The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-18
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

master at Pomfret.
THE railroad station at Hyde Park was
recently robbed of SIG in cash.
THE Fee Will Baptist quarterly meeting
begins at South STAFFORD, June 3.
CHARLES ALGER, a leading citizen Of Bur-
lington, died suddenly last week Thursday.
ARCHIE HENDERSON of WinooslSi had his
right hand mangled in a rip.saw, last
Friday.
THE house of G. j. Bowker of st. Johns
bury was entered by burglars last week,
and few things stolen.
II. b. DAVIS has sold the Lvndonville
Journal to Messrs. Bullock and Wells, two
young men from Newport.
THE unoccupied buildings on the Edwin
Bugbee farm in Concord were burned a few
days since, probably by an incendiary.
EX.JUDGE DAVID Il. NICHOLSON we'll
known resident of Rutland, was killed last
Monday by being thrown from his carriage.
B. g. HOWE, proprietor of the Avenue
house. St. Johnsbury, has bought the st.
Johnsbury house for $4,000 and will run
both houses.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT of Barnet was careless
In handling rifle, and the little daughter
OF Charles A. Peck was shot in the neck and
seriously injured.
o. L. PATRICK died at Windsor, last
week, in a strangely sudden manner. An
autopsy showed seven orange seeds lodged
in the intestnes.
DR.. H. E. HUNT has fed from Hines
burgh. He was charged with enticing small
boys into retired places for immoral pur-
poses and the authorities got after him.
EDDIE McCUTcHEN of St. Johnsbury is the
latest ddn' t-know-it-was -loaded " youth.
Five-year- old Lydia Wheelock is, as a con-
sequence, nursing a very much damaged
head.
The store of Alfred B. French of Hart
ford was broken into, last Friday night and
a quantity of small jewelry stolen. 1t was
doubtless the work Of amateurs in the noble
art of burglary.
TUNBRIDGE is preparing to profit by the
present strike in Barre. The owners of the
Brocklebank hill property intend to open
quarries and offer granite-workers special
Inducements to locate there.
THE candidacy of Frank L. Greene of st.
Adams for commander of the Vermont
division of the Sons of Veterans seems to
be meeting with favor among the members
OF the order in the state.
MRS. E. LYDE and daughters, Dora and
Elsie Leslie, who have won such fame in
Little Lord Fauntleroy and 1.-THE Prince
and Pauper," have arrived at their cottage
at Lake st. Catherine, Rutland county, for
the summer.
THE safe in the Jones grist mill at St.
JOHDSDurY was DlOWn open, ldSJ friday
night, and an iron till containing 81 900 in
negotiable notes, bank books and deeds
was stolen. Frank Jones of Worcester,
Mass, and Bryant Stowe of st. Johnsbury
were arrested for the burglary.
WILLIAM c. HEATING, alias Red Austin
and half dozen other cognomens, was ar
rested at Schenectady, last Thursday,
charged with assisting in the escape Of Tom
O'Brien, the bunco king. Heating is I'M
doubleday one of the men who buncoed Mr..
Hewitt and Mr.. Wright in Addison county,
as narrated in this column two weeks ago.
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: Original-Henry A. Porter,
Joseph R. Smith, Edward Bird Edward j.
Hamblet, minors of William Rye, minors
of Sullivan R. Church, Robert Meseroy,
Charles Dickey, Samuel w. Hudson, Daniel
Duffy, George Peake, William Butterfly
Samuel j. Randall, Byron g. Barber; Joseph
Hicks Gather; Frank A. Johnson, Angus
tus R. Stone, Cyrus B. Hall, William M.
Convey. John S. Tilton, Edward Bedding,
Harry I. Bennett, Luther Penniman,
Charles d. Wakefield, William L. Blake,
George L. Brown, John s. Jilson, Belinda
Bishop, Mary Provencia; increase-Charles
"; Howe, Henry T: Peck. Francis F. Cook,
John Traverse; Authorization Calvin;
restoration-John Bean.
JUDGE GLEASON, receiver OF all the prop
critics in controversy in the Smith Ely and
Ely copper mine suit, has begun to pay the
bondholders and various classes of creditors.
The funds arising from the sale OF the prop
erty have been deposited with the Bradford
Savings Bank and Trust Company for the
past four years, and he makes his payments
by checks upon that bank the unfortunate
claimants receiving from two to eight per
cent dividends. This great loss is due
mainly to the fall in the price of copper in
1888, and the consequent depreciation in
the value of the copper mines and smelling
w oh m ta1
to be worth S1000,0O0 in 1880, was sold by
the receiver on January II, 1888, for $36, 800.
Mr.. Krause, the purchaser, is now employ
ing about IT'S men upon the property.
Domestic.
BY frightful collision OF passenger trains
near Gloves, Ohio, last Sunday, five per-
sons were killed and more than dozen in
jured
AT the annual meeting of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company last week the
Vanderbilt interests secured control of the
board.
THE lumber drive down the Connecticut
river, this year, will be only about one
third the usual amount. Higher prices for
lumber are predicted.
THE floods along the Mississippi were at
high tide last week. A dispatch from St.
Louis on Thursday stated that the Missis-
sippi was at higher stage than it had been
for ten years.
AN italian society exists, or has existed,
in New York called "Magaro," which
claims to be in league with the devil, and
which has made money by selling his curses
and freedom from his ill-will to the ignor-
ant dupes of that nationality. Two of the
leading officials of the society are now in
Jail, and many Of the cheated dagos are
sharpening their stilettos.
THE great bridge across the Mississippi
river at Memphis, Tenn, which has just
been dedicated with impressive ceremonies,
is the third largest structure of the kind in
the world. 1t required nearly four years
to build, it is three.quarters of a mile long,
and has five spans. the longest of which is
nearly 800 feet. 1t is constructed of iron
and steel, and cost in the neighborhood of
100000.
ETIENNE DEsCHAMPs was hanged at New
Orleans, last Friday, for the murder of
Juliette Dietsch. The case has aroused
remarkable interest because of the desper-
ate efforts made to prevent the hanging,
and threats, on the other hand, that if Des-
champs was not legally hanged he should
be lynched He was tried twice and con-
victed each time. The supreme court over
ruled the first verdict The board of par
dons respited him twice on the reports of