The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-12-07
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10Th for the reopening of congress.
The 29th session of the Vermont Stat
Grange will assemble at Grange hal
Brattleboro, Wednesday, Dec. IL.
The Brattleboro Phoenix has exhibits
commendable enterprise by installing
new Mergenthaler linotype machine il
its office.
Mrs. w. c. Horton of Brattleboro ha
discovered a new fern, which the curato
of the herbarium connected with HaI
ward University says will be named afte
her.
The Poultney graded school has beef
closed indefinitely on account of the epi
demic OF fever which is abroad. Abou
twenty cases are reported in the villag
alone.
The Chelsea Electric Light g. Powe
Company has decided to enter upon tn,
manufacture of bobbins in its building
winch was formerly the property of thu
Bell Shoe Company.
Senator Dillingham's address this win
ter will be the Hotel Cochrane, N. w.
Washington, D. c. He has engaged {
pleasant suite of rooms at that thorough
ly excellent family hotel. =
George A. Pearson of Essex junction
received bolOs knife and sheath from
Will Baker, who is with the AID in the
Philippines. 1t is one of the best ones
that have been received here.
Ex-Mayor George II. Guernsey of Mont
pelier died Nov. 2Sth, after a long illness
He was one of the best known architects
in the state and had designed and built
many churches, public buildings, etc.
II. Fl. Anterior and r. W. Lowell OF
Cavendish are on their way to the Pacific
coast, whence they go to Cape Nome
They intend to winter in Seattle and
leave for the Alaska gold fields early in
the spring.
A sample of ore from the sulphur mine
in the Bellows Pipe" owned by Lewis
Perkins and sister, Mrs. Martha +. locke,
near Bellows Falls, was recently assayed
in Boston and was shown to contain AZ
per cent. of sulphur.
While making up train of cars at
| Mortified, between and 9 o'clock Nov.
3Oth,. Francis Grace, a brakeman, was
caught between two cars and badly
crushed. He was seriously injured, but
it is thought not fatally.
Edwin A. Blodgett, the republican can
didate for mayor in Springfield, Mass,
was born in Brookfield, Vt, July 4, 1854.
but removed to Randolph in early youth.
He was educated IN the public schools
and graduated from the Randolph Nor
NAL school. He went to Springfield in
1871.
Rev. James Gray, brother-in-law of
William {. Tyler of st. Johnsbury, has
been appointed by Lord Roberts Librarian
at Pretoria. Mr.. Gray is British SUBJ
ject, who was obliged to leave his pulpit
in Pretoria when the war broke out be-
cause he would not swear allegiance to
the Boer cause.
Mrs. Olive NJ. Puffer of Bennington, de-
partment president w. r. G. of Vermont,
announces the names of twenty-four
corps that have contributed $40 for the
Galveston relief fund. She also announces
the resignation of Mrs. Priscilla Black4
mer as department secretary, and has ap-
pointed Mrs. Lucy j. Gibson to fill the
vacancy.
The depot at Center Rutland was
burned to the ground at o'clock on the
morning of Nov. "a. 1t is thought that
the fire caught from the stove. Nothing
was saved. The loss of freight records
will cause much confusion. All the West
ern Union wires were down up to 1OI
O'Clock. The depot was used by the Rut-
land railroad and the Delaware & Hudson
railroad.
A very unique communication from
Montana has been received at the office
of the Rutland News, part of which reads
as follows: II have been receiving for
some time the Rutland Weekly News adj
dressed to --. | noticed that it was
paid for. The party to whom it was adj
dressed met an untimely end two months
ago, hence he will not be able to receive
the paper printed on it's present material.
| am unable to inform you definitely
as to whether copy to reach him sht uld
be fitted with wings or printed on ashes
tos." n
Herbert Fl. Ward, the new attorney
general of Delaware, is a former Hard
wick boy, son of DR.. A. Ward of that
town. The Wilmington. Del, Star says1
Of him: we congratulate the republican
party of Delaware upon having secured to |
the state for the next four years, the SER
vices OF an attorney general whose abili |
ty, honesty and industry will guarantee
the best possible protection for the inter-
9sts cOntided to his keeping. No man in |
Delaware has record that gives better
promise of perfect service in the office of
attorney general than Herbert H. Ward"
About noon Nov. 9th as electric car
No: 20, containing twenty passengers. was
making its trip from Barre to Montpelier
t jumped the track when Just this side
If the car barn. The car plunged to the
light and down the embankment, precip-
tating the passengers into the lower end.
fortunately its progress was impeded by
he trucks sinking into the earth bringing
t to stop without injury to any one on
board. The rear end of the car protruded
~ W Cuo GIdCh 10 SuCn an extent JldC
While it was being gotten back upon the
rack it was necessary to carry passen-
,ers by at this point.
DR.. Harry Tracy Hanks, NJ. D., LII. D.,
Who died in New York Sunday, was a
lative of East Randolph. He graduated
rom the Albany Medical college in 1861
nd during the war was assistant surgeon
n the 18th New York Volunteers. He
lad been prominent in the medical pro-
ession for years and as Surgeon at the
Dewitt dispensarT treated over 7OOO pa
tents and performed many difficult oper-
tlons. He was president of the New
Z ork Academy of Medicine two years.
lie was lecturer on obstetrics and was
1idely known as a surgeon, a writer on
ledical subjects and an inventor of sur
ical instruments.
John, the eight-year-old son of Mr.. and
lrs. Charles Basalow of South Lincoln, :
Tas shot and fatally wounded with a re-
Oliver belonging to, and in the hands of .
thel, the 16-year-old daughter of Lewis
lartSl of Rochester, who was visiting at
lr. Basalow's. Miss Martel, holding her
evolver, Mrs. Barsalow, her little son
nd daughter and some other girls were
,andlng on the piazza when some one of
ne party spoke of shooting at a mark.
he next instant the weapon was dis
larged, the ball entering the boys head
yer the left eye. The accident happened
O'Clock, Nov. 23rd and the child died
the same day.
Frank III. Atherton died of bright's dis
lse at his home In Waterbury Nov. 18th.
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