The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-11
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REUBEN Ross of New York city has given
Internationally to the Rutland free library
$500 in money.
THE convention of the Epworth League
Of Caledonia county will be held at Barton
on the 18th instant.
The annual festival of the Rutland Music
Festival Association will take place in Rut-
land May q, % and 20.
THE February term of the Orleans county
court opened at Newport on last week
Tuesday, Judge Tyler presiding
Hon. HENRY G.. IDE of st. Johnsbury
was recent ly admitted to practice in the
United States supreme court, on motion of
Senator Edmunds.
THE annual convention of the thirteenth
Masonic district of Vermont was held at
Horrisvile on Thursday afternoon and
evening of last week.
AT the annual meeting of the Howe
Scale company at Rutland on last week
Thursday, the usual three per cent semi
annual dividend was voted.
A DEAF mute, the eight-years.old son of
Ezra Doucette, was struck by an express
train at st. Johnsbury on last week Friday
evening. His skull was crushed, and he
can not live.
GOVERNOR PAGE has appointed as fish
commissioners for Vermont, q. G. Warren
Of Waterbury and Dr. II. II. Swift of Pitts
u.
be appointed later.
THE new hospital at the Soldiers Home
at Bennington will be provided with twenty
four beds, and it will be connected with the
main building by corridor Work on the
main building will be begun in the spring.
IT is reported that the Rutland Telegrdn
which is understood to have been in the
hands of the Herald for some time has be-
come consolidated with the Herald, and that
will hn taGn
In the United States circuit court at Brat
tleboro on last week Thursday an order
was entered removing Merritt Sowles as re-
ceiver of the Nationa Union Bank at Swan
ton and appointing Henry NJ Stone in his
place.
JOHN ID. MILLER, well-known throughout
the state as the senior member of the firm
OF Miller ~ Ryan, carriage-makers in ST.
Johnsbury, received severe stroke of
paralysis on last week Tuesday His entire
right side is helpless.
ONE of the trucks of freight car loaded
with granite gave way at North Ferris
burgh last week Wednesday afternoon at
half.past four o'clock, and from that time
until five o'clock the next morning no
trains passed that point
THE suit of the administrators of the es-
tate of Michael Flynn against the Vermont
Marble Company, in which an appeal from
the decision of the county court awarding
$1,000 to the plaintiff was taken. has been
settled Mr.. Flynn was killed while work
ing on building.
AS no appointment to the position of
state geologist was made by Governor Page
during the session of the legislature, Rev
q. W. Perry of Rutland will probably con-
tinue to hold the Office for the next two
years. Mr.. Perry recently secured a silver
gray fox which was caught in Rutland
county. 1t will be a valuable addition to
the state museum
A MEETING of the executive committee
of the Vermont Firemen's Association was
held at Rutland on last week Thursday
when it was voted to hold the next conven-
ton and tournament at Rutland on July 3
and 4. President Drisdae resigned, and f.
E. Perkins was elected president. Prizes
Will be awarded at the tournament as fol-
lows: Hand engines-First, $3.50; second
500; third, $50. Hose race-First, 5000;
second S125; third, $75 Prize drill-Frst,
800; second, $50. Ladder contest-Frst,
Ss5; second Sl5; third, $40.
DIR. d. G. HAwLEY of Burlington had an
exciting experience on Lake Champlain
last week Monday night. He had been
called to Colchester Point by case of ILL
ness. He reached Porter's Point at about
ten O'Clock, and, with two men, started in
good-sized boat for his destination. They
were within five rods of the point when
the ice began to break up and drift north
rapidly away. One oar had been broken
Penned in by the ice and with waves ten
and twelve feet high breaking over them
they drifted for four miles, to slave island
Then they seemed to be in imminent dan.
ger OF being dashed on the rocks If the
point, but when about twenty feet distant
they drifted to the north and passed it,
For three hours more they drifted about,
until they were finally able to land in a
sheltered bay of the island. This was
fire, they looked around and discovered
that they could cross on the ice to Grand
Isle. There they had meal, and a man
then took them to Colchester Point, which
they reached about two o'clock in the after
noon. The family at the lighthouse was
relieved on Friday. The keeper, Mr.. But
ton, his wife and five children were all
found to be sick with the measles, two of
them seriously.
WILLIAM K. ZIMMERMAN, the storekeeper
and agent of the Farmers Alliance supply
store in Spartaburg, N g., is said to be
short in his accounts from 900 to $50 900.
Ten outlaws, who have been defyng the
authorities of Indian Ter it,ry and COM
hitting numerous robberies have been ar
rested. One of them was seriously wounded.
THE majority report of the special com
mittee of the Colorado legislature charges
that that legislature has been assailed by as
corrupt lobby as ever existed, aud specific
attempts al bribery are mentioned.
AN international society for the colonial
ton Of Russian j, WIS has been incorporated
at San Francisco with capital of 81 900
600. The society will purchase tract of
land in California and locate thereon a
colony of Russian Jews, advancing to set
tiers land stock and implements and taking
mortgages on the property with payment at
easy terms.
A YOUNG man named Walter Eaton and
young woman named Maud Lillenthal
arranged an elopement near Pittsburg,
Penn, recently. AS they were about TO
depart in a carriage, the young woman's
mother appeared on the scene. Eaton
Immediately seized her and held her until
the bride had got into the carriage, when
he outrGn the mother and both were off.
The next day they returned and were for
given.
Miss GRACE GRIDLEY of Amboy, ILL.,, has
Just awakened from "a most remarkable and
prolonged trance. AS the result of religious
excitement she went into a comatose con
dition nearly year ago and continued in
that state up to the present time, taking no
food during all that time except little in
liquid form. She has now regained the use
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