The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

Nicholas GuindOn OF BrlStOl were killed IN
a recent thunderstorm.
THE July meeting of the Rutland Driving
Park Association, last week, was attended
by large crowds and was very successful.
THREE log-drivers were caught by the
current and carried over the falls at Bellows
Falls, last week Thursday morning. Jack
Freeman, twenty one, was drowned. The
others were rescued, though badly injured
THE president has signed the private pen
sion bill giving a pension to Adeline
Alexander, widow of Thomas G. Alexan-
der, who was private in Company |, Thir-
teenth Vermont Regiment. The bill was
introduced by Congressman Circuit, last De-
cember.
JESSE Prescott, an aged farmer of High
gate, was recently robbed of $500 The
money was secreted in his bed and George
Moore neighbor, was suspected OF taxing
it. That same night Moore disappeared
and was arrested at st. Armand, Z. o., the
next day.
MICHAEL DESMOND and Will Austen were
driving on the country road in Weathers-
field, last week Wednesday evening, when
Desmond became unable to manage the
horse. The horse. carriage and driver were
preciptated fifteen feet down an embank-
ment. Desmonds arms and skull were
broken, and death ensued in few hours.
Desmond had been married about six weeks.
PENSIONS have been granted to the fol-
lowing Vermonters: Original, John E.
Bradish; additional, Newell q. Langley,
Zimri Lathrop, John d S. Olmstead, John
w. Pierce, Albert Hopkins increase, James
Conlin, Isaac j. Stearns, Michael McGrath,
George Minor, Charles E. Osgood, Henry
G. West, Freedom ID. Prescott; original,
widows, etc, Elbra E. Morse, Sophie j.
Royce.
THE chapel at the Soldiers Home at Ben
nington is complete except the furnishing.
10 loft nf fhn do fhafh ox
been given for its erection, and that will
be used toward the furnishing. The
Womans Relief Corps of Windsor has
given $40 80 for Bible. The Estey organ
works have given an organ, and some
money has been given toward bell. The
seating capacity Of the chapel is 100.
Domestic.
THREE cases of smallpox have been re-
ported on Block Island.
THREE hundred houses were destroyed in
a fierce fire at Bay City, Mich, on last Mon
day.
EX-GOVERNOR HENRY j. GARDENER of
Massachusetts died on Thursday Of last
week.
ORDER has been at last restored in the
Occur d'Alene district, Idaho, and the
troops are being withdrawn.
LIEUTENANT SYDNEY H. MAY of the
United States Navy committed suicide in
ANcW lOIh, Ou ldSJ WICK luuTSudN. ne
had been sufferer from the grip.
A GREAT many people were Frustrated by
the heat on Monday In many places the
thermometer registered 1902, and in Louis
vile, KY, it went as high as 1902
A FRIGHTFUL collision took place on the
York farm colliery at Pottsville, Penn,
about eleven o'clock Saturday morning, by
which a dozen men lost their lives and
number were injured
A al T ~
j., was burned, early last week Tuesday
morning. There were about $50 guests in
the house, and all escaped with their lives,
although panic occurred.
THE guests of the Cobb house at Sails
bury beach, Mass, were poisoned in some
way, on Saturday of last week, and five
deaths have resulted. A number of other
victims are expected to die. What the
cause of the poisoning was is yet uncertain,
but it is thought it may have been canned
goods.
WILLIAM A, STRICKLAND of Athlia, O., has
returned his pension check to attorneys, re-
questing them to return the check to the
government. Strickland claims to have
had an inspiration from the Lord informing
him that the pension money was a curse
and in future to reject it as blood money,
which he now does.
A NORTHERN PACIFIC conductor, named
Sloe, shot two men riding on the roof of an
express car on the trestle near Valley City.
n. d., last week. One died instantly and
the other was MORALLY wounded. The men
pulled the bell-rope to stop the train.
When the conductor ordered them to come
down they refused Both men were we'll
dressed
RECEIVER BEAL, of the Maverick bank,
boston, has received papers from Washing
ION ordering an assessment of $780, 900 on
the stockholders of the bank. The assess
10 for tIn f,,II Ill
IVo per cent on the par value of the stock.
rptter, Dana and French, the bankrupt
maverick directors, held large majority Of
Tue S40O, 900 worth of stock, and suits will
undoubtedly be brought against them to re-
cover the assessment.
IHE secretary of state announces that an
entirely cordial and mutually satisfactory
settlement has been reached between the
government of the United States and Chill,
respecting the indemnity to be paid by the
latter on account of the assault upon the
crew of the Baltimore" Seventy-fve
Thousand dollars in gold is to be distributed
among the families Of the two men who lost
their lives and to the surviving members of
the crew who were wounded.
AT Phoenix, near Oswego, N. Y, last Sat-
urday night, Deputy Sheriff Vickery and
Two officers attempted to attach the prop
erty of Downie & Gallagher's circus for
damage to a canal boat. The circus men
SPShoU ITO anu Out Vi bub OIHCtTS anu
one OF the circus men were dangerously
wounded. The officers were driven off but
villagers went to the boats, overpowered
the circus men and dragged twelve of them
TO the lookup. 1t is thought the two in
Jured men will die.
Foreign.
THE whole Roumanian frontier is closed to
traffic with Russia on account of the cholera
in that country.
The village of Polezella, in northern
Italy, was almost wiped out of existence by
cyclone, last week.
THE captain of the Inman steamer I" City
OF Chicago" has been censured by the
Liverpool board of trade for running his
vessel ashore.
IT is stated that Andrew Carnegie con-
tributed $1,000 toward the election expenses
of Mr.. Wardie, labor candidate for parlia-
ment who was elected.
HENRY B. RYDER, United States con sui
at Copenhagen, has been arrested, charged
with fraud in connection with the liquida-
ton of testamentary estate
Nothing Too Big.
Tho abouy 10 .,;t III