Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19

a large audience at the armory tonight.
\ great variety Of exhibition dances i'm COS.
tune will be given by Mr. Wales's pupils.
Thomas Field, claiming to hail from
Brattleboro, was arrested Ia Springfield,
Mass, Thursday night for drunkenness
and disturbing the peace, and was fined
The MY Wife's Friend" company,
which was booked to appear at the audi
forum next Wednesday evening, has can
celled its engagement, and disbanded at
Syracuse y. Y.
These scores have been made in the Yer
mont Wheel club tournament since last
Friday Billiards-E. f. Perry l20 Put
nam 81; Bingham 80, Dewitt IS: Wood
20, Foster 3d. Pool-Pettee 60. Knight
40; Putnam 30, Pratt %; Wood 80. Pet
tee Al. Chess-Cudworth beat Dewitt.
E. II. Atherton broke the large bone in
his right wrist in attempting to lessen the
force of fall on the ice near his house
Sunday morning. The other bone was
dislocated Mrs. Timothy Moran fell on
an icy sidewalk while on her way to church
Sunday morning and received severe in
jures to her back.
John X. Strand was called to Newfane
Wednesday to act as interpreter in court
in the case against Karl Lndstrom for
malicious mischief in destroying clothing
at Bellows Falls. LiDdstrom speaks the
Swedish tongue, but is native of Finland.
lie goes to the state prison for a year as
the penalty of his offence.
Mrs. Anthony Clarity died at her home
on the Brook road Saturday afternoon
from heart disease, after a long illness.
She leaves husband, who is employed as
night switchman in the freight yard, and
three children, the oldest OF whom is three
years old. The funeral was held at Q
O'Clock Monday morning at the Roman
Catholic church. The burial was in the
Catholic cemetery.
Ten new members joined the Choral
Union last week and more are intending
to do so either this week or next. The fee
of 81 for gentlemen aud ct 50 cents for
ladies is Insignificant when one considers
the privileges acquired thereby. a can
vas for honorary or sustaining members is
soon to be made and it merits a generous
response. The chorus are very enthusiast
tic over the "Rose Maiden"
Letters received from Mai. F. W. Childs,
who left for Aiken, 5. c., on Thursday of
last week, announce his safe arrival there
on Saturday. While he found the Journey
somewhat tiresome he experienced no i'll
effects from it, He had slept well, and
was hoping for permanent improvement
from the change. Maj. Childs's brother,
A. r. Chids of Bennington, accompanied
him part of the way on his journey
The village steamer No. burst one of
its circulating tubes while thawing out the
West Brattleboro sewers Saturday, dis
abling the steamer. New tubes, which
were ordered from the manufacturers,
Clapp ~ Jones of Seneca Falls, y. Y, ar
rived yesterday morning and the steamer
is now undergoing repairs at the engine
house. The tubes will be tested by Engi-
neer George Niles and A. 0. johnson.
Geo, A. Boyden and Wells s. Frost com
pleted the work of appraisng the estate of
the late Chas. j. Lawton Friday afternoon.
The total valuation of the estate was
something over SIS, 500, consisting of the
house and lot, mortgages and loans. in
GLIDING several Kelley loans, about $1,000
in the Newfane savings bank, $4,000 in the
BGattleboro banks, and $1,000 in bank
notes which were found in the house after
Mr.. Lawton's death.
Although the property Of the Einsdale
Bridge company was sold several years
ago its affairs have never been formally
wound up and the company dissolved A
meeting of the stockholders was held last
Saturday afternoon, when A. G.. Daven-
port was chosen secretary and j. l.. Mar
tin was appointed the agent of the COM
pany to investigate and arrange its affairs
preparatory to legal dissolution. Mr..
Martin will report at a meeting TO be called
by {. j. Amidon, the president.
Linus Dickinson, formerly of Brattle-
hint for Z
Claremont, \. H., is reported to be living
very near his death from the decline of
old age. Mr.. Dickinson was for a term of
years the manager of the Park house on
the common, and was the owner of large
tract of land in Esteyville, part of which
is now owned by the Estey Organ company.
Dickinson street in Esteyvile bears his
name. Mr.. Dickinson has a son, Augustus
j., in the creamery bushes in Pulaski,
Tenn, and daughter who lives in Elgin,
Ill.
A tragedy occurred in the state prison
at Charlestown, Mass, Tuesday, while
Deputy Warden Allen, whose wife is a
daughter of &. w. Wyman of Brattleboro, |
was in charge. An Italian named Mani |
and Portuguese named Vargas became en-
gagged in an alteration during which Geo. |
Banks, another prison inmate, stepped be- |
tween them to prevent quarrel. Manzi |
seized hammer from the work bench and |
struck Banks a terrible blow over the left |
eye telling him to the floor and fracturng |
his skull. Deputy Warden Allen had |
Manzi placed under guard in his cell.
Horace Blanchard, a well-known charac-
ter of Windham county for many years,
committed suicide Saturday night by hang
ing himself with a strap while in bed. He
was at the home of his daughter, Mrs. II.
Is. Wellman, in Newfane, and was found
by her about midnight when she went to
his room. Mr.. Blanchard had been i'll
and had undoubtedly been made partially
insane by protracted pain. The man had
lived rowing and unsettled life ever since
the death of his wife many years ago, but
since last fall had made his home with his
daughter. The burial was in Vernon.
Avery Jolly Surprise.
One of the happiest surprises which
BrattleboTo young folk, say nothing of
older ones, have lately taken a hand in oc-
cured at the house of Mr.. and Mrs. J. f.
Coleman on Grove street Wednesday even
ng. The occasion was the 21st birthday
of the son of the family, Ed
ward w. Coleman, now of New London,
conn, in the employ of the American Ex-
press company. The young man had that
lay come home to spend weeks vacation
n recognition of the fact that he had |
cached his majority. After supper he
vas detained down street by his father un.
Ter some preteXt until half-past eight.
When, at that hour, he unsuspectingly en-
cred the house the rooms were filled with
COMPANY of nearly 40 Of his vOuDo !