Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

Over $1,000 has been pledged for the sup.
port of the Montpelier military band this
season. About $500 more are required.
Lightning struck flock of sheep owned
by David Harvey on Woodward Hill in
Waterbury Monday and killed u of the
animals.
The Bee Hive building at Vergennes
was damaged by fire to the amount of
$1,000 last week Thursday. The occupants
saved their goods.
Prof. Frank Bradford of Bennington
disappeared from his home Friday. lie
was found in an alley at Albany Tuesday
i'm a dazed condition.
The boiler for the quartz crusher to be
used in the mine at Bridgewater has been
placed in position and all the machinery
will soon be in operation.
Thomas McGettrick, an unmarried la
borer, aged p years, was run over by the
cars at Rutland Friday night, sustaining
injuries which proved fatal.
The stockholders of the First National
bank of Montpelier have voted to reduce
the capital stock of that institution from
$3.50 900 to 100000, owing to recent
losses in the West
Thomas Wentworth, of an old well
known Vermont family, the old Indian
scout and fighter, elephant trainer and cir
Gus performer, has been placed in the
Salem, Mass, aims house.
Davis Moves died at Bennington last
week Thursday from the effects of dose
of arsenic. He was out of work and dis
couraged. He leaves a wife and four chill
dren.
The fifth annual convention of the Yer
mont State Firemen's association will be
held at Bennington July Is and 10. Prizes
to the amount of $3.50 in cash will be of
fered in hand engine, hook and ladder and
hose contests.
j. +. Dodge, a young man from Lowell,
Mass, while coasting on his bicycle at
West Randolph Tuesday, ran over the
| three-year-od daughter of f. G.. Davis, in
turing her severely. Mr. Davis at once
sued Dodge for $4,000 and body writ was
served on him.
Rutland has small pox case. A trav-
cling salesman named Dodge, from Chica
90. arrived at the Banquet House and was
taken i'll, The nature of the disease was not
apparent until several days later. All pre-
cautions have been taken, however, and NJ
other cases are likely to develop.
The annual enCampment OF Jne sons o
Veterans of Vermont will be held at Nor
risville June &c, ~ and IS. Commander
in-Chief Macomber and Adjutant-Genera
Darling will be present, while man.
prominent men in and out of the stat
will attend the veterans reunion, partici
pating in the campfire.
Four cattle, the only ones remaining il
theherd belonging to Rev. Henry Fairbank
of ST. Johnsbury, were killed the 9th e
day as they showed evidence of tubercu
losis when the test was applied, although
they were healthy in appearance An eX
animation was made after the slaughte
and the test found to be correct.
1t is said that the receivers of the Ver
mont Loan and Investment company o
Orwell have realized SO, 900 out of the es
tate of w. b. Wright of that village
which he turned over to them. MI
Wright was one of the heaviest stockhold
ers of the company and by the failure los
the fortune he had accumulated. The re
ceivers hoped to be able to pay a good div
idend by August l.
The June term of the Bennington cOur
ty court convened Tuesday, Judge Tai
presiding. There are several cases of in
portance to come before the grand jury
including that of Charles Rufus Young
the horse thief who was captured in Lon
donderry, and of \. Z. Hamilton, bus
ness man of Manchester, who is charge
with setting the fire which destroyed
large amount of property in that village.