Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-24
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLL

Gets l2 Years at Hard Labor for Attempte
Murder-A Poker Game With interesting
Complications Route for Proposed New
Railroad.
Henry Briggs, a popular young MAJ
of Bennington, who went to New 1orl
just before Thanksgiving to take a pc
Sition, was asphyXiated in his room
there, Dec. l6.
The state board of agriculture organ
lied at Burlington Wednesday, choos
ing Nj. II. Buchanan chairman and G.
j. Bell of Walden secretary. A serie'
of farmers meetings Will probably BE-
held this year.
Edward NJ. Moore, a brakeman OF
thd St. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad, was instantly killed al
ST. Johnsbury Wednesday while max
ing up train, by falling under NOV
ing car He leaves "A wife and child.
Henry r. Miller of Randolph, has
brought suit for $50. GOO against the
Central Vermont Railway Co. to re.
cover for injuries received in a coils
ion at White River Junction Oct .,
1901. The case will be tried in March.
The Groton Lumber company has
bought six million feet of spruce tim.
Der at Pigeon pond in Groton and will
cut it after finishing its work in Or
ange this winter. A large number Of
men will be employed in preparing
the lumber for market.
Mrs. Calvin c. Pratt of Montpelier
attempted suicide Thursday night by
drink ng laudanum. The cause was the
service of divorce libel on her by her
husband. The couple have been living
apart for some time. Mr.. Pratt is Il
prosperous young farmer in Worcester,
being many years her junior.
Many valuable furs have been brought
into Vermont markets this season. \
Montpelier dealer last week bought one
lot of % fox skins, another of % skunk.
10 coon and 10 mink skins and another
of % fox and over 100 each of coon,
skunk and muskrat skins. Prices paid
for first class articles are: Mink,
81 to 50; fox, 3 to 3. 30: coon, 81. 80;
skunk, 81. 40, and muskrats six to ten
cents each. Although the fisher cat is
rare, occasionally one is captured and
the skin brings from 81 to $40
Owing to the quarantine on Vermont
cattle because of the foot and mouth
disease, a large amount of livestock
has accumulated ready for market.
Local dealers at Groton and St. Johns
bury will commence the slaughter of
stock this week and permanent plant
for the work may be erected at St.
JOhnsbury where practically all the
cattle sold in northeastern Vermont will
be prepared for market l. o. Kicker
has just completed new cattle shed
at Marshfield, equipped with a Fair
banks scale and large enough to house
a carload of stock.
An extreme case of cruelty to ami
mails has just been discovered at Ben
nington and a reward of so has been
offered for the party or parties who
perpetrated it. Two hunters while on
Whipstock mountain found twoy year
old heifer so securely tied to trees by
the head and feet that it could hardly
move, while it was impossible for it TO
get its head to the ground. The ami
NAL had apparently been tied there
prior to the exceeding cold and storms
of the past week. and was nearly dead
when found. The secretary of the To-
cal S. p. G.. \. ordered it killed. 1t
is supposed that someone caught the
heifer and secured it with the inten
tion of killing it for beef, but became
and left it tied in the woods.
\ New York paper thus describes .
Vermont's floating sawmill now in
winter quarters behind the Burlington .
breakwater: 1T is two storied, air .
like affair, built upon heavy float,
The boiler and saving machinery occu-
py the entire main deck. The upper .
story is divided into living rooms for
the crew. As soon as the mill has fin
shed with one batch of logs a small
Jug tows ii to the next cove. The mill .
IAN be hired by the week or by the .
ob, and in some cases the logs have
)een cut on shares. The result has ,
been that the farmers along the lake
nave been able to cut their trees and .
market the lumber with profit. The
Mill will start on its round of the lake
IS soon as the ice breaks up in the
pring"
Statistics gathered from census re-
Iorts regarding the occupation of Yer
nonters show that of 3i3 GAL popula-
ion. 175, lbs males and les, SOB females.
n 1900. ll2. ISL males and %. fe-
males, l3i, 933 persons in all, are en-
ragged in gainful occupations. OF F.,
heSe, ~, $50 are engaged in agricult-
lral pursuits. There are %, 800 male
armers and 1886 females; Is, l43
agricultural laborers. 30 being wom-
N: 36, $50 manufacturers and mechan-
cs, including Ills marble and stone
utters, BOD carpenters and 1902 dress
makers. In domestic and personal
ervce there are enrolled 23.O2S per-
ons, including 10. 4Si laborers and
SOC servants Trade and transporta-
ion engaged the attention of IS, $50
ersons, 1885 of them being retail I
lerchants and 2471 being clerks in |
torres. The smallest class is composed |
{ those in professional service, there
eing only 7016 of them. This class J
Includes 3S1 male and 2s46 female t
eachers in schools and colleges; TIC
lale and p female physicians and G
urgeons: CSC male and II female cler- |
ymen: 42i lawyers: l0l male and go !,
emale musicians and music teachers; G
newspaper men and 10 newspaper v
7omen. I
William Sage, resident of New \
ork. who for several weeks has been !
guest at the Pavilion hotel, Montpel- {
II, has begun proceedings against y
tate Senator Frank j. Nelson of Rut- .
md county to recover $50 alleged to =
ave "come wrongfully into the pos II
,ssion' of Nelson. A Rutland des- .
,tch to Boston newspaper says that II
lie suit is the sequel to game of W
,ker played at Montpelier while the ',
gislature was in session. 1t says that =,