The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21
SUM MARY OF NEWS,
Vermont.

vermont.
THE express train from Bellows Falls for
Boston last Saturday afternoon was wrecked
near Keene, N. II. Milo Curtis, engineer,
and Louis Eddy, fireman, both of Bellows
Falls were killed.
II. G. JONES OF Binghamton, N. Y, has
been secured as superintendent of schools at
st. Johnsbury. Mr.. Jones is a graduate OF
Cornell University, and has been for the
past three years principal OF the grammar
school at Binghamton.
VICTORIA WILDER, the eleven-years-old
daughter of John Wilder of Plymouth, fell
from the high beams in her fathers barn
last Sunday, receiving injuries from which
she died a few hours later.
ORRIs GREEN of Topsham, aged sixty
four, committed suicide last Sunday by TAX
ing l%audanum. Dependency was the
cause. Since the death of his wife his
children have grown up and left home
and he was living alone.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original, Will
liam Woodbury., Castleton; additional,
William j. Cheney, Albany; increase,
Stearns S. Hutchinson, Braintree; reissue,
Edwin G. Crossett, Waterbury.
GEORGE HUsE of Morrisville was killed at
Granite Junction in Hardwick last Satur-
day afternoon by being run over by a freight
car. He was a brakeman on the st. Johns
bury & Lake Champlain railroad. He
leaves a wife and two children at Norris
vile.
THE thirty-first national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in Buffalo, N. Y, during the week
commencing Sunday, August 90. Round
trip tickets from points in Vermont will be
sold for $10,65 via Montreal and Niagara
Falls.
THE directors of the st. Johnsbury fair
grounds have invited William j. Bryan to
make an address on the fair ground at the
annual county fair in September. They ex-
tended a similar invitation to Speaker Reed,
who replied that a contemplated trip to
Europe after this session Of Congress pre-
vented him from accepting the invitation.
THE town of Stockbridge has recently re.
ceived $1,000 of a $4,000 bequest left by the
late William Belcher of San Francisco, a
bequest the income only is to be used for
the current expenses of a town library. A
corporation has been chartered for the pur-
pose OF managing the fund and the library.
PENSIONS have recently been issued to
the following Vermonters: Original, Will
liam Mcneil Of Shelburne; increase, James
r. McGibben Of Brandon, Charles Lepage
Barre; reissue, George W. Sneedon Of Bris-
toll; reissue and increase, Charles j. Hall OF
Bridgeport: original, widows, etc, Lucy A.
Haley Of Pownal, Rhoda E. Fraser of Brat
tleboro.
1HE Lllu-SuuHlbT hltobluR VI luo NbTLuOuJ
Fish and Game League, which was to have
been held on Thursday OF this week at the
home of Northumberland N. w. Fisk
at Isle La Motto, has been postponed until
Friday, August 6, word having been re-
ceived from Secretary Proctor that Presi-
dent Mckinley will attend on that day, &C.
companied by several cabinet officers. The
Senate Of 1896 will hold q reunion there at
that time.
DURING the recent department Grand
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committee appointed by the fourteenth
Vermont Reunion Association contracted
with Emerson Estabrook for a regimental
monument that is to be erected on Gettys-
burg battle field, and work has already been
begun on the same. The monument Is to
be made OF dark Barre granite. The bottom
base will be round, five feet in diameter and
one foot six inches.thick. TIL second base
will be round, four feet in diameter and one
foot, three inches thick This will be sur
mounted by a column twelve feet high. To
go with the monument are six markers,
which will be placed at important points
connected with the history of the part taken
by the regiment in the Gettysburg battle.
The contract price for the whole is S1.650.
The dedication services are to take place
October 81, the anniversary OF the day on
which the regiment was mustered into SER
vice. The committee having the matter in
charge consists of Capt. R. o. Cove of Ben
nington, f. H. Shepard Of Fair Haven and
George +. Brown Of Rutland.
CAPT. HERBERT e. TUTHERLY, First
United States Cavalry, who has been on
duty will the Vermont National Guard as
inspector for several years, under orders
from the war department, will be relieved
September by Capt. Stephen p. Jocelyn
of the 10Th United States Infantry, with
headquarters at Fort Wayne, Detroit. Capt.
Jocelyn's detail will keep him in Vermont
four years. He is a Vermonter by birth
and enlisted from Bennington in Company
A, Sixth Regiment. Vermont Volunteers,
August %, 1868. His record is as follows.
Discharged July 6, 1864; made first %lieuten-
ant 115th United States Colored Infantry
August l, 1864; honorably mustered out
February 10, 1866; appointed second lieu
man Dist Infantry March s, 1871; first
lieutenant April ii, 1873, with rank from
July %, 1866; captain May 30, 1874; served
In the office OF assistant provost-marshal-
general at Brattleboro, September 1868, to
August, 1864; joined regiment in the de-
partment of Ohio, August, 1864; engaged
against guerrillas in southwestern Ken
lucky; guarding Louisville and Nashville
railroad, and conducting rebel prisoners to
Johnson's Island and Camp Chase, Ohio,
to November, 1864; in the twenty.hfth CORPS,
army Of the James, January to May, 1855;
engaged in the operations before Richmond,
Va, and in the occupation of that city;
served in Texas from May, 1865, to Febru-
airy, 1866; at Charlestown, s. c., June, 1866,
to January, 1867; Columbia, 8. c., January,
1867; Ia department Of the Columbia and
Platte, to 1890,