The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-09
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

school house at East Bethel.
MRS. MILTON SAWYER OF Norwich slipped
on wet grass and broke a shoulder.
A STREET electric railway for Burlington
is the latest project at the Queen city.
j. BATTELL has been appointed post
master at Bread Loaf, Addison county.
A SON Of Alfred Guile of Concord was
fatally injured while trying to board train.
In Addison county court, last week, di-
Sarah p. Phillips.
The old Chamberlin farm buildings at
Wells River were burned last week, with a
lot of farming tools
MRS. RoxANIA EMERY, one of the oldest
residents of Ludlow, died last week, the re-
suit of breaking her hip.
ELISHA MARsroN, seventy-fve years old,
fell sixteen feet, was taken up unconscious,
and found to be uninjured.
Mrs. EBEN BARNES fell down stairs while
visiting at Martin Pope's in Morrisville, and
received severe internal injuries.
Gilbert 1. CLAFIaN and Stilman Blan-
chard have returned to Braintree from
Minnesota. They think Vermont is good
enough.
CAsTLEToN has been in a state Of terror.
A half dozen incendiary fires have been
started by person who as yet has not been
discovered.
SHERIFF JOHN ROBINSON of Bennington
has bought the Bennington creamery for
S1,725. Less than two years ago the plant
cost $500.
REV. JAMES HERRIcK, for over thirty
seven years an American missionary in
India, died suddenly at his home in West
Brattleboro, last week.
A BRATrLEBoRo dispatch states that Mary
Howe, the famous soprano, and William j.
LAWN, the Detroit tenor, were married at
Cleveland, Ohio last week.
NELSON WHITTIER of Sandgate, sentenced
to eighteen years in state prison for man
slaughter, has been pardoned by Governor
Page. He had served nine years.
john HILL and Lafayette Sprague, Brat
tleboro farmers, were drowned in Lilly
pond, last Saturday. Hill, who went to the
rescue OF Sprague, was seventy years old.
JUDGE AMOS RISING, of Denver, Col,
presiding Judge in the great Barnaby Graves
poisoning case, is a native of Warren, and
cousin of Mrs. Charles f. Beach of Bur-
lington.
Otis HEMENwAY of Proctorsville was run
down by a train while crossing the railroad
track at Gassetts. The engine knocked off
the forward part of his wagon, but Hemen-
way was not hurt.
A MACHINE for cutting lumber without
waste-no sawdust-is being put on the
market. The inventor is Thomas S. Crane,
and the principal owner is DIR. Edward
iDlduiCy a DOys
DIR. w. SEWARD WEBB, proprietor of
Shelburne Farms, was recently blackballed
by the Union Club Of New York, which his
father helped to found. The majority of the
club are incensed by the action.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL STEVE " PNGREE
of Hartford, a well-known and gallant
officer of the old Fourth Vermont, is an
inmate of the Soldiers Home at Benning-
ton, and i'll with cancer OF the throat.
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George HARDWOOD, both of Pownal, in the
Stamford mountain last Saturday, and Niles
is supposed to be fatally wounded. Green
was arrested at his fathers house in East
Pownal and is raving lunatic.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the amount of 81 1856 80
have been received in aid Of a chapel at the
Soldiers Home at Bennington. On the
strength of contributions received the cree
ton OF the structure will be begun in the
spring. At least $1,000 is required
THE dedication Of the new agricultural
and mechanical buildings and the opening
Of the dairy school of the University OF
Vermont took place at Burlington last week
Tuesday. Eminent farmers from all over
the state took part in the exercises.
FIRE which caught in the laundry of the
Bates house at Rutland last Friday did
about $1,000 damage to the building and
81 900 damage to the hotel furnishings
Bardy & Wilson, clothing dealers. carried
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was damaged by smoke, fire and water.
THE gale of last Friday night blew off
the roof of the big grain elevator and the
roof of the Rowell & Corning block, at
Richford. The highway bridge over the
Missisquoi river in Berkshire was blown
into the stream, and barns, fences and
chimneys along the line of the Central Yer
mont railroad were blown down.
A GOOD business is being done by ship
pers in western Vermont in forwarding seed
potatoes to the Bermudas, and other points
in the South, where potatoes for the earliest
markets are grown. The shipment of fine
blooded cattle from Vermont to Costa Rica
is increasing, and there are almost weekly
shipments of American merino sheep to
Australia and other foreign points.
JUDGE WHEELER is to hear at Rutland, on
the 2lst inst, petition by the receiver of
the First National Bank Of st. Adams, ask.
ing leave to sell all the assets of the bank.
A proposition is also pending, made in the
interest of parties claiming many assets of
the bank, to compromise their suits and
adjust their claims by passing over to said
claimants all the assets of the bank, ex-
cepting the retention of sufficient money to
pay first dividend of seven per cent to
the creditors.
The Black River Railroad Company has
elected the following officers: President,
| Adna Brown; vice. president, Charles Ans
mittee, Adna Brown, w. II. Fl. Slack and
George A. Aver; auditors, III. s. Burbank
II. A. Fletcher and Fred Field; directors,
Adna Brown of Springfield, W. H. II.
Slack of Springfield, Don G.. Pollard of
Proctorsville, Trial Russell of Cavendish,
Charles Amsden, e. j. Call and NJ. G. Rob-
inson of Weathersfeld, George II. Stowel
Of Claremont, N. H., and George A. Aver
of St. Adams.
THE fast express south over the Rutland
division of the Central Vermont railroad,
which left Brandon forty minutes behind
time, last Saturday night, encountered an
immense block of marble about two miles
north of Pittsford. The engine broke
through the marble, which weighed about
eight tons, and passed by without wheel
leaving the track No one was injured, but
the passengers were badly shaken up and
frightened. The locomotive was damaged,
and all the air-brake rods broken. The
heavy rainfall had washed out under a
large pile of marble blocks standing near
the track, causing one of them to topple over
on the rails.
| Domestic.
| Tue Reis family of five DarsOns nerished