The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-29

and the IL y w meet AT Waltham.
The Bratteboro Livery Wcdncsd;
added to its fine equipment an elegal
, four seated "English brake" to take Il
, place of a taily-ho. 1t is much highe
Frank f. Howe, formerly of tn
place, was selected for secretary of tn
Democratic state convention thi
week, but was taken sick that mornin
and prevented from serving.
"A memorial to the late Il NJ Hun
with Daniel G French as scul ptor an,
Bruce Bill AS architect has been dc
cided on at New York, and the Centur
club appeals for subscriptions.
Col X Haskins is to be the orato
tomorrow at North Troy, Rev. u |
Maxwell at Putney. Rev K { Mckin
zie at Readsboro. At Grafton, Rev
G. W Perry of North Chester jackson
vile, Rev II Z Mckenzie of Brattle
boro; Saxtons River, Rev ii G Bristol
of Saxtons River and Wilmington. {
NJ Russell of Wilmington.
The National Con tract Il Suppl,
Co, whose manufacturing business is
to be located here, is having racket
with Insurance Commissioner Merrill
of Massachusetts He claims it is an
insurance company and must operate
under his control and the company
denies it. There is hearing at Bos
ton this week, but it Involves no ques
ton of the reliability of the company.
George f Richards not only runs
hotels superbly, but he is getting to
runs number Of them. Besides his
interests here and at Windsor he has
this week bought out his brother, e
II Richards of the Winchester house
at Winchester,N II, and takes posses
sion next Monday His manager is TO
be Sam K,ttridge, formerly of the
Cheshire house, Keene, and the Com
me rcial at Athol, and who also ran the
Ho ell Winchen Ion for Mr. Richards.
-Rudyard Kipling and Dir Conland
returned Saturday night from their
travels among fishermen for material
for Mr.. Kipling's new story, which is to
be his first purely American one. They
rot right into the forecastle to hear
the spinning of yarns after Mr. Kip
lipp's habit of close study of what he
treats and which is the secret OF his
power as a realist He has also bee n
loading up for it for the last year from
the old tar yarns of DR.. Conland. Most
of the newspaper reports about this
trip were grourdless. For instance, the
New York Tribune had a sensational
account of kipling falling from the
wharf while landing at Gloucester, be
ing fished ont, put in carriage and
taken to the hotel and being found to
be dangerously injured. There was
not word of truth to it: in fact he
didn't even land at Gloucester, but
East Glouceser.
There was hearing before the Sc
lectmen Saturday on the petition to
assess land damages for the widening
of Maple street which the selectmen
had planned to make four rods wide al
the way from the corner to Clark road,
taking the land mostly from the south
side but some of it from the north Mrs
George 4 Powers claimed $500, George
II Clark $1,000 and nealy all the abut
ters' something. The disposition of the
Ielectmen seemed to be to refuse the |
with such prospect, and
Mr. Clark has since decided to reduce
lis claim to $1,000 and practically all
he abutters on the other side to waive
lis entirely. If they all do so, the Sc
ectmen may decide to lay the new
Dad and "chance' it on the Powers
md Clark claims before court commits
toner's.
This forenoon as G b Perkins was
irving rapidly up Main street, Post
master f W Childs, who met him. no
iced.a stream of smoke issuing from
behind and then burst of fame some
s inches long. Childs yelled just as
Perkins got to theWalnut street corner
md Perkins stopping found his clothes
ii in fame, the fire catching from a
,ipe he had put in his pocket. The
.oat was half burned off and a large
lole made in the top of the trousers
Childs tore off what was left of the
oat, stamped out the blaze and smoth
red what was on the trousers. Luck
ly, driving as he was, tending to keep
he fire in the rear, Perkins person
ras not burned at all and for this rea
on did not feel it, But the rapidity
f the motion itself famed the flame
nd a moment or two more would
ave got it beyond control. TWAS Il
lose call.
w II Minor was elected one of the
tltgdlpS 10 ltlt btuOIldtit
onyention by the Democrats at Mont
elier. The honor was not only unan
nous and unsolicited. but was especs
ally hearty when II b Haus in nom
mating him told the convention OF a
elegram he had received from Minor
irectlng his name to be kept out IN
ase it would provoke the harmony of
ne party in any way. The Democrats
{ this district thought this was the
ind of man they wanted. Mr. Haus
j his happy presentation speech re |
larked that Minor might not be an
Id timer, but he would be a long
mer''. The county caucus of del
yates, like the town caucus. was unan l
nous in endorsing Minor and also !
ames II Williams of Bellows Falls for l
ate treasurer. Eugene S. Leonard of |;
elbows Falls was also unanimously t
ected by this caucus to continue {
le efficient work he has done as
ember of the state committee. c. y.
ovden as secretary of this caucus
as selected to present these names TO q
e convention and tt Heaphy to sec a
I'd the nomination of W HCreamer of I
ethel for second district delegate L
hich they both did creditably. a
The Story of Cuba.
The well known veteran journalist,
urat Halstead has done favor to the {,
nerican people by writing The e
DRY of Cuba and her Struggle for Lib /.
ty." His intimate knowledge of "
lba and her history for many years a
yether with his extended visit to the *
land the present year when by per h
nal observation and intercourse with h
e leading Cuban and Spanish of n
ials he became familiar with the II
,ry of the present struggle for free Il
m, make him fully competent to ID
ite such a work which in story and il q