The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Increase, John
S Woodward, West Glover, So to $14i
William w. Holden Of Northfeld, So to $12;
reissue, Michael Mccarthy of Highgate
Springs SIG; original widows. Theresa A.
j. Keller Of st. Adams, IS.
HENRY f. ARMS of Worcester, Mass, who
died last week was native of Cavendish,
and was thirty-eight years of age. He was
member of Worcester Lodge OF Elks,
Worcester County Commandery, knights
Templar and the Massachusetts Consistory
and Aleppo Temple Of the Mystic Shrine.
He leaves widow
JOHN MoREY, freight conductor on the
Central Vermont railroad met with a pain.
full accident at Milton last Wednesday
morning. While attempting to board the
saloon on the rear end OF the train one end
OF the rod of the ladder which he grasped
came out, letting him back and carrying his
foot under the wheels, badly mangling and
cutting one side OF it. Had he not, with
wonderful courage, hung on with his left
hand to the rod above, he would have roll
ed under the wheels and been fatally in
iured. He was taken to st. Adams, where
his foot was dressed
The body OF Morris Griffith, Jr., who dis
appeared March 81 last from Middle Gran
vile, N. Y, was found last week in slate
quarry near Bennington. The body OF the
horse he was driving and the buggy were
also found at the bottom of the quarry. 1t
is supposed that the young man was driv-
ing along this lonely road and in the dark
the horse fell into the quarry, dragging the
carriage and occupant with him. Strange
to say, his mother had always been under
the impression that he had fallen into this
very quarry and the day following the dis
appearance went in that direction hoping to
find some trace but the snow and rain had
covered up the tracks.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
~ Ru+lan6 railroad wa ha11 not
at Rutland. The old board Of directors was
reelected as follows: Percival W. Clement
of Rutland, George II. Ball Of Boston, John
W. Stewart Of Middlebury Horace G..
Young Of Albany, Chester Griswold and
David Wilcox of New York. Edgar Hard
ing of Boston, Charles A. Walker OF New
York and Wallace @. Clement of Rutland.
There were no reports presented and the
meeting adj burned without further action.
After the adjournment the directors held a
meeting and organized by re-electing the
old officers, thus: President, Percival w.
Clement; vice-president, Horace G. Young;
treasurer, Henry G. Smith. The old exec
utive committee was also reelected, name
ly, G. H. Ball, H. G. Young and p w.
Clement
SEVEN suits have been brought against
the Burlington Wooden Company and two
more against the Wnooski Worsted COM
pany for the collection OF drafts held by
banks. They aggregate $4,000 The suits
are as follows, National Bank OF North
America against Winooski Worsted compa-
ny, $50 900; National Bank of New Jersey
against the same, $4,000; National Citizen 3
bank against Burlington Wooden company,
$4,000; Bank of America against the same,
$4,000; National Bank of North America
against the same, S30,000 New York Life
Insurance and Trust company against the
same, $50, 900, and the president and direc-
tors Of the Manhattan company against the
same $4,000 All the above are New York
banks but one which is the National Bank
of New Jersey, located at New Brunswick.
A DUMMERsToN farmer has in his posses
sion valued souvenir in the shape of a
counterfeit silver dollar, one of a large
number found under the attic floor of an
old house in Marlboro. Years ago these
dollars were frequently circulated in some
parts OF Windham county, and Marlboro
man was arrested for having them in his
possession. The whole town was excited
over the matter and scores OF witnesses
were summoned to Newfane to testify in
the case, which was summarily closed by
the sudden death Of the respondent, and
not until many years afterward were the
bogus dollars found under the floor of his
former home. 1t was thought at the time
the counterfeits were made somewhere in
or near Bennington and taken to Marlboro
in bags.
Half the ills that man is heir to come from
Indigestion. Burdock Blood Btters strength
ems and tones the stomach; makes Indigestion
impossible.