Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-12
MATTERS IN VERMONT
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

-Holdup at Newport-Anarchist McQueel
at Barre The New Vermont Launched :
Labor Troubles in Montpelier Printing OF
fee Rutland Man Assaulted by Italian
Workmen-Beth Boy Drowned While Bath
ing,
The state board of health reports tina
there is but one case of smallpox with
in the state, this case being in Lyndon
VILE
The first copy'of the book entitled
"a Wrecked Institution, written b,
J. w. Ketchum since he has been con
fined in the Chittenden county jail
was issued Friday.
The Vermont Marble company is t.
erect a new Y. NJ c. A. building a
Proctor, to cost from SIS, 600 to $50. COO
1t will be of brick and marble anC
three stories high.
George Harvey who was recently ar
rested in Bennington for enticing his
sister away, has been sentenced to the
reform school at Vergennes for the re
mainder of his minority. He was serv-
ing a sentence at that institution, but
was out on parole. The girl has re
turned home.
Prospero Silva, the Italian who dis,
appeared from East Montpelier on the
night of July II, and who. it was be-
lieved, had met with foul play. re-
turned Friday. He had been visiting
at Buffalo, and was very much sur
prised to know that his disappearance
had caused any uneasiness.
L - ~ I,
fantry of the United States army,
lately stationed at Fort Missouls.
Mont, has been appointed command
ant at Norwich university, Mortified.
Capt. Hovey was stationed at North
field at the outbreak of the Spanish
war Since then he has been with his
regiment
George Buchanan, young man EN-
ployed as a fireman on the Boston Il
Maine railroad, was assailed by two
men about midnight of Sept 3 on
Main street, Newport. and shot in the
arm. Buchanan tainted and while in
an unconscious condition he was rob
bed of $50 and a gold watch His as
sailants have not been apprehended.
The new steamerVermont was launch
tii III hDutlDul ut IJOI. l4dht I HAIL
plain. Sept. 3. Miss Mary Loomis. the
eight-year- old daughter of d. A. Loom
is. acting general manager of the
Champlain Transportation company.
named the boat and broke a bottle of
wine on its bow as it slid from the
ways. The new Vermont succeeds the
old Vermont and is similar TO the
Chateaugay. She has steel hull and
will be fitted with all the modern con-
veniences, The boat will not 90 into
commission until neAt spring.
Fireman William Wilcox of an extra
freight train running between White
River junction and St. Albans was
fatally injured at Montpelier junction
Thursday evening The train broke
in two about mile south of the sta
ton, and while the front end was
standing in front of the station the
hind section smashed into it. Wilcox
was under the engine at the time,
cleaning out the tireboX. His chest
was badly crushed. His home was in
St. Adams. where he had a family.
An unknown man was found under
the railroad bridge near North Hart
land station Thursday morning, shock
ingly injured. Physicians were called
and they thought he had been injured
IS hours. He died in the afternoon.
The man was about 80 years old, with
dark hair and features, and wore a
mustache From papers found he may
be Joseph Kelly or Riley, Essex, Mass,
book agent. \ star was tattoed on
the back of his left hand. He was
probably struck by a passing train.
The authorities are investigating the
case.
This is the 10th week of the strike at
the factories of the F. K. Patch Man
ufacturing company and the Lincoln
Iron works at Rutland and there is no
pre- aspect of settlement. In spite of the
injunctions served last week, pickets
are still on duty. who accost every
stranger that approaches the shops
Feeling is so bitter against the officials
on account of the importation of non
union men to work in the shops, that
an outbreak is feared at any time. The
have erected board fences 10
feet high with barbed wire on top
around the boarding houses of the non
union workmen to prevent alterations
between them and the strikers.
The striking compositors from the
Argus office at Montpelier who have
been out three weeks, waited on the
of that paper Friday, re-
questing Mr.. Atkins to discharge the
non union help at work on his type
setting machine and give them employ
ment. This Mr.. Atkins courteously but
firmly declined to do and negotiations
between these parties or between the
Typographical Union and the Argus
and Patriot office seem to be off. The
offered to take back two
of the striking compositors and give
them steady work, but this offer was
refused the union demanding that the
office should be made a union office
Charles F. Sears. a native and for
mer resident of Bennington Center,
now of Atlantic City, has presented
to the Vermont state historical society
a cane of white oak. made in part from
one of the timbers used in the con
struction of the old First church,
erected at Bennington Center in 1868,
which was the first meeting house in
Vermont. The head of the cane is
made from a piece of the first apple
tree set out in Bennington Oh the farm
now owned by Seymour Van Santvoord
Of Troy, and in the center of the head
is a piece of the old 'charter oak
from Hartford Beside the cane. Mr..
Sears has presented the society with a
piece Of one of the stills from the old
church. Both will be placed in the