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

Forest fires swept over a tract of 1000
acres in Guildhall and Lunenburg last
week, causing loss of $1,000. No build
ings were burned.
The sturgeon season has opened at Win
ooski.l A specimen weighing 81 pounds
was caught Wednesday by Messrs. Killam
and Porrier in the river below the dam.
The fish measured nearly six feet in length.
Peter Burke, 60, dropped dead Saturday
while attempting to step into a team at
Montpelier. He appeared to be in his
usual health, but suffered with heart dis
ease. He was for many years trackman
on the Central Vermont railroad.
The celebration of the semi-centennial
of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, the an
nual session of the grand encampment,
Grand Lodge, Grand Canton of Patrarchs
Militant and Grand Rebekah assembly
will be observed at Montpelier May Is, 10,
20 and 81.
Eugene, the 3-year-old son of Emery
Greenia of Highgate, wanted to go fishing
and thought the cistern, with about feet
of water in it, would answer. He raised
the cover and the weight of it drew him
forward over the opening so that he fell
into the water and was drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Beedle of Chelsea
celebrated the fifty-siXth anniversary of
their marriage recently. Mr.. Beedle is one
of the two surviving veterans of the MeXi-
can war residing in New England. At the
battle of Mexico he was wounded twice,
once in the elbow and once in the hip, and
lay on the battlefield 80 hours.
William Varney of Williston, charged
with bigamy, having married Miss Juna
Osborne while his wife was yet living,
pleaded guilty to the charge at Burlington,
Friday, and was sentenced by Judge Rus
sell to two years at hard labor in state pri-
son. Miss Osborne pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to one year inthe houseof cor
rection.
Work was begun Tuesday on the Mt.
Mansfield electric railroad, which is to con-
meet Stowe and Waterbury. The Stowe
band was drawn in an eight-horse coach
from that town, and behind them came
200 men in teams and the pick brigade of
$50 Italians. AT Waterbury there was
speech making and a formal beginning of
breaking the earth for the road.
G. l. Hood of Lowell, Mass, the proprie.
tor of Hoods Sarsaparilla, who is a ma.
tive of Chelsea, established a stock farm
at West Andover, Mass, in 1850. He
bought Star Lily, then a mare of great
reputation on the circuit, ana followed lnls
with purchases from famous Kentucky
blood lines. In the meantime he became
interested in Jersey cattle and Berkshire
swine, and finding his larger pleasure in
these he decided to sell his horses at auc-
ton. The sale took place Tuesday, and a
total of $4,000 was realized.
| The headquarters of the American
Kneipp Cure company are to be established
at Middletown Springs, and an attempt
will be made to change the name of the
village to "Kneippville." The headquar,
tiers will be at the Montvert hotel, and
large bath houses will be built. This cure
is best known from the stories Of the
Kneippers walking bare-footed on the
dewy grass of early morning in Contra
Park, New York. The water, however, i:
used in many ways in the treatment. The
medicinal spring water, which first drew
attention TO Middletown Springs as a sum
mer resort, will not be used, the Kneipper:
preferring the pure water from othel
springs. The company has 81 900, 900 cap
ital, and the projectors claim that the re
sort will have population of 5000 to 10,
000 An electric railroad to Poultney
eight miles, and thence to Rutland is con
templated.