Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD


The Oldest vermonter 112-Arrested an
Fined for Selling Jamaica Ginger-Tene
ment House Fire in Montpelier-To State
Prison for Bigamy-Mystery Of Barr
Mans Disappearance solved-Arrested TO-
Attempted Murder.
The supposed smallpox in Cambridge
has turned out to be chickenpoX
The Vermont Association in Wash
ington held its annual reunion Friday
evening with a large attendance: Keep
resentative d. j. Foster of Burlington
delivered an address,
An article has been placed in the
warning for the March meeting at
Montpelier to see if the voters VIII
recommend to the city council that
nine hours a day shall be the schedule
of hours for city laborers.
Abraham Lincoln Post, G. A. r., of
White River Junction, has been dis
banded, its surviving members being
old and infirm and unable to attend
the meetings. The organization las
done good work during its existence.
Ira Fleury of Richmond, 81 years of
age and father of II children. was sem
fenced in Burlington court Friday to
two years in the house of correc-
ton. The prosecution was conducted
under the blanket act, the maximum
sentence for his offence being Il years.
News has been received at Benning-
ton of the death in Los Angeles, CAL,
Friday of the Rev. DR.. William II.
Meeker, an active member for nearly
80 years of the Troy M. e. conference
having preached in Rutland and Pitts
ford circuit, the Georgia and Milton
circuit and for three years in Middle
bury.
The deal engineered by DR.. W. s.
Webb, chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the Rutland railroad. where
by that road was to have absorbed the
Canada Atlantic, has been blocked,
temporarily at least, by a Canadian
statute prohibiting the sale of any
Canadian railroad to foreign corpo-
ration.
1t is said that Burlington citizens
are thinking of holding city meeting
to see on what terms the Rutland rail
road shops can be secured for that
city, believing that the matter is not
yet settled in Rutland's favor, al
though DR.. Webb has accepted the
Rutland proposition and has promised
that work on the new shops will begin
as soon as the weather will permit.
A dividend of 7411:s per cent. has been
declared by the probate court at Bur,
lington to the legatees under the Will
of Prudence B. Roby. The Methodist
Episcopal church will get S446O for
their parsonage. The home for aged |
women will get $500 and the W. G. L. I
u. temperance temple at Chicago $500.
The Methodists would have had 5000
except for litigation which ate up the
rest.
DR.. G. A. Bailey of Randolph, was
arrested Friday and pleaded guilty OF
furnishing four ounces of Jamaica gin
ger to William Tobey which he claims
to have got drunk on. The doctor was
fined s. and costs amounting to -,
which he at once paid. The medicine
was obtained at Bailey's drug store
from one of his clerks and he knew
nothing of the matter until arrested
on the charge of furnishing.
As the result of dispute at Fort
Ethan Allen over pipe, Private Has
kell of the 9th Battery of field artll-
lery, stabbed Private Donahue in the {
abdomen Just below the heart with a
four-inch jack knife Monday. The
thrust was made with great force and {
an ugly wound was inflicted. Donahue
soon became unconscious and was TAX {
en- to the hospital where he lies in s
precarious condition. Haskell was ar {
rested and is in the guard house '
charged with an attempt to murder.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Luther Fairbrother of
Barre, who went to Attleboro, Mass, q
from that place recently, was solved by !
the finding of his dead body on the ice a
at Laurel pond Mr. Fairbrother left
The home of his brother Friday morn $
ing to go to Valley Falls to secure I
some medicine. He remained in the 1
village until late in the evening. When Q
ne started for home it was showing, Il
md it is believed he lost his way, at l
tempting to cross the pond, was over Il
,ome by the wind, and fell exhausted. Q
Mrs. Honora McCarty, who has the Il
distinction of being the Oldest person I
living in Vermont, Saturday observed i
Ter 1l2th birthday, at her home near t.
lake Paran in the town of SALISBURY. il
ion as to the accuracy of her age, and 6,
he priest of the parish in which she
esides sent to Ireland, and procured b
opies of the baptismal records from is
he church in that country, which left +,
10 doubt as to the date of her birth, n
which was the first Friday in Lent, N
100. She remembers quite distinctly N
he famous O'Donnell rebellion. NJ
Private Porter of the I'd Battery, Ell
risoner at Fort Ethan Allen, who was a.
vorking on the reservation in the "a
barge of an armed guard, overpowered n
be guard Saturday and took from him
is rifle, and revolver and in turn W
lade a prisoner of the guard, and OF
bliged him to accompany him to parts q
t present unknown. A large detail &C
as at once sent out in pursuit of the IL
fugitive. The fugitive was found by G.
ursuing troops in the woods near Es- y
ex Junction and with the sentry was ca
AIKEN back to the post. The sentry
ill be tried by general court martial.
ST. Johnsbury is stirred over the an ST
ouncement that the defeat of the
ate in the Cochrane bucket shop
ase has not ended the prosecution. do
latter Jewett, respondent in another m
ase, was in court Thursday morning co
plead to an indictment found at the
.st June term Upon his plea of not 90
Utility the case was mol pressed by the "a
ate and Jewett was Immediately re- ~,
.rartad ON an in form ion consi sting o'