The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-01-28
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
Vermont.

Vermont.
NED FOSTER clerk in the Mort
Troy post Office undertook to pu
kerosene oil upon burning coal in
stove the other day. He isn't dead, blu
his hair, moustache and eyebrows ar,
burned off and his face horribl,
scorched.
Benjamin Cole, son of James Cole, o.
Weybridge. was brought home from
HDlyoke Mass, whore he met sudden
and terrible death. He WAS engineer in
a factory in that place; he had built his
| fire in the morning and stepped into an
other part of the building, when he
head an cxplososion, and rushing into
The engine room in the dark was horr-
bly, scalded by a stream of boiling water
which was escaping from hole in the
boiler caused by the blowing out of the
safety. valve. He could not find his way
out, hut jumped through window and
ran some distance. He lived but short
time.
The landlords ia West Randolph have
notified tenants aud those holding leases,
that they must not sell any more liquors,
cider, ETC., contrary to law.
The combined capital of the natona
banks in the state is $S,20l 900, and the
deposits in thesavings banks Ss,075, 314
The biggest recent failure in Vermont
is that of Barber & Furguson. the pro
prietors OF the Van Ness House at Bur
lington. There liabilities above assets
are from $40, 900 to 100000.
A curious accident happened to a
locomotive near Rutland the other day,
one of its driving wheels becoming loose
and rolling down an embankment. No
damage was done, and by disconnecting
that side the engine was able to 90 on.
Geo. Church for several years one OF
the proprietors of the old st. Albans
Democrat, died al st. Adams last week.
Rev S. F. Calhoun has been installed
pastor of the Congregational church in
orwell.
Work upon the North church at St.
Johnsburyi is being hastencd so that il may
be ready for the dedication, which has
been fixed for February 22.-The second
general show of the Wide Awake poul-
try club of ST. Johnsbury opened yester.
pay.
1t is stated that the St. Jphnsbury and
Lake Champlain railroad will use The
5000, 900 lately obtained bv mortgage
OF the road TO extend it from yauton to
Houses Point, where a connection can
be ina ie win Ogdensburg.
New Hampshire.
David Stiles of Lyndeooro was killed
Monday by the cars at a railroad cross
ing 1t Is supposed he had his head
tied up on account of The severe cold.
and did not hear lhe whistle.
The widow OF Thomas Burrows of
Pittsiield rommitt9i suicide Fridav nv
hanging herself with a skein of warm
Capt John Adams, aged %. the oldest
resident OF Newington and an nncla of
President John Adams, has Just died,
The house of William S Plaisred of
Compton has been burned; loss $1,000. |
Tie coroner's inquest on the burning
OF the Strait 'rd county poor-house shows
that for two months water had been hau-
led from the river, that there were six
wells and three csterns on the premises.
only two of which were used, that there |
were two tire-extinguishers which had
not been charged since year ago last Au-
gust, and that there We're no pals or
buckets in the hall.
The Burlington Reveiw is positive in
is statement that the office of Governor
vas contracted to Col. j b. Mead this
year and he withdrew in favor of Farm
lam, on condition that the latter should |
prevent his being disturbed in his sup.
of agriculture. Poor Mead
lnds that not all that is sold was deliy-
red
Gov. Head was hard worker the
ecent fire in Wilton helping haul the
nglne and working at the brakes for
wo hours along with the boys.
Massachusetts.
Edward jerks. young man living
Nth his father about two milee from the
illage of North Brookfeld com N itsed
aicide Monday afternoon by blowing
Is brains out with shot gun. He has
cen drinking fellow, but of late years
al tried to reform. He was 80 years
Id ;
w. e. Halves of Boston, dealer in
lncy goods, who recently failed, an
ounces his liabilities as $47 1876 and his
ssetts S34,S54, and can offer only %
er cent secured.
Benjamin Hayden of Marlboro left
own Friday during heavy snow-storm
} walk to his fathers house Two miles
way. and has not been seen since,
The shoe factory at Brockton. owned
: Mrs. Marcus Holmes and occupied
Y Albert Fullerton, was burned yester-
~. Mrs. Holiness loss is shout $500, q
artially insured, Mr.. Fullerton's $1,000, |
lsured for 5000. a
An infant child of John Finn of Esston
as smothered Monday while wrapped
> on its mothers lap.
j. A. Thomas carpenter aged 65, /
as instantly killed at Springfield We'd =
'sday by falling through az elevator y
ON second story
Connecticut i
Basile Bosquet of Arlington, a French v
an, tells irightful story about a neigh e
" named Jack Michigan enticing him a
to his cellar and trying to kill him t
18th an ak. after filling him with liquor Il
g also reported that two men, Daniel r.
after and William Stewart, who disap- k
jared fIom Arlington some time n
%. have been chopped up and burned n
: Michigan in his cellar. The affair n
Gated much excitement, but investiga- e.
IN fails to furnish any proof of the ri
lth of Bosquet's story. aud he is sup II
sed to be insane. a
Mrs. Harriet L. Wheeler of Cornwall u
s been held in $1,000 bonds for arson {,
burning her husbands house. She y
rs criminally intimate with man =
med Baldwin and says that he threat -
sd to kill her il she did not burn the =, -
use. Both persons have hitherto been y,
nsidered respectable. =, -
ii. P. Fowler, one of the men injured h,
the explosion in Bridgeport a short
ne ago, is dead, making the second
,tim.
Maine. lie
The mad dog which recently kicked d,
such n rumpus in school at Cumber- al
I'd Cen'er. is said to have been made an
eating of a heifer that had died of tn
and, as a lot of o.her dogs th