The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

WELLS RIVER is to have a creamery.
e. T. RUSSELL has been appointed post
master at East Albany.
GOLD has been discovered on land of A.
p. Knapp in st. Johnsbury.
GILES S. APPLETON, for years station
agent at Burlington, died last Wednesday.
JOHN CoMLEY was struck by the cars at
Georgia station, and three of his RIBS suf-
fered.
A. G. TAYLOR of Windsor was kicked b,
a horse, and had both bones of one leg
broken.
FRED KING of Manchester fell on a stake,
which penetrated his body five inches. He
will recover.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the sta
ton at Readsboro, last Wednesday morn.
ing, securing $500.
MINNIE, child of Edward Pratt of East
Dover suffered fractured arm from the
breaking Of lounge.
GEORGE ID. SoULE, mail carrier at St.
Adams, was run over by train last We'd
nesday, and lost leg.
THE First National Bank of Springfield
has $4,000 tied up in the late-lamented
Maverick Bank of Boston.
UNDERTAKEN BROWN Of Burlington is en-
terprising and thoughtful. He places a can
opy over the graves in stormy weather.
SOME $1,000 yearling land-locked salmon
arrived at Essex Junction, last Friday,
from the United States fish commission.
Mr.. AND MRS. d. p. CovENY of Danville
were thrown from their buggy and badly
hurt while returning from singing-school.
LUDLOW wants another wooden manu-.
factory. George III. Levey will put in nol
less than $4,000 and manage the concern.
ELIJAH d. FILLMORE, born in Bennington
in 1923, and a cousin of the late President
Fillmore TnaQ1ay pf nc
week.
ANDREW SIMoNDs of Rutland, freight con-
ductor on the Central Vermont fell off the
caboose, last week. and broke the bones of
his right leg.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent coincidence to
the widow of eX- Governor Smith, at whose
home he was guest during his recent trip
through Vermont.
THE St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain
railroad will have expended before next
July between 100000 and 100000 in
building and improving trestles.
REV. j. A. BoIssoNAULT of st. Johnsbury
last Wednesday celebrated the twenty fifth
anniversary of his ordination to the priest
hood. Over $500 was presented to him by
his parishioners.
The funeral of Ex-Governor Smith at 81.
Adams was attended by the largest gather
ing of distinguished railroad and general
business men and men of political reputa-
ton ever seen within the state.
The me-honored joke about the milk
man mixing brook water with his wares
apparently has some foundation in fact in
Orleans county, as Fred Bliss of Westford
was arraigned, last week, charged with the
offence. He was fined $50, and appealed.
WILLARD III. ALEXANDER eighty-fye
years of age, died at Brattleboro last week
Tuesday. He was quaint character, for
more than forty years prominently identi-
fed with the interests of the town. Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander celebrated their golden
wedding in 1878.
PROPOSITION to sell the interest Of the
defunct Vermont National Bank of st. AL
bans in the securities of the Montreal Port
land q Boston railroad, for $4,000, is to
have hearing at Brattleboro on December
%, before Judge Wheeler, and the petition
will probably be granted
THE boy who "knew it was loaded SIS as
bad as the other kind. Warren and Leon
Sweat of Richford went hunting, last week.
separating in the woods Warren heard a
rustic in the bushes, and, assuming that it
was partridge, filled Leon full of buckshot
The doctor has been busy ever since ex-
tracing it.
The Vermont commissioners to the
Worlds Fair held a meeting at Burlington,
last Friday, and organized by electing Gov
ernor Page as president; DR.. III. II. Nc
lntyre, secretary and treasurer; Hiram At
kins, auditor. DR.. Mcintyre was appointed
executive officer. The commissioners pur-
pose TO take necessary steps at once to Sc
cure a creditable exhibit.
JOSEPH LUCIA, Rutland lad, has been
sent to Windsor for eighteen months for
stealing bicycle and other articles. Fred
Juliper, sixteen years old, was caught rob-
bling the store Of f. w. Gray of Rutland
last week Monday night, and w. #. Nell
sons store was broken into the previous
Sunday night Juliper was unable to get
bail, and was taken TO the house of correc-
ton.
HARDwIcK has a mystery. Mr.. Roundy
who lives near the cemetery, last week
Sunday night saw parties with lanterns at
work in the graveyard They left when
he approached. Investigation disclosed
salt box with the remains of an infant
which had been dead long time, and APP
parently had previously been buried in
hurry. The interment was in the Beniah
Smith lot.
VERMoNrERs to whom pensions have
been lately granted are: Original-John
Carey, John g. Louis, David Forth, Keys
Potter, John Sears Qather) Napoleon Bis
selle, Alanson Norton, Oscar McGregor.
Increase-William Mulholland, Thomas
Trainor, William +. LOOMS, John Farrell,
Darwin E. Dimick, Simon Moranville, Fran
els s. Hull, Samuel N. Dix, Silas Giddings,