The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16
Summary OF News.

vermont.
A SAWYER named Cooper had his face
crushed in the mill at Barton Landing.
PEOPLE in West Derby insist that they
had an earthquake at noon of March 3.
CHARLES WINTERS made an unsuccessful
attempt at suicide at Rutland recently.
The saw.mill of Hall & Chase at East
Burke was burned last week Wednesday
night.
MRS. ANNIs BALDWIN of Braintree was
seriously burned, last week, by fooling with
broken lamp.
MRS. Moses CADE OF Barnet, aged and
lame, was run over by team, last week,
and one arm broken.
THE foundry building of the Vermont
Snath Company at Springfield was burned
last week Wednesday.
FREIGHT-BRAKEMAN JOHN MoRRIssEY OF
Bellows Falls was killed at Winchendon,
Mass, last week Tuesday night
JERRY DREW, proprietor of the Memphre
magog house and the Newport house, died
at Newport last week Wednesday.
EDGAR BARBER of Richmond dunned a
debtor with postal card, and has just been
fined $25 for violating the postal law.
FRANK MOORE of Wells River arose in
his sleep and jumped out OF second-story
window, receiving large shaking up.
CONGRESSMAN POWERS has appointed Jo-
mas II. Holden of Burlington as cadet to
Annapolis, with Davenport Parkhurst of
Fair Haven as alternate.
A BUILDING at Vergennes occupied by the
store of Smith & Ketchnm dealers In and
manufacturers of furniture, was burned
last Thursday. Loss $1,000.
THE contract for erecting a $500 chapel
at the Soldiers Home at Bennington has
been awarded to the Eagle Square Company
OF SALISBURY, and work will be begun soon
FRED TARBLE aspired to be town LIQUOR
agent of Ludlow, and on the strength of the
aspiration bought $40 worth of liquor on
credit OF Flint Il Co. of Boston. Tarble has
now fled.
CHARLES II. CLARK, the well-known
bridge. expert. for many years in the en-
ploy of the Central Vermont railroad pro.
nounces the long covered highway bridge
over White river at Hartford as unsafe and
in dangerous condition.
A BEwrLDERED youth crept out of
freight car at Castleton, last Thursday
morning, and asked: Where am I?' He
said the last he knew he was in st. Adams,
where he got gloriously drunk He took
the next train for st. Adams.
CHESTER SANBoRN Of Royalton has been
notified by the public administrator of san
Francisco that he is heir to an estate worth
100000 which was left by the young mans
uncle, Israel Sanborn, who went to Cali
forDia in the early days Of the gold dis
covery.
DIVERS last Thursday attempted to re-
cover the body of Guy Palmer, who was
drowned in Lake Champlain, near Cedar
Beach, South Burlington, the previous Sat-
urday. The divers reported ledge of slate
slanting to the west, showing depth of
water of from 100 to 40 feet, with a strong
current and whirlpool. The search was
fruitless.
AMONG the occupants of the hospital at
the Soldiers Home are s. M. Pineree, Fourth
Vermont; John F. Colby, Fourth Vermont;
Joseph Clair, Fifth Vermont; John Bolton,
Second Vermont Battery; Thomas Hurley,
One Hundred Sixty-ninth New York; John
Connolly, First Vermont Cavalry; William
Bridges, Twelfth Vermont Colonel Pin
gree is very low and cannot live many DAYS.
There are at present at the home tifty-nine
veterans.
A SENSATIONAL suit for slander-Mrs
Melissa o. Leighton of Boston against Eras-
tus ID Thayer Of Brandon, her brother-in-
law-was begun in Rutland county court
last Thursday. Thayer is president of the
Brandon National Bank, and is reported to
be worth 100000. Mrs. Leighton claims
$1,000 damages, and alleges that the defend
ant charged her with keeping house of ill
fame, and made other charges equally as
damaging to her character.
The quarterly meeting of the Vermont
Association of Life Underwriters was held
at Brattleboro last week Thursday. The
new members elected were f. H. Peabody
of Richford, H. H. Sherman of Bratteboro,
George F.. Ball and E. S. Leonard of Bellows
Fails, W, b. Raymond Of Bridgewater
George Moore of Tyson, II. b. Lowering of
East Berkshire, l.. b. Hurd of Springfield
and II. n. Williams of Bennington, IL was
voted to hold the next annual meeting in
june at Burlington,
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: Original-AlonZo II Baker,
Elmer j. Titus, Marshall G. Mower, Robert
Cahee, Jr., Charles B. Bowers, John H.
Bolton, George NJ Kenny, Austin M. Proud,
William W Bailey, Beulah X. Fay (mother),
Serepta e Silver, minors of Elijah w. Low
erihg, Michael Reedy, Noel Potter, Levi
Smith, Daniel G. Walker, Oliver Barrett,
Aurelia Joslin, minor Of Joseph B. Weston,
and Hannah Langley. Increase-William
Il. Sortwell and Alanson Nye
THE summer boarding house business is
booming in Vermont, says the Troy IN. W
Times. Last year the investment in new
hotels reached 100000, being exceeded only
by the industry of manufacturing wood pro-
ducts, which amounted to $4,000. New
shoe factories represented S1B,OOO, new
granite quarries and shops $50, 900 and new
slate works $4,000 The new hotels are
located at Salisbury, Chester, Woodstock
and Casteton. For cool and bracing noun
tain air Vermont is not to be surpassed by
any state of the Union, while its reputation
for maple sugar has an undOubted attrac-
ton to those who enjoy one Of the most de-
licious luXuries of America.
A HARD struggle for life was that fought
by e. H. Farnsworth, who has just died at
his home in Grafton, VT, says the Boston
Record. Mr.. Farnsworth was, under for
mer regime, the managing editor, and, later,
the night editor of the Post, and was we'll
known among the newspaper men of Bos-
ton. He was one of the earliest members
Of the Press Club, and at one time drec-
tor. Three years or more ago he exhibited
symptoms of pulmonary trouble, and was
at last obliged to give up work. He bought
an abandoned farm in Vermont, and has
since, by ont ofdoor work and the exercise
of wonderful will power, fought off death
until now. He leaves wife and one child.
VERMONT Grand Army men are making
preparations TO attend the national encamp-
ment, to be held in Washington next Sep
TENDER, and it is estimated that 1900 veter-
ans from Vermont will march in the
big parade. Department Commander Hugh
Henry will soon issue an order giving infor-
nation concerning the coming encampment
and the arrangements made and proposed
for the trip to the capital. Commander
Henry has received a communication from
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