The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-17

son, Texas, where he goes in the interest
of the land company of which he and
other New England people are large
owners. Hon. B. j. Derby of Burling
ton, ex-POstmaster of the Queen City,
is President We understand that the
late scheme to get this corporation into
the hands of a receiver has come to
naught and that a recent meeting of the
stockholders has resulted in the retire
ment of every man from the Board of
Directors who is at all favor able to the
schemes of the spectators who lately
attempted to wreck the company. Mr..
Childs says that with the New England
ers on guard the company is sure to go
on prospecting in the future as in the
past The plan to wreck the concern by
means of receiver was a scheme of
spectators to make money at the ex-
pense of the security holders. Mr.
Derby telegraphs to stockholders not to
soil their securities.
PERRY w. ELDRED, retired hotel
keeper ald business man, we'll known in
all this region, lately living on his farm
in HoOsick, N. Y, died of apoplexy at
his residence Saturday evening. Mr.. Ell
dred was possessed of quite large prop
erty, and is said to have owned the
Union House in Cambridge, American
House at Hoosick, Eldred House at
North Hoosick and DOwney's hotel at
North Petersburgh. He also owned sew
eral farms in the vicinity of Hoosick, and
was the largest stakeholder except one
of the Cambridge Valley Fair Associa-
ton. The deceased was seventy-two
years of age and leaves eight children, six
daughters and two sons. Two daughters,
AT.a DATE Ern1
Graves, reside in this village. The funer-
al was held Wednesday afternoon at Q
o'clock. In his prime Mr.. Eldred was
active in the trotting circuits of New
York and Vermont and owned some
fine stock, one of the horses being Black
Diamond, so say our Troy exchanges.
WEDNESDAY evening at about clock
an alarm of fire was rung. 1t was found
to be the novelty works attached to the
electric light station and Ter time great
anxiety was felt as to the result. FOrtu-
nately the appliances to fight fire were
at hand, and the flames were subdued
before the fire department arrived. The
part of the building occupied by the Adj
Unstable Silt Manufacturing company
was badly burned out and the C mpany's
loss is over $500. on finished goods, most
of which was ready to ship. The tin
roof on the building probably saved the
station and avoided the calamity of shut
ting off the electric lights for couple of
months. The electric light company
loses the damages to the building,
quantity of betting, etc., in all $500, or
none. Both concerns had insurance.
The Silt company was composed OF JAS.
II. White, Chas. H. Wakefield, E. +.
Griswold and NJ. E. Watson. The build
ing will be repaired and the business
continued. The cause of the fire is I'M
known, but incendiarism is SUSPECTED, as
the wOrkmen in the novelty works had
not all quit until o'clock and another
had looked into that part only few
minutes before the fire was discovered
LAST evening at his residence, 334
River street, occurred the death of DIR.
Robert II. Coventry, who since 1888 had
been respected citizen of Troy. DR..
Coventry was native OF Columbia
county, having been born at Stockport in
June, 1915, the youngest of nine chill
| dren none of whom are now living. After
! learning the painters trade in Hudson,
he was married in Catskill in 1887 to Miss
Marie fjuuesUeel, whose death occurred
IN 1873. His second wife was Miss Helen
Neal of Green Island, by whom he is sur
vived. DR.. Coventry was the father of
Julie Coventry, an actor of much promi-
| nence, whose death occurred about six
years ago. For nearly twenty years DR..
Coventry had practiced the profession Of
chirspody, being highly successful and
winning large practice. DR.. Coventry
was genial man, and his kindly dispV-
sition won many warm friends. The i'll
ness which caused his death dates back
about sixteen months ago, when he sui
fered stroke of paralysis, and since
that time he had been confined to his
bed. His condition was not thought
| alarming until about o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when he became unconscious,
death ensuing three hours lat0r.-TrOy
Times of Feb. 11th, '93. DR.. Coventry
will be remembered by the older citizens
of Bennington, as genial, whOle-heart-
ed gel tleman, and as AN artist in the line
of decoration and ornamental painting
of uncommon skill. He resided for
several years in Bennington and was
regarded as an enterprising, industrious
citizen. He built and occupied for sew
eral years the place on the corner of Gage
and School streets now owned and Occn-
pied by the French Catholic Society for
a parochial school. His daughter Julie,
spoken of, will also be remembered as a
remarkably bright and interesting young
lady.
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