The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-15
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

Vermont.
BURLINGTON will support ball team dur
ing the summer months
SENATOR PROCTOR has been at home
during the Minneapolis convention.
THE anniversary exercises of the Lyndon
Institute, Lyndon, occur on June II, 10, IA,
10 and 49,
THE semi-annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut valley conference of Unitarian churches
was held at Brattleboro, on last week
Thursday.
THE Young Peoples Societies of Christian
Endeavor of Chittenden county met in con-
vention at Shelburne, on Wednesday OF
last week.
The sixth annual convention of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the
Burlington district of the Troy conference
was held at Rutland, on Tuesday of last
week. The attendance was large.
THE secretary of war has awarded u
medal of honor to Colonel G.. G. Benedict
of Burlington, for gallant conduct at the
battle of Gettysburg while acting as an aide
de.camp on the staff of General Stannard.
THE republicans of Proctor raised a Har-
rison flag at quarter of six o'clock, last week
Friday 1t was probably the first large
flag in the state to be thrown to the breeze
in honor of the denomination of Senator
Proctor's friend and Vermont's choice.
THESE Vermont veterans have recently
received pensions: Original, Alvah Hub
bard, Caleb II. Barnheart, Frank Goodro
Sidney Brown, Morton A. Ives, Henry II.
Woodbury., James b. Scully, Nelson Wash.
burne, Eugene Mccarthy; increase, Charles
Burgoine, George w. Batchelder, Roswell
Reed William S Carpenter, Orson Wood
cock, Warren Simpson, Patrick Calligan
Lorenzo Dow, Ira Pierce, James 2. Squires
additional, Samuel s. Page, Stephen c.
Wyman; reissue, Edward Murphy; re.
issue and increase, Wilder Magoon; origi-
nal widows, etc, Abbie j. Miller, Francis
NJ. Churchill, brother of Dwight B. How
land
RUTLAND was thrown into excitement,
on Friday of last week, by a fight be-
tween L. n. Franklin, special state prose
cutor, and James Beattie, overseer of the
poor, in which Mr.. Beattie was badly
beaten with a stone cutters mallet and
chise in the hands of the prosecutor, a bad
cash being cut just below the right temple
and extending down the cheek. The left
cheek was also badly bruised. Rumor has
it that the difficulty grew out of a com.
plant made to Prosecutor Franklin by Rev.
G. w. Guernsey, chaplain at the house OF
correction, and three women, this com.
plant alleging that a woman called upon
Overseer Beattie for town aid that he made
indecent proposals to her as a condition OF
assisting her, and that Mr.. Franklin had
called at the overseers Office to talk the
matter over with him. Hard words en-.
Sueu anu Iue uBul rtSulleu
Domestic.
COLONEL L. l. POLK, president of the
Farmers Alliance, died at Washington, on
Saturday.
THE bodies of forty-nine victims of the
Oil Creek disaster have been found, and
several are missing.
SENATOR NJ. S. QUAY has resigned as a
member of the national republican COM
mittee from Pennsylvania.
EIGHTY-FIvE cantons of the Patriarchs
Militant were represented in the great pa
rade at Springfield, Mass, on last week
Thursday.
AMHERST, Dartmouth and Williams col
leges sent delegates to Greenfield, Mass,
on last week Thursday, and a new foot ball
association, consisting of these three col
leges, was formed.
Mr.. BLAINE last week sent a commune
cation to the New York World denying that
he or anyone for him had ever paid Mary
Nevins Blaine any money for alleged let
tiers which she held.
The Almy case was called up before the
New Hampshire supreme court, on Wednes-
day of last week, by Encouragement East
man. The point under consideration is the
constitutionality of the trial of Amy by the
court instead of jury. The murderer s
counsel wished to have the arguments made
at the December law term The full bench
will hear the case on July IL.
THE Massachusetts house of representa-
tives has referred to the next legislature
the bill which provides for the immediate
winding up of endowment orders in that
state. In connection with this vote, two
members of the house testify to an investi-
eating committee that Horace X. Osborne
offered to each 800 for his vote for the
Cape Cod canal bill, and $50 for his vote to
refer the endowment bill to the next legis-
lature.
Foreign.
The special famine committee says the
condition of things in Russia in the past
winter has not been so bad as reports have
made it, The committee speak in praise OF
the charitable gifts from America.
A DISPATCH from Valencia, Venezuela,
says that government forces and the revo.
lutionists have fought another battle, and
the latter again have been victorious. The
scene of the fight was few miles from Va
lencia.
TUEsDAY.-The house passed the bill adj
hitting Arizona and New Mexico to state
hood.
WEDNEsDAY.-The house passed the agri
cultural appropriation bill.
THURsDAY.-The senate passed the ur.
gent deficiency bill, appropriating over
S7,0O0,000, without word of debate
MoNDAY.-Mr. PETER addressed the sen
ate on his bill to increase the currency, re-
duce rates of interest and establish loan
bureaus.