The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-20

:. Deming, formerly OF Arllngto
and brother of VI. NJ. Dcming OF thu
place, has been appointed treasurer
.he Panama railroad company, havin
Headquarters in New York. He hi
been connected with the company mos
of the time since 1915, when he wer
to the Isthmus of Panama with tn
late +. G.. White as telegraph operate
and train dispatcher AT Colon. Pro
vious to that he was for several Neal
station agent at Manchester, The las
( three years he spent On the isthmus h
was cashier and paymaster. He re
signed the place and came home i
1883 to accept position in the Ollie
of the Pacific Mail Steamship compan
/ in New York. He was there ahou
/ three wears when he went back 10 tn
Panama company.
/ Mra. G.. b. Willard, formerly resi-
/ dent of Ncrgenncs. died at Manchester
! H.. Saturday. aged 80 years. y hus
band and four children survive her,
DIR. Merritt y. Bowen died Sunda.
morning at his home in Charlcmon
from heart disease after an illness Of
few days. Dr. Bowen went TO Charlie
mont about Is years ago, having prac
ticed before that time at PoWndl
Hoosicl, Fails, y. Wand Savoy. Mass
At Charlcmont he had built mp larg'
practice. He was a son of the lat,
Lorenzo Bowen Of Readsboro, and wa!
educated at Powers institute. Bern
arlston. He is survived by a widow
and daughter four brothers. Iudg,
FaXon L.. and William +. Bowen q
Rcadsboro, Albert h. Bowen of Bould
cr. Col, and Fred l.. Bowen Of Brook
Ign, y. y. and three sisters, Mrs.
Moses Wilson Of bennington, Mrs. c.
NJ. Russell OF Wilmington. aud Mrs.
DR.. 5. ". Scott Of Troy, \. Y.
Though one of the smallest u tho
states. Vermont ranks fifth of all the
Union in the number of natives in the
senate, Besides Proctor and Morrill,,
she mas three other sons in the high
es, Legislative body in the world,
Thurston of Nebraska, Pettigrew of
South Dakota. and Villas of Wisconsin,
five in all. Oh;a and New York each
have seven sons among the senators,
while Kentucky and PENNSYLVANIA
have six each. Only three senators
are natives of Massachusetts, and
only one of Indiana.
Hon. John Is. Coriss. who repre-
scnts the FIRST Detroit Compression
al district Of Michigan i'll the present
congress. is native Of Vermont and is
one Of the Young men OF that body.
Mr., CorlIss was born in Richford.
June 7, 1851. and was educated at the
Vermont Methodist Seminary at Mont
pelier. Later he graduated from the
Columbian Law School at Washington
and engaged in the practice of law in
Detroit He was twice elected as city
attorney holding that Office from 1881
to 1850, During that time he prepared
the first complete charter of Detroit.
which il still the fundamental law of
that city. Mr.. Corliss was elected to
congress over his Democratic compel
itor by the handsome plurality Of Jl64.
Edward Bushford, arrested in Oma
ha. Neb., charged with the cmbezzle-
mcDt Of $500 is said 10 he a native of
Vermont
The new minister from Hawaii Ia
The United States is Mr. Hatch. the
former secretary of foreign affairs in
that young republic His wife is a
laughter Of Col. Alexander G. Halves.
'eccntly of San Francisco. but now of
london, and was a student at 81.
Iohnsnury academy few years ago.
The Atwood Peabody libel case is
expected to come to trial in Boston
leXt week.
Col. ". T. Fairbanks. formerly of
It. bloomsbury and for II years secre-
AIRY and treasurer oi that compan, (
lied suddenly at Mt Vernon. y. y. (
Monday morning at the age of ~. He |
vas the son of Joseph =. Fairbanks. |
ne of the three original partners of |
:, y. I. Fairbanks Il Co. and nephew .
# Sir Thadleus Fairbanks, the in /
entur of the Fairbanks scales. He ,
vas for several years prominent in st. |!
ohnshury and represented the town |
n 1881. but about ISIS he resigned his
arious offices and removed to New
ork where he has been in charge of
he Fairbanks branch houss. He was
egarded as one of the smartcst bust
ess men tue town ever produced.
Geo. Il. Titus. It native of ROYAL,
IN, and a distinguished musician. for
: wears the basso of the Weber
uartet. died Tuesday afternoon at
be city hospital in Boston aged 3.
lr Titus was also the leading basso
t st. Paui's for l3 years. his prede
essor being Myron W. Whitney. his
fc long friend.
One of Wlliamstown pushing sons.
; Hon. J. Ebert Briggs son of the
tie j. Wright Briggs, and for years
asst q resident of Rochester. n. Y.
lr. Briggs has been chosen president
+ the Internationa! North and South
merican Transportation and Express
ompany, and will give his whole time
} its interests. The company has cap
al OF Sj.OO0,o00. Its object is 10 ia
litatc trade between the two Americas
nd Canada. Agencies are to be estab
shed in all the principal cities of
entral ana South America, the United
tates and Canada. Ii
W. W. Granger. collector for the
merIcan Museum of Natural History
New York, who is native of Rut.
nd. is gaining fame as a naturalist {
c has lately returned from the Black [
Ills region of South Dakota and
cstern Kansas where be has been /
,llecting mammals, birds and reptiles.
he mammals obtained number about {
W specimens representing AZ species. j
any of these were rare and 10. were a
w. One OF these animals was the d
dus sylvaticus granseri, species of a
Dod hare, which has been named h