The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30
Summary OF News.


WILLARD JAouIrH, old and very deaf,
was killed by the cars at North Thetford
last week Wednesday.
MRS. ALPHEus B. JOY of Underhill at
tempted suicide by shooting herself twice
through the head with revolver.
EZEKIEL GARDNER, representative from
Brunswick in the legislature OF 1890,
dropped dead, last week, in his shed.
ONE Loverin and Mrs. Joshua Farrand of
Ellen were prosecuted for alleged adultery,
but were discharged for lack Of evidence
DAVID RAwsoN of Monkton was killed in
the railroad yard at Rutland while trying to
board a freight-train. He had been drink
ing
A. e. HoYT has been appointed postmas-
ter at West Arlington, f. s. Jackway at
West Haven, and W. w. Macia at Sheldon
Springs.
CHARLES w. SMITH of Enosburgh Falls
has been sent TO the house of correction for
11S days for stealing watch from Charles
Mitchell.
G. ID. ABELL, station agent at Orwell,
sustained fracture of the leg and a lot of
bruises, last week Thursday, by barrel of
kerosene falling on him.
LEVI WHEELocK of Lowell committed
suicide by taking paris green during sup
posed fit of insanity. A brother has been
in the insane asylum for several years.
THE excursion of the Vermont Press
Association this year is to be through the
| White Mountains to Portland, Maine,
thence to Old Orchard beach. The date of
starting is set for July 8.
GEORGE w. STANTON, missing from Rut
land for three years and given up by his
parents as dead, turned up in Rutland last
week. He has been working for the past
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teen, helper on Boston mail wagon was
killed last Wednesday while riding under
the arcbway at the post. office, his hand be-
ing crushed between the top of the wagon
and the archway.
ED TRUE recently stole horse from one
Jones of North Troy, and sold it in Iras-
burgh to Taplin & Rowell. Before Jones
learned what had become of his horse it
had been again sold to down-country
parties. This is True's second offence.
RoLLIN WHITE, who claimed to be the
inventor OF the Smith Wesson revolver, died
at Lowell, Mass, last week A bill to give
him possession of the invention was passed
by congress and vetoed by President Grant.
White was born in Williamstown in 1919.
Domestic.
Walt Whitman, the poet, died at Phila-
delphia, Pa, last Saturday evening.
DANIEL LoTHRoP, the well-known pub
n.
THE mayor of Allegheny City, Penn, has
been locked up on a charge of embezzlng
city funds. Other city officials are alleged
to be implicated.
"DoC" LANGLEY, a notorious crook
known throughout the country as the king
of Peter Funks," was arrested at Boston,
last Thursday, charged with swindling.
THE bodies of twenty three long
miners who met their fate in the Hill Farm
|
brought to light last Wednesday. There
are five more yet in the mine.
REV. JOHN JASPER of Richmond, Va, the
author of the-sun-dO-move" theory, was
married last week to Widow Cary of his
flock, his fourth wife. Jasper is eighty
years old and his bride is tifty-nne. The
groom persists in his opinion that the sun
moves.
ANITA only daughter of millionaire
LUCKY" Baldwin Of San Francisco, eloped
with her cousin, George w. Baldwin, and
married him on a trip just outside of the
Golden Gate. What makes the elopement
noteworthy is that the girl was heiress to
ten million of dollars, if she had not married
young Baldwin, whom the old man detests.
e. l.. GoDKIN, editor of the New York
ECenmg Post, was arrested at an early hour,
last week Sunday morning on charge OF
criminal libel brought by Tammany poll.
tician. The arrest of Godkn at such an
unreasonable hour was characteristic at
tempt at revenge by the disreputable gang
that misrules New York city. The Post has
been attacking Tammauy fearlessly and
fercely for some time past.
FERDINAND WARD will to-day leave the
prison at Sing Sing, New York, where he
has spent the last six years of his life. He
is now only thirty-nine years old. Every
one remembers the great trial at which
General Grant, his son, and President
II N iob Of ha
figured, and which resulted in sending
Fish to Auburn prison and Napoleon of
Finance Ward to Sing Sing.
The " first baby" came to Creole, the
Colorado mining town, about month ago.
The news filled the camp, and its effect was
electrical. j. S. Mcdonald, canny Scot,
was the father, and for four days the
matched cabin of the hardy miner was be-
sieged with great, rough men frenzied to
get peep at the " barby." When finally
its mother consented to the sweet-faced
little tot being brought out, the scene
around the house was remarkable. Its
father was king OF Jimtown for a week,
and, contrary to the usual rule, his money
was too good to buy whisky or cigars.
Foreign.
THE rising in Nungola is checked, and
the Chinese authorities melting out
punishment to the offenders.
THE Paris police have found a bomb fac
tory in an anarchist dwelling in the Saint
Denis quarter. Several arrests have been
made.
A DAUGHTER has been born to Sir Will
lam and Lady Gordon Cumming, who were
married about the time of the baccarat
scandal in London. They have something
pleasanter to think about now.
FRIGHTFUL disorder characterized the
elections in several parts Of Japan. The
different parties marched and counter
marched, and fought with guns and swords
and other weapons. Many persons were
| killed.
EXCITEMENT ran high in London last
week. Deeming, the murderer, was alleged
| to have made confession, which linked his
identity with that of Jack the Ripper"
His appearance tallies closely with the de-
scription given of the Whitechapel fend,
THE Messiah" craze has struck South
America. More than 10000 Indians in the
northern Bolivia provinces are said to be
on the war-path, led by new Messiah.
| The whites are fleeing south to seek refuge
J in the larger and better fortified Bolivian
towns. Latest advices report the Indians az
making forced marches in the direction of
the capital, with torch and tomahawk in
hand, burning houses, numbering helpless
children and carrying away women
WHETHER Count Won Caprivi had re-