The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-27
Summary OF News.


mOrSeS Line, FRANKLIN county.
CHARLES PLooF died at Stowe last week
from injuries received while hauling logs.
A SUMMER hotel Is to be erected at NAL
let's bay in place of that recently burned.
EMERSON GRAVES q Lyndonville farmer,
hanged himself last Friday. He had the
grip.
W. W. SPRAGUE has been confirmed as
postmaster at St. Johnsbury by the United
States senate.
The officers school Of the Vermont ma
tional guard il to be held at Bradford, Feb.
ruary "a and %.
THREE boys were arrested at Ludlow for
stealing q rooster, and the two oldest were
fined $40 and costs each.
AUSTIN LEE, an employee in the grain
elevator at Richford, was caught in shaft
and killed last Wednesday.
THE clothing store of Percy M. Dutton Of
Hartford was entered last Friday night,
and some goods were stolen.
PROFESSOR JOEL T. BENEDICT, former
well.known Burlington teacher, died at
Parsippany, N. j., January 10.
EDGAR CARRUTHERs Of Bellows Falls a
student at Norwich University, Northfeld
has received cadetship at West Point.
Mr.. AND MRS WILLIAM JONES of Burling-
ton are expiatng the crime OF larceny at
the house of correction. 1t will take them
Ill days.
HERBERT BRANBRD has been appointed
superintendent of the new public building
at ST. Adams, work on which will be com
menced i'll the spring.
BY premature explosion at the Ely hoe
and fork factory, St. Johnsbury, Paul
Rivers and Thomas Paquet were seriously
hurt last Wednesday.
HENRY HUDSON KITsoN, the Boston sculp-
tor, is making bust of the late Ex-Governor
Smith of st. Albans from death-mask, at
the request of the family,
CAPTAIN DAN LYON, the oldest steamboat
captain on Lake Champlain, died at his
home in Burlington last Wednesday. He
was born in Shelburne in 1903.
THEODORE AND WARREN TUBBs OF Jericho
had just finished six months in the house of
correction for larceny when they were re-
arrested for a second similar offence.
L. S. DREW, for nine years manager of
the Van Ness house, Burlington, retires
from that position a pri 1, and is succeeded
by II. N. Clark, the junior manager.
JAMES PATTEN is serving a sentence at
the house of correction for stealing hay
from jesse Billings of Rutland. Alexander
Sharkey, seventeen years old, is serving his
third sentence. The last oifense was steal
ing handkerchiefs from a clothes-ine at
Burlington
HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, the veteran Central
Vermont CONDUCTOR is again in hard luck
ne tlnbTBtu ldSl WEEK lTOU Il long lllutSS,
and had taken his train again. but last Mon
day he fell down the cellar stairs at his res
idence in Burlington, and received severe
internal injuries.
Mrs. RUTH RowELL of Bethel is to cee-
brate her ninetieth birthday February g..
She is a lineal descendant of Hannah Dustin
of Haverhill, Mass, who was captured and
whose child was killed by the Indians in
1858, and who killed and scalped ten of the
redskins while they were sleeping.
A NOTICE of the death of Judge Nor
man j. Allen of North Ferrisburg ap-
peared in the Free Press last Thursday, and
yet Judge Allen was not only not dead, but
had not been i'll. The judge observed
calmly, " If there is any actual bona fde
joke to be dug out of the affair. it rests upon
the Bristol undertaken who came here to get
the job of embalming my body"
The United States senate committee on
military affairs has ordered a favorable re-
port to be made on the bill introduced by
Senator Proctor to establish IN litary post
on the line of railway between Burlington
and Htghgate. The secretary of war is
authorized to have constructed all neces-
sary buildings for the new post out of any
appropriation available for that purpose.
The annual meeting of the Fair Ground
Railroad Company was held at White
River junction last Monday. James e..
Parker and William S. Dewey of Quechee,
Woodstock and George w. Smith of White
River Junction were elected directors.
George w Smith was chosen president and
James q. Porter vice president and super
intenient.
JAMES HOWARD, who died last week at
ST. Johnsbury, was supposed to have been
in humble circumstances, but his VIII rro-
vides for the disposition of nearly $40 600,
some S36 600 of which was in government
bonds. When the residue of his estate &C
cumulates to $4,000, Yale, Amherst and
Dartmouth colleges and the State Univers-
ity at Minneapolis, Mimi, are to have &c..
coo apiece, to found four scholarships.
BELLOWS FALLS has seventeen year-old
giant in Fred Smith He is six feet eight
inches tall, weighs 1874 pounds, measures
forty-three inches around the chest and
thirty-eight round the waist. A dime mu-
scum firm in Boston has offered him salary
OF 80 week. He wears seven one-half
hat and twelve shoe. His father is an or
binary sized man, but his mother weighs
go pounds and is more than six feet tall.
THE Woodbury. Granite Company, of
which w. III. Fullerton is the wide.awake
general manager, has taken the contract for
the big Gettysburg battle monument for the
the 10th Vermont. The monument is to
be a rustic boulder. On the front is carved
in bold relief the badge of the regiment.
The monument will stand nine feet high
and weigh about twenty tons. This will be
Lne nlteentn monument on the battlefield
OF Gettysburg from this quarry.
Domestic.
ERsKINE COLLEGE, at Duewest, 8. O.,
burned last Friday.
THE big Houston block at Malone, N. Y,
was burned last Wednesday,
A MAD dog ran amuck through Wood.
bridge, n. j., last week, and bit seven per.
sons.
A sLEIGHING party Of nine persons were
killed by train at q grade crossing at St
Louis last week.
PETER MAHER, the Irish pugilist, offers
to fight John L. Sullivan for 900 a side
and has put up forfeit Of 5000.
A Boston student has been ill with small
pox at his home in Salem, N. H., and thai
town is now bordering on hysteria.
The first rain in four years fell at Durango
Mex, last week. Although the long drought
ID broken, much suffering is yet in prospect
THE Maryland legislature has returned
United States Senator German for si1
years, and he will be accompanied by Sena
tors George and Walthall of Mississippi.
REV e. l.. PRATHER. a Presbyterian
clergyman Of Cumberland, Ill.,, has dis
graced his profession by immoral conduct