The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-12

| etery,
The Montpelier frien6s OF e. N. Sane
| tuary have been somewhat apprehensive
| for his safety since the Galveston disaster
Mr.. Sanctuary is employ ed on govern.
ment job at Sabine, a short distance
from Sabine Pass. Nothing direct has
been heard from him, but as only two peo-
pie we're killed at Sabine Pass "SAnch is
undoubtedly safe, although the flooding of
that entire country has probably inteTfered
with his work.
Officer Whittier took George Drinnan to
Burlington today to answer to the charge of
assault with intent to kill. 1t will be- re-
membered Drinnan was arrested here Aug
us 27 convicted in Waterbury Of intoxica-
tion, and in consequence has been confined
in Jail since that time. His time expired
today and he was taken to Burlington to
answer to the charge of ssssultng q man
with a revolver.
Among those who have secured sccom.
modations at the Riverside for the coming
session Of the Legislatl re are Senators
Baldwin of Barton and Varney of Char
lotte, Representatives Quiblan of Charlotte,
George of st. Albans and Nay OF Jericho,
T. O. Cheney, clerk, and Fred II. Hamilton,
assistant clerk of the House, Col. j. III,
Mimms Of St. Albans, Max l. Powell of
Burlington and K. c. Bennett OF Benning-
ton. The latter is clerk in the office Of the
State auditor.
Royal w. Peake of Bristol started from
his home in that place on his loCOmobile
about nine o'clock on Saturday forenoon
for Montpelier, arriving in this city at
about half past two. Several stops of some
length were made on the way. The course
was by the highway to Richmond, thence
up the Winooski, a distance of some fifty
miles or more. The vehicles speed on
good road is from ten to twelve miles an
hour. Mr.. Peake obligingly gave his friends
in this city an airing on the new carriage.
The motion is very easy, delightful way
of skimming over the country.
George L Hodgman operates tool shop
in the building adjoining the Taylor street
bridge. He went to Northfeld this morn
ing on the nine O'Clock train to deliver
some tools he had finished. What was his
surprise upon returning on the ten O'Clock
train to find that during his absence Officers
Graves. Tuttle and Tracy, armed with a
search warrant for alcoholic mixtures, had
forced an entrance to his place Of business
and searched it for contraband stimulants.
The officers, however found no liquor.
DR.. Fl. L. Watson received Monday the fol-
lowing telephone message from DIR. o. W.
Daley, health officer at White River juno
tioD "In view of the false and exagger-
ated reports which have been circulated 1
would state that there Is no case of small
pox at White River Junction and no one
has been exposed by case in this vicinity.
There is only one case, in the remote part of
the town, which came from Manchester, N.
II. This is strictly quarantined and there
is no more danger in attending the State
fair this year than in former years."
There is one man in town who believes
that with the election OF Mr.. Sibey as Rep
resentative the dawn of the high license
milleneum is at hand and that when the
gentleman from Montpelier" takes his
seat In the House in October the sunburst
will occur. He is in fact so seriously i'm
4, F,I1 AI,,N I.,l lit.
inquiries as TO whom he shall make applica-
ton for a license for a saloon. There are
others who are equally as foggy regarding
this high license puzzle, and Mr.. Sibley, to
satisfy all the various camps of his host, Is
liable to find himself between the devil and
the deep sea.
The ninety-third annual meeting of the
Vermont Central Baptist Association will
be held in Groton September IL and II.
The meeting begins on Tuesday at 2:30 and
continues through Wednesday evening.
There will be special railroad rates Rev.
w. j. Cloues of this city speaks Wednes-
day on "What can be done to improve the
Sunday-schools in the Vermont Central
Association" and on 1.-THE Northern Edu-
cation Society" Rev. w. A. DAWSON
State Missionary, Rev. E. M. Fuller of
Barre, Rev T. A. Howard of Randolph and
Rev. and Mrs. w. II. Beaman of China are
also to give addresses.
cation an earnest and forcible sermon yes
terday morning on the Greed of Gain, pic.
turing most eloquently some OF the results
in our national life OF the fear of the money
power and the Difference Of all parties and
the people generally to its will. Mr.. Wright
depicted the subordination of the best in-
terests of the people to the greed for power
which money brings and the moral coward
ice of the nation in words which must GER
tainly have left a deep and lasting impres
sion upon his hearers. Certainly such plain
and wholesome truths driven home, cannot
be too often heard from the pulpits of the
land.
AS a result Of numerous sessions of chan
Gerry court, recently held in Burlington by
Chief Judge Taft, Thomas j. Murphy has
been sentenced in Chittenden county court
to pay a fine OF 81 900 and to be imprisoned
in the House of Correction for six months
for contempt of court in violating the liquor
injunction against the Sherwood house, in
Burlington. Counsel for Murphy have in
stituted habeas corpus proceedings. In the
case of A. X. Lemerise, who was in Jail in
Burlington several weeks awaiting the de-
cisiop of the court for violating the injunc-
ton placed upon the drug store previously
owned by Collins Bros, the respondent
was sentenced to be confined in the county
Jail four months.
The annual convention of the State
Teachers Association will be held at Rut
land on Thursday Friday and Saturday
October IL, II and 13. Among the speakers
already engaged are A. W. Edison. assist
ant superintendent OF schools for New York
city, Horace S. Tarbell, superintendent OF
schools for Providence, II. l., and President
Faunce of Brown University. Efforts are
also being made to secure the following
well known people: DIR. Mary Woolley,
president of Mt. Holyoke college, George
II. Martin, one of the Boston supervisors of
schools, and Hon. Wendell p Stafford, the
new judge of the Vermont Supreme court.
One or two OF these, perhaps all of them,
will be secured for addresses on important
topics during the three days.
Rev. @. o. Judkins gave a decidedly in-
teresting and instructive talk TO a large
congregation Sunday evening, and in his
exemplification of what the churches IN y
learn OF the politicians furnished his hear
ers with much food for solid thought. He
used Tuesdays election as an illustration OF
the value OF steadiastnsss in standing by
ones convictions and openly and unceas-
ingly proclaiming them, as Witnessed by
Mr.. Sibley's success, and also of the value
oi earnest individual effort, AZ shown by
the system of getting out the voters. These
practices, If extended from politics into the
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