The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

COLONEL FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS Of st.
Johnsbury is dangerously i'll from the of.
fects OF the grip, and the chances OF his re-
covery are extremely doubtful.
THE slight earthquake shock that passed
over Vermont last Wednesday was very
mild-mannered and did no material dam.
age. In Burlington, Winooski, Rutland
st. Adams and Montpelier, the motion was
very perceptible.
A POLICEMAN OF North Adams, Mass.
was roughly handled at North Powna last
Friday, while attempting to take boy,
wanted as witness at North Adams in
liquor case. The policeman's wounds are
about the head, and are serious.
THE contract for the labor at the Vermont
state prison at Windsor for the next five
years has been let to A. K. Mann & Co. of
Boston. The goods manufactured will be
boots and shoes, and the new contract price
Is in exces, of the present amount-fifty
cents per day for The labor of each convict.
8. N. ALEXANDER, JR,, cashier of the Fall
Mountain Paper Company Of Bellows Falls,
and Foreman Fitzgerald OF that company
were drowned last week in Connecticut
river by the upsetting OF a canoe in which
they. were watching the ravages of the
flood. Both men were about twenty. five
years old, unmarried, and very popular in
society. Alexander was betrothed to q
leading young lady and was to have been
married soon.
Hon. K. j. PHELPS and Hon. George
+. Edmunds argued a case, appealed
from the Vermont supreme court to the
supreme court OF the United States, last
Friday; They represented, respectively, the
Central Vermont Railroad Company and
the Rutland Railroad Company, the prop
erty Of the latter of which is operated by
the former under lease. The controversy
between them is as to the payment of tax
assessed by the state upon corporate fran
aht tl,s.N H.
justified in subtracting the proportion due
by the Rutland Railroad Company from the
annual rental, and the latter denying the
proposition.
THE sons and daughters of Vermont re.
siding in Springfield, Mass, held their sec
ond annual banquet at Masonic Temple in
that city last Friday evening. Among the
speakers were Governor Woodbury., Lieu
tenant-Governor Mansur. Congressman
Grout. Hon. II. M. Arms of Springfield,
Vt. In speaking for the Vermont soldier,
Colonel Mansur said: Away from the con.
terminating influences OF cities, taught to
value next to religious liberty, civil liberty,
educated in the best of common schools and
academies, taught selfreliance, to act and
think for themselves, surrounded by pure
social atmosphere, they were just the ma
terial out of whic to make ideal soldiers.
They, loved their country and its flag, and
hated all who attempted to destroy them.
This record, coupled with that made by the
sons Of Vermont in civ life, has placed our
beloved state where no one born within her
borders, wherever he may be, need ever
be ashamed, but may be proud to say, L
am Vermonter. In a tribute to Gov
ernor Woodbury. and Lieutenant Governor
Mansur, Mr.. Arms said he was proud to
stand beside the two honored IN sn who,
when our common country was in peril, did
not stop to count the cost, but gave of their
own blood to pay the debt heaven seemed
to demand, and they came back to be an
honor to our dear old state, which last au-
tumn was only too proud to support them
for the two highest offices in our gift. We
gave them the greatest majority ever OBJ
tanned for those positions in our state, though
not hand was raised nor word spoken
from the stump to secure their election.