The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01
GENERAL VERMONT NEWS.
A Leading Citizen Arrested for IA Bu
glarics.

A Leading Citizen Arrested for IA Bur.
| glarfcs.
Sheriff Reeves arrested and brought to Bur
| lingt0n Saturday Hollis G Woodwork of Under
hill, man aged about so years, for entering thu
general merchandise store of f w Henry 4 Co
of that town. The robberies cover consider
entering the store at least IA different times TIL,
articles stolen included flour, hardware ant
general merchandise. In searching Woodworth'i
house Sheriff Reeves found many articles which
had been missed from the store. Woodwork
until within the past few years has been some
what prominent in town affairs and has been
justice of the peace. He was granted a hearing
| in the city court in the afternoon and was hel(
in bonds to the amount of 5000 to appear at the
next session of the county court.
LamOiIe County Educators.
Lamoile county was one of the first counties OF
the State to organize its school directors and
superintendent under the new system and now
a convention is advised by State Superintendent
Stone and County Examiner Beebe and others
+ o Burt of Stowe, secretary of the original or
ganzation has issued a call for such a conven.
ton to be held in the public library building
here Monday, June 4.
Captured n Lot Of Per Cent.
The Barre police officers made a raid upon sew
eral local fruit stands Saturday night and cap
tured a large amount of what is known as per
beer is to be tested and both dealers and author
tiles are to make hard fight.
Vermont HOmcOpathists.
The 44th annual meeting of the Vermont Mo
mmpathic Medical society will be held in the par
lors Of the Pavilion hotel, Montpelier, June 6
and I; The following member will read papers
ii Mayo, "Inula helenium in pneumonia - ii 4
Parker NJ d, "a bedside fever" Whitaker,
M d, Scarlet fever epidemic at Windsor; ed
ward Kirkland, subject not yet announced; T r
Waugh, M ID, "The minds relation to health"
Moore, NJ ID, "New things in silecea;'' l. A
Phillips, M d, of Boston, will also present a
paper ON some subject not yet announced.
The Mansion house at Alburgh Springs owned
by George Cruller, was destroyed by fire at
about 80 Monday morning. 1t was built in 1888.
Howard Marks. the IA year old son of J H
Marks, jr, was drowned near the dock at Queen
City Park Burlington. Saturday afternoon. He
had been out fishing with two companions and
had reached the dock and he was trying to tie
the boat. The cries of the boy brought two men
who were painting other boats to the scene.
They succeeded in getting young Marks out
after he had been in the water about five min
utes. 1t is claimed that he showed signs of life
but the efforts of his companions and the paint
ers to resusciate him proved of no avail.
Robbers affected an entrance into II Ayers
hardwase store at Richford Friday night and
stole 20 valuable knives and demolished the cash
register.
The post office at Morrisville wac entered by
burglars at O'Clock Saturday morning. The
safe was drilled completely through the center
from the top. The door was blown across the
room and 1927 in cash and about $50 in stamps
were taken Postmaster Earle did not keep
large supply of stamps cash in the safe. Three
letters were overlooked. Residents
in the vicinity of the post office heard the ex-
plosion.
Saturday afternoon Edmund, ID year-old son
of Edward Hatin of Winooski was digging angle
worms In the rear of the Touring mill shed when
he lost his balance in some way and rolled off the
bank which is almost perpendicular and fell
some 25 feet to the water. The stream at this
place runs swiftly and he soon sank in the pow
erful current and was drowned.
The town of Stowe is talking of a centennial