The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

Over 800 tons Of ice of extra quail
y nave been put into the Brooks
mousse ice house this week.
% II. Ellis a. Co.. have boucb,
lhos. Manning's pool table and are &c
move 1t to the establishment on the
Island.
Hooker, Corser & Mitchell Over.
all 20, commenced Monday morning to
work ~ hours day owing to increase
in business.
One OF the electric cars was off
the track on Canal street two hours
Yesterday, owing to two wires getting
together and making short circuit.
The new issue of $4,000 of stock
OF the street railway was subscribed
more than twice over by the old stock.
holders. The award was made Tues.
day. tss
Taylor ~ Son adjusted the loss
Yesterday of Mrs. Isaac Stratton of
Meme on the hotel furniture at West
Dummerston at 5000, the total amount
OF the insurance.
The Palmer correspondence of the
Springfield Republican had harrow
ing account last week of mysterious
noises, about tho shop of G. ". Clark,
formerly carriage maker here, now Of
that place. He and several other men
heard 1T IN an adjoining room, went
and hunted but could find no
cause, then heard it and hunted again
and repeated the operation, three
times, all in vain.
The steel cabinet with roller shell
wing and document files for the new
town vault from the st. Louis Art
Metal Co., has at last arrived and was
put in Wednesday. 1t is very hand.
some and substantial, the shelves of
the very latest pattern, and the small
iron rolls allow the heaviest volumes to
be handled with case, save much wear
and tear and make them all more ac-
cessable, and the system Of iron lockers
and upright file drawers is also of the
best. With it all is suspended step
ladder. Gas fixtures have also been
placed inside the vault. 1t is under
stood that the clerks room is to be
tinted.
If you see Wheel Clubber fond.
ling his chin and the air seems sibi-
liant with whispers of 'whiskers, :" you
may know that Editor Hubbard of the
Phoenix is approaching, and that the
topic under consideration is that
michael L" pig puppy item which
Hubbard dished up last week and
dished up we'll, too. But really Hub.
bard ought not to be blamed if it
happened before he was born. 1t is
asserted that telegram from Stedman
at Springfield states that Uncle Ryther
wrote up that occurrence when he was
a boy. But this is doubtless an eXag-
geration, for the real date of it was
1873. And when the Phoenix is not
more than % years behind. it is doing
very we'll.
Patsy Guiheen and Archie Stock
well, arrested last week as principal
and accessory in the stealing of II. S.
overcoat from n Pullman
car on the night of Feb. r. were ex
onerated by the developments OF Sat
urday. Curlously enough, it turns out
that Guiheen was hiding, just as he
said, for fear of an arrest for a crime |
which he didn't commit He explains
it by saying he thought they were after
him for something else. Though the
stories of the two were somewhat con-
hicting, especially in their earlier tell
ing, they agreed finally in the state
nent that the stealing was done by
Vim. McDermott, a brakeman on the
n. L. N. road, and as McDermott
owned it up after his arrest, without
my claim that the other two were in
any way implicated, their exoneration
IS complete. They had nothing to do
With it, except that when leaving the
'reight house that night they saw
McDermott jump off the car and
.un with bundle under his
lrm. Officer Hall Immediately went
o work to hunt down their story
md was satisfied that there was
enough to it SO that he telegraphed to
Palmer for McDermott's arrest and
Detective j. A.. Maloney of the B. &
VI. road also took hold of it. Some of
he train men told McDermott that
hey were after him and he left his
rain at Amherst and ran, making his
way back to Palmer. But there Halls
elegram directing his arrest was
waiting him and Deputy Sheriff 0.
". Studley of that place took him and
urned him over TO Maloney. He
wed up to the crime at once and told
where the overcoat was, in the hands of
companion with whom he had placed
t. and it was soon found. He was
brought to Bratteboro Saturday morn
NO. arraigned before Justice Newton,
waived examination, was held IN 5000
,ail and in default was taken to jail
It NeYfane Saturday night.