Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-01

Levi Wheelock of Lowell committed SUI
icide by taking Paris green. He was
doubtless insane.
The dwelling house of Frank +. Titus
in Vershire was destroyed by fire on Fri
day of last week.
Ten thousand dollars has been raised for
the erection of a Methodist church on
Main street at Waterbury.
Mr. and Mrs. 5. Tolcott Perrin of Will
Jamestown have recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
The state fair is to be held at White Riv-
er Junction Sept 10. Hon. j. w. Cram
ton is president of the joint exhibition.
Elizabeth Gibson Powers, wife of the
distinguished Vermont sculptor, Hiram
Powers, died recently in Florence, Italy.
A double team carrying 6. Allen and ID.
Brydia broke through the ice while cross
ing from Nergennes to Westport on Satur-
day
The Catholics at Lyndonvile are pre-
pairing to erect a new brick and stone
church to replace the wooden one recently
burned.
Gen. James Warner, who was last week
nominated for mayor of Albany, y. Y, by
the Republicans of that city, is a native OF
Vermont.
Station Agent c. d. Abel of Orwell
was seriously injured last week by barrel
of kerosene which he was unloading fall
ing on him.
1t is said that the new quarries being de-
velOped in Clarendon, just south of West
Rutland, contain some of the finest marble
| in the state.
Lemuel 5. Drew, one of the oldest hote
men in New England, is to retire from the
management of the Van Ness House in
Burlington today.
John j. Simonds, a rising young lawyer
of White River Junction, was found dead
! in his bed Tuesday night, having died of
apopleXy or heart disease.
Montgomery has new corporation, the
| Black Falls spool and bobbin company
which is owned and controlled by the East
ern Townships bank of Canada,
! At a special town meeting Saturday Mid
dlebury voted to resciIId its action in regard
! to an iron bridge, and to build handsome
/ stone bridge at a cost of not over SIP, 900.
Nahum X. Campbell, SO, of Sutton died
at Newport Sunday after a long illness
| He was one of the best Unknown drovers OF
| Vermont and an associate justice of the
Caledonia county court.
Work has been begun on the foundation
for the new chapel at the Soldiers Home
in Bennington. On April Superintend
ent and Mrs. Coffey complete their tiftl
year in charge of the institution.
Two hundred cars of poplar have beer
shipped from Bethel the past winter, bring
ing $4,000 of ready money into that vi
entity Most of the poplar was for thu
Fall Mountain company of Bellows Falls
A stock company has been formed a
West Randolph and $4,000 subscribed TO
the erection of plant for the UniteC
States screen company. A new buildin!
on the site of the one which was burned
will be erected at once.
Abel Walker, leading citizen of Whit
ing, died on Wednesday of last week a
the age of 49, He had been representa-
tive in the legislature, and had served a
assistant judge in the county court, justic
of the peace and selectman.
The St, Johnsbury, Lyndon and McIn
does Falls stockholders of the defunct New
Mexico banks, will be assessed as much a
their original investment, in order to pa
the depositors, and their total loss vii
amount to many thousand dollars.
! Samuel Stillman KeltOn, who died a