Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-22


on Washington street belonging to Miss
Rhoda Pike, to Alphonso Langille.
State Grand Commander L. NJ. Cragin
and Mrs.Cragin of Springfield were here last
evening to attend the meeting OF the local
Golden Cross commandery.
Twenty or more members Of the Yer
mont Wheel club are expected to join in
the % mile run next Sunday to South
Deerfield, where an elaborate dinner will
be served at the Bloody Brook House at
o'clock. The party will return by train,
reaching here at 1910
One of the bearers at the funeral of
George NJ. Pullman in Chicago yesterday
was 1. b. Blackstone, who built the Yer
mont Valley railroad and who was a resi-
dent of Putney years ago. Mr. Blackstone
is now president of the most important
railway system in America-the Illinois
Central.
A hot chicken pie supper will be served
at the annual fair and festival Of Protec-
tive grange, to be held in Grange hall
Wednesday evening, Oct. p. The farmers
will bring in their best vegetables for sale
at the fair. There will also be a sale of
fancy articles. Leitsinger's orchestra will
furnish music for dancing.
George c.. Averil and w. II. Bracket,
assignees Of the E. II. Van Dorm estate,
will sell by public auction on Saturday,
Oct. &c, at o'clock p. NJ, the Chaplin
street property consisting of the house
lately occupied by Z. II. Van Dorm as a
residence, and the lot on which ii stands,
having about an so foot frontage, and the
vacant lot adjoining, having about a 60
foot frontage.
A New York "shover of the queer" ad-
dressed a Brattleboro business man this
week with a proposition to furnish him
a large amount Of duplicate one, five and
ten-dollar bank notes for a small sum, pro-
vded the Brattleboro man would meet him
a. certain place to inspect the goods and
make selections. The man represented
| himself as being the oldest steel plate en-
graver in the United States, having been
employed for % years in the bureau of en-
craving at Washington and for II years as
superintendent OF one of the largest bank
note companies in tine country.
A trolley car in charge of Motorman
| Benson ran into the team of Frank John.
son, formerly mail carrier, between the
offices of BrAttleboro and Waite, on North
Main street, Saturday night. johnson and
the ar were going in the same direction,
and just before the car overlook the team
| one Of the reins broke, resulting in the
horse being refined upon the track. The
brakes were instantly applied, but the
rails were gummed with leaves. allowing
| the car wheels to slide until the car struck
the wagon and pushed it along several
feet. No serious damage was done.
General Manager Hays of the Grand
| Trunk railroad is authority for the statement
that the CentralVermont railroad will retain
! its autonomy. The Central Vermont, Will,
becoming very closely affiliated with the
! Grand Trunk and, TO all iutents and pur
poses, an integral portion Of that system
! will not be consolidated with the latter in
! the same manner a. the Chicago and GrAng
| Trunk was, but will be known as the Cen
trail Vermont and will have, TO a certain
extent, its own direct management The
| result of the Boston meeting, Mr.. Hay
said. showed that the bondholders appre
ciated the value to their property of
closer relation TO the Grand Trunk thar
that heretofore existing.
There is compl Gated situation in tn,
will case Of the late Laban II. Dexter,
former well known Windham county maj
who died at advanced age at Springfield
Mass, few weeks ago. Over 20 year
ago he made a will in which all his prop
erty was to revert at his death 10 his wife
Last July Mr.. Dexter made another will
unknown 10 his wife, which ca e the lat
ter but half share, leaving some of III
cash and real estate 10 a brother. Mrs
Dexter was incensed when the second vii
came TO light, as she had expected 10 in
herit all of Mr.. DrXter's property. Thi
second will is perfectly valid document
as far as Mrs. DeXter's attorneys know
Mrs. Dexter states that her husband ex
ecuted the will when not in his right mind
and has told her lawyers she wanted L
break the will. Mr.. Dexter had cash de
posted in banks all over Massachusett
and Vermont. Some books are made on
in the name OF l.. II. Dex er, in that O
Ann Dexter, others are payable 20 bot
l.. II. and Ann Dexter, and some in trus
for Ann Dexter. No one knows VIII
really owns the money In the banks, AM
the supreme court may be called upol
finally TO settle the question.
Dispositions we're taken yesterday befol
Lawyer A. F. Schwank, who was appoint
ed special examiner by the United State
circuit court for the district of Minnesots
in the case Of DR.. George d. Wheat G
Putney against Caroline and John Hack
Austin F. and Lucy b. Kelley, Patric
and Rosy McFadden, Michel Simmer
Yes Clauson, Jesse Ames, First Nations
and Citizens banks of Mortified, T. j
Leonard, William Deering & Co., an
Charles Hanson and Albert G. Cobb, a.
signees of A. F. and l.. E. Kelley. TIL
complainant alleges in the bill that h
loaned the HACKS $4,000 on mortgage, an
that the mortgage and the land were sol
by the sheriff OF Scott county, Mimi, with
ont his authority, Knowledge or consent
and that no money was ever paid TO hil
on account OF foreclosure. The land, b
alleges, was bid in by A. F. Kelley an
afterward sold to the McFaddens. Dr.
Wheat demands that the foreclosure, mad
by some persons unknown, be declare
null and void, and that he have judgmen
against the Hacks for $1,000 and interest
The defendants were represented by I
SOuthworth OF Minneapolis and the plain
tin by Waterman, Martin Il Hit Tn
latter introduced letters written by tn
Kelleys to DR.. Wheat several years afte
the foreclosure was made, representing tina
the property was still in the hands of tn
HACKS.
MIR. Miller In Woodstock.
The Woodstock Age contains the fol
lowing in its account of the recent rend
tioD of The Holy CITY, in that village
The opening number of the second par
OF the program, Alteration was beaut
fully rendered by the orchestra, and thi
was followed by a grandly sung bass sol
Dy Mr. f. H. Miller of Dummerston. Hi
voice is of rare power and sweetness. an