Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
rHE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

EHE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY Toll
New Trial for Kelley, Sentenced for Assau
With Intent to Kill-An Endowment fc
Montpelier Seminary-Gr Jury Indie
ments-Dr. Webb Wants Independent Ell
trance to Montreal for His Railways.
Wells Farmer, Crazed by Opium, Kills Hi
Wife With an Axe-The Floods in Vernon,
Bennington is to have a new cola
and cuff factory and its board of trad
has raised $3.50 to aid the project
Hon. Robert Roberts of Burlington
has contracted with the state to pub
lish new digest of all the decisions
of the supreme court from the be
ginning.
I'd Judge H. G. Ide one of the Philip
pine commissioners, is recovering a.
u Yokohama from an operation performed
<# on his backbone, for an injury received
III some time ago by being thrown from
IA carriage.
Ia The body of John Powell of Nashua,
81 N. H., who disappeared from st.
ID Johrsbury recently where he was Wis
III iting his daughter, was found in the
81 Passumpsic river last week. He had
HI nervous prostration and is supposed to
NJ have drowned himself.
M John A. Sheldon, who has received
II his commission, signed by Theodore
N Roosevelt, as postmaster of the city OF
n Rutland for the next four years, now
has on different documents the sigma
lures of every president from Abraham
Lincoln to the present executive.
In the supreme court at Montpelier
Thursday, John Kelley of Berlin, SEN
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment for
assault with intent to kill in the lower
court, had his sentence set aside and
new trial ordered, the court allowing
the exceptions taken to the judges
charge.
The government will bear the court
expenses in the case of Charles Do
herty, whose sentence of death for muir
der has been stayed until his case
could be heard before the U. S. su-
preme court on motion for new trial.
The expense will be about $500, as es-
timated.
At the recent banquet and reunion
of the Montpelier seminary alumni at
Boston. the principal, Rev. W. K.
Davenport, said that a we'll known
millionaire will probably give the
school an endowment of S25,O0 on
condition that S75, coo be raised inside
specified time.
Vermont journalism was represented
at the banquet given at New York to
the press of the county to meet Prince
Henry of Prussia, by the following
editors: George and Morris Atkins of
The Montpelier Argus Charles T. Fair
field of The Rutland News: and Joseph
Aud of The Burlington News.
The will of the late Mrs. John s.
Robinson of Bennington, who died in
Hebron, Va. last fall, cannot be
found, although it is known that she
executed one some time ago, bequeath-
ing 500, 600 to her niece, Miss Juliette
Stamford, who accompanied her to
Hebron and has now returned TO Ben
nington.
Herst Stavitky, the PolishsJew who
was recently given a hearing at Rut-
land on a charge of smuggling dia
monds to the value of $1,000 into Yer
mont, pleaded guilty in federal court |
at Burlington Thursday and was SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment at
the house of correction, Rutland. He |
was afterward transferred to Burling- |
ton at his own request.
The United States grand jury in
session at Burlington last week found |
among others indictments against the
following, now under bail: M. NJ
Dean of Alburgh, fur smuggling; L.
j. johnson of Alburgh, fur smuggling;
Chin Tom of Burlington, for SNUG.
Cling Chinese: William Bramley of
Mootro,1 J;o,,opJ epunp1;pn. Mrs
M. j. Powers of st. Adams, sending
obscene letters.
Representatives of DR.. W. S. Webb
have submitted plans to the Canadian
government for bridge across the st.
Lawrence which will give the railways
using the bridge an entrance to the
heart of the city. 1t would also fur
nish free access to the public to the !
park on st. Helen's island and special
facilities to residents of the towns on J
the south shore of the st. Lawrence. {
The cost of the bridge AMI terminals /
is estimated at something like s10,-
600, 900.
The report of the Vermont state in
surance commission gives in tabulated
form the causes of fires throughout the .
state during 1901. Aside from Gun :
known causes the largest number of
fires resulted from lightning, 115 being
thus credited, with damages of S34,
223; SO fires are attributed to Chin {
neys, damage S33, Gil. Electric wires :
produced six fires, with Il loss of Sa32, :
6S9. There were IL cases of spontan ,
eous combustion with Sl3, 705 loss. 7
Forty nine causes of fires are quoted .
with total loss for the state of 1902, 724. +
Recent developments indicate that a
the wholesale smuggling operations v
which have been brought to light by
the United States revenue officers sta
toned along the Canadian border dur F
ing the winter have been even more ex- v
tensive than at first supposed. The C
latest arrest was that of telegraph
lineman named Joseph Gotta, who was
taken into custody charged with snug
Cling ITO packages of Canadian furs +
valued at s10,OO The arrest was made =
Thursday through the efforts of Col y
lector Mansur of Newport, a United !,
States treasury post. p