Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

Burnham was a winner at the Cam
bridge, n. Y, fair Wednesday al
though losing the first heat One heat
was covered in 2.13M.
Judge Waterman is repairing the
Sherman house on High street, which
he bought recently. He will move to
it at an early date.
The society of Seamstresses, Needle.
women and Shop Girls will hold its
annual meeting in Festival Hall to-
morrow evening at s o'clock.
Rev. r. X. Marvin will lead the Y.
NJ. c. A. meeting on the common in
this village Sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock. Miss Gregg will sing.
The headquarters of the First Yer
mont cavalry at the national Grand
Army encampment in Cleveland, Ohio,
Sept IL will be in the grand Jury
room in the post Office building.
Fred c. won second money in the
2.19 class for a purse of $500 in Con-
cord, N. H., yesterday, finishing Sec
ond, second and fourth. There we're
six starters and the race was won in
straight heats by Mary D. in 2211b,
2.16A, 2.17%.
The Y. NJ. G. A. and Brattleboro
Hosiery company teams will meet Sat
urday afternoon at o'clock on the
island grounds. Monroe and Crowell
will be the opposing pitchers. 1t is
expected that this will be the first of a
series of three games.
Judge Waterman, DR.. Holton and
L. F. Adams, representing the incorpor-
ators of the proposed Brattleboro hos
pital under the Thompson fund, were
in Boston Wednesday and Thursday to
confer with Mr.. Minot and Mr.. Brad
ley, trustees of the Thompson fund,
in regard to the hospital, and they also
paid visit to the Waltham hospital
and training school.
The railroad management will hold
the Brattleboro & Whitehall morning
mixed train next Wednesday, the open
ing day of the court, until after the
arrival of the go train from the north.
This train will also be held each Mon
day during the session until that hour
Every day during the session the down
train will be held at Newfane until
o'clock.
Twenty Cinnamon, who have been
confined in Newfane Jail awaiting a
decision of their appeal to Judge
Wheeler on an order of deportation,
were brought to Brattleboro TODAY in
charge of United States Marshal Field
of Rutland, Ernest ]. Waterman and
Leroy Corser of BrattleboTo. They
were photographed, one at a time by
Photographer Howe. and their meas
urements were taken by Marshal
Field. Mr.. Field, Mr.. Waterman and
Mr.. Corser will take them this after
noon to New York, where they will be
placed on board "a vessel bound for
China.
George w. Pierce so, of Fitchburg,
Mass. formerly of Brattleboro, was
killed in Fitchburg yesterday by fall
ing from a building. He was painting
the post Office building and was up
three stories, when the device inside
window, by which the staging was
fastened, became loose and the stag
ing tilted backward precipitating Mr..
Pierce to the ground. He struck on
his head, fracturing his skull, and died
instantly. Mr.. Pierce was a veteran
of the civil war, being a member OF
company G. of the I'd Vermont regi-
ment, and lived in Brattleboro a while
after the war. His wife died in Fitch
burg in August. 1899, and the body
was brought to Brattleboro for burial
The body of Mr.. Pierce will be brought
here tomorrow and will be buried IN
Prospect Hill cemetery. Mr. Pierce
leaves a son, Roy, in Fitchburg, and
relatives in Brattleboro.