Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-04
MATTERS IN VERMONT
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

First Annual Gou COHpet1tAoh ava WV
Championship Democratic State To-
vention -Montpelier's Queer Boycott-Ti
State Fair-A New Railroads. Day OF A
cidents Liquor Fines and Injunctions.
The mountains in Woodford an
Searsburg in Bennington county wei
white with snow Sunday morning. In
"peach CROP in that section promise
to be failure.
A class of II was graduated froi
Norwich university, Northtieid, Ihurs
day. The institution, now known a
the military college of Vermont, close
another successful year.
At meeting of the Rutland railroa
directors in Rutland Friday dividen
of | per cent. was declared, making
dividend of 3 per cent for the fisca
year as a 2 per cent, dividend was de
clared six months ago.
Il Burlington is to have big Fourtl
of July celebration. Six troops of cav
airy will give dress parade, while tn
citizens will furnish parade of floats
coaches. antiques and horribles. Sew
eral bands will furnish music.
Burglars entered the East Montpel
Ter station of the Montpelier and Well
river railroad early Saturday morning
securing sd from the money drawer
They also entered the grist mill, fore
ing open a window in both places.
The Windsor county Republican con
vention at Woodstock Thursday adopt
ed resolution calling for an investi
CATION of the charges of bribery in the
I gubernatoIial campaign and favored
| the reelection of Senator Dillingham;.
| 1t failed, however, to appoint COM
mittee to conduct the investigation de
sired.
The first annual competition of the
Vermont state golf championship will
be held in Manchester on the Ekwan
ok links July 3, and ). 1t will be a
scratch tournament, open to all anna
teur members of clubs in this state.
Gold medals will be given to the win
ner of the state championship and the
runner up.
The executive committee for the joint
fair of the Rutland company and Yer
mont state agricultural societies to be
held at Rutland the first week in Sep
TENDER met in Rutland Friday and ar
ranged the details for the fair. Five
hundred dollars was appropriated for
special features. An appropriation of
g. 600 was made for horse races.
On complaint of Rev. George W. Nor
row, Sheriff Reeves searched refrig-
orator car in the Rutland railroad yards
at Burlington Wednesday night of last
week, and secured Pc barrels of beer
l.; : II 4
sold that evening and the car shipped
away. 1T is alleged that beer has thus
been disposed of for upward of year.
AT the Democratic state convention
to be held in Burlington, July "a, r.
S. Childs of Brattleboro will be tenn
porary chairman and Elisha May of ST.
Johnsbury chairman of the committee
on resolutions, the basis of representa-
tion being one for each town and one
for every fifty Democratic votes cast at
the last election for governor Con
gressional conventions will be held on
the same day in Burlington. 1t is gen
orally understood that F. w. McGet-
trick of ST. Adams will receive the
nomination for governor.
Since the action of Judge Stafford in
fining Landlord Higgins of the Addi-
son house, Middlebury, 800 and put
ting temporary injunction upon the
house restraining the sale of liquor in
that hostelry the hotel looks deserted
and the number of commercial men
who stop there has decreased fully %
per cent. The temporary injunction
VIII probably be made permanent on
July 8. If this is done Senator elect
Robert Cartwell and Allen Calhoun,
owners of this hotel, declare they will
cancel the lease and close the house.
A charter has just been authorized
oy the secretary Of state for the Man |
chester, Dorset & Granville railroad. |
The capital stock is placed at $3.50. 600 |
md surveyors will be put on at once.
The road will be steel road. and it is /
that it will be completed as
ar as Dorset before winter. The road
will be % miles long, of easy grade.
md will run through rich farming
ountry and quarries, where there is
N unlimited supply of marble and
late, which is now in active operation.
30 aid will be asked of the towns of
Dorset and Manchester.
Thursday was a day of tragic acct
ents: DR.. X. S. Haskins of Derby
led from the effects of drinking. by
1istake, poison used for washing trees.
lie was 50 years old, prominent nur
erynan. The three-year old daughter
+ Mrs. Margaret Taylor of Rutland,
ound bottle of strychnine tablets in
er play, and swallowed enough to kill
1ree or four persons A stomach !
Jump was used and she may recover,
lough in a critical condition. John |
arrett of Mendon was kicked by
orse and sustained conclusion of the
rain which resulted fatally. A..
The labor unions of Montpelier have :
oycotted William Miller, who is gen
al agent for and wholesale dealer in
lie Uno beer made by the Suffolk
rewing company of Boston. for the
ason that strike is on at the brew
les of the company. The Uno beer
hich made the Maine prohibitorv law
nous, was introduced to Vermont a
W years ago as the only false alarm"
,er which had been tested in the
urts and found wanting-in alcohol.
r; Miller explained this, and said he
I'd spent much money in establishing
e legality of Uno beer in that sec
On and did not care to take chances
untried brewing. He offered, how
er, to handle any beer the fedora
IN should name, if it would put nm
rfeit of 5000.
The trial of Joseph Mears. charged
tn attempting to poison Philander
ofiatt by giving him corrosive sub