The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Summary OF News.


DIR. HEMAN o. BARTLETT died at Milton
on last week Friday. He was prominent
Mason
THE third annual session of the Orleans
county summer school will begin at Barton
about August 1.
OK Thursday of last week young man
named Morrows of Richford fell between
two cars at Farnham and was cut in two.
The second annual music festival at Rich
ford occurred last week, beginning Tuesday
evening. @. s. Cornell OF Pueblo, Coll
was conductor.
A BRAKEMAN named p. j. Corbett OF
Charleston, N. H., was struck by bridge
at Richmond, on Thursday of last week.
and his skull was smashed
COMMENCEMENT exercises are being held
this week at Middlebury College and the
University of Vermont, and Presidents
Branerd and Buckham preached bacca-
laureate sermons on Sunday.
BELLOWS FALLS is moving to get an ade-
quate water supply. An engineer from
New York has recently reported two plans,
one of which will cost S14, 900 and the other
$4,000. The first plan is favored.
The most disastrous flood since 1869 WIS.,
tied Richford and vicinity last week Mon
day and Tuesday. The booms in the Mis-
sisquoi river broke early Tuesday morning
and thousands of logs belonging to the Rich
ford lumber company, Baker, Brainerd &
Co. and G. p. Stevens & Co., went down the
stream, entailing a loss which can hardly
be estimated. Aside from the loss to the
mill companies, a large number of men are
thrown out of work, and the loss will be a
serious one to the town. Another boom
broke above Richford and two miles of logs
came down.
Domestic.
| THE funeral of Emmons Blaine took
place at Chicago on Tuesday afternoon Of
! last week.
| THE grand Jury at New York has indicted
Rev. Thomas Dixon for publishing libel
against Excise Commissioner Koch.
DIR. HENRY NJ. ScUDDER, who was in Jail
at Chicago awaiting trial for the murder of
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Denton, COM
mitted suicide by taking a dose of NOR
phine, last week.
EDWIN j. RYAN, a clerk of the United
States Express Company, left Washington
on last week Tuesday night, taking with
him three packages of new United States
bank notes, amounting in all to about
$4,000.
THE western express on the Pennsylva-
mia road was fearfully wrecked, on Satur-
day, at Harrisburg, and ten lives were lost.
The express was divided into two sections
and the first had stopped few hundred
yards from the station. 1t was just starting
when the second came around curve and
plunged into it, The flagman sent back to
signal the second section had been called in
too soon.
THE Lawrence, Mass, police are investi
eating a story told by Louisa Haley, four
teen, who says that some time ago she was
walking near the tomb of Mrs. Mark Hop.
kins Searles when behind the walls she
saw two men and heard them plotting tC
steal Mrs. Searles body Before she could
get away she was seen by the men, who
shot at her, one of the bullets cutting heI
skin. The girl, when she reached home
told her mother of the affair. a few days
ago she met the same men in sparsely set
tied part of the town. She says they fore
IDLY took her into a carriage and forced
some liquid down her throat. She remem
bers nothing more until she found herself
awakening from the stupor on the bank Of
the Merrimac river, two miles above Law
renee. The men told her she had cost then
a fortune, threatened and beat her and cut
off her long hair. The girl persists in the
truth of her story, but the police do moi
credit it.
TIMOTHY HEALEY was assaulted in Dull
lin, on Tuesday and Wednesday of last
week. One man hit him with a stick and
another with a stone.
Mr.. GLADSTONE was severely injured, or
Saturday, by being struck in the face by &
missile. His eye became intiamed, but the
} inflammation is said not to be serious. 1t il
stated that the woman who threw the mis-
sile at him said she threw it for luck"
DUEL with swords was fought between
} the Marquis de Mores and Captain Mayer, IL
France, last week. in which the latter re
ceived wounds from which he died. TIT
duel grew out of the anti.Semite campaign
: that has been carried on in the Libre. Pdrele
the anarchist paper.