The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-14
Summary OF News.
Vermont.


a considerable extent in Rutland
A TEACHERS institute for Rutland county
will be held at Fairhaven the last week in
January.
THE Dixon house at Underhil was
burned on Sunday morning, causing loss
of $4,000.
HENRY EMERY lost an arm while coupling
cars in the Cheshire freight yard at Bellows
Falls on last week Wednesday.
GEORGE e. DAVIS has written Senator
Edmuuds Withdrawing his name as can
didate for the Burlington post-oiiice.
THE public schools in Poultney have
started savings bank system with deposits
in the Marble Savings Bank at Rutland.
The firm of A. Drysdale & Son of Ben
ningtOn has failed for about $4,000. Civ
ing too much credit was one cause of the
failure.
THE first meeting of the Vermont Asso-
citation of Manchester, n. H., was held on
last week Tuesday evening Musical and
other exercises occurred.
THE State Board of Agriculture met at
Norrisville last week, beginning on Tues
day Judge Powers and Ex-Governor Hen
dee spoke on Wednesday.
Mrs. MARTHA NJ. BRowNELL, mother of
Secretary of State Brownell died on the 9th
instant at her home in Williston. The
funeral occurred on last week Wednesday.
THE Deerfeld Valley Shoe Company of
Nottingham has failed, with Liabilities of
$4,000. The failure was caused by the
failure of two large firms which handled its
products.
MEETING of the State Board of Agricul-
ture will be held at Fairhaven Wednesday
and Thursday, February 4 and 3. The
board met at Jeffersonville on Thursday
and Friday.
The annual Advent Christian Confer
ence of Canada, northern Vermont and
I. e..
Troy on last week Tuesday and continued
through the week.
Mrs POLLY w. ORMsBEE mother of ex-
Governor Ormsbee of Brandon, died on
Friday morning of last week at the resi-
dence of her daughter in Ticonderoga, n, Y,
aged eighly-three years.
The annual meeting of the Addison
County Agricultural Society was held at
Mddlebury on last week Thursday. The
treasurer's report showed a deficit of S67.25.
1t was voted that the next fair be held on
September /, and
TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, druggist, and Ladd
& Minis of the Commercial House of Bel
lows Falls, were on Saturday brought be-
fore Justice Sherman of Brattleboro by
States Attorney Hit and fined $50 and
$3.50 respectively for selling liquor
AT the meeting of the Chittenden county
branch of the Farmers League at Essex
Junction last week goodly number of
farmers of the county were present. At the
forenoon session committees were APP
pointed, and in the afternoon Hon. C. f.
Clough of Waterbury, L. Sallies of Stowe,
o. e. Stone of Charlotte, ID. A. Gray of
Waterbury and others addressed the meet
ing.
ALBERT DRAKE, son of Robert j. Humph-
rey, editor of the POultnev Journal, died on
last week Monday morning, aged nineteen
years. He had suffered several months
from consumption and went to New York
in December with the hope of getting relief
from Dr. Koch's remedy, but the physicians
declined to apply the lymph, because of the
advanced stage of the disease.
DIR. NORM and Commissioner Williams
went to Highgate on Saturday to investi-
gate the alleged trouble among the cows of
j. b, Sapderson, it having been reported
to them thaJ seven OF the COWS were "in
dying CONDITION with pleuro pneumona."
DIR. NORM examined the cattle carefully
and found them in perfect health, and OF
course the commissioners refused to shoot
them at the expense OF the state.
THE American and Adams express COM
panies have come to an understanding by
which the former is to do most of the New
England business north of the Boston q
Albany railroad, while the Adams will at
tend TO that south of the line Formerly
goods from the eastern part of Vermont for
points reached only by the Adams company
paid two charges, but according to the new
arrangement they will be billed through at
enc rate,
4 MIXED train on the Ogdensburg & Lake
Champain railway broke apart on The steep
grade at North Concord last week Wednes-
day night, and four freight cars and one
passenger car went twelve miles to ST.
Johnsbury at frghtful speed. When the
St. Johnsbury depot was reached the train
dashed into the loaded freight cars with a
terrible crash, making kindling wood OF
everything, The passengers jumped from
the train at North Concord, leaving the
runaway train with nobody on board. The
train had to cross the highway at least a
dozen times in its trip. The damage will
be several thousand dollars
A LITTLE girl named Mary l.. Eddy,
daughter of the late DR.. William Eddy of
Chester, attempted to commit suicide at the
home of Hon. j. l.. Martin at Brattleboro,
on Sunday afternoon The girl, who is but
about fourteen years of age, had been de-
tected in stealing articles, and fearing that
she would be sent to the reform school, she
shot herself with a revolver, which she
found in the house. While the family were
entertaining callers in the parlor, they were
startled by the report of pistol in an adj
joining room, where the girl was found
holding a smoking revolver and her dress
was burning. The ball, which she declared
was intended for her heart, had made an
ugly wound just above the knee.
A HEAVY storm occurred on Monday along
the New England coast.
THE funeral of Emma Abbott, the singer
took place on last week Friday. The body
will be Cremated.
THE window glass trust has collapsed.
1t is also reported that the harvester trust
will be abandoned.
THE census bureau has issued bulletin
which shows that the total Indian popula-
ton in the United States is pa ,70i
The Crawford house in Boston was dam
aged by fire to the extent of several thou
sand dollars on last week Friday morning.
One of the Indians connected with the
murder of a freighter named Coles in Wash
ington state was lynched last week, and
fears of an uprising are entertained
MRS EDGAR BEcKMAN of South Seabrook,
Mass, stabbed her husband with butcher
knife on last week Tuesday, causing instant
DEATH They had had dispute about
bringing in fre-wood
THE president has approved General
Miles suggestion that Standing Rock, Rose