The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-03
VARIOUS VERMONT MATTERS.
Dealers OF 81. Adams.

/ There was u general ralil ol iHc liquor tlchicf
| of st Albana Friday afternoon. when Dcput
Sherins Latd, Draper and Thompson took in tn
Weldon house, American hotel, Park Vie,
house, Park cafe, Grand central hotcl ~ Al
James Waliace's loon ON Lake street, Edwar,
Brcnnan's on Foundry and william Prior's oil
Lake street. quantity OF liquor was round an'
seized at every place searched, ana me repre-
! scntatvcs of the places arraigncd before Judgl
| Finn in the Municipal Court charged will
/ keeping with intent to sell and selling; the re
| spondents all pleaded guilty and sentenced Il
| pay n fine OF $50 and costs or the alternative sen
fence in the house of correction. They all ap
! pcaled and furnished bonds IN the sum of SlO'
for appearance at the April term of court.
Vermont Life Insurance Statistics.
The report of the Vermont insurance c0mpa
mics, just issued, shows general increase In life
insurance premiums In this state during 1880
There has been u steady increase during the
past five years The assessment companies col
lcctcd premiums amounting to $685., s2l Ia
against sos Oi6 80 In 1884 and sGs9, jts30 in 1891
The accident and miscellaneous companies re
ccvci last year G5,0IO.il, making over 1900,
600 invested IN insurance outside OF lire insur.
ance. Twenty. regular life companies
were licensed IN the state. There were no ad.
ditions in 1895. The assessment companies, In
GLIDING fraternai associations, doing business in
Vermont had 4,1Il certificates in force, carrying
a total insurance of S6,Is.SO. They issued
i,2Oi certificates in 1885, carrying Sl,5Is 900 as
against l,45l in 1894, carrying Sl,siO,O0O They
paid losses of Sll3 800 In 49, against SOL $50 In
'9i. The ~ regular life com anics issued 1920
policies In ~ insurins s5iG,23o as against flis
policies In 9i, insuring e52lO,Sfi, amt they paid
in death claims in '95. sajj,Js6.' u
warren Pleads Guilty.
The famous fish hatchery cases against } W
Titcomb, of st Johnsbury, Z Warren, of Wat
erbury, and Ira X Allen of Fair Haven for
treating the legislative eNcursionists with liquor
during their visit to the state fish hatchery ut
RoNbury during the last season. of the legisla-
ture, were settled in the Washington county
court Tuesday morning by Mr. Warren pleading
guilty of one ofTense and taking his fine of 800.
the cases against the other two should be
dropped, and states Attorney stanton told the
court that he thought this enough to yindicatc
the law.as he had no disposition TO 'prosecutc."
Judge Ross consented 1t Is doubtful If any
thing whatever could have been proved against
Warren. fIe made himself a sort of ''vicarioas
sacrifice" with n division OF the fine between
the three. doubtless. Mr. Titcomb's case was
tried last fan and the jury disagreed
4 Whole Charge OF BuekshOt Fired Into
His Side.
Tuesday morning while Paul King was stand.
ing on a sled, riding down south street, Cam.
suddenly started causing Mr. King to lose his
footing and in regainng II sOmeway the gun dis
charged. 1t was heavily loaded with buckshot,
the entire charge entering his right side and
would have caused instant death only for the
heavy winter clothing in which he was dressed
Mr. kngwas taken TO the home OF Or l. II Brush
who called In council Drs Briggs and Newton
and the charge was successfully removed.
81 Johnsbury's musical festival has been post.
poned until May 10, 20. 81 and p.
McKennan Brothers Of darlington, piano
dealers, have brought suit for libel against T. {
Dodge, editor of the Burlington independent,
claiming 5000 damages. ON May ., 1874, the In
dcpendcutlstated that this firm had fraudulcntly
obtained from Mrs Jennie Nichols OF Waterbury
prommissOry note for plano which mem
Der of the firm had sold her.
The blacksmith shop of Charles Corruth OF
Groton. was burglarized one night last week
and 200 pounds of horse shoes and 80 pounds
of horse shoe nails were stolen.
Herbert l. Doyle, late landlord OF the Avenue
house ut st JOhnsbury, has leased ami taken
possession of the American house, one OF the
leading hotels at Sewburyport, Mass Mr.
Doyle was the leader in the recent hotel men )
moyementin Vermont.
man registering a. George Fairburn OF
Boston and calming 10 be the advertising agent
for company manufacturing preparation Tor
lighting purposes tried to jump his hotel bill at
New Wallingford" hotel Sa urday. lie was
arrested at arlington, brought 10 Wallingiord
and sentenced to 80 days in the House OF Cor
rection at Rutland lie was taken there late
saturday night.
Delegates from the womans club of st Johns.
bury, Lyndonyille, Brandon and Morrisville
met al st bloomsbury Thursday, by invitation OF
the st Johnsbury Women's club and a state fed
Grafton was formed. The following officers
were elected President, Mrs Elisha May of
ST bloomsbury vice president, Mrs p X Gleed Of
Morrisyie; secretary and treasurer, Mrs T. >
Blodgett OF Lyndonvillc. After the meeting,
supper was served by the 81 Iohnsbury Wo
mans club
Mary Brl's farm residence in Franklin was
destroyed by fire Thursday forenoon. It WAS a
large. nice brick house and had modern i'm
Ii was insured in the Union Nut.
ilai OF Montpelier for sl40o on the building and
$500 on the contents.
The Riverside hotel at SheldonJunction and the
Portland house al She don were raidcd Friday
ed by States Attorney Chase anu Deputy Sheriff
Draper and Justice Hare, and quantity ofliquor
secured at both places. The representatives or
the hotels were arraigncd and pleaded guilty to
the charges but were adjudged guilty and fined
: l0and costs each, from which they Appealed
and furnished bonds.
Charles and solon sulham. the brothers. who
were arrested in Randolph in January, last
week p caded guilty TO Il charge of burglary AT
Woodsyllc, II, and were each sentenced TO
two years in states prison at Concord.
In the Washington county court Saturday the
ease of state George Nichols of Northlleld for
selling intoxicating liquor on motion Of states
Attorney stanton was not proved ihc court
saturday afternoon.
Nearly $500 are to be offered in prizes at the
annual State meeting and tournament OF the
lremcn of Vermont TO he held IN Montpelier
md Barre July - and %.
y wild COW created panic in the streets Of
plainheld last week Thursday The animal was
lbT bttl, hut Nltil NihNi W Inv slhuSu-
cr house became craZed at the smell of blood.
II broke away, ran through the village, knocked
Town a boy, drove an ,ther IN tree, frightened |
from the streets, and il is alleged that
some of the min hands jumped into the mill pond
o escape the infuriated beast.
An interesting Jury trial took place in South !
Rycgate last week Thursday. In the case of |
NcAllister vs. Mills for assault, Evidence
enough could not be produced TO convince the !
ury that assault had been committed and they |
exported not guilty. 4 certain Mr. McAllister !
who Is an officer. went to Mr. Mills house re |
emily to serve some papers. IL was understood |
hat he beat y hasty retreat and was followed by |
Storm of suspicious missils, but whether there !
vas an actual assault made was question. |
,fter the verdict was given Mills set up the |
BOYS TO cigars and peanuts and had regular |
Fourth of July celebration.
Fire broke out in the saw mill of 7 II Hutchin- |
ION at Budport about O'Clock saturday morn
nc md when discovered, the fire was under too |
much Roadway to be controlled and both the |
aw and shingle mill We're soon cnveloped IN
lanes. The fire is supposed TO have originated |
rom sparks about the engine. The loss Is to,al, |
ave the boiler. There was no insurance.
Thursday next George Noonan and f u Nor
ison of Addison, will sail from Boston for SO
frica taking along with them Two car loads of
irst grade McrinO sheep for breeding there.
rhe sheep were selected for this purpose near |
iiddlebury.
J Glidden Emery, for many years station
gent at East Franklin, on the Mssisquoi Val
cy division OF the Contra! Vermont railroad,
bout II O'Clock probably from paralysis. Mr.
Emery hal held the position of station agent
incc the opening of the Missisquoi road in ISL.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT