The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-12
SUM MARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

ANDREW TODD, who is charged with
stealing letter containing check for 800
at Fairlee, was arrested last week in Bos-
ton. ExtraditioD papers were granted and
Todd was brought back to Vermont for
trial.
ditch at the House of Correction, Rutland,
last Wednesday struck what they thought
was a cold spring. They drank the water
after it became clear, which resulted in the
serious illness Of the gang. On investigation
1t was found that they had been drinking
water that was saturated with sewerage.
BRADFORD was visited last week by the
most destructive hail.storm ever known in
that locality. Over 100 lights Of glass were
broken from the greenhouse of David
Blakely. The skylight of e. II. Allan's
photograph rooms was destroyed and many
windows were broken in Hotel Low, in
Stevens Block, in Union Block and in
dwelling-houses. A splendid elm near the
residence of Mr.. Albee was uprooted and
other trees were blown down.
The twenty-seventh annual reunion of
the Society of the Army of the Potomac will
be held in Burlington August 18 and 10.
Major-General Orlando Smith Of Baltimore,
Md, will deliver the Grafton and Captain
Jack Crawford, the poet scout, will recte
an original poem. The regular troops,
Twenty first United States Infantry,
from Pittsburgh barracks, the Third
Allen, and the First Regiment, " N. g.,
will be reviewed by the society. An excur-
sion on Lake Champlain Thursday and
banquet at the Van Ness House will close
the meeting.
The body of Gottlob Fhries OF Burlington
was found in Lake Champlain last week.
He committed suicide by drowning the
Sunday previous year ago he under
went an operation at the hospital in Bur
lington for diseased hip bone and six
weeks ago came from his parents home in
East Warren for a second operation, but
being unable to gain admittanoe to the
hospital was engaged as coachman for DIR.
III. g. Tinkham. Becoming desperate he
prepared his clothes for burial, left his
watch and keys in his room and on Sunday
noon started for the lake. A letter from
his wife in Bloomfield, N j., from whom he
lives apart, was received Tuesday, in which
she expressed her determination to commit
suicide, from which it would seem that do
nestle trouble was in part the cause of his
selfdestruction.
The exercises of dedicating the Chitten-
den monument at Williston next Wednes-
day, August 49, will commence promptly at
one o'clock in the afternoon, as follows:
Introductory remarks by Hon. j. l.. Barstow
OF Shelburne, president of the day; PRAYER
by Professor John e. Goodrich, chaplain of
the day; report Of the monument commits
sion by Hon. John L. Barstow, chairman;
acceptance OF the monument in behalf of
the state by Governor Urban A. Wood
bury: selection by the First Regiment
Band; unwilling of the monument by Miss
Bessie B. Chittenden, representing the de-
scendants of Governor Chittenden; gov
ernor's salute of seventeen guns by First
Light Battery, V. N. g.; historical address
by Hon. John w. Stewart, Ex-Governor of
Vermont; brief remarks by Hon. Lucus E.
Chittenden of New York. ode, " America"
by the audience, accompanied by the band;
benediction by the chaplain. To these ex-
ercises the people of the state are cordially
invited. Special trains to Williston will be
run, and transportation from the station 10
the village, two miles away, will be fur
nished for ten cents each way.
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