Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-09-05
BARRE.

Mrs Maud Zottman Williams died
Thursday morning after an illness of only
two weeks. Tie death is particularly sad
in chat 1t vas attended by the death Of her
infant child Mrs Williams came from
burlington originally, being the daughter
of Mrs NJ. Zottman. formerly of that city.
The funeral was held Saturday.
NJ T. Downs Of this city was struck ty
an outgoing train on the Central Vermont
Railroad Wednesday afternoon and mar
nuwly escaped serious injury. He was Sit
ting beside the track in Il sort OF Conatosa
condition ard Old not appear to notice the
train as he made no effort to move The
steps on one of the passenger coaches
struck him, throwing him considerable
distance He was picked up unconscious
but VIII recover II internal troubles do no
develop.
Tho Painc-HcrseY case, which has been
N prominent one in local legal circles for
nearly three years has finally been set
tlcd out of court by Mr.. Herscy buying
the Paine farm and the latter agreeing to
discontinue his suits against I1erscy The
price agreed upon is $1,000, whereby Her
sev takes the Paine farm on which are To-
Gated certain springs The case originated
over the sale OF certain springs on the
farm to Mr., Hersey for $500. Later other
springs on the same farm were sold by
Paine to other parties. These last springs
were claimed by HersoY. who said that he
had bought them with the others for $500
The original owner said that he never
signed such n deed and brought suit
AGAINST Hrrsey to have it annullod. II
was heard before j. II. Senter hut the
buying Of the whole farm by lierscy set
ties the matter out Of court.
G. s. Currer, city engineer since the in
corporation of the city and Supcrntcn-
dcnt OF Water Works since the city bought
the plant, has resigned both Offices. The
designations were accepted Monday night
hy the city council This action IS sup
posed to be the result Of the resolution
Of ccnsure which the city council passed
recently for allowing the pump to freeze
last winter. HIS successor will be chosen
soon,
The police raided the American House
Monday morning and secured "A half a bar
rel Of beer. Tho hotel has pecn conducted
under tho pres mt management ABOUT Two
months. Monday evening another raid
was made on River street. known rs
BaIrc's "Bowery." Half a bottle of wins
key Was seized here and man and woman
who occupied the room were arrested.
William Corcoran an expert accountant
In the National Life oiHce at Montpelier,
was arrested on River street Monday tor
intoXication Mrs. Clifford Pease who
was with him, tried to rescue him from
chief Of Police TroWn and she was also
arrested.
Day celebration held at Cherryvale Grove
Monday, under the auspices of the Uni
ted Labor organizations of the city IN
spite of the inClement weather the cole
lration was n great success. There was n
long list of games and sports which were
ECtly contested. Tho most exciting was
the tug Of war in which six teams contest
ed, namely, the Independent order Of FOR
eHtcrs knights of Columbus, AInerit Al
order of For"sters Clan Gordon the car
enters Union and the Clerks Union. IN
Independent order of FCrtsters won. AZ
able address on tho labor problem was de-
livcrcd by George II. Sv asey, Esq, VINO
introduced the bill ir the Legislature OF
/ 1898 establishing Labor Day as holiday
In the case Of Smith, Whitcomb a. COOK
ct al praying that the Barre Water com
panY be restrained from using It's water
for polishing purposes which was takel
to the Supreme Court on a decision
against petitioners. the higher court has
reversed the decision and remandcd th'
case back to the lower court to fix amount
of damages for water used in the past
years, The petitioners are owners OF Ger
tain water rights along the JAN branch ol
the Ninoosk river. which Is ono or th'
sources Of the city water supply They
claim that they have evidence to show