The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-06-24
y Vermont State News y
The grand list of the city of Barre in
creased this year 500, 754.

Ll6ub. I1tuly L. maya VI burlington is
an officer on the gunboat Bennington.
Tomorrow is the Grange Children's day.
appointed by Q. j. Bell, master of the
state grange.
Bennington's new passenger station is
nearing completion. 1t will cost about
| $780, 900 and Bennington is proud of it.
Geo. H. Richmond, formerly editor of
! the Mortified News, is the new pOstmas-
ter at Mortified. ~ an
/ The state federation of Womans Clubs
meets with the local club at Brattleboro
Oct IL and 80. There are over 80 delegates.
Co. B, st. Adams, recently received a
consignment of pure Vermont spring
water in bottles, sent by Mrs. E. G. Smith.
Lieut.. Stratton of Co. K, who was acct
dentally shot in the leg at Camp Olympia,
has had to have the leg amputated.
Gen. Chas. P. Mattocks of Portland,
! Me-, lately confirmed as brigader gene
raj, is a native of Danville.
D. A. Perrin, postmaster at White River
Junction, has had his salary increased
from $l70O to $500 and the office is now
in the third-class presidential list.
John Philip SOusa, it is reported, will
this year take the first vacation he has
had in 16 years and will spend the sum-
mer on Vermont farm.
Rev. E. M. Smith, for the past five years
at the head of the Montpelier Methodist
Seminary, has resigned and accepted the
position of president of the Wesleyan
University in Bloomington, Ill.
W. G Powers of Lyndon attempted to
put out the flame issuing from live cleo
trio light wire by stamping on it and was
the most surprised man in that section
when he landed several feet away.
Senator Morrill,, since the death of
Gladstone. is the oldest living English
speaking statesman. Gladstone was born
in 1909 and Morrill, in 1910, the former be-
ing four months the Oldest
The commencement exercises of Mid
dlebury college begin next Sunday and
close Wednesday. At the University of
Vermont and State Agricultural college
exercises last from Sunday to Friday.
The 18th annual meeting of the Ver-
mont WomanS Suffrage association will
be held in the Congregational church at
South Royalton next Tuesday evening
and Wednesday,
Williamsville has a flag 81 years old, -
by 81 feet in size. 1t was first thrown to
the breeze by three citizens of Newfane
in 1861 and it now floats over the Main
street of Williamsville.
T. W. Wood has gone to France to re-
main till October. He will copy several
celebrated works of the old masters which
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Montpelier.
Admiral Dewey has been made an
LID. by the Western University of
PENNSYLVANIA PittSburg armor plate is
on Dewey'S vessel and member of the
faculty manufactured some of DeWey's
range finders.
John NJ. Reinhart of Pownal recently
met a stranger in North Adams, Mass,
with whom he took several drinks, visited
Go, 10 frin oTn1
found him staggering around the street in
an unconscious condition and minus S32
Jos. F. Scott, superintendent of the
Massachusetts RetOrmatOry, recently Wis
ited the house of correction and industri-
al school at Rutland. He has LOCO young
men under his charge. Mr.. Scott was
born in Craftsbury and is graduate OF
the johnson Normal school.
Business at the st. Johnsbury scale
shops is rushing, IA carloads being shipped
every week. In the valve department
they are melting two tons of brass daily.
| The manufacture of inspiratorS has been
i recently added to this department. 4 The
company now employees nearly 600 hands.
The Mildred Brewster trial cost the
state about $4,000. Some OF the items are
as follows: Witness fees, $4,000; lawyers,
$4,000; court officers, $3.50; side judges
and officers, $780, grand jury witness fees,
500; grand jury, $780, petit jury, $500,
board, $50; court reporter, $780,
L. II. Love of st. Johnsbury, for peace
at any price and something of Spanish
sympathizer, was hung in ef1igy last, week
Sunday morning In the right hand on
card were the words " President OF the
Universal Peace League - and in the left
Spanish flag. The police took down the
figure about 1870 clock ~:ssa
The democratic state conventionswill,
be held in Burlington July 20 at IL O'Clock
a. m. and the district conventions will be
held in the afternoon. The democratic
club will meet the evening before and it
will probably be addressed by George
Fred Williams OF Boston and y. L. Gala
han of Holyoke, Mass.
O. r. Washburn, a native of Vernon
and son of the late A. II. Washburn, is
the democratic candidate for state sena-
tor in Crawford county, Penn. The dis
trict contains about 10000 people and is
now represented by Quay man. Mr..
Washburn stands a good chance of cleo
ton.
The father of Gen. VIM. r. Shafter, who
leads the Cuban invasion, was born in
Athens. a small town near Bellows Falls.
1t is a noted Vermont family, Athens is
proud of it's distinguished grandson and
the old Shafter homestead, now owned
and occupied by James Browne, is point
ed out to every visitor.
Wrestling is one of the evening amuse-
ments with the boys of the Vermont reg
iment. Private Spicer of Co. II, MOntpe-
lier, once the champion wrestler of Yer
mont, and Private Fitzpatrick of Co. E,
Barre, are the champions. A purse of
500 is ready for any man in the park who
can defeat Fitzpatrick at his weight, $50
pounds.
Daniel Sweeney of Montpelier, 68 years
old committed suicide last Friday morn
ing His body was found hanging by the
neck from a tree on the river bank oppo-
site the terminus of Charles street The
deceased was a hard working man, re-
spected by all who knew him and the deed
was probably committed while suffering
from melanchOlia,
A young nurse, Miss Boombour, was re-
Gently brutally assaulted by three men in
Bakersfield. The victim is in critical
condition, two of the brutes are in custo-
dy and the other has escaped to Canada.
One of the men called to take her to
care for an aged couple but instead took
her to lonely house where the three
men did their fiendish work.
Engineer Campbell of the Central Yer
mont has a mascot sent him by friend in
! Washington, ID. c., warranted to keep
away disease and to prevent a desire to
enlist. 1t is the left hind foot of rabbit
which was killed in a country grave yard
at midnight in the dark of the moon, on
! Friday fine 18th daV of the month h., q