Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-19

visit to Montpelier. eye gods" he said,
| twenty-five degrees below zero In u
prohibition town" The memory of this
| awful experience left feelings too deep for
| expression in words, and that ended the
| tale of woe.
CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN ROBBED.
| Andrew Welch reported at police head
quarters In Troy, n. Y, that he and Jo-
seph Lazotte, both of Arlington, Benning-
ton county, had been robbed at a resort
on Sixth avenue of which Edward Barry
| iG the proprietor Iazottc was found at
| the depot. and the story the men told was
| that they had gone 10 Troy with $l0O
each having received $50 for labor as wood
| choppers. They went to Barry'S resort
ana Lazotte claimed that the liquor they
| bought there was drugged. The men
| went to sleep, and wncn they awoke in
the morning they claimed that their mon
ey was gone. They did not know just
how much they had spent, and so could
not say how much had been taken. La
zotte says that the bartender struck him
over the head and knocked him down
when the loss was complained of. Lazotte
was robbed of so on Christmas Eve in
place on Congress street and was locked
UP for some time witness; so he
avoided the police this time and sent
Welch to report at headquarters. The
men were allowed to go to their homes.
and promised to go to Troy to appear in
court If necessary,
ANOTHER KELLEY CASE.
A clipping from a Minneapolis paper has
been received by Putney man who had
q case almost identical with that cited in
the clipping 1t reads follows: AN
other of the Kelley cases. Says the
court, taking up Henry H. Smith vs.. Hen
~ NJ. Fletcher. Smith owed $ll00 on a
mortgage to Fletcher, who lives in YER
mont, and made an advance payment Of
$500 on it to Kelley, who, as Usual,
elected to remit to his principal Never
theless there Is no evidence that Kelley
had authority to collect for Fletcher, and
he must lose the property by foreclosure.
1T is hard says the court but hard
cases cannot be permitted to make bad
law Tho issues in this case were wheth-
CT Kelley had original authority as agent
of the defendant to receive ana accept
payment of a certain mortgage and If not
whether the defendant had subsequently
ratified Kelley's act. Held, that upon the
evidence the trial court was justified in
finding both issues in the negative"
SONS OF VERMONT DEAD.
Warren G. Williams died a his home in
Chester last Thursday at II o'clock mid
night after AN illness of several years
lie was a member of Henry Post, G.. A.
r., having held the office of commander.
During the war of the rebellion Mr.. Will
Jams was first lieutenant of company G..
10th Vermont Infantry.
VERMONTERS IN ALASKA.
Dr. and Mrs. c. o. Brigham, formerly
of Pittsford, who started last spring with
the Vermont Klondikc company, were last
heard from at Golfwin Bay Alaska, where
they are managing a stationery store this
winter while the proprietor is South buy
ing goods.
: NOTES ABOUT THE STATE.
There were also "a marriages.
The regular January session Of the Yer
mont Supreme Court will begin at Mont
pelier Jan. "a.
The Masons of Brattleboro have issued
I invitations to their ball which will be held
t in the ArmoIy on Elliot street Feb. l.
II The next meeting of the Windham
r county association of Congregational min
II listers will be held at the Brooks House
: Brattleboro Monday, Feb G. at | p. m.
e The late Coy. Fuller's collection of tun.
l. ing forks which includes more than 500
: specimens from all over the world. anc
the first tuning fork ever made cost So
h OO0. and is said to be the largest of its
q kind in existence.
d Deputy Warden Nathan d. Allen of the
u Massachusetts state prison at Charles
u town, the former Brattleboro man who
n was murderousy assaulted three weeks
ago, ny Stllpll'l man -, all inmate VA IN
- prison, has been visiting his sister il
= Greenfield. Mass, the past week. He vii
Il return to his duties without such dis
! figuring scar as was at first supposed
{ would result from his injury
{ There are on exhibition in Bennington
{ the heads of two elk, which were killed ii
{ Wyoming on the western slope of the
Z Rocky mountains by j. -. Curtis. of thai
! town. one of these is an unusually fine
specimen in the velvet" These tive
= heads with those Of the moose shot by
" Judge T.. l.. Sibley. and the caribou by l.
Z T. GrisW old make "A quartctte of interest
> ing stuu4es for the naturalist rarely to bt
: met with outside the large museums.
y The doctors return to the town clerl
: show that during the year lS!S there wer,
,, 80 births and 1l6 death in Brattebo o.
, The GOV. Erastus Fairbanks place in st
u Johnsbury, so long occuplel by the late
', c. NJ Stone and his family is to be con
, Verted into hospital, according to the
= Caledonian. The scheme originated witt
l. the St. Johnsbury physicians and at an III
formal meeting recently a committee O
interested citizens were chosen to TAXI
- steps to Incorporate the hospital, choos'
Il name, and draw up set of rules ant
t bylaws Promises to furnish at. leas
T. eight rooms have been received from indi
> viduals, churches and secret societies. Tn
~ house chosen for this purpose Is one o
- the best built residences in the town, ii
/ by steam and before the hospital is open
ed it will be put in thorough condition FOL
a, use.
q While digging the well for the new
- wrapper factory at Chester Workmel
II found some twenty feet below the sur
-. face two logs of wood in an eNcellen
" state of preservation. How long they haV'
been there is. of course, uncertain, thouel
many centuries have possibly passed sine
they first became covered.
IT, c. McDuffee of Bradford, voted 70
=" Senator Morrill, when he was first up TO
" representative in 1854 and for the fou
10 succeeding times he was elected to tina
=, Office. He also voted for senator in tn
- House in 1872 and in the Senate in 1884. II
~ is of the opinion that he cast his Vot
~ for the venerable Senator as many time
~ as any man in the State.
~ Dana Curtis, former Lowell boy ha
~ returned on visit after an absence o
forty-two years He has been Il grea
traveller and has been to the Philippin
va Islands several times. He says they ar
IL a rich country and will make valuabl
n. addition to our territory.
If The nclehborhood of Lyndon is churc
,u going neighborhood, about 30 people be
81 ing regular attendants in the variou
Ie churches, about $50 going to the tw
nd churches at Lyndon and about 90 to tn
,d Catholic church and others at Lyndon
rs vile.
IN The annual meeting of the Fourth Ma
sonic district will be held under the au
~