Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11

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of Rutland, died recently in Colorado,
where he went three years ago in the hopes
! of regaining his health. He was employed
in the business department of the Rutland
Herald at the time his father was manager
of that paper, and later was teller of the
Merchants bank and associated with his
father in the management of the Bates
House.
Lieut.. G.. II. Colby of the United States
navy, has been at Burlington this week to
look over the situation with reference to
the establishment of a naval reserve on
! Lake Champlain.
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
! II. Lane of Burlington was celebrated on
! Tuesday.
Edwin r. Spaulding, 80, was instantly
killed by the morning train at Bethel last
| Tuesday while walking on the track. He
was quite deaf, and although the engineer
whistled three times, he did not get off the
track. He leaves a widow, son and daugh-
ter.
The steamer Harry NJ. Bates on Lake
! Bomoseen at Casteton was burned Tues
day, causing a loss of $500
The sixth annual reunion of the Sd Yer
mont volunteers was held at St. Johnsbury
| Wednesday, go veterans being present. In
the evening Comrade j. S. Upper of
Brandon addressed the veterans, giving a
character sketch of Gen. Grant.
Willie the 9-year-old son of c. NJ. Coffey
of Castleton, met with sad accident
! Wednesday of last week. In attempting
to get on horses back he slipped and fell
and the horse stepped on his face, crushing
in his skull. His recovery is doubtful.
As a result of the big crops it is said that
the Western railroads finl themselves short
of cars and have already begun to borrow
them from the Eastern roads for transport
ing the grain. During December they eX-
/ pect to borrow fully 10000 cars. The in
dications are also that the Eastern roads
are to be crowded with work for months to
come in transporting Western crops to the
sea board, among them the Grand Trunk
and Central Vermont.
Jonas Martin, who has a reputation
along the border as one of the most daring
horse thieves in Canada has been arrested,
and is in Jail at st. Adams to await the
action of the grand jury
Bradford has voted to put in at once a
complete system of water works.
The most recent census bulletin shows
/ that there are nearly l.. 600, 600 horses and
2,246, 1916 mules in this country. Vermont
on June /, 1890, had ~. 960 horses and BIB
mules and the sale of horses in 1880 aggre-
gated S235.
\. w. Gray Il Sons Of Mddletown have
recently shipped five carloads of threshng
machines to northern Russia. Notwith-
standing the large number of machines on
hand at the beginning of the season, they
are now unable to fill orders.
Bernard McGany, while trimming an
evergreen arch in front of his house at
Proctor last Friday fell and wrenched one
of his ankles so badly that he will be dis
abled for several months.
Chas. d. Lane, prominent resident of
Cornwall. was badly hurt on Wednesday of
last week by falling from a load of potatoes
on which he was riding from the field to
the house. He was sitting on basket on
the top of the load when a sudden Jolt of
the wagon caused him to fall over back
wards To the ground. He struck on the
back of his head and on his left arm. He
is not able to move his head, and his left
arm is broken.
\ tramp, working for Mr.. Wainwright
of Middlebury, went into the field OF =. b.
Cloyes, a neighbor, last week Wednesday,
took gold watch worth 500 from the
pocket of Mr. Cloyes's vest which was on
stock of grain, and left for parts unknown
Col. Herman A. Seligson, who died in
Washington recently, was born in Prussia
and. educated in a military academy in that
country. For short time in his youth he
served in the Prussian army. On coming
to this country he engaged in business at
Burlington, and at the breaking out of the
war enlisted in the First Vermont regiment.
He was promoted from time TO time until
he was in command of the battalion of the
Ninth. He was brave and capable soldier
and rendered valuable service. After the
war he located in Washington and during
the last census he was chief of division in
the census Office. Charles y. Lapham, a
clerk in the office of the register of the
treasury, who died short time ago at
Washington, served in the First Vermont
cavalry.
Eugene Roberge, the Burlington boy who
was shot while handling a revolver, is re-
covering, the wound having completely
healed. The surgeons are puzzled. They
are sure that in searching for the ball the
probe penetrated to depth of fully three
inches, and that it entered the brain tissue,
and the ball is probably now imbedded in
the brain itself.
The enforcement of the prohibitOry law
is quite vigorous recently in Rutland and
in a variety of methods. Among the latest
moves has been the arrest of the village
president, Henry o. Carpenter, Deacon
Geo. c. Thrall and several other leading
business men, for leasing buildings in which
liquor is unlawfully sold. The penalty is
not less than $50 or more than $780, The
men were arraigned, four of them plead
guilty, were fined $50 and costs aud ap
pealed to the county court. One demand
! ed a jury trial, and the cases against the
others are still pending. Grand juror
James A. Merrill is very reticent as to the
, names of the complainants.
! There is a cave on the Beckley farm il
: Peacham which has attracted some atten
ton. f. S. Pitkin of Marshfeld, having