The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-06

X. Nelson Darling, a prominent lumber
dealer of Groton, Vt, and Miss Lettie M.
Paine OF Southbridge, Mass.
FRED w. CHANDLER, the former Brattle-
boro boy who aided Alberton, cashier in a
bank in Tacoma, Wash, to escape with
1920, 000 has been sentenced to FIVE years
imprisoI ment at hard labor.
FRED TULIPER was arrested last week,
at Rutland on a charge Of breaking into the
Curtis store. He is also suspected of hav-
ing entered the b. III. Burt store, and Of
several other recent burglaries.
THE new Episcopal church at Milton was
consecrated last Wednesday by Bishop Bis
SELL assisted by Rev. DIR. Flanders OF St.
Adams, Rev. f. b. Smith Of vergennes, and
Rev. Gemont Graves of Burlington.
FRED HILLARD of Rutland, aged twenty
| five years, last September enlisted in the
| United States army and deserted in six
| weeks. He was arrested at Rutland last
week and will be returned to the service.
THERE has been talk among the knights
of Labor of boycotting the Howe Scale Com
pany Of Rutland. At a meeting of the
Knights last week at Rutland the matter
was referred to the general executive board,
where it will doubtless die.
IT is rumored in railroad circles that the
| Central company has again begun negotia-
tions for the lease or purchase OF the Con-
| necticut river road, or its northern divisions,
\ the Sullivan County and the Vermont Val
| ley. That would give them through line
| from Ogdensburgh to New London, and
virtually give them control OF all southern
shipping lines.
THE following changes have been made
by Bishop DeGoesbriand in the diocese of
| Burlington: Rev Henry Lane to Middle
bury, Poultney, Castleton and Middletown;
! Revs. j. and j. NJ. Gelot from Poullney to
Middlebnry and Bristol Rev. j. Brown to
| st. Peters, Rutland, as curate to Rev. T.
la m 40 20 haH ral in
| Burlington, in place of Father Donahue;
Rev. James Whitaker to WAooski, in place
Of Father O'Carroll; Rev. Thomas Donahue
to Mortified, Waterbury and Moretown;
| Rev. Joseph Breivet to Barre; Rev. ID.
Coffey to White River junction.
THE first issue of the 81 Albans Messenger
| under the new management was last
| Saturday 1t is handsome, newsy paper,
well put together, and if well kept up to the
standard of the first issue will be easily the
! best attempt at a daily paper in the state.
The force consists of : Editor, George T.
Childs; associate editors, Harry G. Dewing
| and Frank l.. Greene; agricultural editor,
| Edwin r. Towle; local reporter, Charles A.
| Buck. William III. Hunt is manager and
treasurer, while the management Of the
| paper devolves practically on Colonel
Charles S. Forbes. A. j. Lang continues to
| look after the business department. The
Messenger reaches Montpelier daily at six
| o'clock P. NJ.
| Domestic.
| EIGHTEEN contraband Cinnamon were
captured at Seattle, Wash, last Sunday.
BowDoIN COLLEGE. in Maine, has received
a bequest of $4,000 by the will of Mrs.
| Garcelon of California.
The Weston, Hill & Fits block at Man
chester, n. H., was burned last week Tues
! day. Loss about $4,000.
ABOUT go granite cutters at Concord, N.
H., struck, last week, because of dispute
about the working hours, but the matter
was soon adjusted.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL has appealed to the
people of Massachusetts to aid the Russian
! sufferers Contributions are received by
Kidder, Peabody 81 Co., Boston.
| THE fast mail on the Union Pacific rail-
| way was wrecked near La Grande, Ore,
| last week Tuesday, and the engineer, fire.
man and two tramps were killed.
| A STATION agents blunder caused two
double header trains to crash together near
| Graneros, Col, and one fireman was killed.
The station agent has disappeared.
GEORGE w. WALLING, ex-superintendent
| of police in New York city, died last Thurs
| day at Keyport, n. j. He was one of the
greatest police captains the metropolis has
| ever had.
THE coroner's jury on the New York Cen
| trail wreck at Hastings-on-the-H Hudson held
| VI dhtIhdn hiDtlb BullNg Vi ndu-
slaughter, and train dispatcher Ossman ac-
| cessory thereto.
JOHN 7. BANGHART, the ringleader of
gang of brutes who tarred and feathered
Julia Beam at Pennington, N j., a short
time ago. was last week convicted by jury
| of his townsmen.
The Messiah craze has broken out again
in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations.
| A thousand Indians are going through the
| ghost dance, with Old Crow and Whirlwind
| calling off the changes
| ALBERT ID. SLY, the leader of a gang who
robbed the Adams Express messenger at
Glendale, near St. Louis, November 30, was
| arrested last week at Los Angeles, Cal.
Sly is notorious criminal.
CHARLES HEFT, a prominent citizen of
Freemansburg Pa. died last Friday of ag-
gravated hiccoughing. He hiccoughed for
eleven days. The case attracted much at
tention among medical men.
ROSWELL p. FLOWER was inaugurated
governor of New York at Albany, last
Thursday. Social life at the capital will
doubtless be quite brilliant, this winter.
The politicians have had the run of the ex-
ecutve mansion the past few years.
AND yet another crank. This one asserts
that his father and mo her were injured in
an accident on the Erie railroad, and wants
$4,000 of Jay Gould. If the money is not
forthcoming, Mr.. Gould is to be blown up.
The money was to be forwarded to
hotel in Canada, and from there to a
firm in New Jersey The police are at work
on the affair
A REMARKABLE surgical operation was
performed recently at Haydenville, Mass,
whereby Michael Mahar is able to walk
about the village streets after confine-
ment of three months. Mahar fell out of
wagon and broke his neck, and the attend
ing physician, DR.. H. Ii. Flagg OF North
ampton, instead OF pronouncing him dead,
as customary, proceeded to set the broken
neck. The case is without parallel in the
annals of surgery, and only two are re-
corded that approach it.
THERE was bad wreck at Hastings, N. Y,
on the New York Central railroad, last
Thursday night week. The st. Louis ex-
press and the Niagara Falls special collided,
the result of an accident that occurred
few hours before in the Sing Sing tunnel
and which blocked the track. The Hastings
disaster was due to the carelessness of
brakeman Herrick of the Niagara express.
Herrick fled Twelve persons were killed
and many wounded. While running at the
rate of forty miles an hour the st. Louis ex-
press crashed into the rear sleeping car of
the Niagara train, and moment later the