The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
sum MARY OF NEWS,
Vermont.

FEMALE help is 80 scarce in Readsboro
that number Of colored girls have been
brought from Massachusetts for domeslics.
THE dwelling house of Ansel Palmer in
Starksboro was destroyed by fire last
Wednesday morning. The contents OF the
house were nearly all destroyed and there
was no insurance. The fire is supposed to
have caught from ashes placed in box.
THOMAS DUNN steward on the steamer
Vermont" died last Thursday at his home
in Burlington of Bright's disease, aged fifty
eight years Mr.. Dunn had been in the
employ of the Champlain Transportation
Company for forty-hve years. commencing
as a boy on the old steamer United
| States,n
WHILE Mr.. and Mrs. II. s. Bingham Of
Bennington were driving from Bennington
to Wilmington last Saturday afternoon they
encountered a heavy thunder storm on
woodford mountain. Lightning struck the
pole of their carriage, killing one OF the
| horses and wrecking the vehicle. Neither
| Mr.. or Mrs. Bingham were injured.
Don A. STONE of Burlington was last Sat
urday appointed Chinese inspector for Yer
| mont. The other transfers and appoint
ments were: A. G. s. Beeman of St. Adams
and 9. q. Taylor of Richford, customs in
spectors Thomas Fitzsmmons, the present
inspector at st. Adams, transferred to Mon
treal and his salary increased from So4O TO
1895.
SAMUEL FLEMING, a well-known resident
OF Bellows Falls, dropped dead in barber
shop last Thursday. Mr.. Fleming was
was for many years a passenger conductor
running between Bellows Falls and Spring
field, and in later years has managed the
Island House in Bellows Falls, and hotels
in Florida, California, the White Mountains
and Springfield, Mass.
ABNER KENT and Thomas Hart were ar
rested in Brandon last Wednesday for burg
, larizing the store of K. b. Hendry last No
) vember They were given hearing
Thursday afternoon, Hart turned state 8
evidence and Kent was put under 500
bonds. They carried away from Hendry's
place about sixty bottles Of beer, box OF
cigars and nearly 81 in cash. Kent was un-
| able to procure bail
} MRS CONRAD SHULTz died last week in
Bennington and the body was buried in ST
Peters cemetery in Troy, n. Y. Two days
later the body was found lying wrapped IN
a blanket near the fence outside OF the
cemetery. The grave had been broken into
Z by medical students who were frightened
| away after they had the body in their pos
. session. The police of Bennington and
t Troy are investigating the matter.
d HEAVY rain in North Danville last Sat
Q urday morning carried away two dams anC
U one bridge at that village. The flood carried
3 away two bridges between Danville ant
8 St. Johnsbury. At the latter place thu
i banks scale works, and for few minutes
much alarm was felt. At the height of thu
8 flood the river was much higher than in 1869
4. when several Of the scale shops were swep
d away.
Q WILLIAM CHASE Of Wheelock died las
.. Sunday at st. Johnsbury, aged eighty-fv'
n years. Mr.. Chase was born in Wheelock
II August 20, 1912. He has been honored will
nearly all the offices in the gift of his towns
8 men, and was in the State legislature 70
Nny,N 1t,1sv
8 of Caledonia County in 1859 and 1860. MI
!; Chase was one of the original Free Soil
II men and was an active mover in the "Knoy
u thing" party.
Il Il MEETING of the State Library Commits
- sion was held last week at ST. Johnsbury
+ Action was taken upon the application 70
~ the State appropriation of number Q
e towns which had voted to avail themselve
~ OF the provisions of the law. In some III
stances where towns do not vote to estal
lish library, villages are taking the matte
f. up and endeavoring to secure the State aiC
e. Such an application is now before tn
board for consideration. The work OF tn
to commission is constantly being broadene
N and many measures are being consdere
for increasing the efficiency Of the librarie
- already established.
al Mrs. E. G. Smith, wife of the well-know
president of the Central Vermont Railroad
~ is developing unusual talent as writer c
"a society comedies and farces. A recent pre-
VI duction from her pen entitled I" More Ba
gains than One " was brought out last wee
r. in St. Adams by local talent and the affa
IT. was brilliant success In speaking OF tn
n play the Messenger says: In delicate col
struction it is of unusual excellence 1t
d, modelled along the lines of the very success
n full parlor plays OF W. ID. Howell's and
lg by no means inferior in many respects
this class of productions by that author
NJ The text is crisp and sparkling, with man
r bits of humor, the situations effective, anC
4. what is more to the point, perfectly ma
N ural."
8. ERNEST EDISON, young man eightee
ia years old left Bennington last week on
ia voyage to Nebraska, distance OF over tw
az thousand miles which he intends to TAX
W entirely by water. The young man ha
only S150 with him, and expects to ear
81. money on the way for necessary expense
81 He wished to visit sister in Nebrask,
y who has promised to assist him in gettin
~ an education, and as he had no means wit
10 which to make the journey he conceive
~ this novel plan of reaching that far wester
- state. His route as mapped out is throug
81 the Walloomsac and Hudson rivers {
" Troy, where he expects to get permission I
10 go through the Erie canal. He has sewers
~ letters to canal officials from promneI
III residents of Bennington. At Buffalo h
will meet his father, who resides in vi
N ginia, and who is to attend the nations
a. Grand Army encampment. From there b
8, goes through the lake to Chicago, and froI
n there the route is not fully determined.