Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-07

district court was held at the Brooks House
Tuesday afternoon for the allowance of
the quarterly accounts of the court Off
GERS.
Election day draws near apace. The
Republican caucus to nominate a candidate
for town representative and justices of the
peace has been called by the town commit
tee for Saturday afternoon and evening of
next week
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Brattleboro Street Railroad com
panv will be held in Grange banquet hall
next Monday evening at 1870, when re-
port of the years business will be made.
Rev. Mr.. Day has invited the members
of the Estey Guard and Fuller Battery,
| and all in town who are or are to be in
active service in connection with the Ma
tional Guard, to attend services at the Cen
tire church next Sunday evening, Aug. 9,
at 80 o'clock.
On account of the lecture to be given by
Col Robert G. Ingersoll at the Lake Pleas
ant camp meeting next Sunday a special
train will be run over the New London
road, leaving Brattleboro at A. NJ, and
arriving at Lake Pleasant at $3.50. 1t will
stop at all stations en- route, and will leave
| Lake Pleasant on its return az $3.50.
! II. Z. Taylor Il Son. agents for the Ma
tional Life insurance company, gave the
administrators of +. A. Tyler's estate
check yesterday for the $1,000 OF insurance
| which Mr.. Tyler carried in that company.
| The proofs of the death were sent to the
company Tuesday. The total amount of
life insurance carried by Mr.. Tyler was
| S12, 800.
1t is proposed to erect drinking foun-
tain on the spot where Barna A Clark
died, near the top of Ames hill. The
movement was started by Mrs. Hattie Bar
rows, who has been soliciting subscriptions
this week. The fountain will be for the
use of man and beast, and after its COM
| pletion will be photographed, each sub
| scriber receiving copy. The cost of the
/ fountain will be between $50 and $500.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Newton and Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Simonds met with a slight &C
cident Saturday afternoon near the Bap-
| fist church. Their horse became frighten-
ed at the steam roller and SHE'D suddenly,
throwing the weight of the load to one side
so that the two wheels opposite the roller
collapsed, throwing the occupants of the
wagon out on the ground. Mr.. Newton
held the horse so that no further damage
was done.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Haigh went to
Keene last Saturday where they met Mr..
! Haigh's old companion, Fred Mills, whom
Mr.. Haigh had not seen for 20 years. Mr..
Mills and Mr.. Hagh were together in the
English army and spent six years in Ire
land and India, going to the latter country
in 1872. They separated at DUN DUN.
India, since when Mr. Mills has been in
| two campaigns in Afghanistan and Bur
nah and has been in this country five years.
Mr.. Mills learned Of the whereabouts of
Mr. Haigh through Lieut.. Walker Of Clare
mont, formerly Of Brattleboro,
According 10 an interesting item Of news
from the street the "old-linen or sound
money Democrats mean TO run w. II.
Childs for town representative and the free
silver contingent are coming into full
bloom with Rollin Childs as their candi-
date. Well, the town of Brattleboro might
easily send very much less able and con-
scientious man to Montpelier than Walter
Childs. He is an out-and-out boiler from
the Chicago platform and ticket. 1t is
good time for him to 60 the whole figure,
make clean repentance of the state of po-
litical sin into which he was born, and
make sure of salvation while the day of
grace is at hand.
A report has been circulated this week
that Miss Nellie NJ. Robinson of Perkins
vile, had been booked as one of the prob
able prima donnas for the coming season
al the Castle Square theatre of Boston, at
the recommendation of Miss Gertrude
Franklin, a well-known vocalist of Boston.
Miss Robinson says the report is not au-
thentic although her voice has been tested
by Miss Franklin who gave her a recon-
mendation. Miss Robinson has an excel
lent soprano voice, and has been a student
| of Lucien Howe and member OF the Bap-
fist chorus since year ago last January
She will leave for her home in Perkinsville
Monday for rest, after which she will 60
10 Boston for course of vocal study with
Miss Franklin.
An interesting legal question is. or NAV
be, involved in the death of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. A. Tyler This relates to the DISPOSE
tion of Mrs. Tyler's personal estate, which
is understood TO amount to about S7j, 900.
II came to her from her grandfather, the
late Vice Chancellor Williamson of New
Jersey, mentioned in an article elsewhere
| published. The disposition of this estate
depends, if carried TO test in law, on
whether the death of the husband or of the
wife took place first. In cases similar to
this American court decisions have held
that the English common law governs.
This is, in substance, that when a husband
| and wife perish together by drowning, or
by shipwreck or some similar disaster,
there being no evidence or known circum-
stance to the contrary, the woman presum-
ably dies first, being weaker physically than
the man. There has been no intimation
OF any controversy in this case, but should
this precedent govern in its settlement, the
husband would become the heir, and
under the Vermont law the rule of division
would give $1,000 of the wife's estate TO
him, and the balance would be divided
equally between the heirs of each.
A hearing was held Wednesday afternoon
at the Brooks House before Judge j. NJ.
Tyler in regard to the custody of the two
young children OF Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac II.
Williamson. Last June Mrs. Williamson
began proceedings for a divorce on the
ground of intolerable severity, and an order
OF the court was given giving her the GUS
tody of her two little daughters, four and
six years old. Mrs. Williamson was, how
ever, suffering from extreme nervousness
and mental depression on account of the
trouble which she has endured, and it was
thought best for her to go to the Retreat
for a period of absolute rest The little
girls were faithfully cared for by their elder
sister, the late Mrs. Tyler, and they were
therefore allowed to remain with her and
their father at the Brooks House. The
death of Mrs. Tyler made it necessary that
they should have other care, and when il
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