The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

CHARLES b. SToUaHTcN OF Bellows Falls
died last week at the Soldiers Home in
Bennington, aged fifty six years. He was q
member OF Company ID, Fourth Vermont
Regiment The burial will be at Bellows
Falls to-day.
PENSIONS have recently been granted TO
the following Vermonters Original, James
Finn of Jerico, Sc; Moody H Evans Of St.
Johnsbury, So; reissue. Francis German
OF WinUoski $40; increase, Henry Q. Rice
OF Bethel, S12 to SIT.
LYMAN W. BowLEs, a prominent citizen
Of Bennington county, died last week at
his home in Woodford. Deceased had
several times represented his town In the
legislature, has been q county judge and
filed other town offices. He was for over
20 years town clerk and treasurer of Wood
ford.
THE business block in Newport owned by
Mrs. A. +. Hall was burned last Wednes-
day, causing loss OF about $4,000. s M.
Flint occupied the tenement over #. w.
Cares shop. Flints loss was $500, with no
insurance. The estimated loss on the build
ing is $4,000; insurance 1920. Cares loss
$500; insurance, $3.50.
THE eighth annual dinner of the Brook
Ign society Of Vermonters was held last
week at the Montauk clubhouse in that
city. Governor Grout and General W. II.
Gilmore we're present from Vermont.
There were no toastS or set speeches but in
formal addresses were made by Governor
Grout, Aldace #. Walker, Professor Brai-
nerd Kellogg OF the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute, Major u. X. Pangborn, editor Of
the Jersey City Journal, General Stillman
of the Kneeland, ex-Mayor David A. Body
and others.
THOMAS MoGREEN, eighty years old, met
with horrible death at Bellows Falls last
week. He was crossing the Rutland rail-
road bridge, when he was overtaken by the
OK mail train n "a atanppd o. 70 m n a
side Of the bridge as he could and was in q
STOPPING position, when the train reached
him. The snow pillow on the engine hit him
in the head and knocked him off the bridge
into the canal Scores of people ran along
the banks hoping to secure the remains.
Word was sent to the mills to shut down
the gates and as IL happened they shut the
gates just as the body hoated under them,
horribly mutiating it. The remains had to
be taken out in fragments. He had been
resident of Bellows Falls for more than
fifty years.
Hon. RoLLIN j. JONES of West Cornwall
died on Monday, aged seventy-nine years.
He owned an extensive farm in Lemon
Fair Valley and was pioneer in the Amer
lean Merino sheep industry, and for many
years was the most extensive Merino sheep
dealer in the United States. Early in life
he took an active part in political affairs
and had always identified himself with the
Republican party, serving his town as rep
resentative four sessions, member of the
State Senate three times, also member OF
the constitutional convention, and from
1870 TO 1874 collector of internal revenue for
the first district of Vermont, all of which
duties he discharged in an able and ac-
ceptable manner.
The Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Asso-
citation proposes to organize trade bureau,
with an authorized capital of $50 900, for the
purpose Of marketing the maple products of
the stockholders. The bureau is to be es-
tablished at Enosburgh Falls, where it is
proposed to receive all goods in the form of
syrup, in casks and kegs supplied by the
bureau, the syrup 80 received to be graded
and credited to the person sending and
some portion Of the value of the goods to be
paid to the producer on their receipt at the
station, the balance to be paid at the close
OF the years business. The unreasonably
low price OF maple goods has led to he es-
Enlistment Of this bureau The shares of
stock are $40 each, payable on or after
March 1, 1898. no stock to be called for I'M
til $4,000 has been subscribed. Each
holder Of stock in said bureau shall have
the right tc market his maple products
through the bureau, the operation of the
bureau to be cooperative, and goods re-
ceived shall be paid for on a basis of sales
made for the season. Each holder of stock
shall be entitled to one vote for each share
OF stock owned, in the management OF the
affairs Of the bureau.