The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07
Summary OF News.


A PRELIMINARY survey for a railroad from
Essex junction to Hnesburgh was made
last week
NINE Rutland liquor-dealers were fined
total of $3.50 by the county court, last
week, for violating the law.
The holiness camp-meeting at Silver
lake, in Leicester, began on Friday of last
week, and will continue two days.
A NEW company has leased the Christie
machine-shop and foundry in Brandon. 1t
will manufacture stone-cutting machines.
The house and barn. with most of its CON
tents, of s. o. Clark of Richford were burned
on Wednesday of last week. The loss was
$500.
Mas. DIR. A. d. HAMMOND, who formerly
resided at Woodstock, was found dead in
bed at Saratoga, n. Y. on Friday of last
week.
THE freshman class of the University of
Vermont numbers sixty, and there are
eleven new students in the agricultural de-
partment.
ACCORDING to the bills sent State Treas
urer II. f. Field the Bennington centennial
cost the state $4,000. The banquet alone
cost $4,000.
e. o. DEAN, about thirty-two years of
age, committed suicide by hanging himsef
in barn at Putney on Wednesday night of
last week. He leaves wife.
THE two Cinnamon who Judge Wheeler
decided should be returned to Canada were
taken from Burlington to St. Armand, p.
g., on Tuesday of last week.
THE Fall Mountain Paper Company has
cleared White river as far as Bethel. The
work has been thorough, and heavy charges
OF dynamite have been necessary to remove
some rocks.
ST. JOHNsBURY is discussing the subject
Of a new postmaster, and the names of w.
A. Simpson, W. w. Sprague, Albert Pad
dock and General II. X. Ide are before the
public as candidates.
Two corporations which have been incor-
porated recently are the Brown Hotel Com
pany of Springfield and the Barton Land
ing Bobbin, Spool and Novelty Company.
The former is to have a capital of S25, 900
and the latter one of $4,000.
BURGLARS entered the Wilmington post.
Office last week Friday night. A number
of letters were ritled on the highway, where
checks and money overlooked by the bur
glars were found in the morning. COnsid-
cradle money, postal notes and other valua-
bes were taken.
THE fair at Brattleboro, last week. was
the most successful in the history of the
Valley Fair Association, fully 10 600 persons
being on the grounds on Thursday. The
coach and cart procession of Thursday was
a fine spectacle. About 100 vehicles and
the same number of horsemen were in line.
MRS. ELIZA BLACKMER, whose age is
ninety-one, surprised and hOrrilied the peo-
pie of Bennington by an attempted suicide
by throat-cutting She made deliberate
! preparation for the affair." first protecting
her dress and the carpet from being stained
with blood She was found unconscious,
aud may not recover.
| WHILE returning from the burial of Will
| liam Clusky at Masonvile, last Friday,
/ Daniel Handy and Thomas Brennan, two of
! the bearers, " no were sitting on the back
| seat OF the wagon, were thrown out back
ward by the sudden starting of the horses.
| They We're taken to a house near by. Both
men are in critical condition.
A SERVICE in memory of the late Rev. i.
| G.. Ware was held in the Unitarian church
at Burlington on last week Thursday even
ing. Mrs. NJ. l.. Benedict paid a beautiful
tribute to Mr.. Ware. George Lowry read
the remarks that were made in Boston by
! Rev. Edward IL. Hall, and the service
closed with the reading of one of Whittier's
poems by the pastor, Rev. H. L. Wheeler.
AT the adjourned meeting of the share
holders committee and directors of the
Denison, Texas, Manufacturing Company,
held at BrattlebOro, last week Thursday
night, It was resolved that "the company
will pay its debts in full" The meeting
recommended the issue of six per cent
bonds, not to exceed 100000, to provide for
a complete equipment and the necessary
working capital. 1t is proposed to put the
cotton mill into operation by the first of
January next.
w. A. CALDWELL, a student at Lehigh
! University, was fatally injured in a cane
rush recently. His home is in s., Louis
The affairs of the Golden Grail, one of
the Massachusetts endowment orders, were
wound up last week, when a receiver was
appointed.
THE Bostons have won the League base
/ ha1l ,l,a
| behind in the past week. The Association
championship also will probably 90 to Bos.
| ton
The big packing establishment of John
p. Squres q Co., at East Cam bridge, Mass,
was burned Monday night, causing a loss
OF $4,000. Over 1000 hogs were roasted
alive.
FOREST fires have been raging in Eldorado
county, California and the villages of Pilot
Hill and Burnor Hill have been swept away.
Many farmers and ranch owners have been
| made penniless.
The meeting of the New England Horse
| Breeders Association at Mystic Park, last
week, was the most successful ever held by
the association, which is now several thou
sand dollars ahead
BECAUSE Maggie Carroll of Bridgeport,
| Conn, while out rowing with William
! Wyncoop, said that another young man
was very nice" her companion threw her
overheard and attempted to drown her.
| The vote of members of the fall confer
ences of the Methodist church on the cues
ton OF allowing women TO sit as delegates
in the General Conference is, as far as
heard from, 2,3l6 for and 1904 against the
proposition.
The United States revenue cutter Rush I"
which has been in Behring Sea during the
summer, returned to San Francisco last
week The British sailing schooner " e.
b. Marvin was the only vessel seized by
the Rush"
The grand jury which has investigated
the collapse of the building in Park Place,
New York city, by which over sixty lives
were lost, has reported that the evidence
gathered would not warrant the finding of
an indictment.
WILLIAM e. GOULD, who was sentenced
to ten years in the Maine state prison for
embezzlement while cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Portland, has been pardoned.
He had served five years of his term. He
left in good health.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the
hnding OF court-martia expeling from
West Point Cadet Thomas Pelham Curtis