronze monument is being
erected by the town of Troy ON the common
in memory of the late Moses Dodge of Troy,
who willed his estate, valued at several
thousand dollars, TO the town 10 be used for
the benefit of the public schools
FRANK M. CILLEY, advertising agent Of
the Central Vermont railroad, reports that
the advertising efforts of the road have
brought very satisfactory results. The
number of summer hoarders can be esti-
mated comparatively at the Boston office,
and it is much larger than it was last year.
THE Jury in the Chauuette murder trial,
,i.tl, haI o. nm a. a
Middlebury, brought in a verdict of murder
in the second degree, on last week Thurs
day evening Exceptions have been filed
by the respondents counsel, and the case
will be taken to the supreme court.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Queen City Park Association was
held at Burlington on last week Wedues-
day, and the old directors were reelected.
The financial condition of the association is
now as good as it was before the hotel was
burned two years ago, and new cottages
are being built.
A MEETING was held on last week Tues
day, at Bennington, of the state board of
underwriters, and the matter Of the charges
published in "A New York paper against the
New York Life Insurance Company was
considered and resolutions adopted express
ing confidence in the solvency of the CON-
pany and its ability to meet all obligations
in full, and recommending every member
of the Vermont association to do all in his
power TO discourage all attacks against
rival companies
AT Bennington on Thursday morning of
last week Officers Silver and HathOrn at
tempted to arrest a pickpocket, when
another crook came to his pals assistance.
The officers turned their attention TO the
second man for an instant, and the first
started to run. Officer Hathorn pulled his
revolver and in shooting at the crook he ac-
cidentally hit bystander, James Leonard,
in the right side. Hathorn gave himself up,
and on being arrested and placed in Jail
with gang of pickpockets, including the
one shot at, was set upon and nearly killed
before he could be released.
THE following is list of the Vermont
fairs for the season of 1891: Addison, Mid
debury, September $40: Bennington Man.
chester Center, September $40; Caledonia
ST. Johnsbury, September $40; Champlaiu
Valley, Burlington, September II; Western
Vermont, Fairhaven. September 222j
Franklin, Sheldon, September OIL; Rut-
land, September 15-lS; Valley, Brattleboro
September 30, October /; Waits River Val
ley, East Corinth, September -; Mad
River Valley, Waitsleld, September -
Windsor Woodstock, September % "a
Chittenden County, September % 80 and
October /; Dog River Valley, Mortified
September -, IL and II.
THFannual meeting of the Vermont So.
ciety Of Sons of the American Revolution
was held at Bennington on last week Tues
These officers were chosen for the year en-
suing: President, General j G.. McCul
Tough of Bennington; VicepIesident, Hon
II. Henry Powers of Morrisville; secretary
Charles S. Forbes of st. Adams; treasurer
NJ. f. Paine of Windsor: registrar, II l.
StillsOn of Bennington; historian, G.. G.
Benedict of Burlington; chaplain. Rev. l.
NJ. Hardy of BuringtOn; delegates to the
IA ional congress, Hon. Redfeld Proctor
and eX Governor William =. Dillingham;
delegate, at-large, General William Wells o
Burlington. Sixteen new members were
admitted.
Domestic.
w. i BRAGG of Alabama, interstate com
merce commissioner, died suddenly a
Spring Lake, n. j., on last week Friday.
KANSAS clergymen at Topeka repudatc,
Rev. De Witt Talmage because he charge,
twenty-five cents "A head to hear him preach
on recent Sunday.
WILLIAM ID. HoLTzMoRrH the fainou
battlefield guide, eX-director of the Gettys
burg Battlefield Memorial Association an,
superintendent of the Soldiers Nationa
Cemetery, died ut Gettysburg on last weel
Friday, from Paralysis.
THE governor of South Carolina reprieve,
man and woman convicted of murder
last week, just AS the ropes were abOu
their necks for hanging. He expected
confession, bur as none came he declare,
that he did not feel satisfied of their guilt
The death sentences We're committed TO lif
Imprisonment.
THE assessors report shows the value q
real estate in Boston to he $3.50 OBS. 375, an,
personal S20l S27 ,739; total, $3.50, OGG ia. a
increase Of S33,0lO0l4 over 1890 The nun
her of male polls is 1872 so, and females 4lC
This is an increase of q 039 over 1890 and
loss of 4,643 " omen. The tax rate is SD 6
per $1,0(0; last years rate was $3.50.
AT half-past twelve o'clock on Saturda
an explosion occurred in a tive-stOry bric
milling NaK grly -,
the immediate collapse of the whole built
ing and the loss of about eighty lives Fir
broke ont, and the scene was one of grea
suffering. A restaurant on the ground foo
was filled with people at the time A grea
many of the bodies taken out were charre
beyond recognition.
The greatest achievement in rifle shoe
ing ever accomplished was the skirmis
run of Captain Robert II. Aiken of Chicago
inspector of rifle practice Of the Sixth Ii
fantry, Illinois National Guard, at the stat
rifle range at Springfield ON last FRIDAY
The skirmish was run under the Unite