The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-07
VERMONT IN BRIEF.

E. s. SLADE has been appointed postmas-
ter at Center Rutland.
w. H. TIBBETTs has been appointed post
master at Coventry and G.. F. Lackay at
East Randolph.
THE annual exhibition of the Vermont
Road and Trottng Horse Breeders will be
held at Rutland, August %, 30 and 80.
IRA l.. McCLARY, leading citizen OF
Peacham, dropped dead from heart disease
last week Wednesday. He was seventy
years old
ALEX. BAsHAw was instantly killed at the
Belden Falls pulp mills, at Middlebury, last
I Monday. A heavy log rolled upon him,
breaking his neck. He leaves widow and
two children.
FREDERICK NJ. VAN SICKLEN, president of
the Howard National Bank of Burlington,
died last Friday of conclusion OF the brain
caused by falling on an icy sidewalk. He
WAS seventy-two years OF age.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original, Moses
Elkins, East Richford; restoration Lemuel
Wood, Fair Haven; increase, John j. Hill,
Bakersfield; reissue, Abel b. Shedd, AL
bany.
THE democrats OF Brattleboro held eau
Gus last Saturday to express a choice for
postmaster Postmaster f. w. Childs, who
has held the Office for the past eight years,
NOu6S, w H. MluOT 100, anu G6OTR6
II. Burns six. The Australian ballot was
used.
REPRESENTATIVE POWERS has presented
to congress petition from the grand lodge
OF Good Templars Of Vermont praying for
national commission of inquiry into the
liquor traffic, also a remonstrance from the
State Beekeepers' Association against any
reduction of the duty on honey.
COLONEL THOMPSON, formerly of st.
Lob hnru Enn yaH hxro taa
in Washington, ID. c., last week and sus-
tanned fracture of one leg. His injuries
have assumed a dangerous condition, and
he has, since the accident, had a stroke of
apoplexy. His physicians fear gangrene in
the broken leg.
Hon. HENRY M. RICE of St. Paul. Mimi,
died recently at San Antonio, Texas where
he was spending the winter with Mrs. r. e.
Thompson, his daughter. He was born in
Waitsield in 1916. He went to Minnesota
in 1889, where he has always been a PROM
lnent and respected citizen. He served in
the United States senate from 1858 TO 1868.
The commissioned officers of the National
Guard of Vermont are to meet in Burling-
ton, February 81 and %, for instruction and
drill. Brigadier General Julius j. Estey,
commanding brigade, is designated to ar
range and conduct the details of instruction.
William III. Gilmore, quartermaster gem
eral, will provide for actual necessary ex-
ptnses'
FRANK MERRILL, desperate character
who is serving a four-years' sentence for
larceny, escaped from the house of correc-
ton at Rutland last Saturday. He was
captured after hot chase of about an hour,
The prisoner took advantage of the open
door of the new county Jail, where he was
working at the time Merrill has a record
of five successful Jail breaks at Montreal,
P.Q.
Ex-Governor e. j. ORMsBEE of Bran
don, receiver of the Vermont Investment
and Guarantee Company of Orwell, that
suspended last May, has made public his
first statement TO the creditors and stock.
holders. He finds that the total book value
of the company's assets at the time of sus-
pension was 1915, 1889; the estimated pres
ent value OF the assets, 1913, 1882; making
the estimated loss 5000