The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-03
Summary OF News.


THE Champlain Valley Teachers Edu-
cational council met at Burlington on Sat
urday Several subjects were discussed
THE steam saw-mll of Slayton Brothers
at Cambridge, with 100000 feet of lumber,
was consumed by fire last week Thursday
evening.
A STATE lawn tennis association was
formed at Burlington on Saturday, and it
was voted to hold a tournament at Rut-
land on or about August 10.
THE Rutland music festival, on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday of last week
was very successful in every way. The
audiences were the largest ever seen in Rut-
land.
A BEVERLY Mass, shoe firm is to locate
at Burlington as soon as shop can be
erected. The building will be forty by 1870
| feet in dimensions, and will be two stories
high.
COLONEL G. d. ABELL, editor of the Rut-
! land Monitor, resigned last week and re-
/ turned to Albany. The paper suspended
publication one day, but is now issued as
| usual.
GENERAL b. b. EGGLEsToN, grand
nephew of Ethan Allen, has just died at
| Wichita, Kan. He was the war governor
of Georgia and was an ex-governor of Mis-
sssippi.
PHILIP BEDARD was found guilty of rape
| by the Chittenden county court on last
week Friday. The case had been on trial
| about ten days. Two accomplices of Bedard
are to be tried
HUGH r. HUGHES was working in williams
& Edwards slate quarry at Poutney on last
week Tuesday, when stone fell from the
| top of the quarry and struck him on the
back, disocating his spinal column.
AS a result of the competitive examina-
| ton for the appointment to a West Point
| cadetship from the First district, NJ p.
Maurice of Waterville has been appointed,
with James w. ellison of St. Adams as
second choice.
MRS. FARNUM THOMPSON, over seventy
years of age, of Richmond, attempted to
commit suicide by hanging, on last week
Monday. She had first cut her throat with
a razor but did not cut the large artery
She had been out of her head.
A HOG train was derailed on the Central
| Vermont road about a mile north of Lud-
| low station last week Monday, delaying
traffic on the road the remainder of the day
| The cause of accident is supposed to have
been broken wheel. About seventy hogs
were killed.
PROBABLY the first prosecution under the
state law prohibiting catching or having in
possession trout less than six inches long
was made on last week Tuesday, on COM
plant of the Vermont Fish and Game
League, against a lad at West Brattleboro,
who paid a fine OF S12.
dropped its wool rates from Chicago to Bos-
ton to forty-two cents per hundred pounds.
The road also reduced its flour and sixth
class rates from twenty-five to twenty-five
and one-half cents to Boston and New En-
gland points from Milwaukee.
THE treasury department has announced
the decision of the United States circuit
court for the district of Vermont, everything
the decision of the board of general apprais-
ers in the case of Matthews q Hickok in
volvng the classification of white pine
lumber imported from Canada.
The Memorial day exercises at the Sol
diers Home at Bennington were very inter-
esting. The veterans, forty-two in number,
marched to the cemetery and placed bou-
quets and wreaths on the six graves Major
Coffey and Rev. Charles Seymour made adj
dresses, and quartette sang selections
UNDER instructions from State Inspector
of Finance l.. o. Greene, States Attorney
Hit of Brattlebore had John O'Brien, a
representative of the firm of W. j. Hayes
& Sons, bankers and bond dealers of Bos-
ton arrested for noncompliance with the
state law in regard to the filing of a bond
with the state treasurer as guaranty that
they will report the business done and pay
the corporation tax. He was admitted to
bail in the sum of 81 200
FOLLOWING is the order of exercises at the
Randolph Normal school June IA to 49,
Sunday evening, eight o'clock, sermon be-
fore the graduating classes Rev. Rufus c.
Flagg; Wednesday evening, eight o'clock
meeting Of the alumni association; lecture
by Nj. Winslow Farman; Thursday fore.
noon, oral examinations; afternoon, three
o'clock, class day exercises; evening, eight
o'clock, the Il exhibition. Friday forenoon
ten o'clock, graduation. The next term be.
gins August 20.
YEARS ago Abel Carpenter lived in Ign.
don and was the father of a large family oil
| Lgrro aud rrirls nrl
penter, when about tweuty-one years Of age
went to California and in partnership with
one G. X. Bailey became rich. Some years
ago he died and willed his property to his
partners children. When his relatives in
Caledonia county heard of the will they
began efforts to break it. That was foul
years ago. They have just learned that a
decision has been given in their favor, and
they thus get $4,000.
A DISPATCH from New Haven, Conn,
says: The New London Northern rail.
road has been neatly outwitted by Presi.
dent Townsend of the Yale navy. 1t was
understood by the local officials of the New
London road that seats were to be furnished
at the Yae-Harvard race at 50 EACH but
President Townsend went last week to in
terview President Smith Of the Central Yer.
mont road the lessee OF the New Lon.
don road. He contracted to furnish the
seats for $780, probably having no knowl.
edge of the advance proposed by officials at
this end"
In the United States court at Windsor
last week, John Lamere of Lyndonville was
fined $50 for violating the postal laws.
Hiram Cartwright of Derby, for violation
of the internal revenue:laws, was sentenced
to term of six months in Jail and to pay
fine of 500. He kept line saloon" and
sold liquor without a license from either
the United States or Canada. Frank b
Carr of Lyndonville was fined S25 for vic.
lating the postal laws. In the case OF
Charles w. Barnes the Illicit distiler OF
Cornth, the respondent was found guilty
and sentenced to Imprisonment at Rutland
for six months and TO pay fine of 500
In the case of Charles Rumrll of Brook
field. the respondent pleaded guilty to using
the United States mails to defame Lizzie
Cameron of West Randolph. He was fined
S25, which with costs amounted to $50
Rumrill owed Mrs. Cameron sum OF
money. In the presence of witnesses he
swore that he put it into letter addressed
to her, and afterwards took 1t out He swore
to several persons that he sent the money
but Mrs. Cameron also had witnesses &c
swear that she did not receive it,
GOVERNOR PAGE and the members of the
Vermont centennial commission and the