Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-15
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.
Interesting Agricultural Experiments neguh
Proposed Electric Railroad-Fatai Colhs'
ion of Freight Trains at Milton Cattle
Quarantine Modified End Of Dramatic ana
Sensational Divorce.
Editors of Caledonia county weekly
newspapers have organized an assocla
ton called "The Caledonia Publishers
Association, =" for business ana sociai
purposes.
The Vermont Firemen's association
will hold their annual convention IN
July and tournament is under con-
sideration. 1t is four years since
tournament of Vermont firemen mas
been held.
Clarence Graves of East Wallingford
who has charge of the milk train over
the Rutland railroad, was badly IN
jured last week at Rockingham. Inc
car started suddenly and Graves fell on
an ice axe which inflicted a cut pc
tween his ribs and penetrated the
liver.
Barker l.. Cramton, John Dunn ana
David Wing of Rutland were arrested
Thursday for catching trout IN an ira
brook with dynamite. They proved
their innocence at the hearing Satur-
dav and were found not guilty The
dynamite was said to have killed every
fish within several rods of the places
where the charges were set OH.
Last week lone engine returning to
Rutland from Mount Holly ran over
and killed Bessie, the 2-year old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren johnson
who live near the Bowlyille crossing.
Her mother, hearing the engine, went
to look for her and found her dead.
She had been thrown bout 80 feet:
The top of her head had been cut OH
and the brains were gone.
The government inspection OF the Vt;
National Guard has been concluded
and Capt Sargent's report speaks well
of the whole regiment and says each
company made a creditable showing,
unauestionably meeting all the require
ments necessary to secure the ne"
arms. Gen. Gilmore has already made
the reauisition for them and hopes to
have them by June inspection time but
fears that they will not arrive until
later.
Thomas Howard of Albany, n. T.,
Robert Carr of Boston and Joseph Cole
man of Lee, Mass, were arrested FRI.
day near Readsboro on suspicion OF
being connected with the recent bur,
glaries in that vicinity. Howard had
s73 sewed into his shirt and carried
revolver and Carr had money and a
knife Howard and Carr were held for
burglary in $1,000 each and Coleman for
yagrancy in the sum of 500 In default
of bail they were lodged in jail at Ben
nington.
An electric railroad is proposed from
Windsor through West Windsor, telch-
vile, Amsden, Perkinsville and North
Springfield to Springfield where II
would connect with the Springfield
electric railway running to Charles.
town. n. H., on the river division OF
the Boston 4 Maine railroad. Ii the
project is executed, mills and other IN.
dustries which have been abandoned
because of the cost of hauling mater
ials and products to and from the rail
road, will doubtless be started again.
The strike of the Barre machinists
which was inaugurated May l. was set
tied Friday morning, and the men went
to work. The agreement is to run for
wear. The terms of settlement are
that the minimum wage shall be ~ a
dav, that the shops shall be union
shops, that nine hours shall constitute
days work, that apprentices shall
work four years, that there shall be no
discrimination against the grievance
committees and that there shall be no
suspension of work during arbitration.
The body of Jesse W. Grandey was
found in the woods near Vergennes Sat
urday morning. Indications were that
he committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid. Mr. Grandey was unmar-
ried and the last of a we'll known fam
| ily. His father, Gen. George w. Gran
dev, was prominent in state politics,
speaker of the house of representatives
for 10 years and state senator two
years. Mr. Grandey was city clerk and
grand Juror at the time of his death.
Dependency was probably the cause
of his suicide.
| The state agricultural college at Bur
| lington has begun some interesting eX,
periments in propagating medicinal
/ plants 1Or I0e y. .. SpNci hthche' -
plot OF six acres of land, mile or more
out of the city, has been leased for a
term of years, to be used in carrying
out the experiment. A half acre OF
peoples will be put in this year and an
acre of various other medicinal plants
will be set out at once. The govern
ment is DESTROYS of finding out if many
of the plants now imported cannot be
grown to better advantage in this coun'
try.
Two heavily loaded freight trains on
the Central Vermont railroad crashed
together at Milton, 10 miles north OF
Burlington, Thursday resulting IN the
death of one man, the injury of three
others and heavy damage to rolling
stock and freight. The dead man Is
Fireman A. L. Ranney of St. Adams,
while the injured are Fireman Henry
Willets and Engineer Jack Ryan both
badly hurt, and Brakeman Robert tarr
bruises and cuts, caused by jumping.
The mass of wrecked cars and freigh,
caught fire from the locomotives, and
some eight or nine cars were consumed
with their contents. Several other ears
were damaged, and the road was torn
nm for some distance