The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09

FOX of Nantucket recently called Ol
his friends here.
Geo. II. Chatfcld, who the pas
year has had charge of the New Eng
land House, has recently leased til,
Broad Brook House at Guilford. Mr.
Chatfield has had experience o
twenty years in the hotel business
md Guilford people may rest assured
that they will have good hotel as long
as they have Mr.. Chatfield for a land
lord.
The mangled body of Thomas Dunn,
q, of Turner's Falls was found on the
Fitchburg tracks near auckland sta
ton Saturday morning about 8 o'clock.
He fell from freight car while riding
to North Adams. He lived with his
mother at Turner's Falls.
George Dwyer, %, John W. Wheel
er's coachman, was thrown from car
riage Friday, and one leg was broken
twice below the hip.
Henry Hippert, As, of New Salem fell
rom load of lumber Friday, and the
bones in one leg were badly crushed
He was taken to the Massachusetts
general hospital.
Harry Sanderson of Whately, charged
with criminal assault on his adopted
sister, Lillian M. Sanderson, was dis
charged by Justice Dana Malone at
Greenfield Saturday as the evidence
was not damaging enough to convict.
The work of building the extension
of the eleceric road through the arch
and up Clay hill was begnn at Green
field Tuesday night with force of 40
men at work.
Arthur Hawkes. of Rowe, the lessee
of the Valley house stables at Lake
Pleasant, was severely injured by be-
ing kicked by horse owned by Louis
Thompson of Greenfield Sunday night.
The horse was fed in Mr.. Hawkes's
stable, and when Mr.. Hawkes. went to
harness the animal. the animal kicked
him in the head aud inflicted painful
wounds on his forehead and several
deep gashes in his neck.
There was bad freight wreck on
the Fitchburg railroad at Conway
Junction Monday afternooc. Several
cars were derailed and smashed and
the tracks were blocked for several
hours. Conductor Michael Sullivan of
Fitchburg received severe internal in
west bound train had Just crossed the
Deerfield river when "A brake beam on
one of the rear cars broke The train
could not be stopped until it had gone
several hundred yards.
George W. Spur of Maron, Ind, the
promoter of various manufacturing
schemes at Greenfield a dozen or II
years ago, was arrested in Greenfield
Monday night on civil suit for 1915,
the complaint being made by Capt.
Elisha Wells of Deerfield, of whom he
borrowed the money to get out of one
of his troubles. His wife has just come
into possession Of considerable property
from the estate of her mother. He has
been quite prominent in Marion. He
came east 10 attend the funeral of his !
law. Mrs. Ellen NJ. Hail. of
Greenfield, who died last week.
Dwight L. Moody. rather than have
a special Sunday train run from North
ampton up to his Mortified place, /
paid $50 last Saturday night for a |
special train for that night. The pas
senger, an Englishman from ST. Paul's,
London, was billed to preach at North I
field and losing the last uptrain Satur
lay night arranged for Sunday morn
ing special, Moody, TO prevent that
proclamation of Sunday. succeeded with
the aid of the telegraph in getting up
4 late Saturday night special; but even
with that he didn't 'get there till
lear 3 O'Clock Sunday morning.
W. +. Wood was arraigned before
Justice Martin Wednesday charged
With violation of the camp meeting
avs at Lake Pleasant. The case is a
est one on complaint of the New Eng
and Spiritualists' camp meeting asso-
.iation. The defense offered no evi
lence and appealed from the decision
If the magistrate. who found the de
endant guilty and fined him SO. The
'ase will go to the superior court.
Justice Malone held John Sullivan
If Turner's Falls in 500 bonds Wednes
lay for appearance before the grand
ury for assault on David Barry, July I,
T. Fred Bebeau, arrested for being "a
,arty to the crime. was discharged
.