The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19
VARIOUS VERMONT MATTERS.
The Women sufrrar,sts.

,ueie were others by l.. +. Wilbur O
Jerloho, the president, Rev. G. p.
Iapin OF Essex and Mrs. p S. Beemar
OF Burlington on 1.-The. New Man, ;
with poem by Miss M. E. Ward O
North Danville. These officers wer,
elected: President. Mrs Phoeb,
Stone Beeman of Montpelier secre
tary, Miss Laura Moore of Barnet
treasurer, g. w. Wyman of Brattlebo
70; auditor, Mrs. A. ID. Chandler
Barton Landing; vice presidents Ad
Olson, Miss Julia 4. Smith of Ferris
burgh: Caledonia. Mrs G. II. Clark,
East Peacham; Chittenden, O. p. Ray
esq.,, Burlington and L. f. Wilbur, esq.
Jericho: Essex, Mrs. Am. W. Chase,
West Concord, Franklin, Rev. GIL
Story, Bakersfield; Lamoille, Mrs.
Laura Gleeson, Morrisville: Orange,
Miss +. B. Douglass, Thetford Cen
tire: Orleans Mrs. p. X Edes, Newort
Washington. j. P. Moore, Warren
Windham, G. W. Wyman. Brattleboro
windsor, Hon. Chester Pierce finan-
cial committee Mrs. A. ID. Chandler,
Miss Laura Moore, M. Nettie Chase,
A. b. superieptendents of woman Z
suffrage papers, Mrs z. NJ. Dwinel
Glover, Rev. M. Atwood st. Johns
bury.
A Female Burglar.
Officer Sargent arrested Mile Will
son OF Mendon Tuesday for larceny.
Mile is female burglar. She broke
into several houses recently and stole a
quantity of goods, many ARTICLES bel ng
valuable. She was brought before the
Rutland court on AN information filed
by States Attorney Jones and was
taken to the House of Correction
where she will remain until States
Attorney Jones has returned from the
state convention. She will undoubted-
ly be sent to the state prison at Wind
sor for term of years.
Worthwhile Offender Caught.
Constable Andrew Smith, who has
been searching for Frank Neddo, who,
it is claimed, stole suit of clothes
and left for Canada with livery team
hired at Morrisville, traced him over
the Canadian border near North Troy.
Neddo made attempts along the way to
sell the team. He was found eating
dinner near Sutton Flats. The team
was with him. Neddo made no OBJ jec-
tions to coming back without papers,
and was bound over to the county
court Saturday. Neddo is also charged
with having stolen a bicycle and got
money under false pretenses at Keene,
N. II
The Addison County Republican Com
veMtfOn
Met at Middlebury Tuesday with 1873
delegates present, and did up its bust
ness in less than an hour. All nom
nations were unanimous and by &C
clamation, and all those elected, ex
cept senators and assistant judges, are
reno minations. The ticket is: Sen
ators, A. A. Dean of Bristol and John
Z. Weeks of Salisbury; assistant
judges of the county court, Willard
F. Barnes of Addison and Gustavus
r. Walker of Bridgeport: sheriff Kent
W. Merritt of Shoreham: high bailiff
Col. A. W. Frost of Cornwall; states
attorney Frank l.. Fish of Vergennes ;
county commissioner, Edward j. Mat
thews of Middlebury; Judges of pro-
bate New Haven district, John d..
Smith of Vergenne: Addison district,
James NJ. Slade of Middleblury coun
ty committee, r. NJ, Chapman of Mid
dlebury, j ohm James of Weybridge,
Frank G. Dyer of Salisbury, Reuben
Parker OF Ferrisburgh and F. W.Tut-
tie Of Vergennes.
A young man giving his name as
Frank White, who has been at work
for farmer near Middlebury. stole a
suit of clothes while the family was
attending wedding. He hired team
at Goodrich's livery and started for
n far n
Rev. II. S. McHale of Jay met with
painful accident. His horse became
frightened while hitched and in trying
to quiet it he got sidewise blow
from the horses head in his face.
knocking him some distance, breaking
the cheek.
James W. Bragg and his wife OF
Rutland while on a lonely mountain
road returning from Leyden after dark
Sunday night heard cry as II OF an
infant in distress. They stopped their
horse. when suddenly the sound, be.
came pierciugly loud, being recognized
at once as those OF lynx, whose glar-
inc ewes could be seen as he bounded
out of the forest. The horse started
on a run. Giving the reins and whip
to MS vile. MI. ipdSS ''S i""'
lighted lantern from the front OF the
wagon which he kept swinging but a
few feet from the eyes of the lynx un,
til it gave up the chase. The animal
was probably made ferocious by hun
ger
One day last week H. Larraee of VOL
colt. brought to the village two young
birds supposed TO be eagles, which
he captured by the roadside in the
woods near the Bugbee place on the
river road. Larrabee said that it was
only after sharp tussle with the old
bird. which was a very large one. that
ne succeeded in securing the you ng
ones. IN
Fred Pounds. youth of Huntsville
went to one of the neighbonors Satur-
day. where they we're blasting rocks.
The men had put charge of powder
and bricks in the rock and had gone
TO dinner. The boy went to the shop
heated an iron and put it in the pow
der. The charge went off. filling his
face and eyes full of powder. brick and
stone and cutting and burning ms
arm quite badly. 1t is feared he will
he blind of one eye if not both.
The forest fires which have been
smoldering for week at the base OF
MI, Mansfield we're famed into a flame
Saturday afternoon by the strong south
wind and in spite of the heroic efforts
of the dwellcrs of that section the flre
ragged furiously until it was checked by
the heavy rain Sunday morning. About
hundred acres of valuable timber
land belonging to Edmund Corbett of
Cambridge was burned over and but
for the timely rain the whole mountain
side would have been ruined. The
roar of the flames like train OF cars
was heard for miles away.