Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-01

posion of bottle of beer which he was
opening
Miss Elizabeth r. Phillips of Vernon
Centre has been engaged to teach the ninth
grade in district No. 2, supplying the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Cora l.. Roberts.
Sheriffs futile of Keene and Perry OF
| Walpole, at the behest of the Law and
/ Order league, visited the brewery and
| other places between Brattcboro and Win
/ chester Friday where liquor is supposed to
/ bee sold, Their visit was without result,
/ however, as the warning had been pissed
| along the line and all tho places were clos
/ ed
The lumber operations in Coos county,
! \. H., have been small during the past
winter owing to- the great depth of snow.
| Some Of the smaller mill, are not stocked,
and there is a falling off i'm the GUS for
/ larger mills. A computation shows
/ total cut of lSS, 0OO,O 600 feet. The drive Of
/ George Van Dyke, which will be- sent
/ down The Connecticut, is estimated at 40
/ GOO, 900 feet.
State Inspector of Finance Hosea Mann
/ has ordered an examination IN May of de-
/ post books issued by savings banks and
| trust companies in compliance with the
state law. The last and only verhcation
| of deposit books ever required by law in
| this state was made in 1893, when over Co.
/ 600 out of a total Of 81. 104 outstanding de
| post books were called in, examined and
verified. The total number of errors dis
| covered was III, being mostly of small
amounts caused in transposition Of figures
entering dividends etc.
Four hundred and sixty Springfield RI
! tles OF the late model were received at
/ Montpelier this week. They will be used
| 10y the Vermont National Guard, and the
/ Estey Guard is one of the companies
/ which will receive them. They are similar
/ to the guns used in the best equipped state
miltias, but different from the kraag-Jor-
gensen pattern now furnished To tn" regu-
/ lars The new rifles are a great improve
ment on the old ones which have been
used boy the Vernon, National Guard.
/ The old guns will be stored IN the armor-
I les or sent back 60 springfield.
The suit of Benn Perry against Joseph
Bupee and Mrs. Hattie VI. Bacon as trus-
/ tee was heard before j. H. Mptrihel Sat
/ urday. The suit was TO recover sGe for
labor. The only question raised was as to
the liability of the trustee. Fred W. Bur
pee. a brother of the defendant entered
as claimant for the funds in the hands of
the trustee His testimony tended ID show
that when Joseph Burpee was fined for
/ keeping liquor for sale he loaned the de-
PENDANT 500 with which to pay the fine.
/ When the defendant sold his restaurant To
/ Mrs. Bacon the latter gave her note and
/ mortgage TO F. w. Burpee in payment OF
/ the loan OF 500. The court rendered
/ judgment 10y discharging the trustee. hold
ing hat the funds In her hands belonged
/ to the claimant. +. W. Burpee.
The whist team of The Bay State club
. OF Ilolyokr, Mass, triumphed over play
ers from the Vernon, Wheel club in a
I close contest Friday night making a gain
7 OF 30 Co y, and Wiuulu- by II points or
seven tricks. BrattrborO led half way on
/ the replay by two tricks. The teams
4 We're the same as al Holyoke and a team
game was played instead OF contests by
pairs The game took place in the grange
/ banquet hall, ana after the result was an
| nOunced refreshments were servei in Mrs
| Fairs dining rooms. There was talk be-
/ fore the visitors returned of a third con-
/ test, to take place in two weeks al Green
/ field, with lb nen on a side, but this plan
will ptobab Y be abandoned. +. l.. Smith
and W II. Perry met Judd and Buchan-
nan of Holyoke in friendly game of y
ming by one trick.
\ regular session of the probate court
was held Saturday, Judge t. L. Water
man presiding. In the following estates
| the final accounts of the executors were
| allowed and the balances in their hands
were ordered distributed among the heirs
! Mary l.. Brooks of Newfane Helen Moore
| eXecutriX; James H. Franklin of Gull
D ,l-ls ILL.,.
/ Breen OF Brattleboro, Mary NJ Breeu eX-
| ecutriX; Mary J. Wilder of Wardsboro,
/ II. y. Fits administrator: Ella j. Cham
Oerlain Of East Wardsboro L. NJ Newell
administrator The Will of Mary Baker
| Curtin OF BrattlebOro was presented bv G..
/ {. Averill and that OF Nancy +. Lowell of
East DummerstOn by NJ. c. ingalls,. The
| petition of W. II. Hancock, administrator
OF the estate OF j. a, Alexander Of Gull
ford, TO sell real estate was continued.
The petition of the Wilmington savings
bank TO reopen the commission for pre-
senting claims against the estate of Norris
ID, Tantor of Nottingham was granted
and two months were allowed in which to
present claims.
Trouble arose in the shop of Shoemaker
, Bolto Mancin Monday morning. when
Aancini discovered that a pair of shoes
which he had repaired had been delivered
and that no cash accounting therefor had
been made. He suspected that his broth
er who was employed by him, had deliv-
cred the shoes and had pocketel the mon
ey. Upon communicating his suspicion to
his brother a breeze was created which
gave promise of becoming a cyclone until
Thomas Judge, overhearing the disturb
ance, went TO the shop and ordered the
men 10 desls. as they were about to come
to blows. MancinPs brother then left the
snOp aud called Chief-of-Police Hall. To
whom he showed small cut Oh his neck.
claiming that his brother attempted to kill /
him with shoe knife. Mancini claims,
however, that his brother received the cut
at the brewery before the disturbance arose.
Chief-of Police Hall went to Mancnrs
house and collected the complainant's be-
longings, and said complainant left in the /
afternoon for New York. The men met /
on the street in the afternoon and another /
row was nearly precipitated when the com /
plainant demanded of Mancini $50 which .
another brother, who is coming to take his
place, owes him.
Attorney John T. Gale of Guilford and
A. F. Schwenk of the firm OF Haskins d
Schwenk were the opposing lawyers in an
interesting case at Guilford Monday before
Justice j. H. Mortified. It was that of
Willard Stoddard vs.. the town of Vernon
to recover $50 for services rendered the