The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
The state Historical society.

The Vermont Historical society held its annual
meeting TUESDAY. An especially valuable 10
nation presented the society were two portraits
by Thomas Wood, of Lucretia HUughton Prem
tiss, wife of Samuel I'rentiss, and of Dr Ed
ward Lamb. an eminent physician of Vermont
in its early years.
Other donations are a complete set
OF early Vermont coins and tokens,
said to be the most perfect OF Its kind in the
I United states, from ID Pond of Hartford Conn.
The original documents in the famous criminal
case Of stephen and Jessie Bourne, including
the written address OF Judge Dudley Chase pro
nounclng the ideath sentence, from senator
Proctor and the original subscription book for
building the first state house in 1905, from
I Charles Dewey of Montpelier, The following
officers We're elected President, Hiram Carl
ton Of Montpelier. vice presidents q q Bene-
/ diet of Burlington, Rev W Ilazen of North
| field and Rev VI Coiburn OF springfield; re
cording secretary, j DclIOer of Montpelier.
corresponding secretaries 7 : Peck of Burling
ton and : Forbes of 81 Adams, treasurer,
George W scott of Montpelier; librarian. 7 {
! for Windsor county, Edwardf onant for Orange,
! w Baldwin for orleans, q Cole for Essex,
Joseph Poland for Washington, Arthur Stone
for Caledonia, Rev A ID Barber for thittcndcn
and j l. Martin for Windham.
Highway Robbery.
Mead Raymond, manager of the PinecIiff
stock farm ut Castleton, was knocked down and
robbed near Castleton Thursday night. Mr.
Raymond was returning home from Fair Haven
at the time and and was set upon by two
in Il stretch of wooded road near his house He
was knocked from his team and was relieved of
So When found he WAS unconscious and badly
used up. lie is now dclirious
Detective In Burlington
Frank Z Guycr. of the Philadelphia police
force, arrived in town Wednesday morning for
the purpose OF looking uD the career OF the
murderer Holmes during his residence in Bur
lingtOn.
Accident Record.
Homer Il Fuller was lifting heavy case
with a hook N the factory OF the Willard
Manufacturing company in II Adams last
Thursday, when the hook broke and he was
thrown against another ease and WAS seriously
injured about the back.
A swing staging on which f. W Patch and
Jared Ray mOnd were at work, painting the
Masonic han at Jelersonyillc last Friday, gave
way and let them fail. Patch escaped without
injury, but Raymond tel ON some rOCk- and
was lady hurt.
As George Cove, of East Mddehury, was
going over the mountain in iipion, on his wav
home from Hancock the other day, man
whom he claims to have been one Markham. |
jumped into the wagon, stabbed him, pounded !
him with club I'LL he was unconscious, took
10, al The money he had in his pockets and es- |
capped Cove was found and cared for by tthc /
driver of the stage and Markham has been /
placed in Jail to await trial.
Frank Patterson of Westfed accidentally |
shot himself with his revolver in the lleshy part
of his left leg between the knee and thigh Tues |
day evening.
Convicted of Abortion.
Mrs Lydia \ stevenson, who has been ON trial |
in st Adams for two weeks for causing the
death OF Miss NJ Estella lIoughton by perform
ing a criminal operation, was last Friday pro.
nounced guilty by the jury, which has deliber-
ated 10 hours on the case. Miss Stevenson, who
has been in Jail nine months awaiting trial. was
greatly affected by the verdict The extreme
penalty for this ottense is % years in the state
prison, and the lowest penalty five years. Her
lawyers announced, as soon as the verdict was
rendered, that they desired TO carry the ease to
the supreme court and would move to have the
verdict set aside.
Odd Fellows Burned Ont.
The large wooden block in Barnet, occupied
by IL Wilson, general store keeper, and VI A
Bodwel, furniture keeper. was entirely DIES.
troyed by fire Sunday. Loss about $4,000.
which was cover ed ,by INSURANCE. Connecticut
Lodge OF Odd Fellows. who occupied the upper
story of the block, also lost all their lodge fur
nishings.
A Allyn olmaread has been commissioned
postmaster at Newbury-
The Fife Lumber company's steam saw and
dressing mill of Belvidere, operated by sheldon
X Larned, burned last week Wednesday night
with considerable lumber. Loss on mill s3000
ins urance $500 Twice before in the past 10
years the same mill has burned
James Mcdonald of CRANKY Friday night de
feated James ONeil of Barre, in a wrestling
match, winning three out of five falls The
purse was 800 and the gate receipts. The at.
tendance was 600.
Oscar McGregoI is the nominee of the demo
cratic caucus for postmaster at Rchford to III
the vacancy caused by the death OF Postmaster
Herbert NJ Golf Mr. McGregor's name will he
presented at Washington for appointment
Edward Clark's jewellery store at Poultney
was burglarized about 4 O'Clock Wednesday
just after the electric lights han gone
out Charles Clark. who lives the store
heard Il crash OF glass, and going to a window
he saw two men running away. An eNamina-
ton of the store showed that large pane of ,
glass in the front window had been broken, and
through the hole thus made, gun valued at $40
was taken. There is no clue vet to the |
thieves.
Rutland is TO improve her city parks the sum
Of $1,000 having been appropriated recently by
he board of aldermen. At Iecent meeting of !
he city council IL was proposed to thorough V ,
ay out the Main street parks build a suitable
band stand west of the center of the large park
and remove the fountain to different location.
IL is also proposed TO place seats of modern ,
,attern ON the lawns and keep both park clean \
md in good condition. The band stand will be 4
Duilt at the west side of the park 10 provide q
against the frightening of horses by electric
Turing the band concerts.
st bloomsbury capitalists are ariiating about
IN electric road.
The variety store of George Crow at II Al
,ers taken but nothing else was missed. The /,
heet of heavy wrapping paper, covered with q
yndows and then throwing stone through. 2
The Chltenden county court rendered a yer Il
let of not guilty Tuesday in the case against v