The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-04
Summary Of News.


old on the 10th inst
The shop Of George e. Brown at Bradford
was burned Monday evening.
A DEER was seen recently within the COR
poraton limits Of Bennington.
THE melting snow of last week caused
the loss of three bridges at Jamaica.
DIR. BENJAMIN o. BARRETT of Pownal is
under arrest, charged with malpractice.
THE secretary of the treasury has decided
to make Island Pond quarantine station
for cattle coming from Canada into Yer
mont.
The sum of S25. 600 has been subscribed
for the new paper mill at Wells River. The
mill will be erected as soon as $4,000 is
secured.
The thirty-eighth annual course of lee
lures in the medical department of the
University of Vermont began on last week
Thursday. There is larger class than
ever before.
AT special town meeting at Lyndonville
recently it was voted that Wilder Co.
pay tax on $4,000, any excess to be abated
for five years, on condition that certain i'm
provements are made on their mill property.
WILLIAM SAWYER and Mrs. John Rich
were arrested at Bellows Falls on last week
Wednesday for adultery. They had been
living together five years and have five
children. The woman's husband instigated
the suit.
A FLAG was raised over the Vergennes
graded school on last week Monday, in the
presence of about 500 people, including
veterans sons of veterans and pupils. The
flag was the gift of j. r. b. wilkins of Fer
rsburgh.
A THIRD attempt at Jail breaking was
made at Newfane on last week Friday.
Three prisoners dug a hole into the Chin
ney flue, but were discovered before they
could get outside. The Jail has been twice
condemned by the grand jury.
MRS LAURA CUTLER GOULD CAswELL,
who gained so much unenviable notoriety
by her marriage with j. Sherman CaSwell
on the eve of his sentence to state prison
for life, for the murder of George Gould,
her husband, has filed petition for divorce.
THE young son of Colonel j. j. Estey of
Brattleboro who was injured by an eXplo-
sion of powder about year ago has de-
veloped curious difficulty in one of his
knees, which is traced to the accident He
and his father have recently been in New
York in consultation with surgeons
JOHN STORY and his sixteen-y ears.od
daughter Ada, of Essex, were drowned in
attempting to cross Browns river last week
Wednesday afternoon. The bodies were
found on Friday ahont fifteen rods below
the point at which the stream caught them.
The road at this place is exposed to the cur
rent, and there is much complaint about it,
In the Louis Henri Mineau case, United
States Commissioner George f. Johnson
gave decision at Burlington on last week
Tuesday, holding Mineau for extradition.
Further proceedings were stayed pending
an application for an appeal to the United
States supreme court in the habeas corpus
proceedings, and on Wednesday the appeal
was granted.
VERMONT ACADEMY has much sickness
this term and much absence on that account.
The coming spring the farm presented the
academy by Lieutenant. Governor Fuller
will be put in shape for nse, An oppor-
Unity will be given the students to earn a
portion of their way by work on the farm,
A new library is to be built soon, and other
extensive improvements are contemplated.
THE case of II. p. Kellogg of Chicago
against DR.. e. NJ. Pond of Rutland for al
legged malpractice on a broken limb, was
called in the United States circuit court at
Burlington on last week Wednesday. Coun-
se for the plaintiff asked for an entry of
non-suit, as they had learned that medical
evidence was against them but the defence
objected, and judgment for the defendant
was made.
THE Windsor National bank went into
voluntary liquidation on last week Tues
day on account of heavy losses on western
investments. The depositors will be paid
in full and the stockholders will probably
receive fifty per cent on the present capital,
which is $4,000. The cashier Of the bank,
J. S. Warden made several large invest
ments in mortgages in Texas and Kansas,
by which the bank suffered heavy losses.
COLONEL II. o. BIXBY of the Vermont di-
vision, Sons of Veterans, has issued gem
eral orders in which he announces among
other things that w. E. Terrill of Camp No.
No. 7 at Underhill has been appointed
mastering officer with tile rank of first
lieutenant The division account shows
balance Of STOPS in the treasury, and the
camp account balance of 81 $500. There
are now in the state AS camps and 1862 mem
bers.
THE school for officers of the National
Guard of Vermont began at Brattleboro on
last week Tuesday morning, General Green
leaf presiding. He made "A short address in
which he urged company commanders to
get their companies into good shape for the
Bennington celebration Lieutenant Foster
of the Twelfth United States Infantry read
paper on the new tactics and gave eXpla-
nations with the assistance of a squad of
eight captains In the afternoon Captain
Childs read paper on instruction in guard
duty All the officers were drilled in the
new tactics by Lieutenant Foster. In the
absence of Major Watson, who was kept
at home by illness, Captain Mmms gave
his paper on "a plan'or armory instruc-
ton" Captain Mimms pointed out the prac-
tiCal way of getting the best results in ar
mory drill and discipline The session of
Wednesday began at ten O'Clock i'll the
morning, when Major JENNIE, surgeon of
Hygiene and Diet" After this paper there
was general discussion of the morale of
the National Guard, and it was generally
agreed that greater effort should be made
to improve it, A sentiment was expressed
in favor of reducing the term of enlistment
TO three years, Tuesday evening banqent
was served. and remarks were made by
Governor Page, General Greeneaf, Captain
Clark, Rev. Mr.. Parry and Colonel Hooker
THE fire at Winooski on last week Tues
day was much more disastrous than was at
first reported. 1t is est mated that the loss
ia about S1S0,000 The fire was discovered
in the fifth story of the mill in which the
picking, carding and spinning departments
were. The origin is supposed to have beer
in a mule head, the lint being ignited by
friction. This was about half-past clever
o'clock. The flames spread so rapidly that
employees were obliged to escape by ropes
and in doing so John Taylor, foreman of the
room, was badly burned. His hair and
mustache are entirely gone, and the Skin
was peeled from his hands and arms. Mel
son Young also had his hands severely
burned. and Alfred Potion rppeiVpn "a had