Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-02
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD


After All Smallpox Excitement at Esse
Junction Manchester Selected for the Seen
of the International Golf Match-Murde
Trial at North Hero Big Incendiary Fire a
Jonesville'
The Chittenden Power company vii
build another big dam near East Pitts
ford. about five miles below the i'm
mcnse Chittenden dam, now near com
pletion,
Volney Newell is either Burlington
champion liquor drinker or champion
liar Arraigned in court Friday he con
fessed to having drank two gallons o
whiskey inside of "a hours.
The state humane society will hole
its annual meeting and election of Off
GERS at Manchester May 49, 1t is ex
pected that General j. G. Mccullough
will deliver an address before the meet
ing.
DR.. ". S. Webb is reported as say
ing that things have come up to make
It uncertain whether he will put the
railroad shops at Rutland or not but
the new station would be put there,
positively, as planned.
Ninety men belonging to the 1st and
Sd squadrons of the I'd cavalry, United
States army, in charge of Lieuts.
Raney and Pope, formerly stationed at
Cienfuegos and Mantanzas, arrived in
New York Sunday night on board the
steamer Albis and will proceed to Fort
Ethan Allen.
The state labarotory of hygiene at
Burlington is supported by the state
> 10 nft 49, hn 10 Nhat 1 hIps
is not fully understood is evident from
the fact that the director, DIR. M. J.
| Wiltsie. is continually receiving speci-
mems for analysis with the request to
report with bill. -
The students of the University of
Vermont are making an effort to have
the old Vermont songs, written by col
lege men for gatherings of various
kinds by the college students, collect
ed and bound in one volume. 1t is ex
pected that the book will be ready for
distribution June Is.
The Drury Brick and Tile company's
yard at Essex Junction is quarantined
with some 60 men in the enclosure, a
Canadian arriving there recently hav
ing come down with smallpox. The
greatest excitement exists among the
workmen, many of whom declare they
will leave the village at once.
\ series of summer schools will be
held throughout the state between
July p and August s, each to contin-
ne two weeks Many prominent educa
tors will be among the lecturers.
Schools will be held in st. Adams,
Rutland, Bennington, ST. Johnsbury,
Essex Junction, Windham county and
Orange county places to be decided
The trial of Antonio Colangelo, who
is charged with numbering his friend,
John Julian at Windmill Point, near
Alburgh, some time ago, will begin at
the regular term of Grand Isle county
court, Judg Tyler presiding, which
convenes at North Hero Tuesday morn
ing. Mrs. Colangelo, the mother of
the prisoner, and her young daughter
have arrived from their home in Italy
to be present at the trial.
The Ekwanok golf course has been
selected for the international golf
match between the U. S. and Canada
this summer. The course is situated
in Manchester-on- the Mountains. Man
chester is exactly midway between
New York and Montreal with excep-
tional railroad facilities. The match
played at this point will attract un-
usual attention owing to the accessi- |
bility and popularity of the course.
1t is said that the Montpelier & Wells |
River railroad is to put in claim for |
damages against the city of Montpelier |
as a result of the February flood. 1t is
claimed that the Granite street bridge
which was taken out by the water
lodged in such a position that it turned
nearly the whole force of the current
against the masonry wall which forms
the river bank under the railroads car
shops and beside it's tracks, and that
the wall has been undermined by the
stream and will have to be rebuilt.
Nearly dozen people were injured,
some of them seriously, by a collision
Friday on the Central Vermont at
East Swanton, where the tracks of that
road cross those of the st. Johnsbury
and Lake Champlain road. The Cen
trail Vermont train due from Montreal
at 10 80 crashed into the express from
St. Johnsbury due in East Swanton at
10 81 a. m., striking toward the rear
of the last car. The injured were in
the rear car on the st. Johnsbury
train. None of the trainmen were hurt.
The census report on agriculture in
Vermont gives the following summary 1
on the basis of June l, 1900: Number
Of farms, 49, 104: value SS3, OH, 620. OF b
this amount 40 per cent represents the s
value of buildings and the rest of lands
and improvements other than build I
ings. The value of farm implements
and farm machinery was 81, 33S, 400, I
and of livestock, SIT, S4l,317 The !
total value of farm property was slOS,- I
4Jl, POT, and the value of farm products
in 1899 was S33, so, S92, of which 46 7
per cent was in animal products. The
gross farm income for 1899 was S21, ,
1874, 302.
Miss Swan and her nephew, James {
Swan Morrill,, gave a reception Friday
at their residence in Washington, in |
honor of Capt. and Mrs. Charles 4. i
Clark, the former being a lifelong Z
friend of the Morrill, family and the {
appointee to the naval academy of the {
late Senator Morrill,. 1t was a gather t
ing of old friends and guests. Thurs |
day evening Mr. Morrill, gave dinner t
in honor of Capt. and Mrs. Clark, most t
of the guests being oldVermont friends, t
among the number Senator Proctor and t
Miss Proctor, Senator and Mrs. Doll Il
Yer, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hitchborn, II
Rear Admiral Kenny, Mrs. Baxter and v
and Mrs. Haskins. f
The first thunderstorm of the season f
SATURDAY. night was severe at North ;