The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-06

Barre occupied a block of seats at I
the circus on Wedne sday evening and ,
their frequent applause indicated that !,
they enjoyed the performance. Dur
ing the evening a party of clowns !
grotesquely attired as Arabs, acco m
panied by camel performed a b ur
lesque act, presumably illustrat ing
ONE phase of the initiatory cere monies
of the Mystic Shrine. They drew the
widest kind of applause from the
Mobiles.
At eight O'Clock Friday morning fire
was discovered in the polishing mill
of f. L. Smith q Co., at the quarries
in Barre and in less than two hours
the mill, engine house and the Gaze
ley boarding house near by were burn
ed to the ground. The fire original
ed in the engine house and pread so
rapidly that it was impossible to save
the buildings. An air compressor
and the engine and boilers were ruin
ed and thirty men will be thrown Qua
of employment. The loss will be
IS, 600 and the firm carried an insur-
ance of $5,700.
A heavy two horse team loaded with
granite and driven by Frank Smith
caused Il commotion and drew crowd on
state street Oh Thursday afternoon. The
bit broke in one of the horses mouths and
the driver lost control of them, one horse
crowding its mate into the gas companys
ditch in heap. Had it not been for the
prompt action of a bystander in grasping
the offending animal by the bride and pull
| ing it to one side the entire load would
! have gone on top of the fallen horse. As
| it was the animal escaped without few
sight scratches. As is customary in such
accidents there were about twenty on
! lockers giving volumes of advice to the
two or three men, who were hard at work
| rescuing the horse from the ditch
j. G. Brown and F. L Laird have re-
turned from their western trip covering
twenty-three days time. They were alb
sent to look into the merits of an invest
ment in a gold mine in the State of Wash
ington. The mine is situated i'll the Cor
vile Indian reservation, which Is 100
miles northwest of Spokane. Both gen
tlemen enjoyed their trip greatly, having
travelled in all, over 1000 miles and visit
ing besides Spokane, Chicago. Minneapo-
lis, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto and
Montreal and also, included trip down
the st. Lawrence river They had moth
ing to say regarding their investment
plans for publication as they believed II
was their duty first to make their report
TO the investors whom they represented.
Iznazio Miglierin of this city will doubt.
less be pleased TO receive any information
from newspapers, or letters that may be
received from Italy during the next few
weeks which will give any intelligence OF
the strange and terrible calamity that ha:
betallen the province near his Italian
home. The story is to the effect that /
strip of land about q mile wide. lying t
the eastward of Corniglio, province o
Parma, has already moved about five
miles, demolshing bridges, destroyin;
buildings, running as fine roads as coult
be found in Italy, and threatening thu
town itself, busy little place of som,
10000 population. Twenty prosperous
= farmers have lost everything, and whit
no lives have been lost, the former dwell
ers in the migrating tract are today home
| less.
At business meeting of the Baptis
: church held at the close of the mid-weel
prayer service on Thursday evening, i
was voted to purchase from Christ church
: the pipe organ formerly used by tina
society. The wardens of Christ churcl
have made the Baptists very generous
S proposition in the matter, for the reaso;
e that they would rather have the organ
with which so many pleasantlassociation
$ are linked, remain in the city. 1t is eX
{ pected the work of setting the organ i
I place at the Baptist church will be begun
very soon. This innovation will be
most welcome one as it is the first tim
# in thirty odd wears of this church's ex
Il lstence that if has felt able to purchase
l. nine oroan
e states Attorney Hoar was at Marsf
= nelu az gay Iuesday cohuuet,ue an {, II
e r D ~, ,ne soet M ' linca Ths nv
e cation tt was more a matter of form tina
,e Otherwise and Mr.. Hoar states that ii Wa
not his purpose to incrimlnate any one bl
y j. possible to get at the facts in the cas-
= Inc lnq iest was conducted III II
lie sTo"a nou E ar eeh sti ro meae o. o.
Y "nIo"k before 'mstiSe smith Tha re SU
u of the Investigation would show that ii
"a Duke boy started to leave his compa
10 ions in the woods The rest of the DO,
t walked away some one fired at him WI,
', a - calibre rifle the ball striking him
J" the head. Just which boy held the gun
q question but the evidence introduce