Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-01
VERMONTERS
IN THE
PUBLIC EYE.


retired from the superior bench of
San Francisco this week, was presi-
dent of the Pacific Coast association
of Sons of Vermont five terms He
will engage in the general practice Of
law.
Herbert b. Ward, the new attorney
general of Delaware, was born in
Sheffield, VT, i'm 1857, and has prac-
ticed law in Delaware the past IS
years. He was formerly a law part
ner of eX-United Senator George Gray,
now United States circuit court judge.
Edward A. Belcher, who voluntarily
John c. Titcomb of st. Johnsbury
was elected president of the North
American Fish and Game Protective
association, at the sessions in Mon
treal this week. which were attended
by representatives from Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York,
Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New
Brunswick.
Capt Harry 3. Chamberlain, assist
ant quartermaster, u. S. A., has been
ordered from New York city to San
Francisco as quartermaster and act
ing commissary of subsistence on the
transport Lawton. Captain Chamber
lain, it will be remembered, was quar-
termastcrsergeant of the Vermont
volunteer regiment in the war with
Spain. He married the daughter OF
Gen. w. II. Gilmore, of Fairlee.
Col Merritt Barber, a native of Ben
nington county, who has been adult
ant general Of the department of the
Philippines, has been detached from
| that Office. He and his wife were
| last heard from in Canton, China
They expect to visit in Japan and
other Asiatic countries, being on the
journey about a year, Col Barber
will retire on the age limit in a year
and will then make his home in Ben
nington.
Judge Wendell p Stafford, of st
Johnsbury, II. Charles Royce, of st
Adams, and William H. Taylor of Hard
wick have been appointed by Gov. vii
liam w. Stickney, and duly commits
stoned as members of a committee t
arrange and provide for the compila
tion and issue in proper and service
able form a digest of the reported
decisions of the supreme court of thi!
state. in accordance with the provis
ions of number rs of the acts of 1900
Jeremiah Curtain of the bureau o
ethnology of the Smithsonian Insti
tuition, widely known as the translator
of Quo Vadis, has arrived in San Fran
cisco on his way to Washington aftel
tour of the world. in which h,
closely studied an interesting Mongo
tribe known as the Buriats, who, t
the number of 100000, inhabit the
country to the west of Lake Baikal
Mr.. Curtin says Sienkiewicz will soor
issue in English a sequel to "QuC
Vadis." Mr.. Curtin, whose home i:
in Bristol, VT, is the most accomplish
ed linguist of'-fris time, being able tC
write and speak over 60 languages
Mason S. Stone, state superintend
ent of education in Vermont eight
years, has received a despatch from
Manila announcing his appointment
as division superintendent of educa
ton in the Philippine archipelago
Mr. Stone will spend several weeks
in this country in the interests of the
Philippine education department and
| will leave for Manila about May
| Mr. Stone does not know the part OF
the archipelago to which he will be
assigned. The department wants the
services of several hundred primary
teachers at a minimum salary of SIS
or maximum salary of 500 and free
transportation to Manila.
Robert NJ. Collins, Vermont boy
who graduated at Middlebury college
in 1889, was in charge of the Associat
ed Press bureau at London during the
recent events connected with the
death of Queen Victoria and was the
only newspaper man allowed within
| the palace. Mr.. Collins had Just
reached London from China, where he
had been stationed through the recent
complications. He was the first civ
ilian to enter Pekin after the siege
| Previous to that he was in charge of
the Associated Press work in the
Philippines, and at the Queen jubilee
in London. He has a brilliant record
g,
but ten years.
The Cuban Constitution.