The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

Richford was burned last Wednesday
night. Loss $1,000.
THOMAS GLEASON of Richmond, aged
twenty years, was drowned at Richmond
last Wednesday while bathing. The body
was recovered.
PRESIDENT NJ. II. BUcKHAM of the Uni
versity OF Vermont was married last Thurs
day at st. Johnsbury to Miss Martha g.
Tyler of that village.
A TWO STORY house on Williams street in
Brattleboro, owned by Thomas Geiss was
burned last week. The fire was of in
cendiary origin; partially insured.
THE Vermont quarterly meeting and min
ister's conference OF Free Baptists will be
held at Enosburg Falls September 8, 9, 10,
IL and II. Excursion rates will be granted
from all points on the Central Vermont rail-
road
JOHN GoKEY, a brakeman on the Boston
& Maine railroad, who was changing the
numbers on the caboose OF freight train
ready to leave Lyndonville yard last Satur-
day forenoon, slipped and fell to the ground,
striking broken draw bar, breaking his
right leg in two places and injuring him
otherwise.
AT the annual meeting Of the Connecticut
and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad Company
held last Wednesday at Newport, these Off
GERS were elected: Amos Barnes Of Boston,
president; Alden Speare OF Boston, vice.
president; James ii. williams of Bellows
Falls, treasurer; Henry g. Cleveland OF
Coventry, secretary.
THE block on Main street in Poultney,
occupied by the Poultney Journal and the
clothing store OF e. W. Jones, was de-
stroyed by fire last week Friday morning.
The machinery and presses in the basement
were not damaged except by water The
loss on the entire block is $780, partially
covered by insurance.
THOMAS MULvEY OF Castleton met with a
serious accident last week while running
moving machine He saw piece OF barbed
wire ahead OF the machine, and stopped
his horses and went to remove the wire.
The horses started and the knife struck
Mulvey about four inches above the ankle,
cutting the cords and muscles to the bone.
THE Philadelphia Press of recent date
contains an illustrated three column write
up Of the State Changers picnic, held last
Thursday at Williams Grove, Pa. This re-
port speaks in very complimentary terms OF
the address made by Hon. Alpha Messer,
national influence OF the order and the Press
devotes nearly a column to an excellent alb.
stract OF his address.
The boiler of the yacht Winona exploded
last Wednesday on Lake Champlain. A
party Of twelve was on board, j. @. De-
baum and wife. Miss Libbie O'Sullivan, Mr..
Holloway and Herbert Brewster were Sc
over forty feet into the lake. Through the
heroic efforts OF Mr. Brewster, the members
OF the party were kept safely until help had
come. They were taken to the hotel in Ii
conderoga.
The Twelfth and Seventeenth Regiments
of Vermont Volunteers held their annual
reunions at Burlington last Wednesday.
Over $50 delegates were present from all
parts of the State There was little bust
ness transacted. Montpelier was selected as
the place of the meeting in 1898. Rutland
and Brattleboro were also mentioned, but
the majority were in favor OF Montpelier.
The old officers OF both regiments were re.
elected. banquet was held that evening
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
following Vermonters: Original, Curtis G..
Mooney of Lyndon, Harper Hazen of Hart
ford; additional, Hiram X. George of Tun-
bridge; increase, Amos G. Kendall OF Ches-
ter, Uric 7. Ross of Proctorsville, Andrew
Q. Rollins of White River junction, Asaph
p Cameron Of Morrisville, Walter W. Fish,
Jr., of Ludlow; restoration, and reissue, AL
yah G. Ring of Huntington, Jerome b.
Powers, deceased, Lowell; restoration and
supplemental, Oliver X. Wyman of Ben
nington; original, widows, Leafa j. Powers
of Lowell, Marietta Perkins of West Rut-
land.
Col. WALTER SCRANTON Of New York,
president Of the Scranton Steel Works, has
purchased in Vergennes the John Wander
hoof farm of 100 acres for So, 800, the Elijah
Graves farm of $50 acres for $1,000, the
Hawkins farm Of 40 acres for 81 400 and %
acres Of Lieut.. G. A. Bradbury. This pur-
chase gives Colonel Scranton, who was for
merly a resident of Vergennes and whose
wife was Miss Mary Woodbridge of Yer
gennes, daughter Of the late +. K. Wood
bridge, the whole lake front from Keeler's
stone house to Apple Tree cove. 1t is the
intention Of Mr. Scranton to Immediately
begin the erection of first class summer
residence on the property.
AN increased prosperity is noticeable in
the manufacturing industries of Newport.
AT the Tuck & Morris clothing factory Aug
ust is reported as the biggist month in the
concerns history. During the month they
have filed orders amounting to $4,000.
II has been reported that the Union Bobbin
Works which have been shut down for
nearly year, would start up again this fall
furnishing employment for $50 men. This
seasons summer resort business about
Lake Memphremagog is one-third better
than in any previous year. For example,
the seasons receipts OF the largest hotel
about the lake are given, amounting to
nearly $4,000. This the record of the
Mountain House.
A NUMERoUsLY signed petition from Rut-
land has been sent to the governor, asking
for the appointment Of a special State liquor
prosecutor forthat city. A dispatch sent out
from Rutland says the appointment is al
legged to stand between Horace w. Love,
Judge Newman Weeks, Jewett T. Cain and
Walter A. Clarke. The latter gentleman is
the city grand juror, but it is alleged that he
is hampered by the veto of the mayor, who
favors the free and unrestricted sale of
liquor. The city can hope for no relief un-
less the State acts. There Is great need of
some action, and the business men begin to
appreciate it as the present States attorney
has now fallen into the precedents of his
predecessors in office.
The matter of the possible replacement Of
many of the post-office and star routes now
in operation by the establishment OF rural
free delivery service has been taken up by
the post.offic department, and in few
days an experiment in this line will be
made. Its results are expected to show the
extent to which the offices and routes can
be done away with in favor OF the rural de-
livery routes. The town of Grand Isle, in
Vermont, has been selected for the test.
The post-otfices at Pearl and Adams will be
discontinued, as well as star service routes
from Adams to Grand Isle. The recent ex-
periments to demonstrate the feasibility Of
rural delivery service in a general way in
dicated that its establishment throughout
the country would involve an addition an
nual expenditure of from $50, 900, 900 to $780,.
100000. BY having it substituted for post
offices and star routes wherever possible
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