The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

ELMER HI. LoUcKs of Rutland, printer,
was struck by train just outside the sta
ton at Rutland, last Saturday night, and
instantly killed.
FRED JOHNSON and Herbert T. Waite Of
Wardsboro were heavily fined last week
for having in their possession forty.two
trout under six inches In length.
JAMES HrGGINs of Rutland accidentally
shot himself last Friday morning with a
twenty-five caliber rifle, and died from loss
of blood before physician could reach him.
ALBERT LowNEY was sentenced last Mon
day in the superior criminal court at Boston
to state prison for six years for the robbery
States Attorney j. G. Erfight of Windsor
last May. AT the time of the robbery Mr.
Enrght was on his way to Union station,
when he was assaulted by Lowney.
LOCKE, son of Marshall Myette, of Mont.
gomery Center, shot and instantly killed
his sister Sadie, aged five years, last Sunday
afternoon. The children were playing in
the Kitchen the mother had gone up stairs,
and the father was at the barn, doing the
chores, when they were alarmed by the dis.
charge of a gun. Coming to the kitchen
they found little Sadie in the agonies of
death The shot took effect between the
eyes, killing her almost instantly.
The hay crop in Vermont, according to
statistics gathered, will hardly average a
two.thirds crop. Many Connecticut river
farms are giving more than the usual yield,
particularly where overlooked by the freshet
in April. Curiously, instead of the disas-
ter anticipated from the flood, the result is
thousands of dollars benefit in the enrich
ment of the soil In many meadows where
sand was deposited from two to six inches
deep, and which were supposed to be ru-
ined, grass, and even clover, is coming
through luxuriantly, so that some say that
they may get double yield to that of
last year
ADVANCE sheets of the annual statement
of State Treasurer Field regarding the
finances of Vermont for the last fiscal year
show the total expense OF the legislature OF
1894 to have been sos, S15.04. The payments
into the state treasury by towns of all
profits upon the sales of liquors, in excess
of ten per cent, which law was passed last
year, amounted to but 1914 SO, as many
towns have reduced the selling prices, so
that the profit will not exceed that figure.
There probably will not be as large an ex.
cess next year, as a number OF towns did
not expect the law to be retroactive. 1t
was discussed very largely during session
as a measure of large income to the state.
The total expenses of the state for the past
year were $683 S6367, and the treasurer es-
Inmates the income for the coming year
from corporation and state taxes at S52O,OOO.
The boundary line commission of the
states of Vermont, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts has practically completed its
labors. The lines are agreed upon, and
monuments are being erected along the line
between Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire. The cornering point of the three
states has been fixed on the west bank of
the Connecticut river, just east OF the South
Vernon railroad station, at about low.water
mark. A mont ment of rubble masonry
will be put deep in the SOIL reaching to the
surface, then a properly-inscribed marker
of granite is to be erected right away, re-
ferrinp to the actual corner, About sixty
monuments are to be erected between Yer
mont and Massachusetts at different points
to the New York line. The line as defined
between Vermont and Massachusett runs
through the ladies' room of the railroad sta
will all be in place in a few months and the
commissioners will be discharged. They
have been very careful and painstaking,
and all questions have been settled very
satisfactorily.