Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-26
MATTERS IN VERMONT
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD
Burglars and Burglaries Brandon Quad
rangle Mapped-An Undesirable History
To Mark an Old Military Road-Jail Suicide
Big Beer Seizure at Bennington Aged
State University Professor Dead

WIN an entering cldSS VI ~ sbudtutS
10 boys and l6 girls.
The residence of A. S. Alden, Mid
dlesey. was entered by burglars ont
night last week and S9I in cash wa
stolen. The money was in desk II
Mr.. Alden S bedroom. So quietly wa
the Job done that Mr.. Alden was mo-
awakened, although the burglars tool
his keys from his pocket
Walter b. Dutton of Rutland has re-
ceived an appointment with the lrriga
ton investigation now being conduct
ed by the national department OF agri-
culture. His headquarters will be at
/ Cheyenne. Wy, and his work will he
largely in Colorado. Mr.. Dunton Will
be employed in the investigation of the
legal questions involved in the work.
James y. Cassidy of Council Bluffs,
Iowa. has been jailed at Kansas City,
Mo-, at the instance of detective,
who claims to have traced him to Iowa
on a charge of embezzling 5000 from
the White River Savings bank of Yer
mont, where he lived formerly. The
bank lost nothing by Cassidy as he was
| bonded by an indemnity company ON
whose account he was arrested
Sidney Z. Russell, well known mer-
chant of Charlotte and representative
elect from that town in the Legislature,
died in Burlington Sunday morning
from the effects of a surgical operation
performed week ago The death OF
Mr.. Russell makes Charlotte the fifth
town without representation ID the
coming legislature, the others being
Jay. Stowe, Warren and Washington.
A meeting for the purpose of organ
izing a society for the study and pre-
vention of tuberculosis will be held in
Burlington Monday, Sept. %. Besides
the business pertaining to organization
the following subjects are to be DIS
cussed The Need of "A Sanitarium
for Vermont Consumptives, y The
Relation of Bovine tuberculosis to
Public Health in Vermont. = The No
LITIGATION and Control of tuberculosis
in the State. y
At the annual meeting of the Orleans
county historical society, it was decid-
ed to mark the site of the old military
road known as the HaZen road, run
ming through Caledonia and Orleans
counties. such markers to be dedicated
at the Old Home Week in 1904, when
the society will hold its next annual
meeting near Hazen's notch, provided
the citizens along the line will partlci-
pate in the movement +. W. BALDWIN
of Barton has promised to prepare
historical article on that subject to be
delivered on the occasion.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and barrels of beer
were seized in car at the Bennington
railroad station Friday night. They
were marked hop soda, had revenue
beer stamps on and We're consigned to
an unknown person. Thirty more bar
rels of beer were seized Saturday after
noon. These were consigned to four
unknown parties. The seizure Is the
largest in long time, The beer was
stored in the court house. 1t Is said
that the seizure business will be kept
up. Sunday night several places were
raided and three casks of ale were
seized at one of them.
Col. Homer r. Stoughton of Barre,
of the Barre branch of
the Central Vermont railway. dropped
dead at Otsego, Mich. Sept Is, aged
&C years. He was a veteran of the civil
war and was taken prisoner June q,
1864, paroled in December following
and was mustered out Jan. %, lst1, \
At Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864, he re-
ceived gun shot wound which com
PEELED his retirement from the field. /
He leaves a wife and seven children.
Col. Stoughton was widely known and .
highly esteemed, having been connect
ed with the Central Vermont railroad
nearly all his life.
Fred Haynes, 40 years of age, hung
himself in his cell in the Guildhall Jail
Friday, where he was confined pending
his trial on charge of setting fire to a
church at South Canaan. He had
made confession, had declared that
he was guilty and had talked of other
crimes of the sort. Haynes tore four
foot strip from a blanket and tied one
end about his neck. The other he fas-
-ened to piece of broom handle, which
ne stretched across the open top of the
smaller room. Then he bent his knees,
hrowing himself forward TO achieve
He was man of i'm
paired health and doubtful sanity,
The progress of the Typographical
survey of the state of Vermont by the
United States geological survey is in
Heated by a recent report by II, NJ.
wilson, topographer in charge of the
york. During July a portion of the
egion surrounding Brandon, officially :
,nown as the Brandon quadrangle, ,,
vas mapped. In the course of this
york % miles of spirit levels and 296
niles of road traverse were run, and J
% useful elevations were established.
from data thus collected a map of the {
quadrangle will he prepared which !
7ill he of particular interest because it :
7ill reveal the relief-that is. the ele-
ations and correlative depressions-of :
be region by the use of contour lines, :
The town of Baltimore. Windsor a
ounty, is said to have a history of /
'hich none of its inhabitants are a
roud and little else of interest. 1t /
las set off from Cavendish and organ i
zed in 1893 with 275 inhabitants and =
as had a steady decrease in popula- t
ion since, present population being q
). 1t has no store, church or postof- {
ce. no distinguished sons or daugh-
ers. and nothing ever happens there. t
he people are prosperous farmers but e
eep moving away and nobody ever L
loves in. 1t is 20 wears since a we'd .
ing took place there. There are II {
oters in town all of whom have repre- t
anted the town in the legislature, and :
le office is now being passed around i
ne second time. f
Henry \. 2. Torrey. the oldest pro- V
,ssor in term of service in the Uni c
arSity of Vermont. died in Beverly, s.
ass Saturday pVpuirp in - Ertb =,