Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-01

These Vermont postmasters have been
appointed: Alice ID. Bowman, Alburg: Il.
f. French, Glover; B. A. Hunt, johnson.
The family of James Morris, who was
killed four weeks ago at Rutland. will
bring suit against the Central Vermont
road for $4,000.
The water in the river at Bristol reached
the highest pitch since 1871 last week
Thursday, the road below the village being
foot and a half under water.
Hon. f. j. Phelps of Burlington has
been retained as counsel by the receivers
of the Erie railroad, of whom Gen. j. G.
Mccullough of North Bennington is one.
A holiness camp meeting at Spring
Grove, New Haven, will be held Sept 40
Rev. II. F. Reynolds, president, Underhill,
will have charge, assisted by an able corps
of workers.
Alderman Z. +. Davis of Burlington
was thrown from his carriage Monday.
and, striking against a curbing, the pelyis
bone of the thigh was broken so that it
protruded from the flesh.
The creditors of S. NJ. DORIS Sons of
Rutland and Bristol have agreed that it is
for the best interests of all concerned for
the firm to resume business, and the nee
essary action to that end will be taken.
Henry Kelly, alias Harry Kellar, was ar
rested at Berlin Corners recently, charged
with stealing bicycle in Boston about one
month ago. Kelly was working for a
farmer at Berlin Corners, and says he
hired the machine. He was taken back to
Boston by an officer from that city.
A despatch from Richford says that Hill
ton, the absconder and eloper who was
captured at Denver, Col, and brought
back to Sweetsburgh for stealing $500
from the Bell Telephone company, pleaded
guilty at h is trial and was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
j. D. f. Barker, one of the veteran en-
ployes of the Central Vermont railroad
company, fell from the roof of his home
at st. Adams Friday and sustained injuries
which resulted in death Sunday. Mr..
Barker began to work for the company in
1888, and for number of years was fore
man of the blacksmith shop.
Harry ButsOn of West Topsham lost his
pocketbook containing 1920. After hunt
ing about his house he started back over
the road on which he had travelled. He
found his dog in the road guarding the
missing property. The dog had been seen
ny several PERSONS, anu IL was nOIlced that
when anyone approached him he would
seize something in his mouth and rush in
to the bushes.
Carson Lake, who was the editor of the
Rutland Evening Telegram a few years
ago, is now an inmate of the Middletown,
n. Y, asylum, suffering with paresis.
After leaving Rutland, Lake was connect
ed with the New York Press Suit has
been brought by Lakes parents against his
second wife to compel her to give up the
charge of the five daughters born to Lake
by his first marriage.
The 75.foot spire of the new French
Catholic church at Rutland fell during the
storm of Tuesday. The resistance of the
staging which went down with the spire
caused the heavy timbers to break where
they had been spliced, and turning end upon
end they crashed down upon the house Oc-
cupied by Rev. Father ProulX. Three of
the large timbers pierced the roof and
went through the DINING room, in which
Father ProulX was seated, and were inn
bedded in the ground in the cellar. Sever
al smaller timbers were driven through the
roof and nearly every room was wrecked
The damage is estimated at $1,000.