Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-28

G. j. Bell, secretary Of the state board
of agriculture and president of the Yer
mont State Grange. fell at the Rutland
railroad crossing at New Haven Junction
Monday night, cutting a cash six inches
long in his head. He was on his way To
speak at the farmers institute at New
Haven.
Private Porter. a prisoner at Fort
Ethan Allen, who was working on the
reservation in the charge of an armed
guard escaped Saturday. He overpower-
ed the guard and took from him his rifle
and revolver and in turn made a prisoner
of the guard and obliged him to accom-
pany him. Porter was captured In the
woods near the fort
Col. Il. Nj Mansur, collector of customs
has been in Washington to consult with
the treasury department about the new
public building at Newport. The super
vising architect informed him that the
amount appropriated for the work. $lUo e
0o0. is not sufficient, and at his sugges-
ton Representative Haskins will intro
duce a bill to appropriate $4,000 more. As
soon as this measure passes bids will be
called for.
Prosecution of so-called bucket shop
cases is not over at St. Johnsbury. not
withstanding the defeat sustained by the
state in the case against Cochran in
which a verdict OF not guilty was entered
Saturday. Walter T. Jewett. formerly
manager of the stock exchange there and
now in Wooodsville. y. H.. has been ar
rested on an Indictment charging him
with conducting "A bucket shop in ST.
Johnsbury and his trial will probably
take place at the June term OF the Gale
donna county court.
Private Donahue was stabbed and ser-
ously and perhaps fatally injured at Fort
-
whose weapon was a jackknife with "A
four-inch blade \ deep cut was made
in Donahues abdomen, and he became
unconscious before he was taken to the
hospital. He has since recovered CON
seriousness. hut his recovery is doubtful.
Haskell was arrested. and is held in the
guard house on the charge OF attempt TO
murder Both were members OF the 9Th
battery of field artillery. The alteration
arose over the ownership of a pipe.
James Bedell. &C. died recently in a
hospital at Burlington. after an opera
ton. II is known that he left several
thousand dollars, and Samuel d. Esta-
brooks of Hardwck, administrator of the
estate. is attempting to find the money.
Bedel had lived in Hardwick, and also
in Boston. Manchester and Tilton, y. H.,
being proprietor of a store in the latter
place. Bedell is reported TO have said
a short time before he died that he had
put his money where no one would find
It. 1t is known that he had si400 while
he was in Tilton two or three years ago.
The Hillside boarding house at Mont
| pelier owned by City Judge NJ. E. Smile
was destroyed by fire early Sunday morn
| ing. The building was occupied by II
| families, with n total of 55 people, more
| than half of whom were children. The
| tenants were all poor people. who lost
| almost all their household belongings
| The temperature was below zero, and
| many of the children suffered intensely
| The origin of the fire was a defective
| chimney, which burned out early in the
evening and smouldered until about
o'clock when the roof was discovered &c
| be in flames. The building was formerly
| a Methodist church made into a tenement
! house about % years ago. Loss on the
| building was 5000, with insurance of 81
| O00