The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-02

ing ueleRateS were also named: Rev. w. &. |
Clark of South Hero to Canada; b. Frank |
Harris of st. Johnsbury, to New Hamp-
shire; Rev. G. o. Day Of Brattleboro, to |
Massachusetts; Rev. II. Il. Barnard of |
West Rutland, to New York state conven-
ton. The treasurer's report showed bal |
ance OF $50 in the treasury.
THE most destructive fire in the history of
ST. bloomsbury broke out about seven o'clock |
Sunday evening, and destroyed about $780,
600 worth of property in the two hours that
it ragged. The conflagration started i'm the |
rear of Lougee Brothers & Smythe, on Rail- |
road street, and swept to the corner of that
street and Eastern Avenue, famed bv
stiff breeze from the northeast. Among the |
buildings destroyed was Wards block, the |
upper stories of which were used as tene- !
ments Two lives were lost-those of Mrs. |
Marshall, dressmaker and her boarder, |
James A. Mitchell. Mitchell had plenty of
time to escape. Mrs Marshall could have
escaped also, but remained calling loudly
upon her husband, until her escape was
cut off by the billowng flames. The
following stores and buildings were totally
destroyed: Lougee Brothers & Smythe's
dry-goods store-loss $4,000, insurance
$1,000; Balchs photograph studio--loss
81, AGO. no insurance; William Daniels meat
market; Merchants National Banl-loss
on block $4,000, insurance $4,000 T. G.
Spencer's jewelry store-loss $4,000, in
surance $1,000; Bagleys drug store; Gill
more's boot and shoe store; Roderers cigar
store; Syrvester's meat market; Lynchs
restaurant; the big establishment of Girls
void, Pearl & Co.. wholesale dealers in
flour, grain and oil-heavy loss; f.. L. Sar-
gents insurance Office; MontgOmery's law
office; o. S. Abbotts shoe store-loss S10,-
600, insurance 6,000; j. c. Moore's hard
ware store; Spaudings grocery store-loss
10y Matthew Coldbric1, owner of the build
ing occupied by Lougee Brothers & Smythe,
$4,000, insurance, $1,000 The total loss
nn1x hap l.
saved the Avenue House, on the opposite
corner, and adjoining buildings
Domestic.
GEORGE f. MoULToN lately shot himself
at his home in Newburyport, Mass.
STEAMBOAT broke the worlds stallion
record at Stockton, Cal, last week, trotting
mile in 2: 0Sl
Hon WILLIAM AsPINwALL died at
Brooklyn, last week Tuesday morning, at
the age of seventy-three.
THE Nebraska democrats propose to de-
fer their combine with the populists till
just before the election.
CLEVELAND addressed the German Ameri-
cans in Cooper Union, Thursday evening,
and was received with immense enthusiasm.
Mrs. JOHN GAGE and her infant child,
and two children of George Gage, persisted
in burning house at Des Moines, Ia, on
Monday.
The Euclid Avenue operahouse at
Cleveland, o., one of finest in the country,
burned Saturday, and the loss is about
100000.
a CoNsrRUCrIoN train on the Great North
ern road in Washington crashed through
bridge, killing seven and fatally injuring
five more.
VAST beds of marble are reported to have
been found in Cassia county, Idaho.-a
grade OF pure white stone equal to the Ital-
ian variety.
Mrs. MARY B. MARcEAU of Cambridge
port, Mass, murdered her mother last Mon
day, by striking her on the head with a
piece OF iron. The murderess was insane
from the effects of the grip.
The National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union Association met in annual con |
vention at Denver on Friday. At the open
ing meeting the crowd was so great that an
overflow meeting was organized.
Mrs. HARRISON was president of the Ma |
tional Society of the Daughters of the Revo-
luton, The last of the charters for state
societies which she signed went to Airing
ton, VT, where chapter has recently been |
organized.
Two freight-trains on the Big Four rail |
road came together, last week, ON the bridge |
over the Wabash river near Terre Haute, |
Ind. Both engines and dozen cars went |
down to the river, 100 feet below, and |
several people were killed.
In his forthcoming report Postmaster
General Wanamaker will urge his plan for
postal telegraphy, and as an argument for |
one-cent letter postage he will submit the |
fact that the post-ofilce will probably be |
seli-sustaining III another year.
THE wind blew the Goals from a timers
furnace left on the roof of the large ma
chinery hall of the Worlds Fair buildings. |
and fire was started in the main dome of |
the structure. The fire burned for an hour,
but the damage was not very great.
FRIDAY was a day of fires. Brockton.
Mass, had $4,000 conhagration, Jersey
CITY lost about quarter OF million, and |
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