Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-03-10


ords below 2:30
George S. Fisk, formerly local editor of
the Burlington Clipper, is now night editor
of the st. Johnsbury Republican.
The father of Hon. J. Sterling Morton
of Nebraska, secretary Of agriculture, was
Julius Dewing Morton, native of st. AL
bans.
A two-story building at Marshield, in
which were Thomas's harness shop, bar
ber's shop and circulating library was
burned Sunday.
Rev. Homer White of Mortified accept
ed this week call to his old parishes in
West Randolph and Randolph Centre, at a
salary of $1,000.
Alfred Barron, who died recently, was
for nearly years one of the leading mem
bers of the Oneida community. He was a
native of Cambridge, this state.
George d. Stevens, formerly of St.
Johnsbury, but more recently of Crete,
Neb., disappeared several months ago and
no trace of him has been found.
Bennington village, at a special meeting
Monday, voted to put in a system of sewer
age. The estimated cost is $34,0 900, and
the length of the mains 36-100 miles.
Peter Begor of Monkton had his skull
crushed by falling limb recently, causing
death in few hours. He was veteran
of company A of the 9th Vermont regi-
ment.
Curtis McMaster of North Thetford, en-
ployed by the Howard & Babcock Steam
Mill company, was caught by shaft aud
whirled through the air several times, re-
ceiving fatal injuries.
Patrick Hennessey, about 30 years old,
committed suicide at Rutland Saturday by
taking poison. Hennesey had been de-
spondent for some time. He leaves a wild
ow and four daughters.
Walter Patch of Greensboro Bend, a
mason in the employ of the Boston ~
Maine railroad company, was struck in the
head by the boom of a derrick at Boston
I Tuesday, causing a compound fracture of
the skull.
/ Two heavily loaded freight trains collid-
| ed near North Troy Saturday. The three
| engines and 10 cars were wrecked The
trainmen escaped by jumping. The train
| dispatcher at Farnham, =. O., issued con-
| Trajectory orders.
The oldest postal clerk IN the employ of
the United States is Charles Brigham of
the Boston os-tofiice, who was appointed
"a years ago. Mr.. Brigham is a native of
| Bloomington, this state, and went to Bos-
ton when he was 81 years old.
! X. II. Drake, merchant at Pittsford,
was Friday fined $3.50 and costs, the
whole amounting to about $1,000 under
the prohibitory law for selling liquor. This
| is one of the heaviest fines ever imposed
in the state. Drake appealed the case to a
higher court.
Hon. William b. Stevens, one of the
most prominent business men of Orleans
county, dropped dead at his home at Brad
ford last week Thursday, aged II. He
was merchant in Bradford over 40 years.
and had held many town offices. A wild
ow and three daughters survive him.
The $1,000 verdict for the estate of +.
| ii. Turner against the Boston IL Maine
railroad company, is to stand. Turner was
brakeman in the employ of the Fitch
burg, and locomotive ran over both legs
at Aver Junction. Turner lived in Rut-
land until few months before the acct
dent occurred.
Destructive freShets are anticipated at
Bennington from the sudden melting of
snow on the mountains. The vast snow
fields are from four to six feet deep,
and only two or three days warm sun
shine and a south wind are required to raise
the streams that feed the Roaring branch
and the Walloomsac river.
The boundary lines of the towns OF
Georgia, Fairfax, Fairfield and St. Adams
so cross each other at right angles that
Harmon Vernal, who resides in Fairfax,
can stand on a portion of his farm with
one foot in Fairfield, one in Fairfax, and
by STOPPING, can place one hand in Georgia
and the other in st. Adams.
A new engine of the mogul pattern has
just been put into service on the Vermont
Central railroad which is claimed to be
more powerful than any ever before used
J in New England. 1t has four large drivers
! ON each side, and will haul 25 heavily load
ed freight cars up the steepest grade on the
road 1t burns upward of 10 tons of Goa
day.
Carl c. Poole of st. Johnsbury, the bos,
bridge builder of the st. Johnsbury anC
Lake Champlain railroad, died suddenly a
Swanton last week Wednesday. Dealt
was caused by an injury sustained Feb. 10
when he was struck in the head by piec,
of board which he was breaking. He wa
81 years old, and leaves a wife and fiv,
children.
At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn
society OF the sons or Nermont, held II
that city March 3, Hon. r. d. Benedict, VIII,
has been president of the society from it
| formation, declined reelection, and tn
! following officers were chosen; President
Robert j. Kimball; vice president, Chas
:, II. Tinker; secretary, B. Lincoln Bene
dict; treasurer, F. b. Chandler.
William Conroy, or Mcdowell in Jail a
: Bennington for the murder of John Grow
r ley of Glastonbury, obtained some alcoho
, from fellow prisoner Monday and 60
! drunk, overturned the stove in his cell
4 broke up table and chair, and threw theT
: and the bedding on the fire. He threaten
4 ed to kill the first man to enter but the Of
ficials got hose and extinguished the fir
q and then turned it on COnroy, drownin
him into submission.
! An iron pulley of the dynamo in tn
a power house of the electric street railwa
= company at Lowell, Mass, burst last wee
d Thursday, and piece struck the 20-foC
e fly wheel of the engine, smashing it |
Il pieces. A. H. Mead, assistant engineer
q formerly of COrinth, VT, was struck o.
the head by an iron and instantly killed