Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-03-27
STATE NEWS.

A large derrick in the yard Of the Ma
tional granite company at Barre fell on
Tuesday, causing 5000 damage
Second Lieutenant Mudgett of the Spen-
Ger Rifles at Barre has been promoted TO
the first ieutenancy of that company, and
d R. Bishee has been chosen second lieu
tenant
1t is expected that hourly trains will
soon he running between Barre and Mont
pelier.
Over so, OO0 has been paid to the farm
ers of Bristol and vicinity for potatoes de
livered at Bristol or New Haven depot
The New Hampshire legislature has APP
propriated $500 for paying the expense of
having that state represented at the dedi-
cation of the Bennington battle monument
next August.
Col. Fred f. Smith has resigned as pres
ident of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company.
Zephyr Lamora of Walden, aged %, at
tempted to board train last week, but
missed his footing, fell under the cars and
was killed.
A peculiar accident occurred at Stowe
last Friday. Truman B. Smith was NOV
ing a house, and on down grade it got be
yond his control and crushed one Of his OK
en-. Mr. Smiths leg was caught under the
rollers and broken.
A movement is on foot to rebuild the no.
tel recently burned at Hyde Park, and the
stockholders have formed an association
with Gov. Page as president,
A. W. Barnum of Montpelier won the
first prize in IA typewriting contest at
Boston last week His record was 134
words in minute.
Three men who created disturbance in
town meeting were arraigned before the
justice of peace at Wheelock. One was
discharged, another was fined S. and costs,
and the third waived examination and was
held in the sum of 500.
Marshall W. Stoddard, for many years a
prominent citizen in Newark and Burke,
fell upon the ice last Saturday fracturing
his skull. Death took place at once.
f. c. Carpenter q Brother of Lyndon
vile have sold their four years-old stallion,
Gen. Chase" TO parties in Providence,
R. l., for $1,000.
a contract has been closed for an iron
bridge across the river at Waterford TO
replace the wooden one which was carried
away by high water last spring. 1t will
have a span of 265 feet and cost $1,000.
The house of Robert Nulty of Milton,
which cost $1,000, with furnishings worth
S3000 including a valuable library, was
burned last week Friday. The insurance
was $1,000.
New York capitalists have re6rganized
the Brandon stAtuary marble company,
made the capital stock 500, 000 and will
begin quarrying and finishing marble from
the old Selden quarry in Sudbury as soon
as the water can be pumped out.
John d. Wheeler, an elderly resident of
CastletOn, and a member of the End Yer
mont infantry, company B, was chopping
in the woods Wednesday when the ak
slipped, striking him in the foot and sever
ing it in two.
Three prominent business men of Bur
lington, c. b Gray, II. T Rutter and f.
II. Fisher, the latter cashier of the How
ard national bank, were out on the lake in
an ice yacht Wednesday, when it broke
through the ice, They managed 10 cling 10
the yacht until help arrived and they were
rescued.
Carleton A. Geer, a brakeman who lives
at st. Adams, was instantly killed at Bur
lington on last week Friday morning while
| attempting to board a train.
Articles of corporation have been filed
for the Bell shoe company at Chelsea, with
a capital stock of SEQ, 600
George B NJ. Harvey, Peacham boy,
who in former years worked in the Gale
donian Office at St. Johnsbury, has been
appointed commissioner of banking and in
surance for the state of New Jersey. The
| appointment is one of the most important
ones in the state, as it gives him supervision
of all the large financial institutions. 1t is
for three years with an annual salary of
$4,000. Col. Harvey, who is only % years
old and probably the youngest man in the
country holding position of so great re-
sponsibility, accepted it with the under
standing that his official duties should not
interfere with his regular work as editorial
and political writer for the New York
World