Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-28
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

> Adams Boys Drowned at Providence, r. l.
The Fatal Water Cure Case-vermont Cler
gyman Breaks Record.
The Vermont State association of the
District of Columbia held their first
meeting of the season Friday evening
in Washington, about 300 being pres
ent. Major Edward d. Campbell pre-
sided. Several new members were
elected.
bartholomew Genovesti, an Italian
marble polisher, employed by the Yer,
mont Marble company was struck and
instantly killed by ID. ~ II. train
near the Ripley crossing, Saturday
morning. He was on his way to work
and was walking on the track.
Three Vergennes stores were broken
into Thursday night and small sums of
money were taken from each. In all
three cases, glass was removed from
the rear doors to effect an entrance,
and the work was evidently that of an
expert Unsuccessful attempts were
also made to enter three other stores.
Ernest Perry and Albert Brewer. two
st. Albans boys, instructors in the Pen
tecostal college institute at North
Scituate, X. l., were drowned while
canoeing in Moswansicut lake, Satur-
day. a young woman student was with
them and shared their fate. The up
setting of the canoe was caused by a
heavy squall that swept across the lake.
The annual meeting and banquet of
the Vermont Association of Life In
derwriters was held at the Pavilion,
Montpelier. Thursday evening. No
new officers were elected but six new
members were admitted. Before the
banquet an informal reception was ten
dered in the parlors to Philip II. Far
ley of Columbus, o., president of the
national association.
Additions have been made to the
1 American wooden mills at Winooski at
an expense of half million dollars
and the completion of present i'm
proyements will cost another so, 600.
. Next season the electric power plant
will be enlarged and rebuilt. The
present number of employees, 40. will
be increased to 1000 The present
monthly pay roll is SIS, coo.
Chaplain d. H. Lowell, an oldtime
Vermont clergyman, retired, has asked
for return to active duty, an appli-
cation new to the history of the war
department. He was retired in 1897 for
disability, but having recovered from
the incapaCitv, he asks to be reinstat-
ed to serve until retired by age, Nov
%, 1910. As there j. no law to permit
this, he will be obliged to appeal TO
congress.
Cornelius B. Brownell of Burlington,
former captain in the Goth volunteer
infantry, has acknowledged that he
advised the administration of the water
cure to FIR. Augustine at Banate in the
Philippines, from the effects of which
the priest died This statement is part
of mass of testimony presented Sec
rotary Root, who has sent 1t TO the at
torney general Thorough inyestiga
ton shows that Capt Brownell cannot
be punished for the act which be ad-
mitS having committed. The Philip
pines were under military rule at that
time, and Capt. Brownell is not DOW in
the military service. There is no ex-
tradition law under which he can be .
taken to the Philippines and tried.
The F. r. Patch Manufacturing
company and the Lincoln iron works
of Rutland have asked the city coun-
Gil for police protection for the non
union employees of the two concerns.
now quartered in a large tenement
house. surrounded by a high stockade
and popularity designated as the bar
racks. = These men take the places of
union men now on strike, 1t is said
that there has been a considerable use
Of firearms there of late. Marks. evi-
IDENTIFY of bullets. are 10 be seen on the
tenement in which the strike breakers
live and there are other marks on
nearby buildings which. it seems. were
made 10y shot fired within the bar
racks. - The city council referred the
matter to the mayor with power to
act
The dedicatory ceremonies of the
authorized by the legisla,
ture of 1900, to mark the site of Presi-
lent Chester \ Arthur's birth place in
Franklin county, will occur in the
summer Of 1903. That the occasion will
De a notable one is assured from the
act that Roht, T. Lincoln and VIM. f
Chandler, who served in President Ar
hur's cabinet as secretary of war and
secretary of navy respectively, will be
he principal speakers The monument
will occupy one corner of the old cellar
which marks the spot where the only
termont-horn president first saw light
Ihe site was presented to the state by
, b. b. Northrup. who represented
'airfax in the legislature of 1900. and
lndcr commission of Gov. Stickney he
las charge of preparing the founda-
ion.
The assignment of supreme court
Judges from December /. 1902. to De-
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