The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
Summary OF News.


b6llOWb rhllS lhSb Week,
THE Methodist church at West Rutland
was burned last Sunday.
JAMES WIrHINGroN of South Reading
broke leg by a fall on the ice
MISS SARAH BRYANT of Coventry has been
taken to the asylum at Waterbury.
MICHAEL NUGENr was killed by the ma
chinery in the Italian marble mill at Bran
don.
WILLIAM BILLINGS, SR., of Woodstock,
broke several ribs by falling from his door
step.
HENRY e. Brown, a travelling man living
in Burlington, broke his leg in Rutland last
week.
G. A. BEARD of waterville was crowded
against stall by a colt, and died from his
injuries.
THE dwelling and outbuldings in West
minister occupied by Henry Patterson were
burned last week
JUSTIN c. Ew1Ns OF Troy dropped dead
last Thursday while on his way to the hos
pital at Burlington.
PROF. ARTHUR FAIRBANKS of Dartmouth
college was ordained to the Congregational
ministry at St. Johnsbury, last Monday
evening
A LITTLE son of Albert Edison of East
Randolph fell from an upper barn floor and
struck in the basement on the back of a
COW, breaking his arm.
GEORGE o. SPAULDING of Glover, young
and inexperienced, has failed for about
$1,000. He went into business as produce
buyer about year ago.
VERMONT depositors in the defunct MAYER
lex bank of Boston are Interested in noting
that the bank has paid to creditors its first
dividend of forty per cent.
THE divorce case OF Ella G. Pierce V.
Harvey e. Pierce ended in Caledonia
county court few days ago by Pierce drop
ping dead from apopexy.
E. MILLER has been appointed postmaster
at East Barnard, &. ID. Burgin at East
Orange, f Hall at Guildhall, and Ii. S.
Kingsbury at South Wndham.
CHESTER w. FRENCH of Vernon recently
died from injuries received by being run
over. He was the third member of his fam.
lily to meet death by accident
Mrs. RACHEL PARKEs, who has lived a
hermit life in a secluded house near Swan
ton village, was found dead last Sunday.
The body was badly decomposed.
The Nicwacket creamery, in Pittsford, N.
b. Douglass, manager has failed, and is re-
ported to be owing the Pittsford farmers
several thousands Of dollars for milk.
HOTEL BURLINGTON has been leased by
K w Morse and A. A. Niebaum OF West
Randolph. Mr., Morse formerly conducted
the Red Lion Inn at West Randolph.
FRED G. BARBER of Lyndon attempted to
pair of shoes from the landlord. He was
arrested while walking to White River
Junction.
Mrs. DAVID WILEY of Lyndonvlle, aged
eighty-one years, fell down the cellar stairs
and broke her right hip. She lay at the
foot of the stairs three hours before being
discovered.
COMMITMENTS of insane from Franklin,
Grand Isle, Chittenden, Lamoille and Wash
ington counties will be made at Waterbury
and commitments from other counties at
Brattleboro.
JOHN ROACH and Frank st. John re-
Gently entertained their friends at West
Randolph with prize fight, in which Roach
was possibly fatally injured. Both were ar
tested and held in $500 bonds.
In the noted insurance case of j. S. Bor-
ley V. James Mcdonald, A. ID. Tenny and
S. S. Watson, all of st. Adams, the chan
celor has ordered Mcdonald to pay the
state $50 and costs for contempt of court
1t was held that Mcdonald had violated
an injunction.
THE suit to recover $4,000 of insurance
on the life of the late Ex-Governor John b.
Page of Rutland has been dismissed by the
supreme court of New York, on the ground
that false statements were made by de-
ceased at time of taking out the insurance,
which vitiated the contract.
DANIEL TARBELL of East Granville died
formerly owned large property in RoX-
bury and West Randolph and a business
block in New York. He built the first
houses in South Royalton and was presi-
dent of the bank there. He once owned
many stage routes in Vermont.
Mrs. LYDIA B1cKFoRD of Troy has
been held in $500 charged with grand
larceny. Cornelius Kendall held a note of
$40 AGAINST Mr.. Bickford, and the latter
went to settle it, accompanied by his wife.
While the interest was being figured Mrs.
Bickford, it is alleged threw the note in the
stove, and told Kendall to whistle for his
money.
CHARLES ii. LYMAN, who recently passed
worthless check for $40 at the Van Ness
house, Burlington, and who was arrested at
Northampton, Mass, where he had sue
ceeded in quilting a woman out of S75, was
brought before the supreme court at Bur-
lington last Thursday, pleaded guilty and
was given sentence of two years In the
state prison. The man is also wanted for
swindling at Ogdensburg, N Y.
The editorial and composing rooms OF the
Rutland Herald were burned out last week
Tuesday Miss May Graves, who had
charge of the telephone exchange in the top
of the building, made her escape via lad
der, and displayed considerable pluck. The
other offices in the Herald building were oc-
cupied by NJ. j. Francisco, insurance agent,
the electric light company, the law offices
OF +. u. SwlnningtOn, L. Nj. Meldon and +.
f. McManus and Samuel L. Wilson, coal
agent of the Delaware and Hudson canal
company. The rooms of the Herald were
completely Quilted. and damage was done all
through the building futile & Co., print
ers, came to the Herdlds assistance and the
paper was issued as usual the next day,
slightly disfgured, but still "in it,"
Domestic.
BILLY MCGLoRY, the notorious New York
dive-keeper, has been fined $500 and sem
fenced to year in the penitentiary for run
ming disorderly house.
A DISPATCH from Mobile, Ala, says that
Neal Sims, the outlaw, was captured by
posse near Leake, Miss, last week Tuesday
night, who hanged him to a tree and rid
died his body with bullets Two of his
gang and Laura and Beatrice Sims, daugh-
tiers of "Bob" Sims, interfered in Meals
behalf and were also lynched.
LIEUTENANT RoRKE of the Second cavalry
came direct last week from the Pine Ridge
agency where he has been looking over the
field. He said: "Troube is brewing among
the Indians of the Pine Ridge agency, and
it is my firm belief they will soon start
another crusade against the whites. When