Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-01-03
CENTURYS FIRST YEAR
Winnham County's Record Of I'm
portant Events in 1901.

The Monthly Review Shows a Long
List of Striking and Memorable DC.
currences-5oth Wedding Anniver-
saries.
January
Brattleboro's newest hosiery, the
Melrose House, in West Brattleboro,
was opened Jan. Z. On the same day
the house and outbuildings of Clark p.
Whitney of Westminster were burned.
John Sugland colored, of Brattleboro,
was kicked in the stomach by vic
ious horse Jan. 10 and died the next
day. Archie Kingsley and Orrin
Kingsley of Wilmington were crushed
and killed by a locomotive at the
Hoosac Tunnel station Jan. II. The
house on James Howes farm in New
fame was burned Jan. 16. Charles
Hall of Bellows Falls was killed Jan.
II by being caught in a shaftng in the
factory of the Casen Company of
America. b. f. Clark's buildings in
Halifax were burned Jan. IS. Lewis
Crone stole a horse of f. A. Kenney
of Guildford Jan. IS, was arrested in
Keene, and was sentenced in the
Windham county court to from four to
five years in the state prison. a. p.
Goodenough. of West Brattleboro
drank a poison eye-wash Jan. q with
suicidal intent.
February.
Spontaneous combustion in the Of
fee of II. +. Taylor & Son OF Brattlo-
boro caused a fire which did damage
to the amount of $4,000 Feb 6. Clinton
Adams of Cambridgeport was fined
Feb. II for setting fire to a steer on
which he had poured kerosene. Clar-
ence Sprague of Jacksonville was kill
ed by a falling tree Feb. 90, and his
cousin, Lewis Sprague, was made in
sane by the accident. George J. Will
son of Bellows Falls, addicted to the
chloroform habit, was found dead in
bed Feb. "a. having taken an over
dose. Col. Kittredge Haskins of Brat
tleboro was appointed in February
aide de camp on the staff of the com
mander in chief of the grand encamp-
ment. G. A. r. In the same month
the tallest private monument in Yer
mont was erected in BrattlebOro to
the memory of EX- Governor l.. X. Full
Ter.
March.
Judge l.. NJ. Read of Bellows Falls
was elected president of the Bellows
Falls Savings Institution early in
March to succeed Henry c. Lane, de-
ceased. The house of II. ID. Water
man of Brattleboro was destroyed by
fire March 10. A decree of court was
filed in Boston March 19 which gave to
BrattlebOro an annual income of about
$4,000 from the Thomas Thompson
estate. BY the death of Mai. Arthur
L. Howard, who was killed in the
Transvaal, Horace H. Howard of Yer
non became heir to one-siXth of an es-
tate valued at 100000. Perley |.
Blanchard of East Putney drowned
himself in the Connecticut river March
2S, while respondent. The body was
recovered Nov. 20.
April.
There were about 90 cases of diph-
liberia in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls
and Dummerston in the spring of the
year, largely in April, two cases result
ing fatally Mrs. Laura Howe of ia
maica died April / from the effects of
a dose of laudanum and paris green Ia
ken with suicidal intent. Brattleboro
school district No. 2 appropriated
$4,000 April for new heating and ven
tilating apparatus. C. II. Robb of
Bellows Falls was appointed in April
special agent for the internal revenue
department with an annual salary of
$4,000. George Mitchell of Williams
vile, while intoxicated, fell from his
wagon April 19 and was killed, his
neck being broken by one of the
wheels passing over it. Fred Phillips
of Brattleboro, while intoxicated, was
run over by a locomotive April 20.
Both legs were cut off and he died in
a few hours. Orimus Hewes of Graf
ton was struck and instantly killed by
lightning April %.
May.
The death of Joseph Miller, who for
more than So years had been town
clerk of Dummerston, took place May
10. Fannie May Thomas, two-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Thorn
as of Brattleboro, set fire to her cloth
ing May 16 and was fatally burned.
Charles Miners hosiery factory in
West BratHeboro was burned May
IS, causing a loss of over $4,000.
William S. Stearns of Brattleboro com
mitted suicide by hanging May 81.
June.
A barn and contents in West Hal
flax, owned by Fletcher Dalrymple
and Dexter Dalrymple, was burned
June 5, causing loss of $4,000. A
$4,000 fire occurred in Bellows Falls
June 5, when the Woodworking shop
of Moses Miller was burned. The
body of James Griffin of Brattleboro
was found in the river at Vernon
June 20 in an unacceptable con
dition.
July.
Fire in the Brattleboro Hosiery COM
pany's factory July 6 destroyed $500
worth of goods. John l.. Ray, the
veteran Brattleboro liveryman, turn
ed on the gas in his room in the