The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17
Summary OF News.


tol were arrested, last week, charged WIN |
shooting at Mrs. f. w Labor.
THE Vermont Holiness Association has
been holding a campmeeting on the old |
willsboro campground, near Plattsburgh,
NY.
LAST week Wednesday night two barns
and two sheds at Lyndonville, full OF hay.
and grain and owned by Curtis Frasier OF
East Burke were burned, having been
struck by lightning.
GEORGE f. COLE, formerly a compositor
on the Burlington free Press, ana W Maw
York city, last Thursday. He leaves
widow and one child.
WILLIAM LACY OF Clintonville. n; y,
was arrested at Bristol, on last week Ihurs,
day, on a requisition from the governor OF
New York. He was charged with horse-
stealing and burglary.
Don C. Francisco, twelve years old, OF
Rutland, won the first prize Of 800 offered
by Harper'S Young People to amateur Pho
tographers. The winning picture IL flUts-
ford landscape, showing river and noun
tains.
THE Burlington cadets have voted to at
tend the annual state muster They have
arranged to mess with Company A of Rut-
land. This will be the first time in over
five years that Burlington has been repre-
sented at the state muster.
FRANK H. KNowLToN of this state has
resigned as one Of the assistant paleon-
tologists connected with the United States
geological survey. His and other resigna-
tions were made necessary because congress
failed to make an appropriation for con-
tinung the work.
EIGHTEEN Chinese laborers passed through
Richford. one day last week, destined for
Cuba They were taken across the United
States in bond for export at New York
The Canadian Pacific railroad has hereto
1N1 IL, xvtn IIA1t
Large numbers are expected to follow
AN unknown man was struck and killed
by train, one night last week, near the
Decker crossing, Swanton. The body lay
upon the track through the night and was
run over by the numerous trains, and was
literally torn to fragments. portion OF
the remains were carried through to ST.
Adams on one of the engines.
Hon. W. G. SHAW of Burlington died on
Tuesday of last week, which happened to be
the sixty-first anniversary of his birth. He
was a graduate of the University of Yer
mont. In 1862 and 1868 he represented Bur
lington in the legislature, and he was after
wards reporter of the supreme court. For
three years he was Judge of Burlington city
court. He was one of Burlington's most
prominent citizens. widow. the daughter
of Bishop Bissell, and two children survive.
THE works of the Harris Manufacturing
Company at Rutland were struck by light
ming anu partly nuVutu, ldSb WEEK w tlutS-
day evening. The works employed seventy
five men, and were chiefly devoted to chair
making and miscellaneous woodworking.
The loss is about $4,000 with $4,000
insurance. The buildings were alongside
the Central Vermont track and build
ings, and storehouse containing bridge
timber and a lumber shed belonging to the
road, were burned. The loss to the railroad
company is about $4,000. But for heavy
shower the loss must have been consider
ably larger,
THERE was a scare in New York last
week. over a number of new cases of small
pox.
HOMESTEAD is quiet, but troops still re-
main. Knold, one of the arrested anar-
chsts, has been released on bail.
Miss LIZZIE BORDEN, daughter of the VIC
tins of the Fall River murder, has been ar
rested on suspicion of being the murderer.
JOHN G. WARWICK. the democrat who de-
feated Governor Mckinley for congress at
the last election, died at Washington on
Sunday.
AT Nashua N. H.. Ernest Nye, aged six
teen, shot and killed his sister Maude, aged
fourteen, at their home last week. The
deed was done with rifle, which the boy
did not know was loaded.
FoREPAUGH's circus lost about $4,000
through a storm which struck the tent at
IHb ClOSb u bu6 dlJeTuuOu az
Cohoes, n. Y, last week Tuesday. There
was no evening performance
ELEVEN Occur d'Alene rioters were last
week convicted of contempt of court in vio-
lating the injunction restraining them from
interfering with mine-owners. The sem
fences were from four to eight months each.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN of Tennessee is be-
ing severely denounced for committing the
sentence of Colonel HI. Clay King from
hanging to life imprisonment. Colonel
King murdered David II Posten, last March.
The strike of the building trades in New
York city. which kept 10000 men idle for
two weeks, was declared off last week. The
walking delegates lost control of the situa-
ton, and it was only question OF time
when they would fail.
THOMAS RILEY, bell boy at the Hotel
Manisses, Block Island, jumped from a
window while sick with smallpox and died
from his injuries. The parents claim that
he was unnecessarily exposed to the small
pox, and they sue for $4,000 damages.
JUDGE j. c. NoRMoYLE of the st. Louis
criminal court committed suicide, last week,
by taking poison. In a note he said he
could not kill Florence d. White, whose
paper had unjustly criticised the admins
tration of the court. He preferred suicide
to murder
Foreign.
VENEZUELA is reported to be in state OF
anarchy.
DISPATCHES report general uprising OF
the Arabs of Central Africa against white
domination and opposition to the slave
trade.
UN1TEs STATES CONSUL RYDER, under ar
rest at Copenhagen, charged with misap.
propriating 100000 kroners, has confessed
himself guilty of ENLIGHTENMENT and forgery
THE house of commons voted mo conf.
dence" in the conservative ministry, last
week Thursday evening. The ministry has
resigned, and Mr.. Gladstone has been asked
to form new one.
THE Stars and Stripes which, with a
Union Jack. were unfurled near Port Stan
ley, Ont, by a party of campers from
Youngstown, Ohio, was hauled down, last
week Wednesday night, by some ultra
loyal citizens and torn to pieces.
AT Trebizond. Asia Minor, crowd Of
persons confined in a lazarette, because they
either had cholera or had been exposed tc
it, attempted to gain their freedom. They
were fred on by the Turkish troops, anc
eight were killed and thirty-four wounded
New York State Dairy Exhibit.