Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-20
$4,000 Fire Loss at Newport.

Fire which broke out in L. Thayers photo.
graph rooms IN the Root building at Newport
Monday morning caused sI50O1 damage. II S.
Root, the owner Of the building who carried a
stock of furniture and crockery. is the heaviest
loser He carried SGOOO insurance on the build.
ing and $1,000 on the stock. only portion of
the building was burned out, but the damage bv
water was large. The other occupants F.
j. Campbell butcher: Homer Thrasher clothing
dealer: VI. T. Hamilton, dentist; Leslie Phelps
barber +. Clark tenant.
The Methodist church at Quechee was burned
Monday. Loss $500; insured for $4,000 10 the
Vermont Mutual company. The origin Of the
fire is unknown.
The settlement Of the insolyent estate Of H. A
Winship Of Bradford Iapproaching an end II
is expected that partial dividend Of p per cent
will be- declared and another dividend later. The
debts proved amount to more than sGo,O0l.
F. O. Sterling Of Boston is Negotiating with
business men OF st Johnsbury for the establish.
ment Of a shoe factory I'm tn place. A capital
Of $4,000 will be- required. Il Is proposed TO
build factory 80 by - feet in size filled with
machinery sufficient TO keep 800 TO 100 employees
busy.
The first fatal accident in the freight train ser
vice Of the Passumpsic division occurred Friday
night near Bradford when Glenn d. Nichols.
brakeman fell from the and instantly
killed his legs bling cut of and his skull fractur-
ed The body was taken to the home Of his father
in Burke.
Joseph Baratti. statue cutter committed sui
eide Friday evening on the platform Of the
Montpelier 4 Wells River station in Montpelier
vover He had been III with erysipelas several
weeks and unable TO work. He leaves a brother
in Albany.
Wendell Silsby. who died at West Burke recent
Is from pneumonia was largely engaged In the
lumber business for many years and had erected
stea mills at West Burke and East Haven the
past year He one Of Burkes most infiuen-
tial townsmen. He lost an arm a Union sol
der during the Civil war
II il said that one OF the largest granite firms in
Vermont will move 10 Hardwick, and eNpend
SijOOCO 10 SNOGI0 in opening quarry The rail.
road tn the uuarries will I've finished in a few
ready June IL Is expected that the population
Of Hardwick will be ubled within a short time.
and that many new buildings will b- erected
Tom O Brien the American bunco steerer has
been convicted i'm Paris OF numbering Kid"
Waddel, another American swindler, and sen
fenced to Imprisonment at hard labor for life
ferent parts OF the United States and II has been.
claimed that he WAS the man who swindled two
Addison county farmers To the extent Of several
thousand dollars few years ago, and also en-
trapped a wealthy farmer at Shelburne, Mass.
Viola -, daughter Of Mrs Alfred Bralnard
disappeared from St Alhans Friday. The alarm
was rung in the evening and many citizens
joined in the search for her. 4 telegram was
sent to Burlington and Chief of Police Dumas
found that she had registered at the Van Ness
House in that city under an assumed name. She
said that she was abused at home and was bound
| to earn her own living, and soon became hysteri
! cal. She was taken back to st. Adams by rea
| tives on Saturday.
The salary II the mayor of Rutland is only 500
and private subscription is in circulation to pay
| Thomas II Browne, the Democratic mayor-elect,
| q salary of SlbOO Mr.. Browne now holds the po-
sition Of government Chinese inspector along the
Canadian boundary, at a salary Of $500 and eX-
penses. He hesitates about the acceptance Of the
mayoralty as he is a man OF moderate means;
| hence the raising by subscription of a sum sufi-
| cent to allow him TO resign his inspectorship and
make his compensation equal to that now re.
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