The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

THE one hundred and second annual
meeting OF the general convention OF Con-
gregational ministers and churches of YER
mont will be held in the Congregational
church, .Middlebury, June 5, 0. and 10. An
interesting programme has been prepared.
THE annual encampment of the Vermont
National Guard will be held at Chester
from Monday, August 8 to Friday, August
13 inclusive. An additional parade of the
First regiment and Light Battery as author
lied by Section 4,4l7, Vermont Statutes,
will take place at Chester, on Saturday,
August ID.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Increase, Chas.
A. Gray of Brattleboro, Darwin e. DIM
lex of Warren, Allen E. Church of Waits
field, Charles d. Naylor of Waitsfeld; orig
inal, James Howker of Middlebury, Francis
l.. Davis of West Dover; original, widows,
Maria M. M. Kellogg Of Bristol.
A MAN named Russell, alias {" DR.. Craw-
ford" wanted at Burlington for arson, was
arrested last week at Scranton, Pa. He is
charged with burning his store to secure
$500 insurance. Recently he was arrested
in Warren county, N. z, but escaped by
| jumping from train. He has been prac-
| ticing as physician in Scranton. Sheriff
Reeves Of Burlington went to Scranton and
| brought the man to Burlington.
A SAD accident occurred last week at the
home OF Alexander Ferguson of North
Pawlet. His little daughter, aged two and
half years, was scalded by falling into q
wash boiler of hot water. The mother had
put the boiler on the floor and went across
| the street, and while gone the child fell in
| to the water. She lived for two hours.
The flesh dropped off from her shoulders to
the end OF the fingers. Tho child was IA
vorite in the neighhorhood.
Hon. GEORGE N. DALE Of Island Pond,
| John H. Watson of Bradford and John
Young of Newport the commission appoint
ed on the case of ex-States Attorney j. G.
| Jones of Rutland, against whom disbar-
ment proceedings were brought by Judge
Rowell filed their report last Thursday.
The committee finds Jones guilty Of the
charges made; that in the letter he wrote to
Judge Rowell asking for certificate on
which to collect his salary, he gave him a
false report in regard to proceedings in pros
ecutions named, claiming that he had CAR
ried out the instructions of Judge Rowell,
when, in fact, he had not. The proceedings
referred to were suits to collect forfeited
bail in liquor cases.
MOSES CHENEY, formerly of Barnard and
| widely known through central Vermont a
generation ago as singing master, died
recently at Watertown, s. d., after brief
illness. He was the son of a New Hamp
shire Clergyman, but passed the most of his
life in Barnard. He taught singing school
for many years, and many of the middle
aged people in and out Of the state will re.
| member his mlnlstratl0nS. he was an IT.
repressible humorist as we'll as a musician
and there are eXtant stories about him with
out number. He represented Barnard in
the legislature when the present state house
was located and made speech in the midst
of the hot contest about the matter, urging
Barnard as the true place for the capitol
which stands as the funniest talk ever made
in the House. He had for number Of
years lived in South Dakota with one of his
! sons.
ITCHING PILES, nights horrid plague, il
instantly relieved and permanently cured
by Doan's Ointment. Your dealer ought tC
keep it.