The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

l.. A. DREW OF Burlington has been APP.
pointed United States deputy marshal. Mr..
Drew has been chief of police of the city of
Burlington and was county sheriff thirteen
years.
JAMES McCABE OF Bolton is confined in
Chittenden county jail charged with an as
saut with intent to kill Edward backyard.
McCabe stabbed backyard with jack
knife election day, inf1icting q dangerous
wound McCabe is held to await the &c.
ton of the grand jury.
BECAUSE of continued i'll health Rev. G.
w. Perry OF Chester has resigned his posi-
ton as State Geologist. The Governor has
appointed as his successor Prof G. III. Per-
kins of the University of Vermont. Prof
Perkins is we'll qualified by experience and
study to discharge the duties of this import
ant position aud his appointment will give
general satisfaction.
THE barns of Melvin Austin OF Weston
were burned last Wednesday night together
with twenty-five COWS, two horses, fifty
tons of hay and all OF his grain. The loss is
estimated by Mr.. Austin to be about $500,
with no insurance. The cause of the fire is
supposed to be spontaneous combustion.
Mr.. Austin is a Woodworking farmer, and
the loss falls heavily upon him.
ANOTHER destructive storm passed over
Bennington last week. The chimney to
the power house of the Bennington electric
railroad was blown down, and five men
were badly injured by falling bricks. At
Hoosick junction trees were blown down,
some buildings unroofed and other damage
done. Fields OF corn we're leveled and the
fruit on many trees was blown Off. At
Hoosick Falls, Thomas Moore, a laborer,
was killed by getting caught under falling
tmber5.
WEST HAVEN returns r. @. Abel to the
legislature this year. This name is famiier
to every one who has been around Montpo-
To-, ., lac fNrfr Thn &c,
"Father Abell' of the House, and has we'll
earned the title. He fire. represented West
Haven in 1859, and also represented the
town in 1860, 1868, 1874. 1876, 1880, 1882,
1854, 1886 and 1899, with term in the Sem
ate in 1870 The coming session will give
him his thirteenth term in the legislature.
No other living man has anything like such
a record as his.
On the farm Of II. G. Bates of Rutland is
boulder weighing many tons During a
thunder storm last week lightning struck it
and cut II perpendicularly abort three feet
and horizontally about the same distance,
exactly at right angles, detaching block
estimated as weighing two tons, two sides of
which are at right angles, and as smoothly
cut as though quarried. The stone is of the
class designated as congomerate grit with
here and there a fiinty pebble, some of
which have been clearly cut in two by the
lightning stroke.
THE ninth reunion OF the Fourteenth
Vermont regiment will take place today at
Vergennes. After business meeting the
association will be addressed by Councillor
Burton W. Potter of Worcester, Mass. A
campfire will be held in the evening, with
an address by Col. G G. Benedict of Bur
lington. The monument of the association
is TO be dedicated at Gettysburg between
October 10 and Is, and a number of mem
bers are making plans TO co. The round
trip will cost $13, and the excursion will
start from Rutland.
SAMUEL HENDEE, Brandon farmer, died
last Wednesday under circumstances which
point strongly to suicide by poisoning. He
was found in an unconscious condition on
the bed in his room by Mrs. Atwood, who
lives in part of his house. Thinking that
he was in a fit physician was sent for but
before he arrived Hendee was dead and
the doctor pronounced it case of poison
ing. Whether it was done accidentally or
purposely no one knows. He was bach
elor, and for years had been considered
mentally unsound, but lately has showed
more marked signs of insanity.
THE twenty-sixth annual meeting OF the
Vermont Branch of the Woman's Board of
Missions will be held in the North church,
St. Johnsbury, on Wednesday, September
%. All ladies in the State are cordially In
vited to be present. A meeting for Ulcers
and delegates will be held in the chapel OF
the church at 81 80 o'clock Tuesday p NJ,
September 81. Each auxiliary and young
peoples and children's societies are entitled
to send delegates. The ladies of St. Johns
bury will be happy to receive into their
homes, all in attendance upon the meetings.
Applications for entertainment may be
sent TO Mrs. O. M. Stone, II Church street,
St. Johnsbury, II possible before Septem-
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