Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-10-31

Michael Mulqueen's house and barn
in Tinmouth We're burned Friday morn
ing. The family escaped with difficulty.
Burglars drilled a hole in Mulch &
Calder's safe in Barre Sunday night
and filled the opening with powder, but
they We're evidently frightened away be-
fore they could light the blast.
Herbert L. Doyle, landlord of the Hotel
Low at Bradford formerly of the Ave-
nue. House at st. Johnsbury, bought Ho-
tel Look OF at Sugar Hill, N. H., for
$4,000 at auction recently. The first
cost of this White Mountain hotel was
500 900.
Francis Walker will complete this
month 81 consecutive years as foreman
of the iron foundry at the scale factory
of E. & II. Fairbanks & Co. at st. Johns
bury. One of his molders has just COM
pleted 55 years of service, and there are
% men in the factory who have been
there over 40 years.
Sheriff Henry S. Wilson of Bennington
has received an order from Gov. Nc
Cullough for the removal of Mrs. Mary
Rogers and Miss Stella Bates to the
house of correction in Rutland. They
have been in the Bennington Jail since
August on the charge of numbering Mar
Gus Rogers the husband of Mrs. Rogers,
August r.
Burlington business men are pushing
the project for the removal of the Rut-
land railroads car and repair shop from
Malone, N. Y, and Rutland to Burling
ton. The people of Rutland have not
given up hope that the new shops will
be built in that city. The change would
bring to Burlington 1000 people, and the
pay roll of the employees would amount
to $4,000 annually
The following officers of the Vermont
officers Reunion society were chosen at
the recent meeting In Montpelier: Presi-
dent, Kittredge Haskins of Brattleboro;
first vice president Lieut.. G. G. Bene-
dict of Burlington; second vice president,
Sergt. Thomas Harmon of Bennington;
secretary and treasurer, Lieut.. J. II.
Lucia of Montpelier; marshal for the
evening, Lieut.. Col. f. G.. Butterfield of
Derby Line.
w. r. Farnsworth, division superin-
tendent in charge of the improvements
and repairs on the International Paper
company's mills in Franklin Falls, N. H.,
is interested in a company which will
build a large paper mill at East Ryegate.
A dam built across the Connecticut river
will give ample water power. One of the
cylinder paper machines which will be
installed in the plant will be the largest
in the country, with a width of III
inches.
Newton Collins, IA, shot large black
bear in Chittenden Monday. He was
in camp with several local hunters who
were looking for deer. He took rife,
after the others had left him in charge
of the camp. and started out alone. On
entering a clearing he confronted big
female bear and cub. The bear started
for Collins but although she was only
dozen feet away he raised the rife and
took deliberate aim. The bullet passed
through the bears heart and she died
almost instantly.
Morris Jones of Blissville. in the town
of Castleton. has been bound over to the
county court under $1,000 bonds charged
with assaulting his father-in-law, VIII
liam M. Jones, with intent to kill. Nor
ris killed some of the older mans hens
which had strayed upon his premises,
and then called to his father-in-law to
come TO get the dead fowls. When Will
liam Jones attempted to get the hens
hot words were exchanged, and Morris