The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-16
Summary of News.

THE national government is repairing the
b"eaSwa'er at Burlington.
NEARLY thousand sheep were CARED at
Barton recently in one day.
THE plum crop in the vicinity of Rutland
is reported to be the largest ever known in
that section.
GEORGE ID. WOODRUFF, we'll. known
farmer aud drover of Burke, dropped dead
Saturday night from heart disease.
GEORGE f. DAVIS of Windsor has sold his
bay gelding " Tom Hamilton +" to William
Neeley of Hartford, Conn, for $4,000
WILLIAM MASCOT, a burglar who robbed
a cottage at Nergennes, was captured on
the lake soon after, and the stolen goods
were recovered.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE w GETcHELL of
the Fourth United States artillery has been
detailed as military instructor at Vermont
Academy, SaXton's River.
DERBY & BALLS scythe.snath manufac-
tory at Bellows Falls was burned early Sum
day morning, the automatic sprinkler fail
ing to work. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
Mrs. ARLErTA WARD, an old lady of
Springfield, fell backward from the top of a
flight of stairs recently, and her back and
shoulder were broken. She died after two
days of suffering.
Hammond of Mddlebury was expelled
from the National Association for an al
legged crooked entry for the meeting of the
Cleveland Driving Park Association.
SOME unknown person recently shot a
mare owned by William Daniels of st.
Johnsbury. The animal was in the pasture,
when the culprit placed his gun close to her
fore leg and fired, blowing the leg nearly off.
A BOLD burglary was committed at St.
Adams just before noon on Saturday. A
young fellow walked into the residence of
w. II. Hunt through the front entrance,
went up stairs into servant-girls' room,
and took a wallet from bureau-draw,
after which he coolly walked out. The
wallet contained nearly 500.
BY order of Governor Page, at the re-.
quest of the states attorney, Chaquette, the
murderer, was taken from Middebury to
Windsor on Tuesday of last week. His
counsel filed exceptions in his case, and it
is probable that he will be returned to
Middlebury for sentence after the supreme
court has passed upon the exceptions.
THE forty-fourth Caledonia county fair
began at St. Johnsbury on Tuesday of last
week. There was a small exhibit of cattle
and sheep, but big show of horses, poultry
and vegetables. A new feature was the
children's department, in which were many
entries of vegetables and fancy articles
Fully 10000 persons were on the grounds
Wednesday, and on Thursday there were
towards $1,000.
LIEUTENANT II. G. o. Colby of the United
States navy was in Burlington last week to
see what could be done about organizing a
naval militia force in this state. He had a
long talk with Ad1utant-general Peck, in
which he said that the government was de-
sirous that there should be battalion on
Lake Champlain. If force of 100 men were
organized and mustered in by the first of
October, each man would probably get $40.
The lieutenant said that several of the
states bordering on the great lakes were
taking an interest in the matter,
THE sixth annual reunion of the Third
Vermont Volunteers was held at St. Johns
bury on last week Wednesday, sixty veter-
ans being present The following officers
were elected: President, Daniel Skinner of
Barton Landing; vice-president, j. E. Ell
dredge of Warren; secretary and treasurer,
Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford; chairman
of the executive committee, Carlton Felch
In the evening Comrade John S. Upper,
editor of the Brandon Union, addressed the
veterans on General Grant. Another re-
union will be held at st. Johnsbury next.
year.
IN the case of the creditors of Albert
Sowles, insolvent, in which they petitioned
the Franklin county court to appoint COM
missioners to pass upon the accounts of the
assignees appointed by the court of insol-
vency, and especially upon those items of
such account as are included under the
head of expenses, attorney fees, etc. and in
600 had been absorbed the supreme court,
through Judge Taft, decides that the court
is incompetent to grant the petition If in
justice is done by the operation of the
statute, the only remedy is with the legisla-
ture.
SOMETIME ago the postmaster
selected one town in each state in which
the free delivery system was tried for one
month as an experiment. Ludlow was the
place chosen in Vermont and Hanover in
New Hampshire. Mr.. Wanamaker has
caused an examination of the latest reports
from these experiments to be made, and
finds they are succeeding beyond his most
sanguine expectations. 1t is stated that
the increased revenue in those offices
where the free delivery experiment was on
trial almost paid for the increased ex-
penditure, and it is hoped by iudicous
management that in the average the ex-
pertinent will entirely pay for itself.
Domestic.
ELEVEN sophmores of Lafayette College
have been suspended for hazing.
MAJOR j. NJ. BUNDy editor of the Nec
York Mail and ETpreSs, died at Paris on
Tuesday night of last week
LOCOMOTIVE on the Long Island railroad
exploded at Oyster Bay last week Wednes-
day morning, killing three men.
THE tournament of the Springfield, Mass,
bicycle club was held on Thursday and Fri
udy Ol ldSu week, WIFI over lUUOO SpecUa-
tors present.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE began its year last
week with freshman class of ninety. The
new class in the State Agricultural College
numbers ten.
A PRIzE-FIGHT between Jack McAuliffe
and Austin Gibbons, at Hoboken, n. j.,
last week Friday night, was stopped in the
sixth round by the police.
A MRS, MCGRIFFIN of McGregor, Tex,
gave birth to triplets ten months ago, and
she has just broken the record by giving
birth to quartette. All seven are doing
well.
II has been decided in the case of Rev.
Howard MacQueary that he must renounce
his views before his six months of suspen-
sion are ont, or he will be expelled from
the church.
JUDGE COOLEY, chairman of the inter-
state commerce commission, has rendered
his resignation, thus causing three vacan-
cies on the board. Ill health is the cause of
the resignation.
G. f. SwEARINGER, an Rronaut went up
in his balloon at the Clinton county, New
York, fair last week, and when he was about
1000 feet above the ground the balloon
split open at the top. The aronaut, how
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