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


Adams last Monday, while uncouping cars
ROBERT WRIGHT of Swanton, Ia years old,
shot himself dead accidentally while fooling
with gun, last Saturday.
FAYETTE BARNEY of Castleton, who
weighs $50 pounds, was recently terribly in
jured by falling from a hay loft in his barn.
DANIEL HACKErT, an old, half-witted
resident Of Tunbridge, has been robbed of
about $500, which he had hidden in his
house.
ELMER BEAN of Milton shot an eagle
which measured over eight feet from tip to
tip of its wings, and three feet six inches in
length.
WILLIAM MCCARTHY of Proctor, rail-
road brakeman, died at Mary Fletcher Hos
pita, Burlington, last Thursday, from in
juries received while coupling cars.
FRED KING of Manchester fell from a
load of corn stalks and struck his back on a
sharp stake which penetrated his body five
inches, but did not infiict fatal wound.
Ross WHITE, manufacturer of paper
toilet packages and specialties, and George
II. Reed, lumber dealer, both Brattleboro
merchants, have failed, the first for S35 900
and the other for $4,000
MARTIN DAYTON of Bennington threatened
to inform the clearinghouse mistress that
one Robinson intended to elude his board
BILL and Robinson hit him on the head with
bottle, making bad wound.
THE Board of Agriculture will hold
meeting for Essex county, at Island Pond,
Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 and Q;
and for Orleans county, at Troy, Thursday
and Friday, December 10 and IL.
PARTIES from New York have discovered
a copper mine on a farm in Gilmore owned
by o. ID. Bacon, and have leased the land
containing the ore, with the privilege of
working the same for the next three years,
for $1,000.
Ill
the Cooper Manufacturing Company, knit
goods, of Bennington-one in favor of Sec
rotary j. II. Reany for 81 ,423, and the other
in favo- of L. d. Greenfield for 1867. The
company was incorporated in 1886, with an
authorized capital of 100000
The Sheldon Marble Company's works
and quarries at West Rutland and HYDE
vile have been leased to the Vermont Mar
BILE Company for thirty years, and after
January the headquarters of the whole bust
ness will be at Proctor. The consolidated
companies employ about 1000 men.
THE Deerfield Valley railroad was for.
mally opened last week. Wilmington and
other southern Vermont towns engaged in
general jollifcation. Since the inception of
the road Readsboro has increased in popula-
ton about forty per cent, a dozen new
industries have been established, and a
thriving village has sprung up at Monroe
Bridge. Wilmington expects similar
boom.
THE Vermont Fish and Game League,
chartered by the last legislature, held its
first annual banquet at the Van Ness house,
Burlington, last Wednesday evening. Pre-
vious to the banquet the old board of Off
GERS was reelected, with few additions to
the list of vice-presidents, and large num-
Der of new members were enrolled. An
amendment to the bylaws was made, by
which the annual dues were lessened from
50 to So. AT the banquet remarks were
made by Colonel U. A. Woodbury., Senator
Proctor, General w. Y. w. Ripley of Rut-
land, Ex-Governor Stewart, and others.
The next annual meeting is to be held at
Montpelier, during legislative session.
Domestic.
The wonderful Salton lake, recently
formed in the great Colorado desert is dry
ing up, and will disappear in another
month.
HIRAM LESTER, aged one hundred twenty
four, and Mrs. Mary Mosely, aged eighty
one, were married at the opera house in At
lanta, Ga, last Wednesday night.
THE Presbytery at New York, last
heresy preferred against Rev. Dr. Charles
A. Briggs of Union Theological Seminary.
An appeal to the synod was taken by the
prosecuting committee.
Mrs. RICHARD FooTE of Binghamton,
n. Y, has confessed that John Furman,
husband about ten days ago, and burned
the body with the barn. Furman and Mrs.
Foote are under arrest.
MCMAHON and Quinn were to have
wrestled at Montreal last Friday night col
lar and elbow, for the championship Of the
world and $1,000. They pushed and hauled
for twenty minutes without fall, and the
match was declared draw.
THE body of Mrs. Wallace Holmes was
found huripl undar her bOusa a plainvi1la
Mass. last week, and from sand found in
TIE throat and air passages, and the posi-
ton of the limbs it is believed that her
husband murdered her by burying her alive.
Holmes was arrested.
ASA P. POTTER, president of the Maverick
National bank, was arraigned at Boston last
week, pleaded not guilty, and was held for
trial at the district court in the sum of
100000. Mr.. Potter denies that he was in
any way responsible for the suicide of
Irving A. Evans, but Colonel Albert A.
Pope, who was the most intimate friend of
the latter, believes that Evans killed him
self because of the pressure brought to bear
on him by Potter, with whom he had Joint
account in speculation. Colonel Jonas
French, one of the arrested directors,
hunted for several days before he secured
bail. Controller of the Currency Lacey
says the Mavericks affairs are in much
better condition than generally supposed.
1t will pay at the least eighty-five cents on
the dollar. The suspension of the Maverick
caused run on the Five-Cent Savings bank
lasting several days, but as the institution
was sound, it met all demands promptly.
Foreign.
IT is reported that 1000 houses were
burned, and more than 200 women and chill
dren persisted, in a conhagration at Han
kow, China, last week.
GENERAL e. BIRD GRUBB, United States
Minister to Spain, was married in London,
last week, to Miss Violet Sopwith of that
city, mid much pomp and glory.
TIMOTHY HEALY, in speech at Longford
insulted Mrs Parnell, and was publicly
horsewhipped at Dublin, Tuesday of last
week, by Mrs. Parnell's nephew, McDer-
mott.
THE famine in Russia has been followed
by financial difficulties. The condition of
the st. Petersburg money market causes
grave apprehensions, and everything indi-
Gates an impending crisis.
A GREAT sensation has been caused at
Stavenger, Norway, by the distinguished
preacher, Oftedal, accusing himself of i'm
morality. He confessed in the pulpit be-
fore large congregation, begged forgive
ness, and then announced his resignation.