The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-23
Summary OF News.


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FRANK STACKS dwelling house and barns
at Norwich were burned on Monday of last
week.
G. NJ. SouLE, druggist of Vergennes has
failed, and the business will be carried on
by his creditors
THE dressing mill of the Quebec Lumber
company at West Burke was partially de-
stroyed by fire last week Friday afternoon.
HoBsoN,& SONS dry house and large lot
of lumber were burned at East Brighton on
last week Tuesday. The estimated loss
is $4,000, and the insurance is small.
A MAN arrested for intoxicaton in North
Pownal recently escaped from the officers
while they themselves were drunk, it is
alleged, and on reaching New York state
he wrote them to come over and get the
handouts.
A REVOLUTIONARY cannon has been found
in the marsh on the border of Lake Cham
plain in Dresden, opposite Benson. The
date on 1t in raised letters is 1854 and IL is
believed to have been brought from Canada
in revolutionary times.
THE petition of Henry Mott of Alburgh to
have his case against the Central Vermont
railroad removed to another county on the
ground that an impartial trial could not be
had has been heard before Judge j. NJ.
Tyler who decides that the case must be
heard in Grand Isle county next February.
GREAT efforts are being made by the Chi
nese to gain admission to this country at
Richford and the customs officers are kept
on the alert to enforce the law which eX
cludeS all labOrerS OF that race. Quite a
colony has been at Sutton, Que, for over
two weeks, held back for want of proof of
right to come in.
THE Wilmington commissioners on the
new railroad have issued five-year bonds
bearing five per cent interest to raise the
money to pay the towns share of the cost
of the railroad q nj. Iqwtpn has talxpp
$4,000 of the amount alone, and there is
little doubt but that the remainder can be
easily disposed of.
LAST week Wednesday night two burg
lars attempted to break into Fred w. Haw-
ley's store at Norwich but were dis
covered while working on the lock of the
outside door. Four or five ineffective
shots were exchanged when the thieves
fled. Mr.. Hawley is town treasurer and
the pOst-ofiice is in his store.
SYLVESTER ROBINSON of Rutland seventy
six years of age, committed suicide by shoot
ing on Tuesday of last week. Mental de-
rangement is given as the direct cause. He
had run small stationery and leather
goods store in New York city fifteen years,
but gave it up and came to live with rela.
tives at Rutland, few weeks ago. He was
bachelor.
THE thunderstorm of last week Friday
was very severe in the northeastern part of
the state. AT Lyndonville woodshed was
blown over an engine in the railroad yard,
disabling the engine. AT West Burke Eras-
mus Spencer, nineteen years of age, took
refuge in dye-house, the smokestack of
which fell and killed him.
In a trial of speed between George Felton's
horse and horse owned by man named
Wissell of Shoreham, at the Orwell town
fair last week Thursday, the horses ran into
one another and the shaft of Mr.. Felton's
sulky struck the other in the breast and
probably reached the heart, for he reeled
to one side and dropped dead
BARTON LANDING was visited by a de-
structive ire on last week Friday morning.
The losses were as follows II. w. Blu
chanan, general store, IS 800; w. G. Twom-
bley, 81 800; G. w. Orne, jeweler, 81 800:
E. E. Stafford, $500; Louis Able, 81 200.
There We're also other smaller losses.
Buchanan had insurance for $500 on his
stock; Twombley insurance for $500; Orne,
$1,000; Stafford, $500.
ST. ANDREWS church at st. Johnsbur
which has been undergoing thorough repair,
was used for the first time on last week
Tuesday for the marriage of Helen Brown
to Harley j. Emerson of Albuquerque,
n. NJ. After the ceremony there was re-
ception at the home of the brides father,
DR.. II. S. Brown, to which about one hun
dred were invited, mostly classmates of
Mr.. and Mrs Emerson at st. Johnsbury
Academy.
Domestic.
THE national republican convention is to
be held in May next.
THE tunnel under the st. Clair river at Port
Huron was opened Saturday with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
EX-CoNGREssMAN r. II. DAVIDSON has
been appointed by the governor of Florida
TO succeed Senator Call.
JAMES AND JOSIAH GILLILAND were
1x~Nan had l,,%
mob, for the murder of a sheriff.
In the presence of 10000 people at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on Friday of last week, the
stallion Nelson trotted a mile in 2:l0.
THE body of General Joseph f. Knapp,
late president of the Metropolitan Life In
surance company, arrived in New York
from Europe on Saturday.
THE Rensselaer, county, n. Y, soldiers
and sailors monument was dedicated at
Troy, on Tuesday of last week, General
Stewart l.. Woodford giving the Grafton.
THERE was disgraceful scene in the
chapel of Syracuse university at the open
ing last week Wednesday afternoon, the
sophomores throwing salt at the freshmen.
SECRETARY FOSTER has issued circular
announcing that the time within which four
and one-half per cent bonds will be con-
tinued at two per cent will expire Septem-
Der 80.
a METHODIST minister atWichita, Kansas
has $4,000 libel suit on his hands the re-
suit of a reference in speech to Police
Commissioner Jones as perjurer and a
scoundrel.
The sum of SOS, $50 has been returned to
the State National Bank of Boston as con-
science money. From whom it came is not
known, but il is believed to be the result of
deathbed confession
THE Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land held its twenty second reunion at CO.