The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

THE Stanley Opera House at St. Johns
bury was partially destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at So, 900, fully insured.
THE blacksmith shop of s. @. White at
Bristol was destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day night. There was no insurance and
Mr.. Whites loss is heavy.
ROGER DoNAHUE, brakeman on the
Central Vermont railroad, had one foot cut
off last week at Essex Junction, by falling
between two freight cars. His home is in
Nort1 field
THE tug steamer "John A." was sunk
in Lake Mempremagog last week. The
steamer was owned by Prouty & Miller aud
was used by them in their lumber business
at Newport.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Patrick Staple
ton, deceased Walingford; increase, Lev
erett Allen of Wallingford original, widow,
Georgiana Smith, Montpelier.
ORMAND W. FLETCHER, prominent
merchant and citizen Of North Chester com
mitted suicide last week by hanging in his
store. Mental arrangement caused by ILL.,
ness is the alleged reason for the rash act.
WHILE hunting last week on Florida
mountain" near Bennington, a party of boys
came across four black bears They sue
ceeded in killing one that weighed one
hundred and forty pounds, and was in
Mrs. LOUISE d. DELoNG, wife OF William
belong of West Cornwall, shot herself in
the right temple last week inficting a fatal
wound. Mrs. belong was sixty years old
and had been suffering for sometime with
mental arrangement
JENNIE, daughter of I. l. Butterfield of
Randolph, was married last week to full
fledged Chinaman. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. G, W. Morrow and the affair
has caused no end of talk in that village.
The Celestial cut off his queue before the
wedding /; thus barring forever his return to
his native land.
EIGHT candidates, four men and four
women, were baptized in the Missisquoi
river at Richford last Sunday week. Rev.
formed the rite. The river was filled with
floating ice and there was talk of prohibit
ing the ceremony on the ground that it was
dangerous to health.
GENERAL CHARLES E. HovEY, who died
last week at Washington, d. c., was ma
tive If Thetford, and graduate of Dart
mouth College. He was one of the origina-
tors Of the Normal School idea in Illinois
and was president of the Normal School OF
that state. He was seventy years old and
had lived for many years at Bloomington,
I'll.
ST. JoHNsBURY is suffering from an cpl.
demic of diphtheria. The public schools
have been closed and there are at present
between forty and fifty cases in that village.
The town is in fever of excitement and a
pest house has been instituted in Fairbanks
village. Scores OF houses are quarantined
and DR.. Berry, woman specialist, MEM
Der of the board of health of New York city
has been called there as an expert in the
disease. The death rate thus far has not
been large.
HENRY MALoNEY of Bennington, forty
years old, was found dead last Thursday
morning in barn about a mile from Ben
nington village. Lying on him was a heavy
oak door that he probably pulled over as he
went into the barn. Investigation showed
broken. He had arranged a place in the
barn in which to sleep. He was on the
streets early in the evening in an intoxicated
condition and was tracked through the snow
to the barn. He was unmarried, but leaves
father, brother and two sisters.
Hon. CROSBY MILLER died last week at
his home in Pomfret aged eighty-six years.
Mr.. Miller was one of the prominent citizens
OF Windsor county and had held nearly all
the offices of trust and responsibility in his
native town. He was state senator in 1851
and 1852 and served four terms as repre-.
sentative from Pomfret, commencing in
1860 For ten years, from 1872 he was as
sistant judge OF Windsor County Court and
was for many years member of the State
Board Of Agriculture. He has also been
trustee OF the University of Vermont and
member of the Board of Control of the State
Experiment Station.
CORPORAL JOHN r. THoLAN of Captain
Dodds troop at Fort Ethan Allen is the
legatee of a fortune of $4,000 left him by
his recently dec sascd uncle, John f. Finch
of Malvern, Pa. The legacy is partly in cash
and partly in choice real estate in the vicinity
of Philadelphia. The nucleus of the fortune
fell to the late Malvern capitalist from an
English relative, and good management
doubled it. Though of English and German
ancestry, the corporal is American born
Corporal Tholan is twenty-one years Of age
and he will not come into possession of the
property until he is twenty-five. Meanwhile
he will continue his military career.
A disastrous fire occurred last Wednesday
on the premiees of Ernest Rugg of Benning
ton. Two large barns, one with a capac
ity for forty cows, hen.house, hog and car
riage house, together with all the contents
except the cows and horses, were burned
The fire was discovered about midnight
and originated in the hog house, in which
several hogs were killed and dressed yes
terdsy afternoon. Twenty. weight cows anG
several horses were removed. A number
of tons of hay, grain, farming implements
and harnesses were burned. The barns
were considered among the best and mos