The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

ONE OF the female prisoners at the House
of Correction at Rutland gave birth to a
black child last week. The mother is white.
PROFESSOR G. G. BoNNETTE OF st. Johns
bury, who has made 314 successful balloon
ascensions, got bad fall at Malone, N, Y,
last week He fell 600 feet and fractured
two ribs. A rent in the balloon caused the
collapse. He did not cut loose from the
balloon, and thus saved his life.
WHILE two teams were racing on West
minister street, Bellows Falls, last Saturday
evening" one of them collided with a team
containing j. o. Rich and wife and e. A.
Pierce, a well-known slater. The two car
riages were entirely smashed and the occu-
pants injured. Pierce has been uncon-
scious since.
THE new wall around the House of Cor.
recton at Rutland is completed This wall
is $50 feet long, ii feet high and q feet
thick. Owing to the fact that the inmates
did much OF the work in the erection of this
wall, the directors will be able to return to
the state about $4,000 of the money appro-
priated for that purpose.
JOHN DANIELS the wealthy citizen OF
Guthrie, o. T., who committed suicide last
week, was a native of Grafton, where his
boyhood was spent His family connec-
tions were of the best known in Windham
county. He was son of the late Francis
Daniels, and his mother and two sisters
still live there. He was fOrty-two years
old. He leaves wife but no children.
FIRE last Saturday morning, in the store
house of the Fall Mountain Paper Company
at Bellows Falls, formerly known the
Green street mill, caused loss of from
81 900 to 81 800 principally to paper-stock
and chemicals. The fire originated in baed
paper clippings. A slight fire occurred in
the class of stock over the No. engine
room OF the same company the previous
evening and called out the village depart
ment but was extiuguished by automatic
sprinklers before their arrival.
EDWARD MORROW of lynn, Mass, died
suddenly of heart failure at Bellows Falls
last Thursday. He was a collector for a Bos-
ton furniture installment firm and had been
coming there for year or two. He came
the day before on his regular trip, accom-
panied by young man. He completed his
work and was as well as usual At eleven
O'Clock he was taken sick in a barber shop.
Two physicians attended him, but he died
at one o'clock. He was unmarried and
leaves mother in Lynn. This was to be
his last trip for the firm, as he was intend
ing to enter the Boston Law School.
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COLONEL A. A. HALL of st. Adams met
with serious and unexplained accident in
New York last week, from which he has
since been unconscious. The theory is that
Colonel Hall was knocked down on cross.
ing by wagon-pole, perhaps, or struck
down by some falling body, arose to his
feet without attracting any particular at
tentiOn, and went on his way, only to find
that he was hurt worse than he had at first
supposed. Then he either stopped some
where and had the plaster affixed or he did
it himself as best he could, when, beginning
to feel the effects of the blow, he hurried,
in rather dazed way, to his apartments
and threw himself on the bed, where he
was later found Colonel Hall is now suf-
fering from blood clot, the result of the
blow. The wound itself did not break the
skull, but the effect of the blow is the
formation of the blood clot, and only the
removal of this will save his life. The
latest report from Colonel Hall is that he
is much better and that his recovery is con-
fdently expected.
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