The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-24
MARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

M. s.. BUCK OF Proctorsville has received
the appointment as assistant Judge Of Wind
sor County Court to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge Parker.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Increase, Luman
A. Noyes, Randolph Center; Edison EN-
cry, East Randolph. Original, Hiram A.
Dean, Burlington. Supplemental, Martin
V. b. Armstrong, Bennington. Original
widows, etc, Catherine Fitzgerald, Stowe.
GUY CARPENTER EsrEy, the sixteen-years.
old son of General j.. j. Estey of Brattle-
boro, died last Thursday of spinal menin-
gifts after an illness of ten days. He was a
student at the Vermont Academy and ac-
companied his parents on the recent trip
with the Vermont party to the Nashville
Exposition.
ADA PINNEY, seventeen years old, was
shot last Thursday at her home in Andover,
and died soon after. 1t is alleged that a
brother of the girl did the shooting, but it
was not known whether it was accidental
or intentional. The authorities are investi-
eating. A charge of buckshot entered the
groin. The tragedy occurred in the house
of the girls family.
WILLARD WHITE, ffte9n years Of age,
was arrested at Royalton last week for the
recent attempted wrecking Of the north
bound mail train over the Central Vermont
railroad, near Royalton cemetery. A tie
placed across the track was struck by the
locomotive and thrown between the rails.
No damage was done. AT a hearing before
Justice M. j, Sargent, young White pleaded
guilty and explained that he expected to
see the tic crushed and did not think IL
would cause a wreck. He was held for trial.
THE sloop "Cornelia," with 10S tons OF
coal on board, was sunk last Wednesday
about one mile out from the Burlington
breakwater. Captain Mock and his crew
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vessel sprung a leak and went down in a
very few minutes after the leak was discov-
cred. The coal was consigned to the Elias
Lyman Coal Company. 1t is a question
as to whether the cargo of coal can be saved
as over one-half Of it was on the deck Of
the sloop, and the cargo will probably be a
total loss. 1t is probable that attempts will
be made to raise the sloop.
GENERAL CHARLES e. HovdY, a we'll
known lawyer of Washington, D.. c., dice
last Wednesday, aged seventy years. He
served during the war as a volunteer officer
and had a fine record. He was born in
Vermont in 1927 and after he had been grad
uated from Dartmouth College moved to
Illinois where he founded the Illinois State
Normal University. When the war broke
out he resigned as its principal and under
President Lincoln's commission raised the
Thirty-third Illinois volunteers, the MEM
bers being principally former students of
the University. Calamity at the battle OF
Cache Siver gained him promotion to
brigadier general and an assignment to
General Sherman's command.
THOMAS r.. WOODS, a Central Vermont
freight conductor, was killed at North
Georgia last Wednesday. Woods train
which was No. 10, left St. Adams about six
o'clock in the evening and overlook another
freight train at Georgia. Woods left his
train and boarded the engine of the other TO
ride down to the station, where he jumped
off, and striking against a lat car which stood
there, was thrown back under the wheels OF
the moving train, all the cars passing over
the body, which was badly mangled. Mr..
Woods, who was single and about thirty
years old, was a native of West Hartford
He is survived by his mother, who lives
there. He had been in the employment OF
the Central IN since 1890 and bore
an excellent character and reputation with
his employers and associates. The deceased
was an Odd Fellow.
A HOUSE occupied by Frank Yellowneck,
about two miles east Of Bennington, a barn
adjoining, and all the contents were burned
last Thursday morning. Mrs. Yellowneck
was awakened about three o'clock to find
that the bed in which she was sleeping with
two children, one of them only three weeks
old, was on fire. Her husband, a tailor,
works in Troy. She seized the children
and put them in a baby carriage, threw a
pillow over them, and clad only in her
night gown went to a neighbours, fully a
quarter of a mile distant and aroused them.
The barn that adjoined the house was
burned before she was awakened. There
was no insurance on contents. The fire is
supposed to nave taken in the barn from a
tramp who was sleeping there. The family
lost everything.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Benning-
ton last Friday that Ernest Edison, who left
Bennington July 20 last for Lincoln, Neb.,
on an unnavigable river in a boat of his own
construction; had reached there safely.
Edison, who is twenty years old, resolved to
try his fortunes in the west, but was too
poor to go by ordinary means and routes OF
travel. The boat was twelve feet long and
two feet wide, and was provided with oars
and rugged with a sail. All Edison took
were the little boat, one dollar in money
and the clothes he wore. He landed at
different places to earn money to continue
on the voyage, sleeping in the boat at night,
Entering the great lakes at Buffalo, he
reached Nebraska by the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers. Edson's route covered
over 1890 miles. He suffered terribly al
times from hunger, storm and exposure,
but was greeted as a hero in many places
through which he passed.
THE annual business meeting and ban
quet OF the Vermont Fish and Game League
was held last Wednesday evening at the