Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-04-21
THE TIMES.
w EDN ESDAY, APRIL q, 1897.
Vermont News.

John A. Sheldon has been commissioned
postmaster at Rutland in place of John ID.
IIaurahan resigned.
The candidates for deputy collector of in
ternal revenue are j. T.. Pollard of Chester,
II. C. Gleason of Richmond and Arthur Ropes
of Montpelier and the chances favor Pollard
under existing circumstances, says the Bos-
| ton Globe.
The case of A. l.. Weeks oil st. Adams,
| deputy collector of internal revenue, for con-
tempt of court at Montpelier in refusing to
show the records of his office to prove wheth-
er a certain party had taken out United
States license to sell liquor, will be heard in
Brattleboro before Judge Wheeler April 30.
The following change in the Vermont star
| schedule takes effect July l: Route 3l44,
Weatherstield to Claremont Junction. Leave
Weathersteld daily, except Sunday, 10 AM, or
in time to connect with the train. Will arrive
at Claremont junction in two hours. Leave
Claremont junction daily except Sunday on
arrival of train from the north but not later
than p. NJ. Arrive at Weathersheld in two
hours.
Roscoe Chandler, aged 20, was run over by
a cart Saturday afternoon at olcott station
and died in two hours from his INJURIES. He
was hauling hay from railroad car to the
farm, about mile distant, and in crossing
the tracks the king bolt in the cart jumped
out and Chandler was thrown from his seat
under the wheels. The loaded vehicle
weighed fully 5000 pounds. and Mr.. Chand-
ler's back was broken.
Charles w. Trask, car accountant of the
Rutland railroad, who has been acting super
intendent since the death OF Mr.. Burdett, has
been appointed agent for the Rutland rail-
road at Burlington in place of w. l. Fox, re-
signed. Mr. 1rask assumed his new duties
Monday. The position of agent at Burling
ton is one of responsibility, as that city is a
junction and competing point and the most
important terminal of the road. Mr.. Trask
came from st. Adams at the time of the sep
aration of the Rutland railroad from the Cen
trail Vermont system.
The Rutland railroad will sell round trip
tickets to New York city for the Grant day
celebration the 9th. The tickets will be
good going the 25th and 26th and good re-
turning, to leave New York city up to the
evening of the Goth. Passengers going by
the Citizens line of steamers from Troy viii
be taken through New York harbor, in and
about the fleets. The rates from he follow
| ing stations on the Rutland railroad, by rail
are: Ludlow, So 70; Chester, $7.25; Bellows
Falls, 1928. The rates by the Citizens line
| of steamers are Ludlow, Sc 20; Chester
1915, and Bellows Falls, 1918.
The following Vermont pensions have been
granted Increase, William b. Page, North
Hyde Park Jarvis d. Clark, Branch; Ben
jamin F. Wyman, Chester; Henry G. Allen
st. Adams; Elisha Fl. Ford, Roxbury; reis
sue and increase, Thomas Carrigan, Ran
dolph original, widows, Jane p. Wellman,
Wilmington; Mary Bent, Bennington; Del
arc Potter of Rutland minor of John Pipe
of Bennington, Ellen r. Putnam, Springfield
Sarah NJ. Ball, mother, Lyndonville; Mary
G. Packard, Stockbridge; Seraph A. Place
Middlebury minors of John MCGOWAN o
| Rutland.