Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-14

The will of the late Horatlo u
LOOMS bequeathes $4,000 to thu
Fletcher free library of Burlington
the income only to be used.
States Attorney James B. Donoway
of Middlebury, who has been i'll fol
several weeks with typhoid fever, is
steadily improving in health.
The executors of the estate of Henry
X. Elkins have given the Vermont His
torical society valuable collection OF
early Vermont coins, paper currency
and other Revolutionary relics, be-
queathed to the society by Mr.. Elkins
who was born in Peacham and died in
Chicago in July 1901. His father was
one of the first settlers of Peacham.
Extensive building operations are
planned for Rutland this season and a
big business boom is expected, due
partially to the promised erection
there of the immense shops of the Rut-
land railroad company. Every indus
try in the city is running to its full
capacity.
The Vanderbilt railway interests of
the United States, who. through DR..
Seward Webb, are credited with hav-
ing purchased the Canada Atlantic
Railway system, have also secured an
option OH the Ottawa Northern and
Western Railway, and the Interprovin-
cial Bridge, which spans the Ottawa
River at the capital, and gives en-
trance to the new Central station in
that city. The purchase, it is said,
will be concluded Immediately after
the Canada Atlantic sale is consum-
mated 1t now appears as if the Webb
syndicate was determined to have an
independent railway line from the
Strait of Canso westward, as we'll as
from Sydney to Hawkesbury.
A rare case in spinal surgery and the
first ever performed in the vicinity,
was performed at Brightlook.. hospital,
ST. Johnsbury, Tuesday. The patient
was Harrison Richards, who was in
jured in the highway crossing acct
dent at Sutton, last week. Mr.. Rich
ards sustained fracture of the third,
fourth and fifth dorsal vertebra, frag-
ments of which were pressing on the
spinal cord. In consequence of the
fra cture and attendant results, the pa
tient was paralyzed below the seat of
the injury. These fragments were re-
moved, in some instances entirely, and
unless changes have already been
caused by the pressure on the spinal
cord, the patient has a fair chance to
recover the use of some, if not all, of
the paralyzed muscles. Al present he
is doing we'll,
State Tax Commissioner j. E. Cush-
man has made new ruling touching
the taxation of insurance companies ]!
which will effect substantially one half \
of the companies doing business in
Vermont. The ruling is to the effect .
that purely mutual companies and COM
panies having some capital stock but !
doing mutual business must pay an
annual license tax to the state. The |
rule will make an increase of about (
g, 500 in the state tax for the year
alone. New blanks have been prepared
and the companies are required to state
the amount of their capital stock. their
admitted assets, gross Invisible sur
plus, surplus over all liabilities, un-
paid dividends or other profits due and
10 become due policy holders and the
total amount of the face value of pre-
MUM notes on policies in force and
subject to assessment The ruling of
he commissioner holds that the assets
and surplus held by insurance compan
es for the benefit of policy holders is
included in the law as much as the as
'ets and surplus of savings banks or
rust companies.