The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-13
Summary OF News.


drowned at Westford last week.
THE steam mill and chair.stock factory
of j. j. Duane, in Landgrove, burned last
week.
WILLIE, son of William Henry of Morris
Vile, was drowned in Lamoille river, last
Thursday.
THOUSANDS of acres between Proctor and
Middebury on Otter Creek were under
water last week.
BENNINGTON is to have a $4,000 opera
house, to he built by Henry w. Putnam of
Bennington and New York.
PosToFFICE has been established at
Copperfeld formerly Ety. with Miss Alice
Farnham as postmistress.
THE dwelling barn, two horses and lot
of farming tools, owned by Cassius Warner
in Panton, burned last Wednesday.
THE old Gregory homestead in Ferris
burgh, occupied by John Newton, burned
last week Wednesday, with the outbuild-
ings.
A LARGE barn belonging to j. Van Sick
! len, large tenement house, a wagon and
| four horses were burned at Burlington, last
! Wednesday.
Lon A. KIMBALL, a Randolph boy, and
brother of Colonel r. j. Kimball, has been
| appointed one of the commissioners to the
! Worlds Fair from New South Wales, Aus
tralia.
THE railroad commissioners had a hearing
at Barton Landing, last week, on complaint
of Daniel Skinner against the Boston &
Maine railroad, Passumpsic division, re-
garding the issuing of student Communication
| tickets. Decision was reserved.
L. d. HAzEN and G. II. Stevens of St.
Johnsbury, with New Hampshire lumber
men, have formed the Saco Valley Lumber
Company with a capital of 100000. The
company will cut 100,000,0 900 feet of lumber
in the Saco valley in New Hampshire.
WILLIAM YOUNG, who escaped from Rut-
land officers, last December, after being ar
rested for larceny, was captured few days
ago at Brattleboro, where he was masquer-
aiding as a nice young man. He was to
have joined the Congregational church the
day following that on which he was arrested
The store of A. G. Parker & Son at
Pownal was entered by burglars, last
Wednesday morning, and an attempt was
made to blow open the safe. The burglars
were surprised by Mr.. Parker, who sum-
moned number of villagers to his aid. A
running fight took place, several ineffective
volleys being exchanged. The thieves es-
capped, leaving a fine assortment of tools
NATHAN HALE died in Redlands, Cal, last
week. aged sixty-nine years. He was ma
tive OF Chelsea, graduated from the Uni
versity of Vermont in 1916, and from An
dover in 1851. Shortly afterward he went
as missionary to California. Returning to
Vermont, he settled in Poultney as Congre-
gational pastor, and subsequently at home.
He returned to California about ten years
ago.
A SON of II. ii. Barnes of New York city
wandered away from home while temper
arily insane, and was found by his father in
St. Adams last Wednesday. The clue
which started Mr.. Barnes for Vermont was
a scrap of paper found among the boys
of all the stations between New York and
st. Adams, but written in ink were the
words st. Adams and Sheldon"
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: observation-disclosures L. Graves,
George L. Twitchel, Albert Willard, Sarah
A. French, Lewis Reno, Charles f. Bourne,
Lucian Parker John L. Smell, Euphemie
Joseph p. Dexter, S. S. Chase, Roswell
Sherman, Edwin A. Howe, Levi Gree n ;
increase-Horace Trask, John Mclaughlin,
Edwin w. Reed, Alden Balch, Freeman
L. Titus, G. H. Emerson, Joseph G. John
son, l.. p. Putfer, Amos f. Nichols, Ransom
Hall, w. j. Rogers, Franklin White; re-
issue-Francis NJ. Nash, Francis B. Staples
ADDITIONAL Daniel Clark.
IT is now believed that Julius Macarthur,
who murdered Deputy Sheriff Smith of
New Hampshire, in May, 1891 and who
escaped from Dover Jail the following July,
alias George Simpson, alias George A. Still
well, formerly of Fredericton, n. b., once a
Baptist minister and later a burglar, horse
thief, incendiary, forger and bigamist. Nc
Arthur stole horse at Enosburgh, this
state, and attempted to murder the officer
who arrested him. He has had startling
criminal record. He preached at one time in
East Cambridge, Mass, and wrote for the
Christian Register and the Waterman.
Domestic.
THE life of Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, the New
| York reformer has been threatened. The
doctor is afraid he will be killed on the
street at night.
PETER Emo drunken, worthless wretch,
brutally murdered his faithful wife at Law
renee, Mass, last week He was captured
after quite a search.
THE remains of newly born child were
thrown from the New York express near
st. Armand, p. O., last Thursday morning.
The unnatural mother could not be found.
JAMES TAYLOR, the enterprising bigamist,
whose amorous nature led him to contract
marriage with sixty-one women, was dis
charged from Jail at New York, last week,
upon legal techncaities.
THE Northwest had blizzard last week
| There was much suffering in Nebraska and
South Dakota Kansas had another tor
nado, which demolished houses and killed
several people. The West is great coun-
try.
DURING the recent cyclone in Kansas a
cow was lifted from the ground, carried to
the top of house and deposited on the an
gle of the roof, where she could neither fall
nor be taken down. So they had to 60 up
on the roof and kill her.
PARTIES who went in search of the two
negroes who had assaulted Postmaster
Browns daughter at Lithonia, Ca, have
returned, and report that there was no use
in any further pursuit, as the two men
were "lost." What this means is generally
understood.
SIX picturesque young women were ar
rested near Salmon Falls, Idaho last week,
charged with being stage robbers. While
engaged in the romantic act Of holding up a
stage driver they wore male attire. The
girls say their father compelled them to be-
come bandits.
ADRIAN OsTRoM of Tomkins, n. Y, is a
hustler. He is the father of twenty-seven
children, twenty by one wife. These
twenty consisted of ten pairs of twins. Os-
from and his interesting family should be
sent to the Worlds Fair as a specimen of
one of Americas infant industries.
MICHAEL CURRY of Port Griffith, Pa,
committed suicide, last week, by a unique
but effective method. He crawled into a
hollow tree, and placed three large sticks OF
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