The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

RUSSELL j. MoRss of East Bolton died on
Sunday of pneumonia after four days' illness.
A. NJ. KINNEY, an old resident of South
Hero, died last week Friday in his eightieth
year.
E. b McDuFEE of Bradford has been
elected one of the prize disclaimers at Dart
mouth College.
A WILD CAT was recently captured in the
woods of Forestdale and taken to Middle
bury while alive.
A. e. HAWKINS ofDerby has received
$500 from the Grand Trunk railroad COM
peny for injuries received.
Ar the special town meeting held at North
Troy, March IS, the town voted to return to
the district highway system.
The next meeting of the Vermont Dairy
mems Association, which occurs in January,
1892, is to be held in Brattleboro.
THE charter election Of Vergennes was
held on Tuesday of last week, when Mayor
J. S. Hindes was unanimously reelected.
WALLACE II. BRINK, prominent citizen
of Burlington and member of the board OF
aldermen for six consecutive years, died
last week.
THE president has appointed Charles A.
Pierce postmaster at Bennington, vice
Herbert W. Martin, removed. Mr.. Pierce is
editor OF the Banner.
Mrs. l.. p. CLARK Of Addison iG the owner
of one of the finest hocks of sheep in the
world. She recently sold ram. for export
to Australia, for $500.
The barns on the farm OF Fletcher ID.
Proctor at Proctor caught fire from fires set
by section men, on last week Friday, and
were totally destroyed
THE four-year.old child of Fred Salmon
OF st. Johnsbury Center was choiSed to
death on last week Thursday by a piece of
dried apple which lodged in the windpipe.
THE way freight on the St. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain division was wrecked near
Walden on last week Friday. The cause is
said to have been a broken rail. Several
were injured, but none seriously.
THOMAS BOWLING of Fairhsven, who was
assaulted in Albany by three men on Tues
day night of last week. died on Friday from
the effects of his injuries. An umbrella fer
rule was found imbedded in his head.
Mrs. HARRIET MARTIN of South Hero
was found hanging by a rope to rafter in
the shed of her house on last week Friday
morning. She buried a child several weeks
ago and had been much depressed IN spirits
ever since.
THE commission to select q new farm
for the state agricultural experiment sta
ton met at Burlington on last week Friday
for the purpose of looking at various farms,
but no definite conclusion was reached in
the matter.
A MEETING of the executive committee of
the Republican League of Vermont has
been called, to he held at Burlington Thurs
day evening Of this week, when six dele
gates to the national league convention at
Cincinnati will be elected
JOHN S. CUTTING of Brattleboro. while
climbing ladder with pitchfork in hand
in his barn, lost his hold and fell some four
teen feet to the floor One tine of the pitch
fork went clear through his left arm, and
the other scratched his back.
THE New York sleeper due at Shelburne
at five o'clock in the morning ran into an
open switch on last week Wednesday and
collided with freight car loaded with lum.
Der on side-track. The engine, tender and
baggage car were damaged, but no one was
injured.
A GREAT deal of talk was caused in Bur-
lington last week by the posters of the Lilly
Clay theatrical company, which appeared
i'll that city Saturday evening. There were
suggestions that the company be not al
lowed to appear, but the performance turned
out to be quite unobjectionable.
A CAR on the early freight which left
Burlington about seven o'clock Sunday
morning caught fire, it is supposed, from
sparks from the engine in going through
the tunnel. Two cars containing eighty
four barrels OF oil were soon abaZe and
freight car next to them was burned, but
the contents wers saved. Trains were de-
layed several hours,
WNoosKI has little wonder" in the
person of Beatrice Carpenter, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs George Carpenter. She
was six years old in December and has at
tended school less than year. She has
considerable knowledge of arithmetic and
grammar, speaks both English and French
quite fiuently, and reads and writes both.
She can also play the piano finely.
THE stockholders Of the Burlington cotton
mills have voted the rebuild on the site of
the burned mill. The building will be
built of brick 100 by 300 feet in size, three
stories at one end and two at the other, and
will be fitted with about $4,000 spindles, an
increase of twenty-five per cent over the
number in the old mill A separate build
ing, sixty by seventy-ive feet, adjoining the
main mill on the east, will be used as a
picker house." 1t is hoped that the mill
will be completed early in the fall and
the machinery in operation by January
!, 1892. The contemplated enlargement of
the plant and business will probably ne
oessitate an increase in the capital stock of
the company from $3.50, 900 to $780, 900. The
Pine street mill shut down last week be.
fore the supply Of warps and yarn had be-
comes exhausted.
Domestic.
ONE of the heaviest snow-storms of the
season occurred in Nebraska and Kansas
last week.
LUCIUS ROBINSON, who was governor oil
New York from 1876 to 1879 died at Elmira
on last week Monday.
REV DIR. HOWARD CROSBY, the eminent
Presbyterian clergyman, died at his home
in New York, Sunday afternoon.
THE local option license bill was killed
in the New Hampshire house on last week
Thursday, by vote of 1866 to 14S.
Two negroes, charged with burning the
town of Russellville, Ala, were taken from
Jail by mob and hanged Sunday morning
THE Maine house has reconsidered its &C
ton on the Australian ballot bill, which
has now passed both branches of the legis
lature.
A NUMBER OF contract laborers were cap
tured by the customs inspectors at New
York last week. They were Italians, dis
guised as sailors.
The British steamship Strathairly wen
ashore ON the North Carolina coast on las
week Tuesday and nineteen out of crew
Of twenty-six were lost.
THE Delaware legislature has passed
law by which Migrants and vagabonds ma.
be arrested and put to work breaking stone
for roads for sixty days.
The crevasses in the Mississippi levee