The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-09
Summary OF News.

building memorial hall.
LUTHER HUNT of New Haven, a farmer,
hanged himself last Friday.
THE house of Albert Wood, near Bran
don, was burned last Wednesday.
SPRINGFIELD has voted $4,000 in aid Of
the proposed Black River railroad.
THE Morning Call is Rutland's latest
newspaper, issued from the NelCS office.
THE lighthouse of G.. A. Baker OF Bran
don was burned, with its contents, last
Thursday.
THE annual convention and tournament
of the Vermont Firemen's Association will
be held in Middlebury, June 30 and 3d. with
$500 in prizes
PROFESSOR ARTHUR FAIRBANKS of St.
Johnsbury, has been appointed lecturer ON
social ethics and the philosophy OF religion
at the Yale divinity school.
GEORGE CLoGsToN of Sharon was last
week sentenced in the United States court
to four months in the house of correction,
for Illicit distilling OF cider brandy.
The people of Milton on town meeting
morning found an effigy hanging up with
the legend thereon: "a. Zero Ashley, the
great temperance reformer. Here i am,
ready for any office"
THE comptroller of the currency has APP
pointed Isaac NJ. Smith of McIndoes Falls
receiver of the First National Bank of
Deming and of the First National Bank OF
Silver City, both in New Mexico.
AN ice yacht, on which were five persons,
ran into an opening in the ice on Lake
Champlain off Charlotte, Saturday after
noon, and fifteen. year-old son of Hon. ID.
w. Palmer, of Essex, n. Y. was drowned.
In the United States district court Charles
W. Barnes of Corinth pleaded guilty to il
licit cider brandy transactions, and was SEN
fenced to thirty days Imprisonment and a
fine OF a 500. Samuel Draffn of Lincoln
was fined $500 for taking excessive fees as
pension agent
VERMoNTBRs who have lately received
pensions are: Original-Lorenzo G. Bar
rett, Londus f. Terrill, John T. Knowlton,
Mary j. Colby, minors of Richard Parsons
and of Loren Chapel, Holmes Cushman,
James n. Ingalls,, George f. Washburn, A.
Brown, George M. Curl, Lucy Ann Hart
NELL Abigail NJ. Wakefield. Ann Green
Bowers, Marshall Ladoo, Thomas Garrotti,
Mehan Austin, Hiram A. Kelsey. In
crease-Jonathan p. Davis.
Domestic.
The New York republican state conven-
ton will be held in Albany on April 2S.
THE famous Hopkins-Searles will contest
has been settled out of court. Timothy Hop
kins accepts the modest sum of S3,OOO,0OO.
RICHARD NJ. DRUHAN and George Wells,
notorious burglars escaped from the state
prison at Charlestown, Mass, last Friday.
THE jury at New York that was called to
pass judgment on the sanity of e. M. Field
agreed to disagree, last Saturday, and he
was discharged.
Colon Ell ROBERT G. INGERsoLL has begun
suit for Islander against Rev DIR. G. Dixon
of Brooklyn. He claims that DIR. Dixon
charged him with being champion of i'm
pure literature.
ROBERT FITzsIMMoNs, the New Zealander
last week knocked out Peter Maher, the
Irish champion, at New Orleans. After
the brutal battle both men shook hands
and congratulated each other on being
alive.
REV. HENRY PEREIRA MENDRs, promi-
nent New York rabbi, was shot and badly
wounded in his own doorway last Satur-
day night by beggar to whom he had re-
fused to give 500. Jose Messachki, an
Arabian or Turk, is suspected.
IT was fearful weather along the Atlantic
coast last week Monday, in some sections
the worst in years The gallant rescue of
the British steamer "Akaba by the Getty
of Birmingham" off the Hatteras shoals.
was another laurel in the wreath worn by
Americas jolly tars.
PHILLIPS & CASEY, printers, and j. Van
Buskirk, wholesale liquor dealer, were
burned out at Rouses' Point, n. Y, last
Thursday. The printing Office was com
plete loss, and 100 are thrown out OF EN-.
ployment, but the gratifying announcement
is made that large share of the liquor was
saved.
DR.. H. w. SCUDDER, son of the former
pastor of Plymouth church, and son-in-law
OF f. H. Dunton, proprietor of Spirit Of the
Turf, has been arrested at Chicago charged
with the murder of Mr.. Dunton's wife,
whose death took place February q. Mrs.
Dunton's death was supposed TO have been
caused by injuries received in falling from
her chair, but it is now claimed that she
was struck on the head with club by DR..
Scudder, who had previously induced her
to make a WILL leaving 100000 to Scudder's
wife, who was an adopted daughter Of Mrs.
Dunton.
JAMES G. BLAINE recently wrote a strong,
dignited, manly letter to Rev. Father
Doucy, charging him with being responsible
for the unhappy outcome of the marriage of
young Blaine and Marie Nevins. The latter
has now had her inning" She has written
an open letter TO Secretary Blaine, asking
him to do her the justice of publishing in
connection with his personal statement"
the full text of her letters to young Blaine,
extracts from which were printed in the
secretary's statement. She says that If Mr.
Blaine fails to respond in ten days she will
herself publish the substance Of their con-
tents and also will publish letters from
young Blaine to her. She claims the letters
will show young Blaine was no weakling.
She asserts that Mr. Blaine knows that his
charges against her regarding the marriage
are unfounded.
THREE hundred miners are reported
drowned in a flooded pit at St. Etenne,
France.
BY a railroad collision near Cuyambuea,
Brazil February %, more than fifty per-
sons were killed. and large number in
jured.
Two hundred seal-hunters were driven
off the shore at St. Johns n. F., by fierce
breeze, and ten of them were afterward
found frozen to death, with thirteen re-
ported as missing
REVOLUTION is apparently approaching
in Greece King George is condemned for
usurpation in deposing Premier Delyan-
MIS-" The military and naval forces are
ready for trouble.
WHILE murder trial was being held at
Wagpur, the capital of the Central Indian
provinces, the prisoner seized Ratchet
which had been used in the commission OF
the crime and made an assault on Judge
Venner nficting severe scalp wound.
THE Cologne Gazette is being prosecuted
for criticising the recent expressions of the
emperor of Germany, and the entire issue OF
the FrankJurter Zeitung was conhscated on a
charge of treason. The freedom of the