The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-27

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i. street is to be moved Tomorrow to ii
northwest corner of Smith a. Co.
o factory, a location which will bette
II accommodate the property and prope
ty holders in that locality.
@ F, j, Leach, engineer of tn
|. passenger train due here ut .05 p. m.
of the New London division of tn
Central Vermont ran over Jack Caha
: about mile south of Three River
station yesterday. Mr.. Leach saw tn
man on the track and blew the whist
y continually but the man paid no at
: tention to the warning and was in
stantly killed.
+. b. Pratt, of Boston, unfavor
ably known in Brattleboro who's
people he victimiZed severely an,
! numcrously few years ago. Will
canvassng tn large towns of the stat
in the interest of an Odd Follows = in
surance concern, appears to have beer
at it again in Fall River Mass. Fri
= days dispatches to Boston papers sa,
he has cleared out of there after work
ing off worthless checks and beating
in other ways to the amount of s}0t
certainly and perhaps $1,000. He wa
there in the interest of the North
western Masoic Add Association. IL
succeeded in ingratiating himself with
several prominent Masons. He had
previously been employed by the Hart.
ford Life and Annuity and the Massa
chsuetts Mutual and other prominent
companies. He is aged about 3S OF
40, was born in the south, and is a
college bred man. He was formerly a
Sunday school superintendent in South
Boston, and he has pleasant home in
| Somervillc, and charming wife and
daughter.
The great case of Campbell V the
city of New York. which has had seN
cral of its multitudinous hearings at
Brattleboro before Judge Wheeler, is
now expected to come to decision
within few days. 1t is patent case
over valve for fire engine invented
over 80 years ago by TROY fireman
named knibbs, and finally coming into
the hands of Christopher Campbell.
who in 1877 sued New York for so, 600
for using it. But that claim was with
drawn and an itemized one for 81, 0i9
| $50 substituted in II items. each peel
flying in "a particular way how the city
has profited by the use of the patent at
the expense of the patentee. William
{. Whitney was corporation counsel,
when the suit was brought and he de.
Tended on the ground that the device
to which Campbell claimed exclusive
rights was really an old device. dating
from 1898, and originating in France.
Since then the suit has gone on, wear
ing out three commissions and absorb
ing about 800, 600 side. in lawyer
bills.
An inexplicable piece of yilliany
was attempted on Elliot street Friday
evening. Asa Sherwin as usual. went
to the barn soon alter I o'clock to water
his horse. AS he was approaching the
building man darted out from an
open shed passed not more than seven
feet from himI with his coat lifted
up in front of his face and fled around
the back side of the house 10 the street
Mr.. Sherwin saw light in the barn
aud hurrying in found a bale of hay,
at the head of the stairs in the hay
loft on fire. / was one of five or six
all together and all the loose hay bad
burned from the bottom. where the
fire was set, to the top of the bale and
few moments more would have given
dangerous start: but as he had "A !
pail of water in his hand. Mr. Sher- |
win was able to quench it without |
giving an alarm. The incendiary after
running around the house jumped the |
pickfence a nd fell ON the sidewalkg |
Miss Lizzie Cavanaugh was gon
home, was close to him as he fell but
did not recognize him and he ran into
the wood yard where probably he
hid. Here the great mistake was
made. AS Mr.. Knight, Sherman s
son in law, went to Esteyvile to tell
Bailitf Streeter, instead of Chief
Turner on the same street. and 1t was
nearly II o'clock before the officers
were on the scene. The incendiary's
tracks were easily traced. though there
is no further clew. just why one
should have selected that particular
place for fire is mystery. as neither
Mr.. Sherwin or MIR. Knight. his son
in law have known enemies. The
nearest reasonable explanation. un-
less it was case of pure cussedness,
is that the incendiary was aiming at
'ubbery some where in the village !
while the police and crowd were called
% that point.
The committee of the Town hall de /,
lire to say that they have allowed the .
Use of the festival hall to the Murray j
Tub the evening of Jan. 2nd. but that |.
his is in no way the dedication of the t
lall which will come later. /
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