Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
Husband and 5000 Gone.

w imam X. GrdnicId OF Montpelier Is
missing and his wife has notified the po-
lice that she thinks he has eloped with
Mrs. Anna Lombard who is described as
pretty grass widow. aged p from Barre.
Up to Jan. !. GranHeld was employed by
j. S Niles, proprietor of the Pavilion. Jan.
Sth he left telling his wife he had a Job
as coaChman for DIR. Seward Webb at
Shelburne. lie has not since been seen
Saturday his wife found that before he
left he drew $500 of the $500 he had in the
bank and bought two tickets for Pasa-
dena Cal. Mrs. Granfield then searched
her husbands effects and found the letter
which indicated that he had gone with
Mrs. Lombard.
Mrs. Granheld is left with two small
children and no money. The police at
Pasadena have been notified To look for
the missing pair
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will re
the guest of honor at IA dinner to be given
in Washington this evening by Senator
Proctor. who has invited only Vermont
ers to meet a Nermonter
+. NJ. Carter. superintendent Of the
oregon station. will succeed John w. Tit
comb as fish commissioner at ST. Johns
bury Mr.. Carter is son-in-law of Sena-
tor Faulkner of West Virginia
The Grand Army of Vermont will hold
Montpelier June II and L.. The annual
state convention of the Womens Relief
corps will be held at the same time.
Clarence X Pierce "a. committed sui
eide by hanging in his barn at Shrews-
bury Wednesday. He leaves a wife.
Grief over the death of his mother which
occurred Monday, caused him to kill him
self.
VIM. Hatch's general store in South
81,
contents, also household goods. Mr.
lfatchs loss is $500. insurance 1890. and
the loss of Daniel Orvis owner of the
building is 1920. insurance $1,000
The annual banquet of the Barre Gran
lite Manufacturers association was held
at the Pavilion hotel in Montpelier Tues
day evening with about 100 present. The
annual meeting of the New England
Granite Manufacturers association was
held in Barre Wednesday.
Rev. J. F. Simmons. pastor of the Uni
yersalist society at Woodstock for IA
years and representative in the legisla-
ture of 1S9S, died last Friday He was
about 80 years old. He came from
Springfield and was well known figure
in Universalist circles in Vermont and
throughout New England
Perlcy Witherel, employed by d
Brown, who runs T. NJ. Chapmans lum-
Der mill in the east part of Mddlebury.
eloped recently with Mrs. Brown. The
couple went to Port Henry, y. Y, and
from there to Rouses Point, where trace
of them was lost. Mrs. Brown left eight
children, the oldest l. and the youngest
seven months old.
Henry Sears was arrested in Brandon
last Friday night by Inspector O'DaY. of
Worcester. Mass, on a charge of as
sault on Cornelius w. Wells. The assault
was said to have been committed Jan
u. Sears was a milkman on the farm of
Capt Winslow S. Lincoln. His team
was outside customers door when
Wells came along. He got out of his
team to move the milk wagon. which
partially obstructed the road. When
Sears came out of the house he remon-
strated with Wells for removing his
team. y quarrel followed and II is
claimed Sears climbed into the wagon and
struck Wells. He fell out of the wagon
and struck on his head. IIs skull was
fractured and ever since he has been at
the city hospital Sears left the city the
day of the assault. and was not found
until Friday
Francis y. Pratt, "a. of Pratt & Whit
ney, leading representative of Industrial
enterprises in Hartford Conn, 40 wears
who had high reputation among scien-
lists for his mechanical ingenuity died
suddenly from appoplexy Monday He
was born in Woodstock. Vt. and his ia
Their native of Reading was a leather
merchant and temperance agitator of
note, F. \. Pratt learned the machinist's
trade in Lowell. Mass. where his parents
moved during his boyhood and after
working some time in New Jersey. he
went TO Hartford as foreman of the Phoe-
nix iron works. The firm of Pratt &
Whitney one of the most widely known
in machinery manufacturing, was organ
lied in 1861 Mr.. Pratt was it's president
and leading spirit from the outset. He
visited European countries ten times, and
in all secured orders aggregating over 49,
100000, largely for gun machinery.