The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

costs.
The Brsttleboro republicans have elected
Colonel Levi X. Fuller president OF their
club.
The National Guard will meet for in
struction and drill at Bradford, February "a
and %.
EDGAR CALL of Richmond, charged with
selling liquor without a license, has been
held in 800 bail.
THEODORE AND WARREN TUBES OF Jericho
have been sent to the house of correction
for grand larceny.
TIE commissioner of internal revenue
has issued nearly $500 licenses to Vermont
sugar producers for lS92.
REV. DIR. THOMAS P1cKMAN TYLER, son of
the late Chief Justice Royal Tyler, died at
Brattleboro last week Monday.
Mrs. ANTOINE BUsKEY Of Newport was
badly burned recently. Her clothing caught
FIRE while she was burning waste paper
ORvILLE HILL Of Fairfield, last Wednes-
day, fell from the hay loft and was lmpaled
by pitchfork. His condition is critical.
CHARLES RoLLo, the well-known conduc-
tor on trains 81 and 80 over the Central Yer
mont railroad, died last Sunday at St. AL
bans.
THE Methodist church at Middlebury was
burned last Saturday. The loss is $4,000;
insurance of $4,000 with the Vermont Mu-
tual.
THE Vermont association of Boston held
its annual meeting and banquet last
Wednesday evening, Hon. Alanson W.
Beard pres ding.
The Horse Breeders Association holds
its annual meeting at Rutland, August 30
September 1. Wayne Bailey has been
elected superintendent.
THE mill, finishing shop and Office of the
True Blue Marble Company, near West
Rutland, was burned last Saturday. Loss
G2b ON with insurance of S2OOOO,
THE Montreal express ran into freight
train near Vernon last week Friday night.
The two cabooses of the freight were de-
moished, and several freight cars went
down the embankment. The engine of the
passenger train was badly damaged, and
fireman George Vassar was seriously in
jured None Of the passengers were hurt
L. A. EMERSON has been appointed traffic
manager of the Central Vermont railroad,
and he will have jurisdiction over all leased
and operated lines, including boat lines.
E. A. Chttenden has been appointed gen
eral freight agent, George Cassidy assistant
general freight agent, and j. A. Southland
division freight agent, with office in New
London, Conn
THE wife of Senator Morrill, has i'm
proved within the past day or two, and it is
now believed that she is out of danger. A
severe attack of the grip, coupled with her
advanced years, brought her to so low
point that for many days her life seemed to
hang in the balance. Senator Morrill, was
in the senate last week Monday for the first
time since Mrs Morrill's illness assumed
serious turn.
Domestic.
DR.. GRAVES has been granted a new trial
at Denver, Col.
JAMES T. FURnER, general manager of
the Boston & Maine railroad, died at Law
renee Mass. last Wednesday.
CHARLEY MITCHELL has CHALLENGED John
l.. Sullivan, and offers to bet $1,000
that he will thrash the big brute.
VERY little is left of Saton lake, the
great body of water which appeared so mys-
teriously in the Colorado desert last sum
mer.
BABY MCKEE, by Electioneer, Senator
Stanford's two.year-old, was sold at New
York last week to j. S. Ferguson of that
city for $4,000.
THE large oil works of Borne Scrymser
x Co at Elizabethport, N. j., were burned
last week 1t were a magnificent sight, but
it cost about $4,000
A BIG block at Columbus, o., burned last
week Tuesday. The 200 employees of God
mans shoe factory, most of them girls, had
to take to the fire escapes, and several lives
were lost.
The United States supreme court sus-
tans the consttutionality of the ant i-lot-
terry act of the last congress. 1t also de-
cides in favor of Boyd in the Nebraska gov
ernorship case.
CORNELIUS BALDWIN of Chesterfield,
Mich chose very cold night last week for
his hanging. When he was found dead the
next morning there was an iciele six inches
long found at the end of his tongue.
DARTMOUTH students have been searching
the famous Warden barns at Hanover, N.
H., with some expectation of finding man
believed by the Wardens to be lurking
Whereabouts with evil intent. The family
have received many threatening anOmy-
nous letters.
TWENTY-FIVE Hungarans sat eating their
lunch in shanty at Honey Brook, Pa, last
Thursday. Near the stove lay several sticks
of the explosive known as dualin. Sud
denly the stuff exploded, manning all the
men and killing two outright. Two are
missing, and half dozen Of the injured
may die
A YOUNG man named Silverberg, with
the assistance of an expert telegrapher.
swindled a banking firm OF Chihuahua,
Mex, out Of $4,000. 1t was the intention
to obtain $4,000 the next day, but the te-
legrapher skipped and left Silverberg in the
lurch. The plot was discovered, and he
was arrested.
THREE large guns were shipped last week
from Watervliet arsenal to San Francisco.
They were eight-inch breech- loaders, over
twenty-three feet long and weighing 81 coo
pounds each. Their range is eight miles
and the steel projectiles 130-pounders.
Twelve more guns just like them are at
Watervliet ready to be shipped to any point
the government may direct.
THE long-proposed Arctic expedition for
the relief of Lieutenant Peary is now organ
izing at Philadelphia. The leader will be
Professor Angelo Heilprin, who accompa.
MED Lieutenant Peary on the first exped-
ton. The relief party will leave Philadel-
phia early in June, and probably leave St.
John, N. F., in the steam whaler Kite
They expect to fud the Peary party at
Mccormick Bay.
MRS. p. f. MURPHY of Omaha, Neb., was
awakened by burglar, who warned her
not to move and she would not be hurt.
Mrs. Murphy drew a revolver from undcr
her pillow and blazed away at the burglar,
who leaped through window, leaving a
trail of blood behind. Afterward the burg
lar was found in a cheap hotel suffering
from two wounds, one bullet having pene-
trated his left lung.
ADvIoEs last Friday confirmed the report
that CARA has crossed into Mexico with
1900 to 5000 well-armed and mounted
Mexicans, that he has another band in the
Santa Rosa maintain of I tn