The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

furnishing liquor. BOurbUnnalS IL a prac-
ticing physician in good standing at Reese
ville, N Y. He pays the costs and ex-
penses of extradition.
A. M. CoRsER OF Putney has been APP
pointed a delegate to the worlds temper
ance congress at Chicago next June.
MICHAEL MCCORMICK, an employe of the
Vermont Marble Company, was killed, last
week, by a landslide, while working in a
sand-bank.
THE Orleans County Musical Association
will hold its thirty.third annua festival at
Newport, January 1913, with Henri G.
Blaisdell of Concord, N. H., as director.
ONE Of the oldest citizens in Vermont is
Deacon James Roy of West Barnet, ninety
three years old. For n~inety-two years he
has resided on the same farm he at present
occupies,
LUTHER s. RAwsoN OF Monkton was found
dead In his room in the Htua house, Haver-
hill, Mass, last week. Same old story-he
blew out the gas.
Boston Record says that it is probable that
Colonel w. G. Veazey of Rutland will be
at the head of the interstate COM
mission next year.
JAMES ARNOLD OF Rutland was released
from the state reform school several months
ago, on probation. Last week he was sent
back again, for the remainder of his minor
ity.
In the Islander suit of Lizzie j. Currier
against Joseph r.. Richardson of Chester,
the jury last week awarded her 81 1900 and
costs-a verdict approved by the people Of
that vicinity.
CAPTAIN e. l.. BASS of CLAYTON, N. Y,
was accidentally shot and killed while hunt
ing at Troy, Vt. His dog knocked the gun
from his hand, and the fall caused the gun
to be discharged.
DIR. GEoRGR L. TIFFANY, alias Spencer,
who passed bogus checks to the amount Of
81 900, drawn mostly on the Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Brattleboro, has been held
In the sum of $500, at Philadelphia.
Ex-senator GEORGE f.. EDMUNDs has
been retained as counsel for the plaintiffs in
the attempt to break the will of the late Mr..
Faverweather of New York, who left large
requests to colleges aud universities.
&c. WooD of Cleveland, Ohio, has written
Bradford citizens that he will soon give
that village $4,000 toward establishing n
new public library, and a like sum fora new
building for the same; $4,000 toward the
erection of a new school building, and an
endowment for the same.
SOME $4,000 of the capital stock has been
subscribed for an electric railroad between
Saxtons River and Bellows Falls. 1t will
be built of standard gauge and will be con-
.nected with the main lines so that freight
or passenger cars can be coupled on and
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TERRENCE CASEY of West RHtland was
on a Christmas de bauch while his people
were at midnight mass, Christmas eve, and
tipping over a table on which was a lighted
lamp, the latter fell on his stomach, setting
fire to his clothing. His intesrines were
f~earfully burned. He leaves a widow and
several children.
HENRY G. BURwELL died of heart failure
at his home in BridI ort last Friday. For
| fha naqt nnzpn wars hp had hppn the most
prominent Merins sheep breeder in Yer
mont. He took the first premium for a
Merino ram at the worlds exhibition in
New Orleans, and only last year he went to
Australia with a sbipload of fine wool sheep.
AN attempt is to be made to break the
will of the late DR.. Hiram A. Cutting of
~Lunenburgh. The effort is in behalf Of a
hoy legally adopted by the doctor from the
Home for Destitute Children al Burlington.
The great bulk of the S27, 900 that DR.. Cut
ting left was willed to persons not in The least
related, and the boy is put off with barely
$500.
In the county court at Bennington. last
week, Judge Start imposed a fine of $50 and
costs on Silas HARDWOOD of Manchester for
selling liquor contrary to law, and SEN
fenced him to thirty days in the house OF
correction in Rutland for the second Of
fence. In default of payment of the fine he
was sent up for sol additional days, making
his total sentence 531 days.
THE twelfth annual meeting and banquet
of the Burlington Commercial Travellers
Association was held at Burlington last
Friday evening. Good time? Well, rather.
These officers were elected; President, j.
S. Wright; vice-president, w. w. Henry
secretary, p. g.. Dodge; treasurer, w. F.
Ferguson; executive committee, G. G. Mil
Ter, I. p. Fuller, A. G. Spaulding, E.. j,
Booth.
V~ERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are as follows: Original. b. II,
Bugbee, Edgar Blood, Eli F. Bruce. George
n. Green. Henry NJ. Coats. Elvira ID. Thurs
ton; increase, Nathaniel McWain, William
II. Montgomery; reissue, Marvin j. Cook,
James w. Joslyn; original, A. Kilburn Mil
Ter, minor of Robert McCollom, Henry w,
Griffin: increase, Sylvester Clark; reissue,
John H.. Albee.
A BELLOWS FALLS maiden, seventeen
years old, advertised in the maids and
bachelors column of the Manchester Tele-
gram for correspondents, object matrimony,
and received a perfect avalanche Of letters,
thirty-fve arriving in two days. Tn little
miss became so frightened that she refused
to take the remainder of the letters from
the Office. She is still single, but believes
that advertising pays.