The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-11-06

John Henry Smith, former business man
| of Fair Haven, but now located in Dalton
Mass, has been nominated for county sena.
tor on the prohibition ticket In Berkshire
| county, Massachusetts.
w. P. Baxter OF Chicago, writes the Ben.
nington Banner that Judge Asa Aikens. late
of Windsor, was the first native of the state
to serve as judge of the supreme court OF
Vermont. He was born In Barnard, Jan. 10
1888.
d. j. Foster of Burlington, lawyer, a grad.
uate of Dartmouth, class 80, has been ten.
dered the position of instructor In oratory at
that institution.
Senator Edmunds Is looking better than he
has for several years. The New York Re.
corder says that ''some day very interesting
story will be told IN print about his reasons
for retiring from the senate"
d. A. Gorham, who had been connected
with the Northampton public schools twenty
years, died Monday, after several weeks of
Illness. He was born at Rutland. VT, Sep.
TENDER s. 1919. In 1S47 he graduated at Mid.
dlebury, VT, and at once took up the pro-
fessiOn of teaching. He taught at Champlain,
N. Y, and for 10 years at Franklin academy
Malone, N. Y. For II years previous to 60
ing to Northampton In 1871, he taught at
Montpelier. He was principal Of he North
ampton high school II years and stood high
as a teacher Of Latin and Greek. Three years
age he resigned as principal and has since
been teacher of the languages. He leaves a
widow, four daughters and one son.
Mrs. Eastman and Mrs Ardinwood, her
daughter of Derby Line, were quite badly
hurt few days since by the upsettlng of the
stage going to Coaticook, P. @.
Mrs. Eastman of Sutton, recently fell so as
to break one hip.
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Merritt OF Middlebury, who was alleged to
have deserted his wife and family, and gone
off with another woman.
W. H. Farr has been appointed postmaster
at East Albany.
The governor has notified the judges of
probate In the several districts that hereafter
insane people from Washington, Lamoile,
Chittenden and Grand Isle counties
shall be sent to the asylum at Waterbury and
from the remainder of the state to that at
An explosion of kerosene oil In the store |
Under the Globe hotel at Rutland, last We'd |
nesday afternoon, caused fire which Quilted |
The building pretty thoroughly. There were |
% guests, and the rooms of the hotel were all
SO drenched with water that they had to be
lodged out that night The stock In the Sher
burn & Wilson market, where the fire start
ed, was ruined by fire and water.
A farmer, named John Long, and bis wife
went to visit sick neighbor near Lime
Rock, Ala, Monday night of last week, leay.
Ing their four children at home asleep. The !
ball lamp was left burning. Returning at 2
o'clock the next morning they found the |
house In ruins, three of the children burned |
20 death. and the other child dying.
Judge Schoonmaker of New York, recent
y member of the inter state com me rec com.
Mission, has contributed paper on the rail-
Dad problem In which he advocates the cum
,ulsory federation of railroads and the sur.
ender to general body of the power of each
o make rates and the rates made by the fed.
rated body should be subject to review and
direction by the government.