Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-02
STATE NEWS.


r. Edison, ir., has been appointed post
master at Barnet.
The new Union church at Proctor was
dedicated last Sunday
The Franklin county Jail has been con-
demned in strong terms by the grand jury,
Two new streets have been opened at
Bennington, throwing p building lots up
on the market.
Over 100 veterans attended the reunion
of the Second Vermont Battery at Bran
don last Saturday.
Michael Tebeau of Barre was drowned
in Lake Champlain at Plattsburgh, n. Y,
last Friday night,
young man named Madden killed a
bear with club on the mountain near
West Bridgcwater last week.
Ground has been broken at Morrisville
for a new banking house for the Union
savings bank and trust company.
Mrs. w. II. Lane, ir., a well-known
woman of Burlington, died last Friday, as
the result of injuries received i'm carriage
accident two years ago.
The Snowden slate company has been
formed at Fair Haven with a capital stock
of $4,000. E. f. LlyOd, W. IL. Hughes
and II. j. Williams are the incorporators.
Several horses which had escaped from
pastures at Charlotte were run into by
railroad train in a cut. One of them was
killed outright and several more badly in
iured.
Last Friday, probably with view to
dry day at the fire departments celebration
Saturday, the officers raided several sa-
looms at Barre, and secured quantity of
liquor
\ little son of Joseph Droun. aged two
and half years, fell from the second sto-
ry of his fathers house in st. Johnsbury,
and striking his head on the pavement suf-
fered conclusion of the brain.
Joseph Casavaw, a carpenter and joiner
working on the new hotel at Brandon, fell
last week Thursday, breaking his nose,
spraining both wrists and cutting deep
cash on his forehead near the left eye.
Suit has been brought against Henry
Hatch by the widow of James McQuade,
who was killed on the track near West
Rutland recently, under the civil damage
section of the liquor law. Bail was fixed
at 5000.
There is good prospect of a new S10,-
600 hotel at Poultney. Ashley NJ. Wilson,
architect and builder, has offered to build
one on the old foundation if the citizens
will raise by subscription $500 and give
him the lot.
Charles Taylor of White River Junction,
the wel-known driver and trainer Of horses,
will be compelled to retire permanently
from the track on account of an injury
which he recently received on the Grand
Trunk railway in Canada.
Rutland is likely to soon have another
industry, a coffin manufactury, as stock is
being subscribed to buy the Northway
company's business at Pittsford and move
it to Rutland 1t is proposed to organize
"A stock company with a capital of S25,-
600.
The fall term of Norwich university at
Mortified opened last week with an UNI
usually large freshman class. Lieut.. Kim
ball, 9TH United States infantry has charge
of the military department. The new
building will he ready for occupancy the
coming winter.
Charles y. Glase, the candy maker who
was drowned under suspicious circum-
stances at Montpelier last April, was "A ma
tive of Canada, and the British govern
ment has made complaint to the effect that
he was foully killed, and demand that an
investigation he made.
The Chelsea granite company, organized
with $4,000 capital, has chosen j. X. Oar
ling, president; w. 5. Hatch, secretary,
and c. s. Emery, treasurer. The compa-
ny owns a tract of land near Brocklebank
hill, where II quarry was opened at the
time the Central Vermont railroad was be-
ing built.
John w. Hobart of st. Adams is one of
the ncorporators of the Big Horn Valley
railroad company, which has capital
stock of S6,OO0.0OO, and is to build a road
from Casper, Wyo., the terminus of the
Chicago and Northwestern, to Cook City,
Mont. EX-Commissioner of Pensions w.
w. Dudley of Indiana is another of the in
cOrpOrators
James Il. Carnahan of indianapolis,
major general of the uniform rank of the
United States, +. F. Durand of New Hav-
en-, brigader general of the department of
! Connecticut, and Maj. f. w. Mckinley of
| Manchester, y. H., colonel on Gen. Car
nahan's staff, have been entertained by the
lodges of Knights of Pythias at st. Johns
bury and st. Adams this week.
! Cornelius Merrick of st. Adams, an
aged pensoner, who is totally deaf, entered
a store in that place. and while paying for
! some goods laid down his pocketbook,
which Charles Austin at once grabbed.
Austin ran down the street, through an
alley and escaped. He is a man of bad
! reputation and has been arrested several
| times for minor crimes, but has never been
convicted.
! On Wednesday night of last week burg
! lars broke into the store of F. V. Hassam
at Gaysville, blew open the safe and secured
! about $50 from the iron cash box. They
also entered j. A. Chedel Il Co.'S store,
and worked with drills upon the large safe
| containing the town records, but did not
succeed i'm opening it. On the night of
! August 10 both of these stores were en-
| tered in a similar manner and the money
drawers broken open, but nothing of value
| was taken.