The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19
THE REFoRMER BRATTLEBoRo. VT. FRIDAY JUNE 49, 1896
The price of coal will oavono. .yr,,

The price of coal will advance Jul,
LIST. ' ''''
A party OF fresh air children ar,
at Highland Park, having arrived
Wednesday for season.
--mith * SIuireJ b arge was 81
heavily loaded as to crush down :
wheel in front OF the Baptist chur.f
Sunday and though the occupant.
were tipped into a heap no seriou,
damage was done.
h. ). Childs has paid 50 800 each Il
Mrs. Mary ONeill, of Wells River. anc
Mrs. Mary O'Neill Mcdonald. of Barre
to cover the New York Iife's s5,OOt
policy on Thomas j. O'Neill. a son ant
brother. who died ut Butte, Mont. He
was formerly employed at the Ely
mines.
The Vermont Wheel club race meet
Will be run Friday, August IS. Thi:
date has been chosen so that the speedy
professionals who are at the national
circuit meet in Utica, n. Y. NAV have
chance to come to Brattleboro before
going to Springfield.
The annual session of the Windham
and Bennington Counties Assocatio on
OF Universalists will be held at the Uni
versalist church Bratlleboro Tuesday,
June %. 10 80 business meeting, 2, ad-
dress Rev II d Maxwell; 3, lRev A A
Blair OF Hinsdale, y II, to be followed
by discussion; p m Rev G l. Prov d
ID Every Day Church. Boston. Music
will be rendered at the several services.
The First Regiment band will give
their third concert next Wednesday
evening with the following program:
March-Oriehtai Echoes, Rosey
Overture-Calif of Bagdad. BoIeldeu
Spanish Dances, Ala Palmera, Vcrguille
b-La Llanisca
Selection-Lucia, Donezettl
Neutrality-suspicious. Gaugl
Characteristic March-"Rastus pa
rade," Mills
song ana chorus = Darling Mabel, Chase
finale-A Jolly Night, Boyer
Edward Mccormick. 'the man who
was arrested just after the murder of
little Mary Cunningham at New York
on suspicion of having committed the
crime, was released Wednesday the off
Gals being satisfied Of: his innocence.
Maveno the Italian boy who claimed to
have seen him doing it. retracted that
story, has been indictedlfor perjury
and is held on that charge very posi-
bly, with the purpose of investigating
his own guilt and the story of another
Italian hoy that Maveno had con
fessed it to him.
Fire broke out shortly after mid
night Friday in the plating
works on Flat street recently purchased
by Wilcox il Gallot from Greenfield. 1t
started in the lean to at tn 6 rear end
of the building and when it was first
discovered the roof of that portion was
falling in. The two men were sleep
ing in the front end of the building on
the second floor and were awakened by
the dense smoke pouring in sufficient
to have suffocated them if their win
lows had been closed. They grabbed
their clothing and jumped to the
ground. The department made quick
and did some quick work, so
that the recall was pulled in Just %
minutes after the alarm, the fire being
under control. Steamer No. 1 was
brought to the scene and set. hut it |
vas unnecessary to use her as Their
we're three hydrants on the street suffi /
.ient to do the work. The building |
which belonged to George E. Crcwell |
and was not insured. was practically !
'uined as was also the plating stock |
md machinery which was insured |
through Childs Il Co for $1,000. The |
oss has been ad iusted at between 800
nd $500 and Wilcox & Gallup have |
eturned to Greenfield The near by |
umber shed of Holden 4 Martin also |
uttered some damage from blistering,
q burning OF roof and water on lum |
erDwhich is fully covered by.insurance
nth Chids e Co. and TaH Tor & Son.
he cause of the fire is uncertain. |
he occupants say there had been no
re near where 1t started and nothing
D cause spontaneous combustion
nough there is theory that it caught
rom vitriol tank in the lean to. But
he general idea is that it was inceu
iary.
The signatu to the letter last
week reviewing Gen. CIRCUITS career in
congress- in comparison with others
AS accidentally omitted. 1t should
ave been credited to Lawyer c. c.
tits. 1t was very creditable in the
trength of its argument to Fits, and
| the more so after the pitiable at
empt of the Phoenix to answer it.
tits showed conclusively from the rec
rds of the past and by comparison
18th other men in the House. that
;rout's position there is not anything
Ike what it ought to be from the
myth of his service. 4 the Phoenix
ould say in reply was that he made
speech years ago in favor of having
Secretary of agriculture in the cab
o ct, that he was prominent in advoca
V of the oleomargarine bill, land
nough not the leader in that fight.
erhaps he did in it the most useful
arvice of his public life that he had
barge of the pension appropriation
i'll 10 the last congress and 1t was
through his efforts that the 81 pen
ions were raised to So a month, that
2 was first to SUGGESTIVE maple sugar
ounty (which was all right if there
as to be sugar bounty at all, but
e and all the rest knew the whole
usiness to be unconstitutional and it /,
hardly statesmanhip for anybody TO
e making laws for buncombe that
ley know to violate fundamental
IVY. that by his position on the Dis
let of Columbia committee he was
rtually common councilman and
ayor of Washington, getting unan
nous vote of thanks from the city |.
oard of trade for his services (which
as no doubt deserved, as none can !
,ny that the General is painstaking
Id efficient in detail work and final !
that he secuved the location at the
ort Ethan A lien military post near !
arlington (which was really Proctor 8
easurei and the government fish
.tchery al Montpelier! 1t might
I'VE added also that he is the author
a very good bill, though he has v