The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-04
Summary OF News.


IHE mousse OF Edward Onapln, III Ieru,
was burned lately.
Edna Miller of Charlotte were burned last
Sunday.
THE dwelling of Amasa Harris of Lyn-
donville, in which he had lived for sixty
years, was burned last Sunday.
THE famous mare Sue Gillig," 2:25f,
owned by w. w Moore of Shoreham, has
been sold to G. G. Snow of Brockton, Mass,
for $4,000.
SOME thirsty burglar entered the liquor
agency at Morrisvlle, last week Tuesday
night, and stole enough liquor to keep full
on for mouth.
AMONG Vermonters in Washington last
week were Mr.. and Mrs. f.. II. Powell, IL.
l.. Bentley, N. Goodspeed, j. b. Fletcher
and Herbert Brainerd of st. Adams
JOHN LEBARoN was arrested at Cambridge,
N. Y, last week, charged with abducting
the Douglass girl from Pittsfeld. Lebanon
and the girl were married few days before
Luc1EN BARNES of Stockbridge left home
with pair of horses, about two weeks ago,
saying he was going to Pittsford to pay the
interest on his farm That was the last
seen of him up to date by StockbTidge peo-
pie.
DANIEL SULLIVAN of Brattleboro, an in
mate of the Brattleboro asylum, escaped
from the institution, last week, and was
found wandering around Shelburne Falls.
Sullivan formerly lived at Northfeld,
whence the family went to Brattleboro.
FRANCIS LEwARE while driving, last Fri
day night, was stopped by highwayman
about mile from White River Junction,
with the usual option, Money or your
life" Leware replied that he was dead
broke, whipped up his horse, and escaped.
NEARLY the entire south wall of the new
Waugh block, in course of erection at st.
Albans fell with a tremendous crash, last
Wednesday morning. AS the masons and
carpenters had not begun work on the
building no one was injured. A gale was
blowing at the time.
THE Vermont Farm Journal published at
Wilmington by l.. e. Keyser, is the latest.
The Free Press says :" 1t may deserve to
succeed, but the chances are against it, So
many of Vermonts leading newspapers con-
duct varied and comprehensive agricultural
departments that there is little field for
distinctively farmers journal"
JOHN AND Tom FITzsIMMoNs, and Luther
Mead, Edward Haley, Loomis Wright,
Martin Garvey, James Polworth, John
O'Brien and Jack HALEY, Burlington
toughs, tried to do up Patrick Halloran.
Halloran knocked out two of them before
he was hit in the head with brick and
dangerously hurt. The assailants were ar
rested.
vERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: Original-Josiah ID. Kicker,
Seth j. Winslcw, Cornelius Brittell, minor
Of Elliott Harris, George Mason, Leonard
E. Harvey; increase-Henrv Bailey. Henry
Roby, Simon o. Menard, Abram William
son, Jasper S. Perkins, Lum ID. Gordon,
widow of 1912, Fannie Newman, Silenus
Warner, Benjamin Kentield, Albert j.
Dickinson, Lemuel r. Foster, William w.
Needham; additional-Charles c. Wright,
Milton Powers, James A. Gould.
The work of improvement on the Rutland
division of the Central Vermont railroad
will be rapidly pushed to completion and
will cover 1199 miles of the road, extending
from Burlington to Bellows Falls. Ten iron
bridges will take the place of the wooden
ones. A number of the bridges are in ex.
cellent condition, but will be strengthened
up to the Central Vermont standard so as
to carry the heavy rolling stock. Side
tracks will also be laid at several stations
along the division, and other general work
will be done. The road bed when COM
pleted will be one of the best in the country.
"RED" AUSTIN and Louis Ludlow, two
of the cleverest confidence men in the
country, took a couple of days off last week,
came up into Vermont, and operated in Adj
olson county with fattering success. First
they went to Bristol and stole Elisha l.
Hewitt-actually stole him. Monday of
last week a man visited Hewitt, represented
himself as Burlington cashier, and wanted
to buy the farm. Hewitt said he would sell
for $4,000 The man went away, but re-
turned and wanted to look the farm over.
Hewitt and the alleged cashier drove down
the road to the "plowed lot" On the way
the confidence man hypnotiZed Hewitt.
The latter remembers seeing another man
leaning against the fence the next thing he
remembers was being on the top of Lincoln
mountain the next morning, short about
$500. The sharpers next proceeded to New
Haven, and worked successfully on Samuel
S. Wright plain, straight bunco act 1t
was the old, old story. Wright and bum
coer No. won s., 500 from buncoer No. l,
who handed it over with the statement that
before they could keep it they must prove
themselves worth at least $1,000 apiece.
Wright willingly proved that. The bunco-
ers took the proof, while Wright was given
the old-fashioned "gold brick" Wright
now acknowledges that he is fool. No
one hazards contradiction. The sharpers
went to Richmond, but no further trace of
them has been found. A gentlemanly APP
pearing man, whose general appearance
Tailed with description of one Of the bum
coers, called at the residence of Henry Dorr
in Charlotte, last Saturday morning, and
asked for meal. He got it, and in return
did some work around the place, despite
the fact that his hands were apparently I'M
used to manual labor. He said he was on
his way to Barre to get work, and left about
ten o'clock.
MANITOBA had a terrible storm, last
while the waves on the Red river rolled
mountains high" George E. Semby was
killed near Heartburn.
ANNIE WALDEN was last week, at New
York, convicted of murder in the second
degree, in killing her husband, James Wal
den. Only the sex of the prisoner saved
her from the electric chair.
AGENTS Il. j. BECKER AND WILLIAM FINN,
of the Gerry society for the prevention of
cruelty TO children in New York, have been
arrested, charged with levying blackmail
on the keepers of several disorderly houses
MARGARET WILLIAMS of Cambridge
Mass, was shot down in cold blood, last
Thursday, by William e. Cunningham,
Boston man, simply because she had re-
fused TO marry him. Cunningham then
filed himself full of lead,
ANOTHER downfall. X. A. Linderfelt,
librarian of the Milwaukee public library
is the man who fell down. He had repu-
tation as the soul of honor, could speak six
languages, and yet is charged with en-
bezzling 50, 900 from the city.
FERDINAND WARD, sentenced in 1885
to ten years Imprisonment for his compile
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