The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

DANIEL WOODBURY., son of John A.
crushed recently by the bursting of an
emery wheel. 1t is thought his injuries will
prove fatal
WILLIAM WEIGH attempted to kill John
Walker at Rutland last week by slash
ing his throat with a razor. Weloh is UNI
der arrest, and will be held to await the re-
suit OF Walkers injuries.
M. p. PERLEy, a prominent merchant OF
Enosburg Falls, was shot and seriously
wounded last week by Henry j. Chamber
lin of West Enosburg, who had entered
Mr.. Perley's house for the purpose of rob-
bling it, Chamberlin was taken to Jail at st.
Albums to await the result OF Mr.. Perley's
injuries.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Renewal and
increase, William f. Whitney Of Willston
increase, Joseph d. Needham OF Brandon
Charles Parkhurst of Randolph; restoration
and increase, j. Hazen Wood OF Randolph
Center; reissue and increase, Solomon M.
Brush OF Stowe Albert s. Green of st. AL
| bans.
The case OF W. A Carter OF st. Johns
bury, who was injured at a grade crossing
| at Bethel in December, 1896 and who sued
the Central Vermont railroad for $4,000
| damages, was tried in Cal sdonia county
court last week. When the plaintiff had
u
verdict, asking the court to order it, which
| 1t did.
LEWIS TENNIEN Of Brandon was drowned
in Lake Dunn ore recently. He was a
member of Company @, N. G. ", and was
an excellent young man. He was out row.
ing with Joe Cover and Frank Cookie. An
oar was lost overheard and reached for, and
the boat was overturned. Tennien was
| pitched in headforemost and was drowned
in ten feet Of water. The other parties were
rescued in an exhausted condition.
w. j. RANNEY, for the past four years
keeper of the j all at st. Johnsbury, died
suddenly last week of neuralgia OF the
| the heart. In the capacity of nurse he sat up
as usual with sick man last Saturday
night and was apparently as well as ever
when he went home. He complained OF
slight pain about the heart after going to
| bed and while remedies were being applied
passed away without struggle. He was
| fifty-nine years old and leaves wife and
one son.
THE following officers of the Green Noun
tain Association of Universalists were
elected last week, at the annual meeting
held at Woodstock: President, II. o. Max
am; vice-president, II. 9. Farrar OF Rut
land; treasurer, W. D. Ball of Ludlow; sec
rotary, Bertha S. Knapp of Woodstock
The meeting was the largest and most en-
thusiastic ever held by the association, and
was harmonious throughout. The addresses
were interesting and attentively listened to
and the program was carried through with
out a hitch.
In Bennington county court last week
Benz amin Roberts of Dorset, against whom
the grand jury had returned nineteen in
dictments for selling liquor, called for 6
trial by jury. The jury found him guilty O.
fifteen first offences. He was sentenced t.
pay a fine Of $3.50 and costs, with thirty
days in the house of correction, and to stanC
committed until the fine was paid The
sentence to the workhouse for the first of
fence of selling is the first ever given il
Bennington county, under the prohibitorJ
law as amended at the last legislature.
THE big lumber mill of George j. Hodges
at Ripton was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day morning. Besides his mill and ma
chinery, Mr.. Hodges loses 247 600 feet o
clapboards about 40, 900 hard wood shingles
about 900 feet of ash, sawed out for differ
ent uses, and about 100 cords of slabs. Mr.
Hodges, in attempting to fight the fire a,
soon as he had been aroused, got his RICH
hand severely burned and the right side o
his face considerably scorched. There wa
an insurance of 81 900 on the mill and fix
lures, but none on the lumber, shingles
etc, and Mr.. Hodges estimates his total los
at $780, which completely wipes out thu
savings Of lifetime. He has no doubt tina
the fire was incendiary in origin, and be
lieves he knows who the guilty parties
were.
THOUSANDS are suffering excruciatinl
misery from that plague of the night, Itch
ing Piles, and say nothing about it through
a sense of delicacy. Instant relief in Doan'
Ointment. 1t never fails.