The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Summary OF News.

route.
THE new Methodist church at Cuttings
vile was dedicated on the 18th instant.
S. NJ. NUTTING of Westminster had thirty
sheep and lambs killed by dogs on the 9th
instant.
VERMONT sent to the Boston market last
week 100 cattle, $40 sheep and lambs and
| III swine
SEVERAL dogs in the west part of Pitts
! ford have been doing considerable damage
among sheep.
The directors of the Vermont board of
trade have selected the Goth instant as the
opening salesday.
A NUMBER of Rutland people are said to
| be heavy losers through the failure OF west
ern financial institutions
A BOY named Bennett is in Jail at New
port for attempted train wrecking on the
Canadian Pacific railroad.
| FRANCIS RICHARDSON, proprietor of the
Willoughby lake house, died suddenly of
heart disease on last week Friday.
THE little twelve-year.old son of A. j.
Bailey of Newbury Center recently shot a
coon weighing twenty-five pounds.
THE safe in the store of Homer Thompson
of Underhill was blown up last week Tues
day night, and $40 in cash was taken.
THE wife of Professor A. S. Campbell of
the johnson Normal School died last week.
She had been married less than year.
THE annual fall meeting of the Western
Vermont Agricultural Society will be held
at Fair Haven, September 49, "a and 20.
REV. w. A. PINKERToN was installed as
pastor of the Presbyterian churcn at St.
Johnsbury on last week Tuesday evening.
Mr.. AND Mrs. MARSHALL LADoo of
Hinesburgh celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their marriage on last week
Monday.
THE Rutland Herald issues an interesting
MISUNDERSTANDING information regard
ing the music festival to he held there, May
q, 90 and 20.
The candy factory of Macrae, Mont
gomery & Co., Burlington, was damaged by
fire last Wednesday evening to the extent
of $4,000 or 5000.
GEORGE w. D1M1CK's farm buildings,
| three valuable horses and one COW were
burned at Windham last Friday morning.
The cause was a lantern. The loss will be
$4,000, partly insured.
The grand high court of the order of For
esters for New Hampshire and Vermont
held its annual session at Nashua, N. H., on
| Thursday of last week. Timothy Mack of
this state was elected a trustee.
THE estate of the Bennington Wooden
Mill company has finally been settled. The
creditors who were willing to take what
they could get, received thirty-fi five cents on
the ST. those who contested, thirty-two.
THE corner stone of Trinity (EpscopaD
church at Milton was laid on Thursday of
last week with impressive ceremodes and
in the presence of a large number of people.
The address was given by Rev. DIR. j. L.
Bliss.
THE Clarendon and Pittsford road, pro-
jected in 1885, has been completed from
Pittsford to Rutland, distance of twelve
miles. 1t will be used principally by the
Vermont Marble Company, which owns the
entire plant.
A WAGON owned by George S. Robbins
containing four persons, was struck by
train at Chester last week Thursday night.
The wagon was smashed into kindling
wood. The horse was killed, but the occu-
pants escaped.
A MAN giving the name of r. c. Clark
hired horse of John Ray of Brattleboro to
go fishing. He then drove the animal to
Springfield, Mass, where he was arrested
1t is said that he is horse thief who was
wanted for other jobs.
THE hall team of the University of Yer.
mont made trip to Massachusetts last
week to play the Harvard and Amherst
teams. They were defeated in both games
the score being ten to two in the first and
seven to four in the second.
THE first annual stallion parade under the
auspices of the Northern Caiedonian fair
association occurred at Lyndonville on last
week Wednesday. There were seventy
three entries. General w. w. Grout gave
an address on the subject of pedgrees.
A MAN named Frank Carter, who worked
at the lime works at Swanton, was killed In
a dynamite blast on Monday. After the
blast had been touched off, he ran to the
tool-shed, but piece of stone broke in the
shed door, hit him in the neck and killed
him.
LAFAYETTE B. SoPER of Morrisville,
former resident of st. Johnsbury, died of
Bright's disease, Burlington on last week
Friday, at the age of fifty-eight years. He
had just had cataract removed from one
eye Mr.. Soper was a prominent Mason
and was much respected by those who knew
! him.
The celebrated bloodhound, "Jack the
Ripper" raised by jerks l.. Wiuchell at the
| Fair Haven kennels, and sold by him for
several thousand dollars to man at jack
son, Miss, who has been in Boston since
the bench show in that city, has been stolen,
and the police of Boston are on the search
for the animal.
WILLIAM HINcKLEY, who had been con-
fined in the Rutland county Jail since Janu-
airy 10, for poisoning three horses of Joseph
Tower by feeding the animals paris green
mixed with meal, from which death ensued,
pleaded guilty in tie Rutland municipal
court on last week Monday, and was SEN
fenced to three years in the state prison.
REV. DIR. j. d. WICKHAM, of the class of
1915 of Yale University, who was the oldest
graduate of that institution, died at Man
chester on last week Tuesday evening, at
the age of ninety-fOur years, He retained
his faculties TO wonderful degree almost
to the time of his death. He was tutor at
Yale for ten years, and had lived at Man
chester since 1884.
A HEARING was held on last week Wednes-
day at Burlington, before United States
Commissioner George e. Johnson, in the
case of the United States against Charles
W. Rumrill of Brookfeld for violation of
the postal laws The respondent waived
examination and was held in the sum of
$500 for his appearance at the next term of
the United States circuit court. In default
of bail he was committed to the county Jail.
THE Vermont Marble Company of Proc
tor has recently made six of the largest
marble columns ever turned out in the
United States. The columns are nineteen
feet seven inches long and two feet ten
inches in diameter. They are each made
from one solid piece of marble, turned in
a lathe, much as wood and metal are
turned. These six columns are for use in
the construction Of Wing Hall, Princeton
College,