The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
Summary OF News.

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Fairfax was burned last Thursday.
The little daughter Of David Carey OF
Brattleboro broke her collar-bone while
coasting.
A. A. EARLE, the well-known Vermont
newspaper man, is suffering from acute
dementia.
JAMES KIMBALL, express agent at West
Burke, was killed by freight train last
Wednesday.
Rutland was fatally scalded, last week, by
capsizing pail of boiling water.
FRANK p. MAINTAIN of Bethel is in Wood
stock Jail, charged with eight years crimi-
nal intimacy with his two daughters.
THE business of the Union Savings Bank
of Morrisville has increased from $50 600 to
S135,O00-a big gain for short period.
To break leg is bad enough, but to
break it in eight places, as William Barnes
OF North Shrewsbury did, is tough indeed.
FREIGHT TRAIN from Bellows Falls
broke apart at Healdville, last Thursday,
and when the sections came together two
cars were thrown from the track.
WILL HOWARD was SNOWFALL at Wood
stock by dozen young hoodlums. A hard
ball struck his glasses, and some thirty
pieces of glass lodged in his eyes.
EDWARD s. FONDA Of Rupert was one of
the guests of the Hotel ROYAL. New York at
served his presence of mind and his life.
A BURGLAR entered the store OF o. ID.
Gard of Pownal last Wednesday. A. Clark,
who was sleeping in the store, woke up and
fred two shots at the thief who moved off
The new Masonic hall at Richmond,
which cost $4,000, was dedicated last Thurs
day by officers of the Vermont grand lodge.
Kittridge Haskins of Brattleboro made the
address.
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are Caleb F. Tufts, Chauncey II.
Amadon, George Bartlett, Betsey l.. John
son, William B. Bohonon, Albion o. Kid
der, Richard Roberts and Samuel Bowling.
ALPHoNsE CHAoUETrE of Ferrisburg has
been sentenced to state prison for life, with
hard labor attached. Chaquette was con-
victed in Addison county court, last August,
of the murder of Frederick Collette, his
deadly rival"
THE Vermont International Telegraph
Company held its annual meeting at st.
Johnsbury, last Wednesday, and reelected
its old board of officers. as follows: Frank
lin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, president;
George w .Hendee Of Morrisville, secretary;
Il. A Silsby of st. JOhnsbury treasurer and
general manager.
MRS. NJ X. PAINE of Windsor has been
elected president OF the National Woman's
Home Missionary Union, which is to meet
at Washington, ID. c., May "a, in connection
with the annual meeting of the American
Home Missionary Society. Mrs. Paine has
been secretary of the Vermont branch of
the Woman's Home Missionary Union since
its organization.
FoRTy-THREE of the graduates of the
University of Vermont gathered at the
Parker house, Boston, last Thursday even
ing, and elected the following officers
President, e. Fl. Bennett of Boston; vice
presidents, III. o. Houghton, Rev. N. G.
Clark and DIR. f. W. Page of Boston, G. G.
Benedict of Burlington, G. A. Catln of
Providence, R. l.; secretary, NJ E. Shedd
of Boston; treasurer w. w. Stone of Bos-
tom chaplain, Rev. E. H. Byington of Bos-
ton; executive committee, G. N. Carpenter
D. D. Dewey and G. p. Thayer of Boston,
T. p. w. Rogers of Manchester, N. H., W.
b. Gates of Burlington.
Domestic.
The lunatic asylum at Jackson, Mich.
was burned last week. One patient was
burned to death.
The whaling bark Tamerlane from New
Bedford with eighteen men was lost on one
of the Sandwich islands, on February.
JAMES FERRIS accidentally shot William
Landregan, his chum, at Lynn, Mass, last
Friday. Didn't know it was loaded"
POLICE JUSTICE PATRICK DIVER, lead
ing Tammany sachem, was black balled by
the Democratic Club of New York last week
COLONEL j. b. SIMPSON, solid man of
Dallas, Tex, has disappeared. He is charged
with numerous crooked transactions and
rascalities.
JAMES HARMON, leading politician, was
shot dead by Chief of Police Hackett during
row at primary meeting in Tarrytown,
N Y, last Wednesday.
GARGA, the outlaw of Mexico and Texas,
is supposed 10 be somewhere in the chapar-
raj. II caught either in the United States
or Mexico, he is doomed to execution.
HARRY p. ENTwIsrLE was sentenced at
Ia.,
in state prison for murderous assault upon
Maria Clegg. When the sentence was pro-
nounced Harry yelled and screeched, and
Maria tainted plumb away.
DAVID DUNHAM WITHERs, Americas
greatest turfman, died at New York last
week. His breeding establishment, Brook
dale, was the model of the land, and the
race-course at Monmouth Park which he
planned and superintendent is the grandest
in the world.
REV. N. H. MARTIN, for fifteen years
Clergyman at Chatham, Ont, disappeared
last week, on the eve of his wedding with
aprOminent lady OF his congregation. After
his fight another lady stated that arrange
ments had been made for a secret marriage
between her and the rector.
A TRAGEDY occurred at Cannes, France
last Wednesday which has convulsed the
social world of two countries. Edward Park
Deacon returned home unexpectedly, and
found Mrs. Deacon with NJ. Emile Abeille,
wealthy bachelor OF Paris. He shot the
Frenchman dead. Mr.. and Mrs. Deacon
were Bostonians, well known in all the
fashionable circles of this country, and were
also leaders in continental society
THE WATCHMAN's news columns a few
weeks ago contained an item about Michael
b. Mccarthy of New York, former Boston
policeman. Mccarthy fell off an electric
car in Boston, struck on his head, and was
unconscious for several days. When he
"came to " his respiration had increased
from the normal eighteen to one hundred
sixty.two a minute. He breathed like a
steam engine, and his throat was raw. For
three years he lived in that condition, and
then consulted the doctors of Bellevue hos
pital New York. They pronounced his
case hopeless To-day Mccarthy is fully
restored. His benefactor is Rev. Thomas
Adams, a suspended priest, who cured him
by the touch Of sacred relics.
The late beautiful aurora caused a
mournful pang to Inventor Edison. He
mourned because his big iron mine in
Morris county, n. j., was in such an ex-
posed situation that the wind had knocked
down all his ring of iron poles and so his