The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-08-18
- Vermont State News \

these modern vehicles having recently ar
rived at the Shelburne Farms.
Improvements are being made around |
the government fish hatchery at St. |
SohnsDury' SIX new fry ponds and one
large pond being put in.
A despatch from ,Leghorn, Italy, Aug
Sunday and that Admiral Dewey re-
NAMED aboard sick with fever.
One of KipliHg's books has Just been ex-
cluded from Sunday School library in |
Massachusetts and one in Indiana be-
cause ii had most drunken des picable |
character as an ideal and a hero.
The first drowning accident on Joe's
pond, Danvllle, in ~ years was last week
Thursday afternoon when Payson Lam |
bert of Cabot lost his balance and fell |
of boat, sinking and not coming up.
The annual mid summer meeting of the
| Vermont Fish and Game League will be
at Quebec, the banquet taking place at
the Chateau Frontenac on the evening of
| August 30.
Three new members have recently been
admitted to the Gill Odd Fellows Home
at Ludlow from Brattleboro, Bennington
and Lyndonville. There are now six
members at the Home.
Norman Fowler, aged rs, was found
dead in bed at his home in East Bethel on
the morning of Aug. .. He represented
Randolph in the legislature of 1886 and
held nearly every important office in that
town before moving to Bethel.
President Mckinley, stopping at Bluff
Point, across Lake Champlain, will prob
ably not honor Vermont with visit this
season. Much of his time is devoted to
his invalid wife, who is being much bene-
fitted by her stay there.
B. p. Gates of Chicago, connected-with
a prominent Stowe family, recently COM
mtted suicide at indianapolis. A soda
fountain salesman at salary of $4,000 he
lost his position by the formation of a
trust.
Sec. Root and Gen. Guy V. Henry re.
viewed the Goth regiment recently at
composed for the most part of Vermont
boys, Sec. Root said made the best APP
pearance.
A. E. Carleton of Randolph, formerly
reporter on the Boston Herald, has re-
signed his position as telegraph editor of
the Worcester, Mass. Spy and sailed for
Almeria, Spain, having been appointed
U. 5. consular agent at that place.
The b. & NJ. engine house at Lyndon
vile was burned last week Thursday The
fire originated in the waste room and
spread rapidly through the oil soaked
structure. The loss on the building is
$4,000 and the damage to six engines is
$4,000.
A terrible electric storm passed over
Swanton Saturday morning. Lightning
entered the house of Joseph Tludele
and instantly killed his wife The rub
bers she wore were torn in shreds and a
splinter taken out of the floor where she
stood.
Assistant Surgeon E. Arlington Pond,
with the army IN the Philippines, in re-
cent letter to, his mother in Rutland,
scores Gen. Otis in no unmistakable way
He says his whole policy has been one of
variation and contradiction ever since
this thing started"
Cinnamon are employing new means
of getting within the borders of the Uni
ted States, full grown men passing them
selves off as boys, the sons of Chinese
merchants in New York or Boston. But
Uncle Sam is after them and AZ Celestials
were recently intercepted and tiled IN
Burlington.
Six houses in Montpelier were entered
by burglars Saturday evening but oylg. A
small sum of money secured. ItVFST
probably the same gang that entered the
house of Prof. j. B. johnson at North
field Sunday night and secured money
and jewelry valued at 500 and $500 in
government bonds.
Two Warby brothers and one Davis
boy, each about IT. years of age were
drowned in Sargent'S pond in Troy re-
Gently while in swimming. The bodies
were recovered in about eight feet of
water, close together. One went down
and the others probably went to his as
siStance.
A young man in Bennington county ad-
vertised for wife under an assumed
name and his sister answered the adyer-I
tiSement under an assumed name. Pho
tOgraphs were exchanged and there was
a conclusion on the part of both that they
would pass for pretty fair specimens of
the fool race.
Hon. G. A. Prouty of Newport has made
a careful study OF the liability of Yer
mont stockholders in the defunct North
western Guaranty LOAF Co. OF AIinueap-
oils and is strongly of the opinion that
the 100 per cent assessment recently lev
led cannot be collected. VermOnters
held stock in this company amounting to
S224, 600.
Walter B. Gates of Burlington has re-
ceived his commission as supervisor of
the 18th census of Vermont As soon as
the state has been divided into subdivi-
sions for the purpose of enumeration Mr..
Gates will furnish information as to the
method of procedure to be adOpted bv
those wishing to be appointed enumera-
tors for the taking of the census next
June.
The I'D annual report of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of MOntDeier
shows an unusually heavy fire waste in
Vermont during the past year. During
the last half of July more than 60 light
ming losses were reported. The causes of
the fires are divided as follows: Light
ming losses to live stock and buildings,
243; stoves and stove pipes, ia: defective
chimneys, Ill; kerosene oil larnps and
lanterns, As, and losses from other causes
make a total of 725.
Early Monday evening a man nv the
name of Eastman hired team at Middle
bury and went to East Middlebury To the
residence of his former wife, shooting her
and her mother. He then drove t0 the
residence of Frank Fem in Middiebury
and deliberately shot him through the
heart, then firing at the murdered mans
wife, the bullet grazing her head. He
then tried TO find L. ID. Brown. a brother
of his former wife, but could NOT. His
tiendish work stopped there. At last ac-
counts he had not been Captured but
close watch is being kept for him.
Owners of Dewey medals, given to those
who fought in Manila bay. do not sell
them. One of the sailors who served on
the revenue cutter McCulloch was on
shore leave in Baltimore a few DAYS ago.
A stranger asked him what kind of a
medal he was wearing and the proud re-