The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
IN BRIEF.

REV. ID. e. CROFT of st. Adams has ac-
cepted a call to the Park street Baptist
church at South birmingham, Mass. He is
to begin his labors December l.
THE Episcopal standing committees Of
West Virginia, South Virginia and South
Michigan have refused assent to the conse-
Grafton OF Bishop-elect Hall of the diocese
Of Vermont.
HENRY l.. SARGENT, a horse thief, and
William Shaw, awaiting trial for arson, es-
capped from the county Jail at Bennington
last Saturday evening. They overpowered
the jailer and secured his keys.
JEROME B. SMITH, a leading business man
Of Burlington, died last week OF pneumonia
and bright's disease. He was sixty.one
business in Burlington for twenty years.
HENRY CLAY STEELE, who has been
preaching in the Baptist church at Middle
town Springs for the past four weeks, is ac-
cused of stealing a horse and carriage from
Dana S. Carpenter Of that town. Steele has
fled, and the team was recovered at Rut-
land.
THK body Of Leslie G. Crosby OF Putney
was found in the woods last Saturday, He
was out hunting, and it is supposed his
death was caused by the accidental dis
charge OF his gun. The femOral artery of
the thigh was severed and he had bled to
death.
SAKUs' tin shop at Chester was broken
into last Thursday night by burglars who
attempted to drill the safe. They were sur
| prised by James Smith, but compelled
Smith to hold up his hands whilelthey made
good their escape. They were thought to
be professionals.
THK cost Of the Morgan horse exhibit at
Chicago was 49, $50, OF which the state paid
81, 800. The premiums received amounted
to 1926, which will leave S275 to be distrib-
uted to exhibitors. The sheep exhibit cost
81 100, OF which the state paid 81 900. The
Ayrshire and Jersey cattle exhibits each
cost about $500, which was paid by the state,
JOHN JACOBS, in the employ OF the cleo
trio light company at Burlington, was killed
last week Wednesday. He had climbed a
pole and accidentally caught hold Of two
live wires. He fell forty-ive feet, striking
his head on a curbstone. Death was instan'
taneous. His hands and arms were terribly
burned.
AT a meeting Of the Vermont Sheer
Breeders Association, held last Monday al
M~iddlebury, H.. n. Bissell Of Shoreham wa
appointed a committee to go 10 Missouri tt
investigate the charges that sheep exhibited
at the Worlds Fair by a man from tina
state were "stubble shorn " in 1892, that is
that only part Of the wool was taken of
that year, and that the remainder, with the
growth of 1893, was claimed as a single year,
growth. If the Missouri sheep are thrown
out, those from Vermont get a higher rating
M more premiums.
JOHN A. DAWSON OF st. Vincent de Paul
+. g., was arrested in Rutland last Satur
day for horse stealing. He stole a team il
Middlebury, where he gave the name o
George Maleparte. In his pockets were tn,
names and addresses Of Senator Procto
and other prominent men in this state an,
many limitations Of their signatures. II
also had two checks for S148 and $168 re
spectively, drawno on the Weldon Nationa
Bank of st. Adams, which he admitte,
were queer. He is supposed TO be a conf
dence man.
DIR. WILLIAM l.. ZENo, a dentist OF Chi
cago, sued the Central Vermont railroad il
the United States district court at Chicag
for $4,000 damages which he claims to hav
sustained in being forcibly elected from
train at st. Adams. In August, 1890, MI
Zeno bought a Grand Army excursion ticke
from Chicago to Boston and return by wa
of the Grand Trunk and connecting line,
The route was by way of Montreal, and afte
leaving that city on a train of the Centre
Vermont road the conductor told him, h
asserts, that his ticket was not good an
that he must get off at the next station
He repeatedly refused to leave the train an
was finally put off by force. The case wa
tried in Chicago last week. The plainti
was given judgment for $306.50.