Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-04-27

barn at Grand Rapids, Mich, while trying
to save a horse from the fire. He was
brother of Arthur Mcclure of Rutland.
The body of Nicholas Donahue was
found floating in Otter creek near Rutland
seen alive Jan. "a. 1t is supposed that he
home that night.
An application from the American En-
ployers' Liability insurance company for a
license to do business in Vermont has been
denied by the insurance commissioners of
the state. The company has had its license
revoked in other states.
\ prohibition war is on at Bennington.
The prOprietors of the American House
and Cottage hotel and several saloons were
brought before the court last week The
proprietor of the Putnam House was ar
rested and his case continued.
Dr. w. Seward Webb has invited the
members of the New York Coaching club
to be his guests at his Shelburne farm
June to II. The journey will be made
by coach. There will be % teams en-
ployed, or total of los horses.
The customs house at Burlington has the
papers of 200 Cinnamon who are now in
Montreal awaiting admission to the United
States. OF this number 120 claim to be
merchants in Boston, IS in New York
and the other Is in various places.
Com. Charles +. Clark, who will have
command of the patrol fleet in Boring sea,
is a Bradford boy who graduated from the
naval academy at Annapolis in 1860. Two
other natives of the same town, Lieut.. G..
+. Evans and Midshipman Geo +. Day,
are also in the navy.
The drive of 800, 600 feet of spruce logs
for the Green Mountain Pulp com
pany, which have lain in the river above
the railroad bridge at Middlebury for the
past three weeks, were released from the
boom Monday and started towards the
company's mill. Eighty men have the tim
Der in charge.
Judge Tucker of Lyndon, who owns a
steam sawmill in Lowell, has under adj
visement the project of railroad between
there and Johnson, and has offered to con.
tribute 5000 towards the amount necessa-
ry for the extension of the Boston ~ Maine
to Lowell. Such road would open val
liable section for numbering.
Pike fishing in the lake is quite good and
with hook and line is not contrary to law,
writes a SwantOn correspondent. No IL
censes for seine fishing have been granted
this year, becausenOne are believed to have
been granted over the line in Canada; yet
barrels of fish have been taken in Canadi-
an waters of the bay, and are shipped from
the Alburgh station.
Work has been begun at the Venetian
marble quarries and mills at Pittsford. \
company has been formed with a capital
stock of Sl50,OO0 with Peter c. Foley of
Olean, y. Y, as president and treasurer.
John j. Rouane of West Rutland will be
superintendent. Several New York cap
itaists are interested in the concern and
an office has been opened in that city.
The North Bennington driving club
will hold its annual spring meeting June
and :. The purpose is to call together
people interested in good horses. and the
managers hope to have a large return
for the horses entered on exhibition, for
the afternoon races, and for sale both
privately and by auction. Entrees may be
made at H. c. Whites, North Benning-
ton.
Rutland county people are gratiied with
the announcement that Charles f, Stone
of Laconia, y. H., is slated for naval Off
Ger at the port of Boston. Mr.. Stone went
from Castleton. He graduated at Middle
bury college, class 1869, and was the first
principal of the Middlebury graded school,
1SG9-70. He removed to LacOnia in 1870,
where he has since practiced law. He was
member of the New Hampshire legisla-
ture in 1885 and 1887, and four years chair
man of the New Hampshire state Demo
cratic committee.