Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06

Asa Squire of North Clarendon was
thrown from his carriage near the Bel mont
House at Rutland Tuesday. He struck on
MS head, causing fracture at the base of
the brain.
Rodney M. Whipple, who died Sunday
in Chicago, had been a resident of that citv
since 1886 In that year he came from
his native place, Hubbardton. and became
wealthy in various lines of trade.
The buildings on the Russ farm in HYDE
Park, unoccupied, but owned by Walter
Bedell of Morrisville, were burned one day
last week. Appearances indicate that the
fire was of incendiary origin and that it was
set in three places.
William French and Leverett Benson of
Andover caught bear weighing 175 pounds
in steel trap last Friday, and the same
day Thomas Mclaughlin of East Poultney
was awarded bounty on two foxes that
he caught, one of them being of the silver
gray species.
Henry Douglass of Whitehall, N. Y, for
II years conductor on the Delaware &,
Hudson railroad was thrown from a car
riage at Poultney Tuesday. He struck in
a tree, and his collar bone was broken and
his skull fractured. He has not recovered
consciousness and is not expected to live.
A Bridport man was chopping in the
woods recently, when a tramp happened
along, and after watching the chopper a
few minutes told him he didn't know how
to chop and offered to show him how. The
chopper handed over the AK and the tramp
then demanded his money. The chopper
at once fled from the scene and the tramp
walked off with the AK.
Zeph Trombley was arrested Sunday in
West Cornwall by Deputy Sheriff w. H.
Cobb of Middlebury. Trombey is young
man, but he is an old offender, having
been released from the state prison two
months ago, after serving term for horse
stealing. The latest charge against him is
stealing team in Canada. He had been
using the team in Cornwall for ten days
and it was recovered.
Mrs. Emily Morgan Harris, 90, died at
Bennington Monday. She was great
granddaughter of Gen. Samuel Stafford of
revolutionary fame, who served in the bat
ties of HubbardstOn and Bennington, and
who came to Bennington from Norwich,
Conn, about ITO. He built a house in
1773, one of the oldest in town, in which
Mrs. Harris's mother and herself were
born and in which both died.
N. P. Leach, chairman of the committee
on the introducing of new kinds of game
into the state, has received lot of Mongo-
liam pheasants. These game birds will be
kept in confinement and their eggs dis
tributed to various parts of the state,
where the eggs will be set under the ordi-
no Annastin hans nd l,a hir1c
leased to stock our forests. The commit
tee has en- route a lot of West Virginia
quail and sharp tail grouse, etc.
The United States supreme court decided
Tuesday in the matter of an appeal by
Stephen NJ. Folsom, sentenced to five years
imprisonment for making false entries in
the books of the Albuquerque national
bank, that the United States court of APP
peals for the eighth circuit has no jurisdic-
ton to review the judgment of the supreme
court of New Mexico. Folsom formerly
lived in Lyndonville and is brother of the
division superintendent of the Passumpsic
railroad.
w. W Granger, collector for the Ameri-
can museum of natural history in New
York, who is a native of Rutland, is gain
ing fame as a naturalist. He has lately
returned from the Black hills region of
South Dakota and western Kansas, where
he has been collecting mammals, birds and
and reptiles. The mammals obtained num-
Der about 600 specimens, representing AZ
species. Many of these were rare and ten
were new. One of these animals was the
lepsus sylvaticus grangeri, a species of
wood hare, which has been named after
the collector discovering it.