Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-30
John Nichols started yesterday for

~ C"cstuuV Ilil auueuuct pipes
are being run around Prospect street.
Three carloads more of Russian
Jews passed through here yesterday
bound for New York.
The railroad commissioners yester
day Inspected the Boston 81 Maine be.
tween here and Bellows Falls.
&C B Lamson is moving his cigar
box mandatory from the Carpenter
Organ building to the UlIery annex.
Mrs Abbie Fuller received a cable
gram Saturday from London, Eng,
stating that Miss Maud Essex had sailed
for this country.
There will be $l25 excursion to
Lake Sunapee next Sunday. Special
train Leaves here at 8 a. M, and return
ing, leaves Sunapee at 5.l5.
Something new in the lighting line
aud apparently an Improvement over anv-
thing previous is the new four-mantel
bunsen burner which has just been put
into Geo FoX's store and which the
Gaslight Co proposes to push In Brattle-
boro, another one going into Clapp &
Jones store within few days. The idea
of the Bunsen burner is that with air mole 8
at the base by consume gas and a I
together the consumption of gas is
greatly reduced. This one lamp, which
lights Fox's store completely'so that one
can read in any part of it. and is figured
to equal 20OO candle power arc light an
not to consume over Is feet of gas per
hour which at an average OF 1.2 hours
every evening of the week won Id make
the cost only 81 cents week or not
over So a month. 1t is besides very
handsome light. The lamps are manu-
featured at Kalamazoo, Mich.
Officer Roberts was sent for Satur-
day evening to take in tow NJ j
Cavanaugh who was drunk, pounding
his wife and making general disturb
ance at his home on Green street. 1t
took quite little scrap to get him. AT
first Michael thought he would 60 and
then concluded he wouldn't and en-
phssized the opinion by hitting out at
Roberts and knocking of his hat He
hit'only:thats one blow, however, when
Roberts got him by the throat and
choked a change Of mind. After spend
ing his Sunday in Hotel de Vile Cava-
naugh was arraigned before Justice
Newton Yesterday morning, plead guilty
to a charge of intoxication and was
flied S. and costs amounting to Sl07l.
He disclosed that he found jug of
ardent in some house where he was
working and that was the cause. Jas f
Hooker appeared for the prosecution.
The regular July session of the pro.
bate court was held Saturday. r f
Gordon, administrator Of the estate of
Catherine Doyle, was granted license to
sell real estate with consent of heirs.
G Chase, administrator of Daniel 5
Davidson's estate, Nottingham, present.
cd his account for Iinal settlement. F
6 Taylor, administrator of the estate
of Addison b Knapp of Dummerston,
was granted license to sell real estate.
The last will of Masa Willis was pro-
bated and allowed, G A Boyden being
appointed executor, with G c Averill
and c F Thompson commissioners and
appraisers. The will of Mary S Chase
was presented ard allowed, and c W
Wyman appointed executor. j II Gould
ing, administrator of C Newton's es-
tate Of Wilmington, presented petition
for license to sell certain real estate,
which was granted. Samuel Morse. adj
ministrator of the estate of Jane O King
of Newfane, rendered final account.
which was allowed. H f Taylor and G
NJ Clay we're appointed commissioners
and appraisers on the estate OF Betsey
Ingram of Marlboro. Albert Morris
Frlzel, minor over IA years old, made
choice Of Frank l. Hunt as guardian.
The evidence was taken Yesterday
before A f Cudworth OF So London.
derry. referee in the case of Caroline S
Hotaling of Vineland. N j, VIM Lewis
F NJ Laws and Geo Il Burns, claim
ing 500 for breach of bond and balance
due for rent and produce. The Sholes
place in Dummerston was rented
with 5707 OF produce on it to VIM Lewis
from April 1898 to April l, 1900 at $40
a month, with provision for an equal
amount of produce to be left at the end
Of the year, and feeding out of hay on
the farm. In Nov 80 Lewis wanted to
leave and sent his father, + Nj Lewis to
Vineland. N j, to make a settlement, as
the defense claim ed, whereby it was
agreed that IS tons of the best hay in |
he barn at Sl4 ton should be turned !
over to Mrs Hotalipg to pay for the t107 |
oroduce,the rent for the rest of the year |
ind 500 note which she gave up. The |
plaintiff claimed that the hay was to be |
sold by her and the proceeds realized |
applied on the indebtness, that there was |
70 tons and fraction of it, which sold |
It $1,000 ton, amounting to only about |
$3.50. Waterman and Martin for plaintiff |
daskins and Schwenk for defendants.
The remains of Engineer Geo H |
Iorli 5, killed liz the collision at Spring
ield Thursday, were brought here on
he 1872 PM train Saturday and taken
O Prospect Hill cemetery for inter-
nent by the side of his wife, with
prayer by the Methodist pastor of
Windsor. Besides the parents, they
we're accompanies by IS comrades of
he Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi.
eers, with two beautiful floral set
ieces from the brotherhood and train
nen. Only the relatives viewed the
odv, which was unrecognizable from
he Injuries. This head was smashed in
t the cheeks and the body at the ribs,
he Jaw. nose. shoulder, collar bone and
ne, arm broken as well as the ribs. /,
he caboose 10 which he was resting
as the car struck by the passenger
ngine. the engine and the gravel train
self being beyond. The caboose was
mashed TO splinters and Corliss's body
as thrown under the engine tender.
nly few moments before that tina
men were in the caboose and if they {
I'D been there at the time of the col t
sion all would have met CorliSs's fate. |
is claimed that he had been at work I
'r 30 hours on a stretch, and had put v
20 hours from Sunday morning up 5
the time of the accident. {
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