News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-22
STATE NEWS,

An endowment of $780, 900 is being raised
| for the Troy conference academy at Poult
| ney.
Mrs. Richard Smith fell last Thursday when
| alighting from a Rutland street car and frac
| tured one hip.
Patrick Blake formerly of Putney was
struck by train near North Walpole, N. II.
asst week Wednesday.
Annie Poland, aged 90 years, fell down
stairs at East Burke last week and received
probably fatal injuries.
The barn of Mark Banister, near North
Troy, was recently burned with a quantity
ofhay Insured for $125.
A five-year-old son of Eugene Thayer, of
East Hardwick, fell from straw stack the
other day and broke an arm.
j. NJ. Kelley has been appointed postmaster
at East Fletcher; r. E. Brown at North Will
liston, and Mrs. A. E. Murther at East Hub
bardton
Eugene Finn, young man of Braintree,
was hunting few days ago when his gun
was discharged and the entire charge lodged
in mis- leg.
The annual State convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union is to be
held at Bellows Falls, Thursday and Friday
of this week.
tramp calling himself August Fleschman,
has been sent to the insane asylum, it having
been demonstrated, on trial for arson, that
he was demented.
Willie A, the three-ye son of Jacob
Klein, of Bennington, was run over by
loaded team last Friday and his head was
crushed to jelly.
Capt. William Jones, of Poultney, was kill
ed last Friday, by the premature explosion
of powder. He served three years in the navy
during the rebellion.
Ten more hogs owned by H. E. BOyce of
Waterbury, have died of cholera and ten
Others were killed by the state Inspector,
making forty in all which have died or been
killed.
Gen. W. L. Greeneaf has been presented
with valuable diamond ring by members of
his staff, as a token of their esteem for the re-
firing commander of the National Guard of
Vermont.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H. Horton of St. Johns
bury, celebrated their golden wedding ami
veTsaTy last week. They were recipients of
many valuable gifts, including 1927 so in
gold coin.
Charles Drown, aged % years, was arrested
at Barton last week charged with having
stolen bicycle, valued at $780, from c. W.
Davis, of Vernon. He made the 175 miles
from Vernon to Barton in two days.
cablegram received by Fl. D. Webster of
Enosburgh Falls, on Sept. IA, from Henzoda,
Burmah, announces the death of his sister
there. Mrs. Cummings was from Bakersfield.
NJ c. Leffengwell, an insurance solicitor of
Rutland, who had been employed by s. D.
Shepard, special agent of the Mutual Life In
surance company, has absconded with about
$500, which he had collected from policy
holders in payment of their premiums.
The annual reunion of the Windham coun-
ty veterans will be held at Brattleboro, Oct.
s.. A reunion of Company F, 4th Vermont
will be held at the same place on the preced-
ing day, October T. 1t is hoped all the sur
viving members of the company will be pre-
sent.
James M. Converse, who died suddenly
from apoplexy at Northampton, Mass, last
week Thursday, was born at Randolph in
1906. He was one of the largest stock
holders of the Northampton national bank,
and owned several houses and other valuable
property in that city.
Stephen Morse the defeated Republican can
didate for Representative from Danville, pro-
poses to contest the election of George Davis,
the Democrat, on the ground that ballots
were wrongly marked by assistants. that
some were marked outside the booths, that
votes were not properly counted, etc.
Ex-Governor Samuel E. Pingree of Hart
ford, Amory Dawson of Craftsbury and L.
G. Bagley of Rutland, railroad commissioners
gave a hearing Friday at Montpelier on the
collision at Richmond, Aug. 80, by which G.
o. Brown, Jr., and Janus Crosset of Mont
pelier, lost their lives and several we're in
jured.
Rev. Judah Dana, rector of Grace Episco-
pal church of West Rutland, died September
Is ofparal yss. He had taught school many
years and has old pupils in nearly every town
in Vermont. He was advanced to the rector
ship when over 20 years old He was a great
grandson of Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary
fame.
Manager John D. Stevens of the Vermont
Live Stock company was in Chicago Septem-
Der 10 with his second shipment of cattle
from the ranch, 493 head. He found a very
good market and netted about $21 900. He
Will have the final roundup the 25th and be
in Chicago about October 20 with the third
shipment.
D. W. Hyde of Bennington has an old relic
in the shape of a camp stool that was used
by the late T. W. Park and Calvin Park in
cisco and return via the sthmus of Panama
in $40, prior to the building of the Panama
railroad back in 1S4v. The stool, which
shows marks of hard wear, was presented to
Mr. Hyde by Calvin Park before his death
several years ago:
Fayette Haskins, of Wardsboro, aged 30
years attempted to choroform and abduct
Flora, daughter of j. C.. Hildreth, who had
rejected his suit for her hand. The girl awoke
screamed and alarmed her father and the fell
low was finally caught. 1t is-believed that he
proposed to initiate Frank C. Almy and kill
Miss Flora, as it was learned that previous
to buying chloroform he had tried to pur-
chase prussic acid.
Mai. VIM of Maiden, the peoples party
candidate for governor in Massachusetts,
was formerly a resident of Shelburne Falls,
and served in the lower branch of the legisla-
ture from that place in 1877. He was chair
man of several comm titles, drafted the state
aid law and reorganized the whole system.
Mai. Winn obtained his military title in the
52d Massachusetts regiment. He is now en-