Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-14


evening. The prizes were taken by Dan
Webster and Miss Amy Hines.
E. NJ. Angler has recently bought the
sixyear-old brown PAGER Putney Wilkes,
with whom he will bid for some of the
prizes at the next Valley Fair. Putney
Wilkes was sired by Bay Wilkes, by Baron
Wilkes; dam by Blackstone. He has a
two-year-old record of 2:30.
About dozen members of the Vermont
Wheel club had run to Putney Sunday.
Several club members went there by team
and bicyclists outside the club increased
the number to large party. After dinner
at the hotel Dr. K. 5. Munger was visited,
and liberal supply of lemonade was SER
we'd from the large tankard which he won
as first prize in the Wheel club billiard
tournament.
1.-THE New Bells" company, which APP
peared in the Auditorium Friday evening,
was disappointing to many, although some
features of the performance were notably
good. 1t was a spectacular comedy with
the four Byrne brothers, acrobatic per-
| formers, as the central attraction. The
Roman statuary pictures by these brothers,
feats of Harry Krammer, the trick bicycle
rider, and the shipwreck scene were excel
lent and were the redeeming features of an
otherwise monotonous exhibition.
Mrs. Sally Prentice died Wednesday af-
ternoon at her home on Canal street,
! aged So years. Her death was caused by
stroke of paralysis which she sustained last
week. Mrs. Prentice was a native of
Westmoreland, y. II. After her marriage
to Bradley Prentice she lived in Chester
field until, in 1862, Mr.. and Mrs. Prentice
moved to Brattleboro and bought the
Canal street house where they afterward
lived. Mr.. Prentice died in 1888. Five
children were born to them, none of whom
are living. Two grandchildren, Sidney
Farr, and Ned Prentice, who has lived
with his grandmother at the Canal street
| homestead, are the only surviving de-
scendants of the family.
Chas. b. Waite of New York, son of the
late well-known hotel keeper of that city,
and his friend, VIM. Moser of Rowayton,
Conn, have been in town this week max
ing inquiries in regard to the estate of Miss
Lucretia Waite The inquiries related to
the proving of Miss Waite's will, and the
disposition of her estate, which was left in
trust to her adopted daughters. While no
direct statement was made as to the pur-
pose of this visit inquiries made by Mr..
Waite at the probate office indicated wish
to know whether all Vermont legal forms
had been complied with in the allowance
of the will, and whether the matter could
be re0pened. Judge Waterman assured
Mr.. Waite and his friend that everything
had been done in full compliance with the
Vermont statutes.
Thomas Fenton received a telegram from
St. Louis. Mo, Saturday announcing the
critical illness, with pneumonia, OF his
brother, Patrick A. Fenton, in a hospital
In that pit Mr Eanfop 1oft for -. n,,is
on the 4:3l train, arriving there about 5
O'Clock Monday morning. His brother
died Saturday and the funeral was held
about an hour after the arrival of Mr.. Fen
ton. Patrick A. Fenton was born in
County Kerry, Ireland, about 30 years ago.
He came to America when he was a boy
and was employed in Brattleboro several
years by Ii. II. Thompson's father. He
went from here to Ashuelot, y. H., where
he lived until the war broke out. He
? served three years in Co. G.. of the llth
Massachusetts, regiment and then reen-
listed, serving until the war closed. He
was employed for five or six years as
scout and prospector in Colorado and New
Mexico by the New York Herald and then
spent several years prospecting on his own
accord. For the past few years he has
been employed in quarry in st. Louis
He was brother also of John Fenton and
of Mrs. Eliza Cofiield, but had never been
, seen by Mrs. Cofiield.
= People who have been at Spofford lake
this spring tell strange stories of the run
e ming of fish into the shallow waters. Smelt
| first appeared in schools of thousands, lit
, orally darkening the water and pushing
5 each other partly above the surface. The
5 smelt were put into the lake few years age
as feed for the bass and they seemed to have
, multiplied with great rapidity. The suck
! ers had their inning after the smet dsap,
! peared, and the large, 'logy" fish gathered
! in such quantities that they could be drawn
upon the beach with a rake by the basket.
e full. The clear fish, another new variety
at Spotford, followed the suckers in dis
! porting themselves near the shore. The
l last fish picnic was by a variety never pre-
g viously seen at the lake. These fish are
I evidently some planted in the lake by the
commissioners. Some believe them to be
2 land-locked salmon. They measure six to
! ten inches in length. If they prove to be
2 salmon there is a prospect ahead of sport
such as anglers have never known locally
Smelt and clear fish are seldom seen in the
summer. Some of the anglers believe that
! with the abundance of feed the fishing fol
bass hereafter will be with fly The APP
I pearances indicate that the lake is excep
tional breeding ground, and that the sport
there in the future will not be confined &c
! bass.
The Westminster Fire Bug Completes
His Sentence and is Re-arrested.
t John b. w. Coombs, the notorious
Westminster fire bug, who kept the nhab.
itants of that town in such a state of tur
MOL and excitement about II years ago
was released from the state prison Satur
I day, and he is now in Newfane jail await.
| ing the September term of court, when hC
will plead to another indictment for ALLEGED
incendiarism. Coombs was arrested il
1885 on suspicion of having set fire to the
barn of David c. Gorham of Westminster
9 on Oct. 8, 1884. At the March term o
court he pleaded guilty to the charge anC
was sentenced to serve three years and si2
months at hard labor in the state prison
I At the expiration of the term he was re
arrested on suspicion of having set fire
. to three barns and three sheds of Charlie:
b. II. and Frederick Campbell of Westminster
e on Nov. 3d. 1888. He was indicted by the
- grand jury. He pleaded not guilty, but al
a jury trial he was convicted and wa.
= sentenced to 10 years in the state prison
By reason of good behavior his sentence
was reduced TO eight years, which term ex.
, pired last Saturday. At the instigation OF
Westminster people an officer went to the
= institution and as soon as Coombs was re,
: leased he was again arrested on an old in