Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-24

The Rutland Driving Park association
will have a meeting at Rutland July 10, 20
and u, with $1,000 in purses.
Two persons have died of diphtheria
within few days at Sharon and last week
- people were i'll in that town with scarla-
tina.
II. c. Slack of Springfield sailed from
New York last Saturday, June Is, for
Florence, Italy, where he will study vocal
music.
Warren II. Smith OF Rutland, "A years
old, for many years prominent lawyer,
was stricken with apopleXy on Thursday,
and death resulted on Saturday.
Albert j. Horton, while working in the
veneer mill at Richford, fell into vat of
boiling water and was terribly burned. 1t
is thought that he will recover
\ pair of horses owned by Herbert
Hooker of Peacham, became unmanagea-
BILE and ran over his little son, breaking
both legs and cutting a bad cash in his
head.
Andrew Allard of Lyndonvile commit
ted suicide on Wednesday of last week by
taking a drachm of morphine. He was Al
years old and leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
Cadet John Woodward of Castleton,
who graduated from West Point a few
days ago, is the second boy from that town
to receive his army appointment from the
national military academy.
Winooski has prodigy in Beatrice Car
penter, aged seven, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Carpenter. She reads and
writes in both French and English and is
an expert piano player.
Timothy Reardon, brother of Eugene
Reardon, superintendent of the Venetian
marble works, fell a distance of 20 feet from
a ladder at Pittsford on Thursday of last
week, and striking upon his head sustained
| fatal injuries. He was ~ years old and
not married.
William II. Hughes, the Vermont slate
king, has begun the erection of another
extensive business block in Granville, NY.
Mr.. Hughes, although a young man, is the
heaviest individual slate operator in Amer
lea He produced nearly $4,000 squares of
slate during 1891.
Herbert b. Hanson, who won the half
mile running race at the Vermont Metho-
dist seminary games at Montpelier last
week, is a Bradford boy. His time, one
minute and 81 seconds, is two seconds bet
ter than any American intercollegiate rec
ord. AS half-mile runner he holds the
championship of the state.
The fifth annual reunion of the 18th
Vermont volunteers was held at Montpel-
Ter June 10 with about 100 veterans in at
tendance. John Lonergan of Montreal
presided, and the officers elected were
President, Col. A. c. Brown of Montpel
Ter: vice president, Lieut.. G. w. Searles OF
West Berkshire; secretary, Sergt. JohI
Lyon of Colchester; treasurer, II. W. AL
len of Burlington; executive committee
John Lyon, G. r. White of Calais, L. f
Terrill of Underhill, c. p. Carpenter o
ST. Johnsbury, w. w. Holden of North
field, and Col. A. c. Brown.
Vermont has inflicted severe fines TO
violations of the prohibitory law, but tn,
record for such fines is held in Kentucky
Lancaster, that state, is a local option town
Several days ago Henry A. Burdette, de
tective, began to work up cases against tn
''blind TIGERS on "Battle row." a negr
: settlement, and one white man and fiv
negroes were arrested on three, twenty AM
= 2l1 warrants. Frank Turner, the whit
man, was fined 500 each in 1877 cases
amounting to $4,000. John Smith,
negro, who was engaged in business wit
Turner, confessed in 1885 cases. His fin
will amount to nearly Sl,OOO,OOO.
Richford despatch reports disastrou
food on the Missisquoi river, that streaT
being the highest for many years. Tn
: Richford Lumber company has lost all il
logs, between six and seven million fee
having broken away. The logs that SUI
piled the four large saw mills rushe
against the boOms at the village mills an
carried everything before them. This wi
throw hundreds of wOrkmen at the mil
out of employment for the summer. Thel
is also a heavy loss TO crops and grass alon
the banks of the swollen river. In additio
there is a large loss by the washing out {
bridges and culverts on the highway
while the Canadian Pacific railroad los,
heavily by washouts.