Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-04
STATE AFFAIRS.
THE SONS OF vErEnANs.

The first annual encampment of the Yer
mont division Of Sons Of Veterans was held
in Rutland last Friday. At the present time
there are in Vermont ~ camps having total
membership, as the reports show, of about
300 Nearly every camp was represented ut
this meeting. The officers elected for the en-.
suing year are as follows Colonel l. v
Green, Rutland lieut. colonel, O. F. JENNIE
Brattleboro major, G. E. Terrill, Underh.ll ;
chaplain E. w. Parsons, Bellows Fails sur
geon, II. T. Woodward Brandon. L. r.
Morse, Rutland G. Z. Terril Underhill. and
+. E. Hill, Ludlow, we're elected delegates to
the Grand Division encampment GF Che
ney, st. Johnsbury, and +. ID. Proctor were
elected delegates to the Commandery in Chief
enoampment, which meets at Philadelphia
The other business transacted consisted chief.
ly IN changes in the bylaws OF the society
Supper was served at the Bardwell House
and an hour was devoted to listening to
speeches from members of the various camps
THE ISLAND TRAGEDY THE BODY OF KRAUsE
THE MURDERED hoy. DISCOVERED.
The body OF Krause, the young German
who WAS supposed to have been murdered
last winter on Lake ChRmplain and put under
the ice by one Meyer, a fellow country man
vas found floating at MaqnRm bay last week
Thursday. On Friday the authorities, accom-
panied by physicians, went to Maquam to
view the body. As soon as i: Was pulled out
of the water it was identified by Myron Hurl-
burt as being that Of Krause Two others
readily identified the body. The shiIt on the
body was the mate to that found in Meyers
possession at the time Of his arrest, and the
measurement OF the body corresponded to
Krause's height The physicians opened the
skull and found No 80 cartridge ball en-
bedded in the brain. This ball fits exactly
the revolver which was found on Meyer-or
rather which be had sold to party across the
lake. Close by the body was found a piece
of rope, at one end of which was piece OF
nail. It is said that Mrs. Birney, at whose
house Meyer stopped and asked for a piece
OF rope, told afterwards that in pulling the
rope from where it was tied she broke of a
nail with it. Around one ankle Of the dead
man was mark as il made by tying it with
a rope. A slight bruse was also found noar
the temple. All these things complete the
chain Of evidence which has been tightening
around Meyer ever since his arrest The
body was removed after the examination to
Swanton, where it was given a Christian bur
ial. Meyer is in the state prision at Windsor
awaiting the action of the grand jury.
-,Che Ludlow Tribune tells the somewhat
suspicious yarn that two gold nuggets have
lately been found at the Plymouth gold mines
one Weighing q pounds and the other s!
pounds.
Frank Vim, g6 years old, was drowned
while bathing at Sutherland Falls Monday
evening. Last Saturday Frank Worthen,
aged Is, was drowned at Charleston.
Springfield doesn't mean to be at tho
mercy Of another food, and so has voted to
widen and deepen the channel Of the brook,
to tear down the buildings that cover it and
build walls where necessary, and to build q
new bridge on Main street.