Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-04
NTERS IN VERMONT.
EWs OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

Ews OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLL
srmont Gold Mining-suicide and Ac
-Ptomaine Poisoning in Barre Fam
IN Animal Curiosity-A Remarkably
Maple Sugar Season Chinese Deporta
IA Test Case in the Taxation of Saw
Bank Deposits.
72d meeting of the American
Eute of Instruction will be held in
ngton June |, 2 and 3.
ice has gone out Of Lake Cham
fully two weeks earlier than last
Sand the steamers will begin trips
Sen Plattsburg and Burlington
Jay, April 7.
6ari Valni, 80, French quarry
fell 81 feet into Mari & Gordon S
quarry in Barre Friday and was
htly' killed. He was widower
eaves brother and sister in Paris.
chard, the seven-y ear-old son of
LAND Mrs. Richard Lilly of Orwell,
rome kind of root he thought was
% flag last week Wednesday, was
- violently sick and died in few
6Rtes.
3karles Matthews of Middlebury has
&eat curiosity in the way of a calf,
fDh resembles bull dog. Its head,
&3% legs. body, nose, teeth and tail
Whose of dog and it has nails on
lie family of Henry E. Jeffords of
re were poisoned Thursday from
ng cheese and were seriously ill.
j Chords was temporarily deranged
squite violent. The cause was di-
|11iy traced to ptomaine poisoning
~ the cheese.
lsElfred Hamilton, the first man to be
to death by the Supreme
1T of Washington, was once teach
B&t Goddard seminary, Barre. The
|34der for which he was sentenced is
III to have been without excuse and
Ut said that he has killed number
ther men.
fx Cinnamon who have been in the
Sc of correction at Rutland for sew
~ weeks awaiting deportation, were
en- to Boston Monday by officers
IS were joined at Bellows Falls by
1Sther lot of Celestials from Newfane
81 The lot will be sent back to
Una from Boston via San Francisco.
81 will cost the town of Milton some
1000 to replace the damage done to
\ main highway bridge by the recent
1Shets. The bridge was of wood, was
Meet long and had stood the buffet
IS of wind and water for SO years.
y town will soon call special meet
I to provide funds to rebuild the |
1hge.
The fame of Vermont's sheep, which
y extended all over the world appar
Hy, is to be shared by cattle pro
Icers in the state. To fill orders,
fpment of so of the choicest blooded |
Is and bulls to be found in Addison
Snty were shipped Saturday for
nth Africa. The cattle are intended
Il breeding purposes.
vish Commissioner Davis stopped at
anton on his return from Canada,
Iere he went to satisfy himself that
Canadians were really fishing with
hes in the Missisquoi Bay. He told
n Swanton fishermen that he found
hgs over there just as they had
Do represented to him and gave per-
6sion to go ahead with the fishing
promised to send the licenses later
]. A. Cook, a mining expert from
ston, and E. j. Bullock, leading
siness man of Readsboro, have leased
but 5000 acres of land in the vicin
of Readsboro, for mining purposes,
4 work will be commenced as soon
possible. The vein of ore is said to
on the same line as the one now so
worked at Wilmington. A
ge number of samples of ore have
N assayed, all having shown paying
oosits of -four gold
Edward Livensdale, father of the boy
o was killed on the M. & W. tracks
Barre in December, committed sui
e Friday by throwing himself under
evening train which arrived in
RE at S:1O The body was found
h head and shoulders over the rail,
head crushed to jelly and his
IS, nearly severed, extended above
head. In one hand was cap be- I
cling to his dead boy. Livensdale has
N respondent ever since the death t
MS son but had been working late {
He leaves wife and six children. c
uit has been brought for Fred
hop, a quarryman in Williamstown,
recover SIS, 600 from Luther Bailey, /
eacher in the graded school of that e
n, for alleged injuries to Bishops
, Lewis, who was pupil under Mr.. G
ley; S1O,0 of the sum is for dam i
s to the boy and So, 900 for damages "
he father from the incapacitating Il
the boy for service before he be- h
les of age. Plaintiff claims that
Bailey threw the boy so that he
lex seat, permanently injuring .
arm. Defendant claims that the i
Try was no fault of his. L
he maple sugar season in Windsor !
nty has been the best in many h
rs. Producers consider that ten
d sap days constitute a big run,
already there have been fifteen.
usual average of the yield is about ;,
or two and halfspounds of sugar d
a tree, but this year some of the
ners claim four pounds and over. G
five years previous to this many I
lards have failed to produce sap
ugh to pay for setting the buckets
this years run has been great a
, to farmers. Very little more u
ar can be made this year, however, W
spt in back towns where there is
considerable snow. tc