Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-06
THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS THURSDAY OCTOBER g. 1898

the man and the train men. realizing that
there had been some one upon the track,
wired back to Stanbridge for hand car
to be sent out to pick up the remains. The
men upon the hand car found the man
upon the track sleeping peacefully be-
} tween the rails, not having been awak-
ened by the train. 1t was only with great
difficulty that he was aroused.
The funeral of Paul Buckley, the little
boy who was killed by an electric car
} Friday afternoon took place Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. Father Barrett Of
} ficated. -Four little boys were the bear
ers. The nterment was in Lake View
cemetery.
} Private Huskins was discharged from
the Forth Ethan Allen hospitay Monday.
Huskins Is n Tennesseean. who Joined the
Vermont regiment at Chickamauga. lie
will remain in Vermont for some time at
least. The remaining patients at the hos
pital are recovering.
Two lonely men guard the stores at Camp
Olympia and but for them the camp would
J be deserted Tents have been removed
} and everything placed in the storehouses
and kitchens. The men in charge of the
grounds are Privates Hugh Fraser and
Mahoney of Company M.
A citizen of this city who read the reso-
lutions adopted by the citizens of Grand
!
asks the Free Press to call attention to
the fact that the city sends between $1,000
} and 5000 to the Islands each year in pay
) mcnt for curbing and stone used in the
street improvements.
Mr.. Morrison and his excellent company
with his daughter as Marguerite, played
Faust" at the opera house last evening
20 a large audience. The play was elab-
orately staged and presented with the
same careful attention to details which
has marked all of Morrson's presenta-
} tons Of Goethe's masterpiece.
Edward Sullivan of Middlcbury of the
First United States cavalry who was shot
J through the knee during a battle in Por-
} to Rico, and who has been honorable dis
, charged after a service of Is years, was
} in the city Thursday. Mr.. Sullivan says
that he will never be able to enter the
army again.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. C. Mcmahon of Min
reapolis, Mimi, who have been visiting
! in Stowe and this city for two weeks, left
Friday upon the 4:20 train to return
to the west. Mr.. Mcmahon carried with
, him a table made with n saw and jack
knife III years ago by Mrs. McMahon's
} Observation-Disclosures
DR.. w. ]. McNiff left Monday morning
for his home in Worcester. Mass. DR..
McNiff, who graduated from the Medical
Department of the University last June,
has been spending the past three months
In New York city taking a post graduate
course at a medical school. lie expects
to locate in Massachusetts.
Misses Josie and Mary Degree have
brought suit through Attorney V. A. Bull
lard TO recover 5000 Cor premises sold to
Mrs. Ida Pierson. The suit grows out of
} the transfer of the Misses Degrees board
ing house at the corner of st Paul and
Cherry streets to Mrs. Pierson. The sale
took place about n week ago.
There are II patients in the hospital at
Fort Ethan Allen. OF these 1t is expect
ed that Privates Smith and Frasier of Co.
= D. Campbell of Co. b and Corporal Reid
{ of Co. * will leave to-day for their homes.
OF the seven patients who will remain,
n the most serious cases are Privates Tup-
per of Co. + and Lane of Co. X.
$ p. L. Stone & Co., rented Friday
z through Il. =. Shaw the front part of the
store in the Adams block on Bank street
A now occupied by the Holton Hardware
company. Possession is given October Is,
. when p. T.. Stone G. Co. vacate their pres.
y ent store to make room for Il branch OF
: the Walworth Syndicate stores of New
= York.
. Some of the older residents OF the city
q will remember Guy c. Prentiss a Georgia
boy who was admitted to the bar In this
=, city in 1A7 and practiced here for five
ytuTs. II OF tne next ~ years ne INeu III
!, Portage, Wis, and since 1872 he has made
La Crosse his home. He has just been
appointed a referee under the new bank
a ruptcy law.
y Manager F.. F. Bradsh of the Postal
y Telegraph company left Tuesday morning
n ut i:25 on months vacation. He will
go first to Omaha, Neb., where Mrs. Bra
dish has been spending the summer, and
after visiting the exposition will go with
Mrg QruI 10 and thar tnlu
in Colorado, returning to Burlington about
: the first of November.
One hundred and ninety-eight head Of
horses have been transferred from the LIST
n Illinois cavalry to Fort Ethan Allen. They
y came in II cars. The men who brought
n them were Edward Glashine, j. p. Ker-
e win, ]. j. Chort, A. Long. +. Mc0frk, J.
r j. Murray, f. Hogan. j. McGraft. W.
Evans and McClossby. They returned to
o Chicago yesterday, having been hired by
"A the government to move the horses.
q Henry C. Harrington of Shelburne road
: died Tuesday morning at 1880 from par
II alysis. Mr.. Harrington was So years of
age. He was for period of nearly 35
: years Il Waterman in the mills of j. II.
3 Booth and retired on account of falling
o health. A wife survives him. The flu
= neral will be held from the house on
= Thursday at $3.50, with burial in the Elm
wood avenue cemetery.
q The Walworth Syndicate closed n lease
p of the store IN the Coon block on Church
a street now occupied by p Il. Stone & Co.,
>. Thursday and will take possession Octo-
= Der 10, The Syndicate will establish one
lof its large five and ten cent stores in
this city. They now have 40 similar stores
q in operation The lease was made through
e T.. Z. Shaw. p. f. Stone & Co., have not
q yet decided to what place they will re-
i move.
The New England Telephone and Tele-
graph company were engaged Tuesday
a in making some changes in a cable which
k had become burned at the corner of
3 Church and Main streets. The company
& have just put in place a new 70 wire ca
e bile from Union to Summit streets on
Main strete and will move the old cable
- between these two points east so that it
y will extend upon the hill to the Expert
- ment Station.
e The annual meeting OF the Womans
n Home Missionary society was held Fri
l. day afternoon at o'clock in the par
Tors of the First church. Officers were
- elected as follows: President, Miss Flor
!, ence Lyman, vice-presdent, Mrs. w. b.
Howe; secretary, Mrs. j. w. Russell;
treasurer, Mrs. s. Story. There was a
large attendance and n talk was given by
- Miss Reitinger. a Bohemian lady, who
has spent much time as a Bible reader.
T.. The regular meeting of the WInooski as