The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Summary OF News.



school house, which will cost about 1000.
NJ. S. GATES, young lawyer OF East
Fairfield, died on last week Wednesday of
consumption.
IT is announced that G. p. Spencer has
decided to begin the publication of a daily
paper the first of next month at Brattleboro.
THE listers of Lowell found a man who
had lived in that town forty-tive years and
had never been out of town or seen the
cars.
THE slate mill of the William Taylor Slate
and Marble company at Castleton was
burned on last week Wednesday night. The
loss is about $1,000.
THREE boys named johnson, Ryea and
Steady of the reform school at Nergennes,
escaped last week Monday night, but all
were caught during the week.
JAMES BADGER died at his home in Bur
lington on last week Tuesday, in his sixty
sixth year. He had built some of the finest
churches and cathedrals in the country.
THE first whist congress ever held in the
United States met at Milwaukee,, Wis, on
last week Tuesday, and among the clubs
represented was the Owl club of st. Adams
THE case OF John O'Nell, plaintiff in error
U.s. the state of Vermont, was passed in the
United States supreme court on last week
Wednesday on account of the sickness OF
counsel.
SUIT has been brought against the Boston
g. Maine railroad by jerome A. Hale of
Newbury, who was assaulted on a train in
Maine last winter by railroad employe
named Hall.
THE April term of the Franklin county
court opened on last week Tuesday A few
minutes before the session began A. d. Col
Inns was appointed an associate Judge by
Governor Page.
Mrs. II. o. HoUGHToN of Cambridge,
Mass, whose husband is the head of the
firm of Houghton, Mihin & Co., and is
well-known Vermonter, died on last week
Monday of pneumonia.
THE trustees of the state agricultural col
lege have purchased land on the hill east of
the reservoir on the Williston road, Bur
lington, where the new experiment farm
buildings will be located.
THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bur-
lington Young Mems Christian Association
was observed on last week Thursday even
ing. Rev. DIR. Alexander Mckenzie of Cam
bridge, Mass, made the address.
w. II. PIKE, brakeman on the Central
Vermont railroad, residing in Rutland, was
struck by bridge soon after passing the
station at Mount Holly, on the 10th instant
His skull was crushed and he died the same
evening.
AT a recent meeting at Brattleboro, called
for the purpose of raising the $4,000 neces
sary to make up the $4,000 needed for the
railroad to Readsboro, the entire sum was
subscribed. The work of surveying has al
ready been begun.
CHARLES SMITH, for the past twelve years
telegraph operator at the Stevens house,
Vergennes, died on last week Wednesday,
of consumption, in the forty-third year of
his age. During the entire twelve years Mr.
smith was off duty but one day.
JOHN LAMERE of Lyndonville, who was
arrested for violation of the postal laws by
corresponding with the Louisiana Lottery
company, had a hearing before United
States Commissioner George E. Johnson at
Burlington, on last week Friday, and was
held in $50 bail for the grand jury. Not
finding the bail, he was committed to Jail.
THE last school census of Burlington gives
the attendance in 1891 as 1898, against 3,671
in 1890, the number between five and
eighteen years being taken. The decrease
is explained by the burning of the cotton
mill and the closing out of some lumber
firms in preparation for reorganization The
number of scholars enrolled during the year
increased nearly two per cent.
HENRY WALKER, an employee in the Cen
trial Vermont railroad engine house at st.
Adams, was killed by a locomotive last
week Friday morning. He was working in
one of the ash pits in the round house, over
which the engines stand, and hearing the
noise of an approaching locomotive, raised
his head to observe its location. AS he did
so, he was struck by the engine in the back
OF the head and was almost instantly killed.
THE sheriff of Orange county and six
deputies on last week Wednesday night,
suspecting Illicit distilling, surrounded the
house of Warren Eastman in Corinth and
arrested him, his son and Charles Barnes,
the latter tending the cider brandy still,
which was in full operation. The prosecu-
ton was commenced by States Attorney
Pickett. Saturday night the younger East
man escaped from the officer and is still at
slarge.
The proposed work of testing samples of
maple sugar at the experiment station of
the University of Vermont is already under
way, six sets of samples having been pro-
cured, as follows: Two from Mr.. Beecher
of Hinesburgh, two from Rollin G. Smith of
Pittsford, one from Mr. Wheeler of Fairfax
and one from William Chaplin of Middlesex.
One make that has been received tested by
polariscope at 234o, over eighty per cent or
sufficiently high to obtain the bounty, and
another did not reach the required standard
until at a temperature of 1867. 1t seems
sure at present that the greater part of the
sugar manufactured in the state during the
best part of the season will reach or exceed
the required standard of eighty per cent
somewhere between 1869 and 240o.
Domestic.
AN oatmeal trust has been formed at
Chicago.
WAsHBURNE was elected mayor of Chicago
by plurality of 296.
ONE of the crew of Vanderbilt's yacht
"Alva " died of smallpox at New York
on last week Thursday.
WARNER MILLER writes from Nicaragua
that he is pleased beyond expectation with
the condition of affairs at the canal.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN of Philadelphia has is
sued an order that in the future Catholics
will not be permitted to bury their relatives
or friends on Sunday.
Mrs. HALFoRD, wife of President Har-
rison's private secretary, died on last week
Wednesday. The body was taken to In
dianapolis for interment.
ToLEDo's new mayor, Vincent Emmick,
made raid on gambling dives on last week
Wednesday, and that night he had 100
gamblers at the station house.
A DEBATE on the tariff took place in
fremont Temple, Boston, last week,Wednes-
day evening, ex-Congressman r. G. Horr of
Michigan speaking for protection and
Thomas G.. Sherman of New York for free
trade. Colonel Albert Clarke presided.
A BLAcKsMITHs apprentice named Logan,
at Little NarrOWs, @, b.. being annOyed nv