The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30
Worcester.
Summary of News.
Vermont.

Vermont
EX.PREsIDENT II. B. HAYES visited New
fame last Wednesday.
BELL, the Fairfax murderer, is to be
hanged at Windsor on Tuesday.
G. w. FRENCH died at Vernon last week,
the result of injuries received by being run
over by his team.
THE German A merican Fire Insurance
Company of New York will withdraw from
Vermont, January l.
UNITED STATES court at Brattleboro last
Thursday decided to allow no compromise
in the ST. Adams bank case.
THE store of NJ B. Kelley and the grist-
mill of Frank Adams at Bellows Falls were
broken into last week Monday night.
A sNEAK-THIEF entered the house of W.
w. Tower of Rutland last Wednesday after
noon, and stole purse and some clothing
KILBoURN j. Brown, the ex- Pullman car
conductor, arrested some time ago, has been
held for trial at Burlington, for smuggling.
THE railroad trestle at Gassetts was par
tally swept away by an ice jam last
Wednesday night and an iron bridge is to
replace it.
The Mallett's Bay house, popular sum-
mer resort, six miles from Burlington
burned last week Tuesday. The building
was owned by DR.. Walter Carpenter OF
Burlington, and was insured.
w. D. JOHNSON, late manager OF the
Weldon house, St. Adams, has leased the
railroad restaurants at St. Adams, Essex
junction, White River Junction, Rutland
and Bellows Falls, and takes possession
January /.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL AMsDEN brought
one Gleason before Judge Wheeler at Brat
tleboro last Wednesday charged with SNUG
Cling liquor into Maine, and an order was
granted for his removal TO that state. He
was taken to Portland
LAST June Charles H. Lyman swindled
the Van Ness house of Burlington out of
$40 by passing worthless check. He was
arrested at Northampton, Mass, last
week and will be tried at the April term
OF Chittenden county court.
The wholesale drug department of the
Wells & Richardson Company of Burling-
ton has been Incorporated under the name
of the Burlington Drug Co., and the bust
ness will be under the management of +. G.
Harrington and G. G. Miller.
A. l.. FINNEY, baggage-master at Lyndon
vile, received as Christmas present "A
check for 81 600 from A b. Darling, Fifth
years made his home with Finneys
mother. Mrs. Matilda Carpenter and Ed
win Fisher. also of Lyndonville, each re.
ceived 81 900 check from Mr.. Darling.
Two barns, w. S. Brooks hotel, Dr. Nc
Dowel's barn, A. S. Laughln's block, the
drug. store of r. X. Laughlin & Co., the
jewelry store of A. L. Laughin, and six
tenements in the Laughlin block were
burned at Barnet last week Tuesday. The
fire was caused by the explosion of lam
tern in one of the hotel barns. The total
loss will exceed $4,000. about one-half of
which is insured
REV. ELBRIDGE GERRY died at West Ran
dolph last Wednesday night, aged ffty-nine
He was a graduate of Middlebury College
and well-known Congregational pastor in
central Vermont. He established the
Green Mountain Herald at West Randolph in
1873, and was not long ago associated with
Luther Johnson in publishing the Northfela
NeWS. The remains of Mr.. Gerry were Gre
mated at Brooklyn, n. Y, on Saturday.
The St. Adams bank cases comprised the
business of the special term of United States
circuit court at Rutland last week. Re-
ceiver G. w. Writers of the First National
bank of st. Adams petitoned for leave to
sell the assets of the bank in connection
with proposal of compromise. Counsel
for the Central Vermont Railroad Company,
for certain legatees under the will of Hiram
and Susan Bellows, for st. Luke's church, for
certain creditors OF the hank, and also for
those favoring the compromise, made long
and exhaustive arguments. Decision was
reserved In the case of Horatio p. Seymour
" George w. Hendee, receiver of the YER
mont National bank of st. Adams, it was
ordered that the order heretofore granted,
restraining the receiver from transferring
or selling certain bonds of the Montreal,
Portlandiand Boston Railway Company, be
continued to the February rule day, and if
Bradley b. Smalley be then made party
defendant the order will be removed until
further ORDERS if not. it will then be dis
solved.
Domestic.
SMITH NJ. WEED of Pittsburgh, N Y,
gave free Christmas dinner to over 300
people.
Miss ANNIE HULsE, crazed with love for
a widower named Ryder, poisoned herself
at Red Bank, N. j., last week.
THE great dry-goods house of ID. b.
foreman & Co.. Chattanooga. Tenn. burned
last Saturday. Loss about 100000
MRS. ANNIE HAYES of Boston committed
suicide at Newburyport last Wednesday by
throwing herself in front of a train.
A YOUNG woman at Birmingham, Ala,
was murdered by her lover with the revolt
yer she had given him for a Christmas
present.
The defence in the DIR. Graves case at
Denver, Col, opened its case last Wednes-
day. The trial will probably end some
time in 1892.
HARRY OLIVER and Eugene Wyley of
Huntington, Tenn, quarreled over dog,
and after they had killed the canine they
killed each other
II was uuli hiS
mill-hands at Manchester, n, H., six thou.
sand OF them having been thrown out of
work because of low water.
THE main building Of the Eastern Michi-
gan Insane Asylum at Pontiac was burned
last Saturday. No lives were lost. Some
of the lunatics escaped to the woods.
WILLIE WRIGHT and his bride were cele-
brating their union at Meridian, Miss, last
Thursday night. During the merry making
young man named Johnson, the defeated
rival, crept to the window and shot Wright
dead
w. II. LAIDLow, who was so badly injured
by the explosion in the office of Russell