Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-17
THE VERMONT NEWS.

| established in WesttOrd.
A match factory employing 80 hands is
to be established at Burlington.
Seventeen cars of dairy train were de-
rallied near Brantree Thursday night of
last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiland Bump of Benson
celebrated their golden wedding anniversa-
ry last week
Emmons Stockwel, a well-known farm
er of West Concord was found dead in
his barn Friday night
Burlington is to have a canning factory
which will give employment to l25 to $50
hands during the busy season.
The village of Enosburgh Falls has voted
to bond for SIS, 900 for the purpose of put
ting in a system of water works.
The Vermont State Firemen's associa-
ton is represented at the national meeting
in Chicago by its treasurer, l.. c. Grant.
Three million feet of lumber will be
drawn from the west side of Mount Mans
field into the mill yards at Underhill this
winter.
Alfred Bush, Brandon boy, attempted
to jump into a sleigh, when he was kicked
by a colt and his face smashed in. 1t was
necessary to remove the cheek bone.
Barre, Burlington and Rutland have Of
fered sites for the permanent establish
ment of the Home Missionary society,
which has an endowment fund of $780,
0O0
Messrs. March, Merrill and Perley, of
the firm of b. j. Kendall & Co. of Enos-
burgh Falls, have built an opera house at
a cost of $4,000, and will present it to the
town.
Walter Wilcomb of Swanton fell from a
moving freight train and was struck by the
hunters and knocked into a ditch. His
spine was badly injured and the bones of
one arm broken.
1t is expected that the land for militia
ry post at Winooski will be decided to the
government at an early date, United States
District Attorney Plumley having found
the deeds and titles to be all right.
German White, an employee of the wool
en- mill at Winooski, had his hand caught
in a machine and was thrown to the brick
floor. He sustained five scalp wounds,
two of which are four inches in length.
Perry Eldred, we'll known in the trotting
circuits of Vermont and western New
York, died suddenly at Hoosck, N. Y,
, last Saturday. He was II years old, and
one of the largest land owners in that sec
ton.
Rev. Eli Clark of STAFFORD, who died
last week at the age of 50, was ordained in
, Tunbridge in 1886 and had preached in
that town and those adjoining for many
years. He was representative in the leg
: islature in 1876.
f. H. harrington and c. S. Thayer have
9 been chosen assignees of the insolvent
firm of George Il f. +. Briggs of Brandon
f and have filed a bond of 100000. The
= hotel Brandon will probably be kept open
by the assgnees.
-, The annual meeting of the Vermont
= Merino Sheep Shearing association was
: held at Middlebury one day last week. V.
V. Blackmar of Orwell was chosen presi-
dent and Ira l.. Hamblin of Middlebury
= secretary and treasurer.
I. II. Hayes, sawyer and log measureI
d for w. f. Elliot at North Duxbury, wa;
n rolling logs on pile containing some 75,-
l. 600 feet when the whole pile started with
y him, landing him several rods below, with
e his right foot badly crushed.
IS Col. Fred E. Smith of Montpelier, pres
u ident, and Mr.. j. G.. Reed of Burlington
e vice president of the Muncie, Ind, stree
IL railway, have completed arrangements fo
the sale of the road to a syndicate for $40,
600. The stockholders of the compan!
were Nermonters.
- Typhoid fever made sad havoc in thu
A. family of T. P. johnson of Albany. Tn,
70 son at Craftsbury academy was taken il
"A with the disease, soon the mother wa.
claimed victim, then the two daughters
the youngest son, and finally sister o
re Mrs johnson. Death claimed the moth
re er, sister and two daughters. The rest o
~ the family are in precarious condition.
. The heavy snow storm of Thursda
~, Of lo follnNuaJ nv rai
AZ quite disastrous to the lower districts i
Rutland. Three feet of water covere
State street near the house of correction
VI Baxter street, Noyes street, Glover stree
vi and Killington avenue, and several otht
streets were covered in places. One hui
Ut bred cellars were flooded, and the railroa
OF tracks were overlooked in places.
as Mrs. l.. II. Greene, wife of a Montpe
ar Ter druggist, went to Montreal last Satu
" dav with her father, Mr.. Gates of Higl
gate. She bought 100 ounces of sulfon
hu and 100 ounces of phenacenine which wei
'c- sent by express to St. Armand, and smui
'eC gled from there to Mr.. Gates's house
e, Highgate. Mrs. Greene was arrested c
10 the cars by the custom officials and brougl
Is to Burlington for trial. The drugs co
er- 800 in Montreal and are worth 5000
the United States.
David Bean of Fairfield was terribly il
eTr, jured by falling tree while chopping OF
OK day last week. His lower jaw was broke
Use diagonally across the chin and raggt
lct wound made from just below the lip dow
~ to the point of the chin, while eight tee
he were broken and his tongue was cut entir
IT. ly through from the centre to one sid
al The man suffered terribly until he WI
rs taken to the st. Adams hospital Frida
when DIR. Flanders of Fairfield and 9th
ain physicians performed difficult operatio
an which was so successful that Bean. is nc
adj, recovering.
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