The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

IHK drive Oh logs on JnB OOnu6CulCuJ rlVeT
this season will probably be the smallest for
several years.
THE academy at Richford was burned last
week Sunday. The loss is about 5000, with
$4,000 insurance.
JAMES McQuADE, fifty-four years DID, was
run over at West Rutland by team and
his skull fractured.
CLAY MUNGER Of Orwell was arrested,
last week, for stealing suit of clothes from
Charles e. Baker of Rutland.
A Mr.. McGAFFEY OF East st. Johnsbury
was severely burned about the face while
trying to start fire with kerosene.
Two freight trains piled up in Milton Hol-
low last Wednesday morning. Some ten
cars loaded with grain, lime, ETC., were de-
stroyed,
WILLIAM DURFEE was hit by a 200pound
chunk of ice at Burlington, and one OF his
shoulders was broken, with probable inter-
nal injuries.
N. B. DOYLE OF Montreal was robbed of
gold watch and $3.50 in money while intox-
Gated at the Lake View house, Burlington,
last Thursday night.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JANIS MAcKINNoN Of Lyn-
donville last Thursday celebrated their
golden wedding. Four sons, their wives,
and ten grandchildren were present.
AMONG the students at the State College
at Hanover, n. H. who have been chosen
by the faculty to compete for the Frederick
Smyth prizes in speaking is II. e. Hill of
Plainfeld.
A. N. AUSTIN, hotel keeper at Milton, was
arrested last week, charged with selling
liquor without government license. He
will be tried at the May term of United
States court at Windsor.
DANIEL CUTLER, who runs a saw-mill at
Searsburg, was struck on the chin by splin-
ter thrown from the saw and his jaw bone
was crushed in several places He was
taken to North Adams, Mass, where his
entire chin and lower teeth were cut away.
If blood poisoning does not set in, Cutler
will recover.
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: Oriqinal-Daniel McDyon,
Ephraim HASKELL Franklin Martin, Still
man III. Lazell, James III. Daggett Timothy
G. Aldrch Lucy A. Brown, Hattie L. Dag
gett, AFRO b. Bowen, George r.. Dinsmore,
Albert Burbank, minor of William III. Orms-
bee, Benjamin r. Foster, Edward Walter,
John = Flanders, Earl f. Willard, minor
of Julius G. Fassett. Ineredse-Charles
Keenan,, Jonathan G. Howe Sylvester K.
Hodges, George w. Burleson. Renewal and
IncredSe-W Warren Hulett. Additional-Syl-
vester Hawkins, Charles Cutter, Levi T.
Munson, Merrille Cummings, Lorenzo u.
Reyes. Reissue-Baxter Bowman, Martin
Trask, Hilas d. Davis, Daniel Coughlin.
THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Yer
mont Dental Society opened at Burlington,
last Wednesday, and closed on Friday.
The new members admitted were George l..
Fend of Bristol Charles +. Meacham of
Ludlow, X. L. Cleaves of Montpelier, G. w.
Steele of Barre, III. A. Dalrymple of Rut-
land. The officers elected were DR.. George
#. Cheney, president st. Johnsbury; DR.. A.
j. Parker, first vice-presdent Bellows
Falls DIR. w. II. Wright, second vice presi-
dent, Brandon; DIR. Thomas Mound secre-
tary, Rutland; DR. w. II. Munsel, treasurer,
Wells River; DR.. e. o. Blanchard of West
Randolpb a n Wabatar of A1hana
DIR. G. w. Staples of Lyndonville executive
committee. The next annual meeting will
be held at st. Adams in March, 1893.
MAX STRAKosCH, the famous impressario,
died last week in the Home Of the Incura.
bles. New York.
THE Iowa republican state convention
met at Des Moines last Friday, and Endorsed
President Harrison and his administra
ton.
THE Trans Atlantic Mortgage and Secur-
ties Trust, limited is the name of another
colossal financial trust which has Just been
organized at Chicago.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN and James j. Corbett
will fight to finish at New Orleans, Sep
TENDER 7, for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world and stake of $4,000.
"STEEpLE JACK" of Portland, Maine,
while repairing church spire at South
Livermore, last week Thursday, fell from
the top and was instantly killed His name
was Charles Shaw.
EDWARD M. FIELD is said to be shamming
insanity at New York. Judge Van Brunt
has decided that Fieldbe confined in a state
asylum, where he can be carefully watched
ana his symptoms tested by experts
MISS VICTORIA VosoUET attended col
ored ball in Blocker street, New York, last
Thursday evening, and refused to dance
with Mr.. Castine Auter of Newark, N. j
The bullet was detected by her corset steel,
and she was not seriously injured.
ASA P. POTTER, Jonas H. French and
Thomas Dana have been indicted at Boston
by the grand jury of the United States dis
trict court, on charges of ENLIGHTENMENT,
false erasures, false returns, conspiracy,
and misapplying the funds of the bank.
IT has just come to light at New York
that Governor Hill, through Tammany in
fluence, on December 81, 1891, the same day
he retired from office, pardoned William
Conroy, brutal policeman serving life
sentence for the murder Of Peter Keenan, in
1888.
OLIVER CURTIS PERRY, the bold train
robber, has sued a Buffalo museum man.
ager for $4,000 damages. The enterprising
manager had worked Perry up in wax, one
figure showing him in " citizens clothes"
and the other all ready for business in the
express car.
THE arrest at Melbourne, Australia, of a
man named Williams, charged with MUIR
dering woman there has led to the dis
covery OF terrible crime at Rain Hill, a
part of Liverpool. The strange disappear
ance OF woman and four children from
Rain Hill led to an investigation of the
house where they had lived and which
Williams also occupied. The police dug up
the cement floor in the kitchen and under
meath found the bodies of the woman and
children. The murderer had made plen-
tiful use of chloride of lime to destroy the
bodies of his victims, and his object had
been in measure attained, for the bodies
had been partly consumed by the lime.
The first of the children's bodies was that
of girl Of twelve years who had been
strangled the second was that of girl Of
seven; the third that of boy of FIVE, and
the fourth that Of baby about year old.
The throats of the last three victims had
been cut. Williams is supposed to be the
"world known" Jack the Ripper, belief
which grows with further investigation.
His trips from Liverpool to London cor
respond with the times that the unfortunate
women in the Whitechapel district were
found with their Threats cut and their
bodies shockingly mutilated. The woman