Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-13


week which measured over eight feet from
tip to tip Of wings.
Rev. r. w. Churchill of the Saco, Me-.
Baptist church has accepted a call to SUIT
ton, in Orleans county.
The dwelling house of G.. W. Perry of
West Fairlee Centre was destroyed by fire
on the morning of November 4.
f. II. Trick of Burlington, prominent
Grand Army man and an alderman of the
city, died suddenly Tuesday morning.
James Martin, well-known citizen of
Willamstown, fell from the loft i'm his
barn last week Thursday and received fatal
injuries.
Rev. p. G. Abbey's resignation as pas
tor of the Baptist church at Hinesburgh
takes effect next Sunday, and he goes at
once to Barre.
Henry E. Sears of Stowe, aged %, while
at work in the woods Tuesday fell from
pile of lumber, breaking his neck and kill
ing him instantly.
Twenty-one Vermont banks had ac-
counts with the great Maverick national
bank OF Boston when it failed, and will
suffer more or less loss
Lorenzo ID. Kibing, wealthy farmer
and wool dealer of STAFFORD, was thrown
from his horse last Friday, breaking the
bones of one shoulder.
The semi-annual meeting of the Yer
mont homeopathic medical society was
held at Rutland Wednesday. The society
has about 100 members.
Alfred Herr, Welsh slate miner of
Pawlet, attempted to strike COW with
gun, but the piece exploded, the charge
taking effect i'm Hers Leo.
A floor i'm the barn of William Gleason
at Mclndoes Falls gave way recently, and
30 COWS went down in the wreck and the
legs of several were broken.
Mrs. Frederick Strong of Forestdale,
aged 50, was robbed of $50 one night last
week by burglars who gained entrance to
her house by raising window.
The dwelling house belonging to the viii
son Flint quarry at Willamstown was
burned last Friday 1t was occupied by
two quarrymen and their families.
The railroad station at IIighgate Springs
caught fire early Mon lay morning, and was
entirely consumed. Little of the merchan-
disc in the freight Office was saved.
Elijah b. Fillmore Of Bennington a
prominent and well-known retired farmer.
died on Tuesday of typhoid fever, aged 81.
He was cousin OF President Fillmore.
The Methodist society has bought what
is known as the opera house building at
Windsor, and the upper story, which has
been used for billiard rooms, Will be- remod-
eled into house OF worship.
\ dasiardly piece OF work was perpe-
trated in the new Catholic cemetery at
Swanton Monday night, when the head
stones at - graves were tipped over and
the crosses pulled up and destroyed.
Mrs Maggie IIotaling, formerly Miss
Mickson of Windsor. who was severely in
iurel in lIolyoke Mass, last winter by
falling on the sidewalk, has just been
awarded $1,000 damages by that city.
Two attachments have been made
against the Cooper Manufacturing cOmpa-
ny, manufacturers of knit goods. at Ben
ningtOn The company was incorporated
in 1856 with an authorized capital of $780,
600.
John ID. Spelman's house on East
street at Rutland, which had recently been
sold to II. O. Carpenter, was burned early
Wednesday morning with all the contents.
The loss was about $500 well covered by
insurance.
In the case of Henry Camp, who gave a
man some liquor in corn barn, the SUI
preme court at Montpelier held that he had
no right to give it outside of his own house,
and sentenced him to pay fine of S2j and
large bill of costs.
AFRO Buck Chaffee, who was born at
Berkshire in 1890. and who at one time
practiced law under Judge Adds at Bur
lington, died recently in Montreal, where
he had been engaged in the insurance bust
ness for many years.
The Boston IL Maine railroad has re-
Gently had II men engaged in surveying
route from Canaan, y. H., to Fairlee, to
connect the Northern and Passumpsic rail-
roads This will shorten the distance from
Boston to Montreal by 80 miles.
George Blueberry, youth of bad repu-
tation, was captured al Burlington last
Tuesday night while burglarizing the store
of w. ii. Hare 1t is thought that Blue
berry was connected with the numerous
other burglaries recently committed in that
city.
Rev. Elihu Snow, a well-known pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church, has been
transferred from the Vermont to the Ari-
iona conference, and will be located in
Tucson. His charges in this state have
been at Gaysville, Plainfeld, Ludlow,
Franklin and Swanton.
Frank Kirk, while uncoupling two pas
senger ears by the use of the drawbar lev
er from the platform in the railroad yard
at st. Adams Monday, lost his balance and
fell between them, striking on his head, in
stantly breaking his neck. He leaves a
wife and three children.
A syndicate of Chicago capitalists have
sent an expert to this state with a view TO
buying the plants of several marble COM
panies and consolidating them into one
concern. 1t is said that the quarries at
Pittsford, Beldens Falls and Swanton are
to be included in the deal
The new hotel building at Morrisville,
which is 100 by 90 feet in size and three
and one-half stories high, is nearly com