The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

SMITH, the youngest son of Isaac Hatch Of
Lincoln was injured internally while wrestl-
ing 4st week, and died few hours later.
EVERETT YOUNG, young married man
OF Bennington hanged himself at his home
last week. No cause for the rash act is as
signed.
MAJOR WILLIAM ROUNDS, probate Judge
for twenty years, and side Judge in
Windsor county for fifteen years, died last
Thursday at Chester, aged seventy-two
years.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original, George
III. Murdoch, Woodstock, IS; Charles H.
Beede, Barre, IS; Michael Ryan, St. Adams,
%; A. Richardson, Montgomery, $40; in
crease, Henry T. johnson, East Randolph,
80 to $40.
The following officers OF the Vermont
Horticultural Society were elected at the
annual meeting held last week at Middle
bury: President, T. l.. Kinney, South Hero;
secretary and treasurer, #. A. Waugh, Bur
lington. 1t was voted to establish an an
nual membership fee OF fifty cents.
TEE dairy school at the State Agricul-
tural College began its seventh annual SEES
sion last Wednesday. Forty-five students
are registered. The lectures are given in
p the large creamery building at the expert
ment farm, where discussions are held and
all the practical work Of separator running,
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is given.
SIXTY weavers and twenty carders at the
Queen City cotton mills at Burlington
struck last week because OF q reduction In
wages amounting from three and half to
as high as nine per cent. The notices OF re-
duction were posted in the mills last week
and strong protest was made Immediately
by the employees. The strikers claim that
the Queen City mills pay the lowest wages
OF any cotton manufacturing corporation in
New England. The owners assert that a
reduction Of wages was necessary in view
OF the low price OF the finished product, and
II the old rate was maintained the mills
would have to close.
AT the annual MEETING OF the stockhold-
ers OF the Champlain Transportation Com
psny, held last week at Burlington, the fol-
lowing directors we're elected: James Roose-
velt of New York, Horace g; Young OF Al
bany, A. Van Santvoord OF New York, @.
NJ. Spsuldipg and Elias Lyman of Burling-
ton and DR.. W. Seward Webb Of shelburne.
At the directors meeting officers were
elected as follows: President, James Roose-
welt; president, Horace g. Young; gen.
urer, G. M. Spaulding The officers OF the
company's steamers will be practically the
same as those OF last year.
MRS. M. G. PRAY of Bellows Falls sew
enty. one years old, overturned lamp in
her room last Wednesday night and set her
night dress on fire. 1t is supposed she
rushed from her room to the head OF the
stairs to call for help and pitched down
stairs. Mrs. Day, who lived in the house,
alarmed by the noise, rushed out and find
ing Mrs. Pray in flames, attempted to assist
her and was very seriously burned on both
hands and her face to some extent. Mrs.
Pray was picked up unconscious and died
at noon, never regaining consciousness.
She suffered a bad cash in the front and
back Of her head. The fall probably was
the cause of her death. She was very seri-
ously burned.
THE annual meeting of the Bennington
Battle Monument Association was held last
Wednesday at Bennington. q. A. Pierce Of
Northampton, Mass, Daniel Robinson OF
New York and Rev. NJ. l.. Severance were
elected members. A histori al committee
OF three was appointed to take action in re-
be preserved by the society. 1t was voted
to publish the proceedings connected with
the unwilling of historical monuments last
summer especially the Catamount. These
officers were elected: President, H. G.
Root; vice-president, A. B. Valentine; re-
George F. Graves. The governors Of Yer
mont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire
are directors in the association.
COLONEL FREDERICK FLETCHER, father of
Colonel T. G. Fletcher, died last Wednes-
day at st. Johnsbury. aged ninety-three
years. He was born November 81, 1904 at
Woodstock, q son of James Fletcher, the
last OF ten children. He saw the militia
marching to the war of 1872 and heard
President Monroe deliver an address in
Woodstock in 1917. With common school
education he entered the mercantile bust
ness, acquiring an ample fortune before
1912. Afterwards he was engaged in the
real estate business and banking. For
twenty years he was vice-president of the
Farmers and Mechanics bank in Burling.
ton. Removing to St. Johnsbury in 1869 he
organized the Merchants National bank of
which he was president twelve years. In
Jericho he was in partnership with his
brother, Thaddeus r. Fletcher, whose
daughter was the munificent founder of the
Mary Fletcher Hospital and the Fletcher
Free Library.