Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-25
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

Republican State Committee Appoints Meet
ing-Noted Instructors to Speak at Ameri'
can Institute Meeting at Rutland-Exports
Of Vermont Sheep and Cattle-State Encamp'
ment of the G. A. R.-A New Wooden Mill
for Winooski-P. w. Clements Big Syndi'
cate Hotel Scheme Poultney's Electric
Railroad.
The annual meeting of the State, I'm
dertakers and Embalmers' association
will be held in Rutland. August u, Ii
and IA.
The state grand lodge of the n F..
O. p. held its 18th annual session in
Montpelier Tuesday with 45 delegates
present from the 81 lodges in the state.
The Republican state committee will
meet at the Van Ness house, Burling
ton, Tuesday evening, May 6, to fix
the time and place of holding the Re-
publican state convention.
| George Prior. furniture dealer and
undertaken of Orwell, was thrown from
his delivery wagon Friday by run
away horse and instantly killed, his
neck being broken by the fall.
Hematite iron has been discovered
on George w. Stedman's farm in the
northeastern part of Bristol town. The
extent of the vein is unknown, as only
the surrounding rock has been taken
out
The parishioners of Rev. Father La
Chance. who has been transferred by
the bishop from Bennington to the Is
land Pond parish, presented him with
purse of 5000 in gold upon his recent
departure for Island Pond.
+. E. Bainforth, Waterbury hard
ware dealer, lost control of an automo-
bile he had just bought. near Bolton
Friday; it ran over a steep embank
ment into a stream, seriously injnring
Mr.. Bainforth in the stomach. and
badly damaging the machine.
The reunion held every ten years by
the alumni and friends of Goddard
seminary. Barre, will occur in June
this year. 1t Is expected that there
will be large representation from
every class that has graduated at the
seminary during the - years of its ex-
istence.
A syndicate, controlled by Percival
W. Clement of Rutland, has bought
the southeast corner of Fifth avenue
and Forty fourth street. New York,
from the Paran Stevens estate at cost
of about 81, 200, 900 and will erect g,
800, 600 hotel which in luxury of equip
ment is to vie with Delmonico's and
Sherry's on adjacent corners of the
avenue.
Some 70 marble polishers are on a
strike at the Continental mill of the
Vermont Marble company at Centre
Rutland on account of a disagreement
as to certain quality of piece work by
finishers. A committee of the central
trades and labor union have been to
Proctor twice to confer with Fletcher
Proctor but he was away on political
business.
The New England alumni of the uni
versity of Vermont held reunion at /
the Parker house. Boston, Friday night,
30 being present. President Buckham |
spoke of the coming centennial of the I
in 1904 which he said would .
be made the greatest event in the his i
tory of the college. He also said that 4
he might retire from the presidency
after 1904.
Mrs. Belle Whalen of Waterbury,
with assault and intent to kill
her husband was held Thursday in 500
to await the recovery of her husband
who is at the town farm, where his leg
was amputated 10 days ago and is re-
ported as doing we'll, and to appear be
fore the grand jury. Being unable TO
secure bail she was taken to the jail at
The permanent survey for the pro-
posed electric railroad from Poultney J.
to Granville, N. Y. with branches run
ming to each end of Lake St. Catha-
rine, is now being made and it is hoped
to have the lake branches in operation
in time for the summer travel. The
route between the towns will pass
through the slate region of South
Poultney and Middle Granville, n. Y.
At the request of District Attorney
]. L. Martin of Brattleboro nolle pros
,auis were entered at Rutland Mon
lay, in the case of the United States
against Alfred Swynier and in four in
lictments which stood against Marvin
\. Mcclure, now serving a seven years
sentence for aiding and abettinE in the /
distraction of funds from the defunct
Merchants National bank of Rutland. /
Giuseppe Alarecce. otherwise known
IS big Joe. :" arrested for murderous
assault on james McNaulty at Barre I
asst week. has been bound over in so, :
100 for full term of county court. and /
5 now in the county Jail at Montpel- d
err. Mrs. Garabaldi. at whose house
he affray took place, has disappeared !
nd as she had been summoned as IA /
witness she has been adjudged in con =,
empt of court =
The American Wooden company, :
which owns some 30 mills throughout +
Jew England and New York state, has !
warded the contract for a large, new i
nill at Winooski The plant is to be r
dded to the property of the company
which it recently acquired from the
eceivers of the Burlington, Winooski
nd Colchester companies. The mill .
viii be of brick, 80 feet long by GO =
eet wide. The company will employ I
200 hands. with monthly pay roll of Y
rom $50. 900 TO so, 600. =,
During the past year over 1000 fancy a
red thoroughbred Spanish merino and \
sambouilett sheep have been shipped /
rom Addison county to South Africa 4
or breeding purposes where they have t
rought large prices. Some two weeks I
ince. As cattle. Durham and Holsteins, a
we're shipped from Middlebury to South t
africa. The latest shipment was "a +
spanish merino sheep, sent from East 7