Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-27
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

The Ripton Poisoning Case-An Ancient Ac-
count Book Rutland's New Depot Building
Horribly Burned to Death-A vermonter
the Probable New Treasury Secretary Lip
uor Injunctions in Bennington
S. ID. Wilson, alias Waite, the
''spotter, was arraigned in Windsor
county court last week and pleaded not
guilty to the charge of manslaughtel.
Mrs. S. +. Brush, widow of the late
owner Of the Cambridge Transcript,
has decided to retain control of the
paper She will be the only woman
publisher in the state.
The plant of the Vermont School
Seat Company at Rutland, which has
not been operated for several years,
was sold at auction last week to Mrs.
Florence b. Cramton for Sc, 100.
The big wooden mills at Winuoski re-
sumed operations last week after "A
years shut-do If tax-exemption is
voted by the town meeting today, the
mills will ultimately give employment
to 1000 or 1900 persons
The annual meeting of the North
American Fish and Game Protective
association will be held at the Van
Ness house, Burlington January y.
1t is probable that the business of this
meeting will require a two days SEES
! sion.
Recently approved plans for Rut-
lands new depot call for a three-st
! building of brick with marble and
terra Gotta trimmings. The main por
tion will be $50 feet long, the waiting
room handsome court the full height
of the building, lighted through glass
roofs.
Mrs. Frank Benway gave birth to
three children, two boys and one girl
at Bennington Saturday. All are do
ing we'll. The father is a laboring
man and they have four other children.
Three years ago it was thought that
Mrs. Benway was in the last stages of
consumption.
| A handsome bronze tablet has been
placed in the Grand Army of Republic
room at the II emorial and library build
| ing at st. Adams Its inscription says
| that it was placed there by John Greg
DRY Smith, war governor of Vermont
/ in honor of st Adams men who served
/ in the civil war.
y
poisoning case in RiptOn, which re
suited in the death of Carleton Guptill
ten DAYS ago and the critical illness of
four male companions. shows that the
men secured a gallon of wood alcohol
and improyised what is known among
/ the mountaineers as jack
Forefathers' Day was observed for
! the fifty-ninth time by the Historical
society at Middlebury Friday night
with banquet. after which President
/ Charles S. Murkland of the New
/ Hampshire Agricultural college made
an address. The faculty of Middle
bury college and former Governor
Stuart also were guests.
Fx-Goy +. j. Ormsbee has offered
prizes amounting to $50 for spelling
contest which will take place in the
town hall at Brandon the first Friday
in February. The first prize will be
80. the second 81, and the third -.
I Any pupil attending school in brandon
is entitled to a chance to compete.
Governor Ormsbee will put out the
words himself.
Mrs. Susannah Townsend of Dicker-
sonville. n. y, preserves carefully a.
an heirloom ledger account book kept
4 first by Peter Sutherland of Sutherland
4 Falls. a place now owned 10y Senator
Proctor. The book was opened Janu-
ary, 1892, and among its entries are
many transactions with people whose
names have been prominent in Vermont
within 100 years.
Patrick Rogers was horribly burned
to death in an East Dorset quarry Sat
urday. While the regular fireman was
at dinner, he raked the fire, threw out
hot ashes and cinders, and it is sup
posed slipped and fell striking his
head on the boiler and falling un-
conscious on his face in the hot ashes.
His body was burned to crisp from
chest to knees.
The New York papers report that
1 Col, A. B. Chandler, who has sum
mer home in Randolph, is associated
with Andrew Carnegie in the latter
nroiect to found a model town some
where in New Jersey where telegraph
onerators may acquire homes on easy
navments. Carnegie was formerly an
6uerator and in that capacity became
acquainted with Col. Chandler.
In the Bennington county court Sat,
urdav afternoon Judge RoWell ordered
TEMPORARY injunctions placed upon
several buildings and occupants de-
clarlng them to be public nuisance5'
as liquor had been sold in the h4liq-
mos and by occupants These include
some - persons. As far as known every
Mace in the village has been closed
Since court opened three weeks ago,
Gov. Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa who
will probably be the new , Eecrfl4ry Oh
81 wears ago, but has lived in Iowa
He Fl . is a lawyer and business man, and
first became Brominfnt in Politics cdd%aisn m
He is completing his second term as as
aiU a., President Roosevelt much
admired his courage in 1897 when he
stood firmly for the gold standard
While all prominent Western men were
, daIlving with bimetalism.
Vermont Matters in Congress
REPRESENTATIVE Foster has introduced