Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-12-19

struck and after boring through # feet
OF this water was found. The water is
clear and has n temperature OF IS de-
grees with force enough to raise ii Is foor.
n tank will be put into the top of the
shops from which the supply will be dis
trlbuted through the building. O. w.
Poland, who dug the we'll begins one one
for the Champain shops to-day.
Right Rev. Bishop John S. Michaud
goes Friday to Richmond where he will
perform the ordination service upon
James O'Neil of that place in the Catholic
church. The bishop will then leave for
New York, where he will he present at the
| conservation of Bishop John Farley as
auxiliary bishop to Archbishop Corrigan
| Beginning with last Tuesday the sun sets
about "A minute later instead of earlier
each day The turning point in the time
OF rising will not be reached for several
weeks yet. The three shortest days in
the year are next Friday, Saturday and
sunday, which are only eight hours and s.
minutes long. Then the days begin to
lengthcn, although the increase is hardly
pcrcopublc until about the beginning of
tn" new year.
y secret meeting of the board Of street
commissioners was held in the city en-
| gneers Office Monday morning to con-
| slider the proposition for the extension OF
Buell. and Greene streets. 1t is stated on
very good authority that their report will
b he favorable to the extension of Greene
street but adverse to that of Bucll street.
| The amount of damages was also decided
/ but cannot be made public until their re-
! port is filed in the city clerks office
Smoke issuing from the elevator shaft
! in the Van Ness House about noon Thurs
day created little excitement among
/ those in the Office. In searching for the
cause a cigarette stub was found between
| the elevator and the wall, the strong cir
| culation of air in the shaft starting what
might have resulted in a disastrous fire
/ had it not been speedily eXtinguished.
one OF the famale employees created some
amusement by rushing up stairs for her
! insurance policy, which she proceeded to
lodge in her stocking for safe keeping.
| y pair of loggings hung up to dry in
! Mrs. James Morsc's house at the corner
of St. Paul and Spruce streets fell upon
the stove ana caused blaze for which
the fire department was called out about
80 o clock Sunday evening. The lcggings
We're hung in the basement and the smoke
caused by their falling upon the stove so
alarmed the person who tried to enter the
room that an alarm was rung in from box
-. The fire was distinguished by throwing
the articles out of doors and neither the
department nor the crowd Of people who
walked several blocks to see the fun were
needed.
/ a personal letter from Lieut. Joseph T.
/ Dicllmau. Third United States cavalry,
states that Lieut.. and Mrs Dickman ar
rived at Fort Leavenworth Kan, in good
health ana spirits and are pleasantly To-
Gated. Lieut.. Dickman has been assigned
to duty as assistant instructor in the De-
partment of Military Art in the United
States Cavalry and Infantry school and in
addition he is to deliver several lectures on
military policies and institutions of the
leading nations of the world. Lieut.. Dick
mans friends in Vermont congratulate
him upon SO pleasant an assignment,
which is most complimentary to his mill
tary ability
Fourteen Of those who were engaged for
40 days in the trial of Mrs. Rose Fourier
and Mrs. Ellie Whalen in Chttenden
County Court in the fall of 1894 dined to-
eethcr at the Hotel Burlington Saturday,
the anniversary of the closing day of the
trial The following were present. EN-
Assistant Judge l., c. Nichols, ], T., Cu3h-
man and K. r.. Brown of tine counsel for
the State; Henry Ballard, ID. j. Foster
and G. II. Barney of counsel for the re-
spondents: Deputy Sheriff w. J. Fuller
and G. T. Nash, Charles KimbalI, George
Northrop, b. c. Johnson, 6. W. Love- W
|C. LiVermore and l.. f.. Brown, seven OF
the II iuTVmen