The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14
sum MARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

WILLIAM PEMBROKE of Vergennes aged
sixty-five years, was found dead in bed last
Wednesday morning. He was subject to
epileptic fits, and it is supposed this was the
cause of his death He was one of the prom
inent farmers in town.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Restoration and
increase, John W. Gardner, deceased, Rut-
land; increase, Charles P. Coy, Bethel;
William Gage, Springfield, Peter Sault,
Randolph; Joseph A. Starbird, Mechanics
Vile; reissue, James Kneeland, johnson.
THE BODY Of an infant was found last
Thursday in the Fall Mountain Paper Com
pany's log drive at Bellows Falls. The
body was buried by Undertaken Chase
of Bellows Falls. 1t is very evidently
a case of infanticde, but as the body may
some point above Bellows Falls, no inves-
tigation was deemed necessary.
HENRY G. BUGBEE of Bridgewater was
thrown from load of hay last Wednesday,
receiving injuries which resulted in his
death the next morning. The team was
frightened by a thunder clap and Mr.. Bug
bee was thrown to the ground, striking on
his head and shoulders. Both legs were
paralyzed, but he suffered little pain. The
deceased was prominent farmer and rep
resented the town in the last legislature.
He leaves wife and two children and was
fifty-three years old.
JOHN s. HOLDEN and Harry j. Cushman
ton Banner plant. Mr.. Holden, who is one
of the heaviest stockholders Of the j. S.
Holden Manufacturing Company, manu-
facturers of ladies' dress goods, is man OF
large wealth, and Mr.. Cushman, who is
clerk of the Bennington county court is a
understood that Charles W. Pierce will
continue to be the editor for time at least,
but Mr.. Cushman will dictate the policy
and general management of the paper.
THE Office OF George Shorey at Lyndon
vile, flour and grain dealer, was entered
last Wednesday, during the momentary abb
sence Of the owner, and q wallet containing
$500 in money and checks were stolen x
fellow who was seen shortly afterward
walking to St. Johnsbury, was followed,
and upon being overtaken threw an axe at
Officer West. He was arrested by Sheriff
Sulloway. On him was found 500 in money,
but the wallet and checks are missing.
The sheriff also has steel chisel which the
prisoners was seen to drop on the road. The
prisoner gave his name as Robert Scott OF
Toronto.
A SEVERE thunder storm swept over
Brattleboro last Wednesday, doing great
damage to the crops and washing the roads.
During the storm the lightning struck the
tall chimney on the administration build
ing at the Brattleboro Retreat but doing
little damage beyond tearing off few slate,
The lightning also struck the house OF AL
derman E. A. Lord at Esteyville, causing
a confagration which the fire department
had to put out, and striking and burning
severely Mrs. Lord. Beyond the shock to
her nervous system and the burns on her
arm and chest she Is all right and will prob
ably get out Of 1t in good shape.
The Mark Skinner library at Manchester
was dedicated last Wednesday. A histor-
ical address was delivered by Judge Love-
land Munson. Gov. Skinner, noted man
in the early history Of the State was a resi-
dent OF Manchester and the father of Mark
Skinner, in whose honor the magnificent
library was built by his daughter, Mrs. H.
j. Willing of Chicago. Mark Skinner also
founded the Dewellwood cemetery, &C
knowledged to be the most beautiful and
best cared for cemetery in the State, and
left an endowment for it. Hon. e. s. Isham
of Chicago also delivered very fine and
scholarly address, and there was also a
poem and good music for the occasion. The
library has been elegantly furnished by Mrs.
Wiling, and has, without doubt, the most
pleasing interior of any library in the State.
1t is most magnificent gift and worthy the
donor and of the family Of which it is the
memorial,
If your dealer tells you that something
else is 'just as good" as Doans Ointment
for Hives, Pin Worms, Itching Piles, or
other itchiness of the skin, tell him you
want the original 1t is safe; never-failing