Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-09-21

Items regarding the oldest voter in Yer
mont have been going the rounds in the
papers. Windsor claims the champion in
the person of Calvin B. Gross, who is "a
years old and voted at the last election.
Myron Chambers two large barns in
North Bennington village were burned Sat
urday, with a quantity of hay and grain.
The live stock was removed. The house
adjoining was saved although everything
was moved from it.
Kate Walker, employed by Winston
Churchill, the author, as cook, at Cornish,
n H., opposite Windsor, died Tuesday
from the effect Of wood alcohol which she
took by mistake for medicine to relic We
pain. She was a native of Novo Scotia,
and was about 60 years old. Mr.. Churchill
and wife and several guests came on the
train last night and learned Of the sad affair
on their arrival
Judge w. P. Stafford gave evidence
again Of his intention to enforce prohibitory
law, at St. Albans Saturday, when George
A. Best, proprietor Of a hotel in Swanton,
was placed under $4,000 to await trial on a
charge of selling liquor. Homer W. Car
man, Best's clerk, was placed under $500
bail. Best has already served a term Of
thirty days in the house of correction.
The farm house and barns Of Andrew V.
Turner OF Barnumville, near Manchester
were burned on Sunday. The family were
away, and people passing by saw flames
issuing from the horse barn. Neighbori
succeeded in saving some of the household
| furniture. The hay, farming tools and
some stock we're burned. The loss is part
ly covered by insurance. The origin of thu
| fire is not known.
In the municipal court at Bennington Tues
day Herbert Kennon pleaded guilty of assault
on his wife with deadly instrument, will
intent to kill, and was given the maximum
sentence of not less than eight or more thai
| 10 years in the state prison at hard labor
The assault was committed the evening o
Aug. 20, when he undertook to cut he
throat with a razor. Kennon did not appea
to be much concerned while in court. II
was captured in Stratton.
Interest in gold mining in Vermont ha
been revived the past week by the work o
prospectors in Worcester, Washington coun
ty. They have sampled every sand banl
and the bed of every stream in town TO
evidences Of gold, and in several case
have found more than q trace. In som
of the Worcester sands there is a deposi
|
pan for gold, but no rich deposits hav
been discovered.
Rev. L. c. Partridge of Hague, N Y
formerly pastor Of the Congregations
church in Bennington, has been notified b
the secretary of state that his daughter
Miss Mary l.. Partridge, 80, was anon
those WHO were massacred at Shans
China, July 81. Miss Partridge was fo
many years a resident of Bennington
She had been a missionary in China 81
years. She was q niece of F. Z. Pa
= fridge, former United States minister
Venezuela.
Insurance Commissioners John l.. Baco
of White River Junction and Fred
Rowland of Montpelier, have made publ
the following figures, showing the damae
: by fire in Vermont during the first 81
months of 1900 as reported thus far und,
the provisions of act No. 10, session Law
: of 1898, by companies authorized to tran
act business in the state: Damage in Jal
uary, $136,272; February, $50, 800; Marc
$42,922; April, 1921, 720; May, $5l ,S5
June, 500, SIP; total for six months, $44S
= 675 The fire damage for the correspon
= ing period in 1899 was 1892, 476.