The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

A posT-oFFIcE inspector from Boston was
In Vergennes last week for the purpose OF
making an investigation into the MANAGE
ment OF the Vergennes post-office OF which
John III. Donnelly Ia postmaster. The cause
OF the investigation was that charges OF
gross mismanagement had been made to the !
post-office department at Washington by
parties in Vergennes.
The Cottage Hotel at st. Johnsbury was
partially destroyed by fire last Thursday |
night. The blaze caught from q bracket |
roof Prompt S work rs by the FIRE S department
saved the building Many guests escaped |
in their night Clothes one man being |
awakened by the burning Of his mattress. |
The building and contents are fully insured.
AT the Baptist State Convention, held
last week at Chester, the following officers
were elected: President, W. b. Roberts,
ID, Burlington; vice-president Rev. ID.
D.Owen, Ludlow; clerk, Rev. W. A. Kinzie,
Bristol; trustees, Il. III. Archibald. Middle
bury; Willard Crane, Burlington; ID. ID.
nington; W. B. Roberts, DID,, Burlington;
o. b. Benson, Fairfax; W. A. Kinzie,
Bristol.
MICHAEL CAvANAuaH Of Brattleboro, the
| Vermont "Steeple Jack, was seriously in
jured at Brattleboro last week by falling
thirty-fve feet from the roof OF the Baptist
church in that village. he had just finish
ed work on the church spire, ITO feet high,
and walked out on the roof to get hat
which his assistant had dropped, and the
small wire which supported him gave way
and he rolled off the roof His exploits in
climbing chimneys and church steeples had
attracted much attention and he never met
with an accident before this one.
A BAD wreck occurred last Wednesday
night near North Troy station, on the Can
adian Pacific railroad. A freight train Of
eighteen cars coming down the hill from
Newport Center jumped the track q short
distance from the high bridge at the foot Of
the grade and thirteen OF the cars were
knocked into kindling wood and the con-
tents of the westbound freight strewn along
the track which was badly torn up. The
theory Of the accident is that the train was
making express time down the hill, o car
jumped the track at a curve, and the others
after 1t. The loss Is estimated at $4,000, q
large amount Of freight being destroyed.
HENRY L. CHAMBERLAIN, the man who
shot M. P. Perley at Enosburg Falls June
is last, was sentenced last Thursday in
franklin county court to twenty years at
hard labor in the state prison at Windsor.
The grand jury at this term presented four
for breaking into the grist mill Of G. L.
Ovitt; one for burning certain buildings be-
longing to Champion and Richardson's an
other for breaking into the store Of M. P.
Perley q Co.; the fourth indictment was
for shooting Mr.. Perley with intent to kill
was the most serious and the one to which
he pleaded guilty.
P. X. PECK, the embezzling ex-assistant
postmaster at Rutland, was arrested last
Wednesday in Troy, N. Y. He was taken
to Burlington, given hearing before United
States Commissioner johnson, waived ex-
animation, and was held in the sum of
$1,000. Peck, it will be remembered, was
assistant postmaster under DIR. Hanrahan' o
administration at Rutland, where he is we'll
connected. 1t appears that in endeavoring
to settle up a quantity of debts contracted
while in the cigar business he commenced
appropriating small sums Of money belong
ing to the government, in the hope of being
able to replace them before the shortage
would be noticed. What followed is the
same old story. He become more and more
involved and from small sums he soon en-.
larged his thieving until on the recent
change of administration the defalcation
which reached $500 was made public, and
he left town to avoid arrest. He was work
ing in shirt factory in Troy when he was
.. arrested. His aged mother and his wife
have done all in their power to make good
the shortage since he fed from Rutland
They have paid nearly the whole amount.