Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-21
IN VERMONT.
b NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

b NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLL
18th Of an Aged Vermonter-Rutland Mar
Filled by Train-Big Cooking Main il
Bennington More Damage by High Water
y Barre and Waterbury -Highwaymen al
y. Adams The Market Apple Question in
Xg yermont.
grand lodge of Vermont of the
N DIV England Order of Protection will
\ pet in Montpelier April "a.
3Joseph Fushy. aged 104 years, died
Montgomery Thursday. Mr. Fushy
rs undoubtedly the oldest person in
q 6rthern Vermont and had been in
|5Sirly good health for some time.
SBSsJo Joseph Mears was brought to Ben
2xtngton Friday night from Sandgate
I'd lodged in Jail TO await hearing on
E&6e charge of attempting to poison a
Smily in Sandgate with corrosive sub
mate.
IA. H. Copeland, a native of Middle
bpry, claims that he was the first man
st6 use the electric telegraph in the
02spatching of trains, during the win
st1f of 1852 when he was assistant post
M6aster of Middlebury
SSThere have been 5, 400 trout pur-
s64ased from the New Hampshire
shatchery, added to the 26, 800 with
mich Lake Mansfield preserves at
Howe have been stocked, and 5000
Hlcre are soon to be added from the
NATIONAL hatchery. So, ~. i. J a's4l
M. Black, landlord of the Ave
me House, St. Johnsbury, has filed a
fStition in bankruptcy at Burlington.
bis is the climax of the liquor raid
lXade on the Avenue House in Deem
III, the consequent fine, and other
WHculties between the landlord and
lie owner of the hotel.
1.-The general store of Morse brothers
n Cabot was entered sometime be
f5een midnight and daylight Satur
IN night and watches, chains and
her jewelry valued at over $500 was
l4ken. Entrance was effected through
~ rear window by persons who left
Z ues which will probably lead to
eir prompt arrest
MJoseph Blair of Florence was sen
Dnced to from two to four months in
he house of correction at Rutland /
4uesday for grand larceny. Blair has +
xade a practice of entering the rooms /
Il the bell boys at the Bardwell and
be Berwick and stealing money after
BE boys had gone to sleep at night.
(e took ST from the pocket of one
Py.
a George Hogle, an eXpressman of
Montreal; O. w. Ford, livery stable
2roprietor of Richford, and Eugene
saurier, also of Richford, were arrest
q at ST. Adams Monday, charged with
<huggling Chinese into the United
Hates. The trio was taken to Bur
Ing ton. arraigned before United States
commissioner johnson, and held in
BOO for the next federal grand jury.
Fl. B. Ly ford, an inmate of the Ben
fington soldiers home, was arrested
N a Chelsea officer Friday and taken
s that place. The charge is criminal
|ssault on his daughter Lyford served
b the 9th Vermont volunteers and has
good record as a soldier and has
,een in the home since December.
When arrested he claimed to be igno-
ant of any crime that he had commit
ed.
Edward j. Corcoran, aged %, son of 5
1r. and Mrs. Dominiek Corcoran of :
rutland, was found dead at kelton's
rossing on the Rutland railroad, south ,
f the fair grounds Friday morning. !
t is believed that the man was killed
y the sleeper at night. The left !
boulder and arm were broken and the !
op of the head cut off just above the /
yes. How the affair happened is as
ct unknown.
The Vermont experiment station has I
ecently issued bulletin on'the mar q
ct apple question, giving statistics to !
how that the drift of popular favor in :
laine and Vermont toward the .Ben {
)avis variety is very pronounced. The a
CURES given are made up from reports
scured from several hundred apple r
rowers in the New England states. !
nd are looked upon as indicating i'm :
ortant changes in the apple growing !
usiness of New England. 9
A big cooking main was held in the \
enter of Bennington Friday night, =
hen eight North Bennington birds n
ere pitted against the same number \
{ imported birds from New Hamp- +,
lire. The main was for 500, with T
10 bet on each bird. Admission to f.
lie pit was 81 each. The battles were T
on by the imported birds, 1t is es- q
ated that over $1,000 changed hands il
i the result of the main, which is V
lie second one that has taken place 81
lere recently. N
Terence V. PowdeIly is TO resign al
lie Office of commissioner general of \
and Frank p. Sargent, p
rand master of the brotherhood of fc
firemen, will succeed him. nj
r. Sargent was born in East Orange bt
1851 One of his most notable acts. il
I'd one that made him for the time OF
ling national figure, was his refusal
1891 to indorse the actions of the
nights of Labor in their fight against
e New York Central, when he posi- of
vely declined to order strike among M
s followers. Pa
Judge Russell S. Taft of Burling
n, who after nearly half century of No
ork in his profession, is taking va
ton of few months owing to i'll pa
alth, is now serving his 22d year on or or
e supreme court bench. No court
er adjourned its session by reason of pr
S absence, and he has never missed a co
sc in his supreme court work; he do
IS become we'll known figure in or,
cry county court house in the state. 50,
e has tried sol cases by jury, of fic
lich 90 judgments have been re- Sc
rsed OF state cases, he had tried st,
s by jury, in which eight judgments