Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-21
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY Toll
Senator Proctor's Dinner for "vermonters
Meet a Vermonter"-An Interesting La
Case Against 0steopathists 7. Fairbanl
t. Co Acquire Dupont Patents-state Indu
trial News-Trial Of the First Bucket Sho
Case in the state-Death Ct DR.. o. w. Pee
Of Winooski, Surgeon General Of Vermont
vermonters Banquet at Washington.
There are at present 1919 boys and
girls at the industrial school at Yer
gennes.
The state share of the Montpelie
LIQUOR agency profit is $411 against S4
last year.
The annual officers school of tn,
Vermont national guard was held il
Burlington February Is, 10 and 20.
Col. j. G. Mccullough of Benning
ton has been chosen one of the direc
tors of the Lackawanna Steel Co., ,
corporation just organized with cap
ital of $40, 100000.
More than 30 employees of Jones Bros.
Barre, were made ill recently by drink
ing river water. Nearly dozen cases
of typhoid fever have developed from
this cause, some being critical illnesses.
East Arlington residents have just
been given a rural delivery mail route,
and prefer to keep their postoffice.
They have sent j. r. Judson to Wash
ington to protest against the change.
There are now enrolled in the medi-
cal department of the University of
Vermont, Burlington, 200 students,
which is six more than the average for
the last 10 years and 80 more than were
registered last year.
A signal system which will absolute
ly prevent rear end collisions has been
invented by l. H. Francisco of Rut-
land The model has been exhibited
to several prominent railroad men and
here made a favorable impress ion.
The Vermont society of the city of
Washington will hold its midwinter
gathering today. Senator Dillingham;
is president of the society and will pre-
side on the occasion. Representative
Foster will deliver the annual address.
Congressman d. J. Foster, U. A.
Woodbury. and G. p. Smith of Burling
ton appeared before the House com
mittee on public buildings at Wash
ington, Friday. and argued for the new
5000, 900 federal building wanted at
Burlington.
Native Vermonters and graduates of
the University of Vermont held their
fourth annual reunion at the Shore
ham hotel, Washington Saturday even
ing. Many honored sons of the univer-
sity and other distinguished guests
were present.
The University of Vermont Alumni
Association of New York held its 10th
annual dinner at the University club
Friday night. President NJ. Fl. Buck
ham of the university was one of the
guests. Officers were elected for the
coming year.
Hon. Edward A. Isham, native of
Manchester, died at New York Satur-
day night He was prominent in legal
circles all over the country, and a
member of the firm of which Robert |
Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, is |
senior member.
The jury in the case of Frank Coch
shop in st. Johnsbury rendered a YER
Z It of not guilty, Saturday The case
has attracted widespread attention,
having been the first one of the sort to
come before jury in this state. SINH
lar cases are now pending in Chitten
den and Franklin counties.
The body of Mrs Edna Banister of
Randolph, who died August 81, under
suspicious circumstances at the home
of her brother, Mr. Brigham, in Low
ell, Mass, where she was cared for by
the notorious Jane Toppan, suspected
of numerous murders, was lately quiet +.
ly exhumed at the east village and the
viscera taken to Boston for chemical
analysis by a specialist.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina,
who lectured at Randolph last week,
had this to say of Vermont's senators:
g Proctor is affable and can drive a .
good bargain. | have formed a very
high opinion of your new man, Dill
bingham. He reminds me of Morrill,
honest, truthful, kindly and genial i
clean hearted and clean handed. L
never met a man more lovable. | have ;
seen much of him in committee work
and in the wardrobe. | have got but ,
one eye bnt l size him up to be gen {
5leman.
Edward r. Fairbanks & Co. of St. {
Johnsbury have purchased the Dupont !
power hammer, the Howard saw and /
he Howard power hammer with pat
snts and all rights pertaining thereto
md the machinery and equipment EN- I
oloyed in the present manufacture of a
he Dupont Manufacturing Company :
md Leonard D. Howard, and will .
,ush the manufacture and sale of these
hammers and saws in connection with :,
he scale business. The machinery L
will be manufactured in the Fairbanks
Gale factory. b
DR.. o. w. Peck of Winooski died \
sunday. He was born in Montgomery
n 1854 and graduated from the medi- "
al department of the University of 8
yermont in 1880. He was assistant q
urgeon in the Vermont National NJ
uard from 1880 to 1888 and from
1888 to 1884, was surgeon in that
rganization. He was state senator
rom Chittenden county in 1SS6-1S9S.
n June, 1898, he was appointed sur
con general of the state of Vermont =,