Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-30
VERMONT NEWS.
The state Insurance business.

have made their annual report, which
shows that 70 foreign companies transact
ed business i'm the state the past year. OF
these 45 were fire, 10 life, assessment
life and 10 casualty and Others. There
are also two home life and three home fire
companies. The amount of fire risks
written by foreign companies during the
year was S3l ,207, l07. The home fire COM
panies wrote risks amounting to S12,952,-
Dab. Foreign companies issued 269l poll
cies for the amount of S3,923,270 The
home life companies issued to residents of
the state 253 policies, covering S378,571.
w. II. Farr has been appointed postmas-
ter at East Albany.
The st. Johnsbury waterwOrks are being
repaired at cost of 5000.
Mrs. c. O. Berg cf Shelburne fell dead
Saturday as a result of heart disease.
Henry Bissell of MiIdlebury has left for
Australia with Il fine lot of Merino sheep.
St. Johnsbury proposes to have can
ming factory, and nearly all of the capital
stock of 5000 has been subscribed.
The Excelsior Granite company of Mont
pelier is to be organized into stock com
pany with capital stock of $4,000.
Columbus Smith of Salisbury recently
lost poCket-boOk containing several hun
dred dollars in money and securities.
A st. Johnsbury boy named Bueso shot
himself through the foot on Monday with
a revolver. He "didn't know it was load
ed"
Sixty of the best horses at DR.. Webb's
Shelburne farms were shipped last Satur-
day to New York, where they are to be
sold.
Peter Guyette of MiddlescX, a poor man
with a family of Is children, has been
granted a pension of Sl2 month with
$1,000 back pay.
j. l.. Winchell of Fair Haven has
shipped the famous dog Beaufort back to
his owner in England. This canine is val
ued at upwards of $4,000.
There was a small run on the Benning-
ton savings bank recently as the result of
a false report that the officers had been
dabbling with the funds.
Reginald Hidden, rising young violin
list, is spending some time at his home in
Craftsbury before sailing for Leipsic to
pursue his musical studies.
The store of A. l.. Ransom in the Bonn
oseen House building at CastletOn was en-
tered by burglars last Sunday night and a
| Sllldll hlnOulll VI lllolCg Adhtll-
Officers raided the saloon of Edward
Butler at Rutland a few days ago and Sc
cured so bottles and one barrel of lager
beer, and five jugs of hard liquor.
Darius Lobdell, All aged Middletown
man. went to Granville, y. Y, to visit his
son, and while there fell through an open
trap door and was seriously injured.
1t is reported that Bart Blake of Bolton
is the owner of a colt which has trotted
half mile in I'll, and that he has refus-
ed an offer of $1,000 for the animal.
Mrs. Rhoda Eastman, aged "a, died at
Sutton last week Thursday from the effect
of breaking leg a short time ago while on
a visit to her daughter in .Charlestown.
1t is expected that the United States fish
commission will place 10000 salmon in
Otter creek, WinOosk river and Other
streams flowing into Lake Champlain.
James Bingham of Burlington, an old
hunter, was arrested Tuesday for killing .
deer, contrary to the state law, which in
flicts penalty of 800 for the offence.
A slab of slate dropped on to John Mo
riartys foot recently while he was working
in a slate quarry in Hydeyille, severing on
toe completely AMI cutting three other
, nearly off.
John Fletcher, a l6-year-old Bradford
? boy, while coupling cars had his right arm
) caught at the elbow between the bunter
l and so badly crushed that amputation wa
necessary.
Hon. Luther II. Marsh, a native of NeI
mont for years leading lawyer of Ne'
York city. has abandoned his profession I
y take the lecture field as an exponent q
spiritualism.
An explosion of kerosene in the grocer
store under the Globe Hotel at Rutlan
caused a fire on Wednesday of last wee
/ which Quilted the building. The hous
}. was insured for $3.50.
= The annual meeting of the Vermont as
! ISOLATION of road and trotting horse breed
= ers 20 hear reports of officers and to cleo
Z officers for the coming year will be held a
g the Van Ness House at Burlington Nov. Il
: ID. j. Foster, bright young lawyer {
A Burlington, has been offered the positio
I of instructor of oratory in Dartmouth co
y lege, the work to be arranged so as to il
:. terfere as little as possible with his profe
q sional duties.
n Dennis Zero, an employee in the A. "
IS Tewksbury Il Sons steam mill at We
II Randolph, was fatally injured Wednesda
c by the flying of a knife from the stickiT
W machine which struck him in the forehea
S, penetrating the brain.
n 1t is estimated that over 1000 barrels
re superior graft apples grown in the Char
n plain valley will be bought during the ne
to two weeks and shipped by canal boa
k from Vergennes to New York city at pric
lg ranging from 81 to - per barrel.
IL The will of the late Joel b. Harris
ry Rutland gives $500 to four public instit
a tons in that town, $1,000 each to the pr
We posed hospital, the Y. NJ. c. A. buildin
the free library, and 500 for museum
connection with the memorial hall.
" Harry Durham, a seven-year-Old MOI
IL pelier boy, was seriously injured last ii
OF urday He fell from a wagon which CT
u.s. ried load of 1900 pounds and one of
H. wheels passed over his chest, crushing ST
Re- eral ribs and making bad scalp wound.
u. az Ex-Gov John l.. Barstow has been 1
w., pointed by the secretary of the interio
~ commissioner to negotiate with the Nav;
w Indians for the surrender of part of tn
"o reservation in New Mexico. He is also
' ~ be the discussing agent of the commissi'
mo Jacob Bressett of Norwich recently
$50 ceived visit from his brother whom
low had not seen and from whom nothing
nd been heard for 40 years The wander
en- brother had been in the West among
Indians until a few months ago, when
came east to live in Maine.
II The 18th annual meeting of the '
en-. mont branch of the Woman's auxiliary