Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-10
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Fatal Result Of Kindling Fire with Kerosene
--Roxbury Flooded High Water in Lake
Champlain -Cowdrey Will Verdict Bust
ness Boom for Northfeld-Accident to Wi.
nooski Weaver.
The new steamer Vermont. the third
boat on Lake Champlain of that name,
will go into commission Memorial day.
William E. Lay, employed at Shell.
burne Farms, was made violently III
last week by eating canned roast beef.
The meat will be analysed at the state
| laboratory.
A huge landslide of hundred tons
of earth fell into the Boston ~ Maine
railroad cut south of Wells River
Thursday two minutes after freight
train had passed.
A corporation known as the Vermont
black slate company has been organ
lied in Northfield, with an authorized
capital of S2OO,OOO. This will mean
much for the business interests of the
town and county.
Merrill Soloan, %, cut his throat
with a razor and died in the dooryard
of Simon Parker at Erst Calais, early
Friday morning. He was unmarried
and leaves only a nephew and nleces,
Mrs. Parker being one of the latter.
The annual pilgrimage to the state
of the Vermont association of Boston
will be to the east side this year. st.
Johnsbury will be visited Aug. 10 OIL
II, then Newport and Guildhall with
rides on Lake Memphremagog, and the
party, which will number $50 or more,
will then visit their several native
towns.
Miss Margaret O'Donnell of Winoos-
XII, weaver in the WOODEN mills, was
caught by the hair in the gearing
Thursday and drawn into the machine.
Her cries brought assistance and she
was released. Her scalp was badly torn
and lacerated and the hair pulled out
in great patches but it is believed the
wound will heal permanently.
Roxbury was flooded April by the
breaking of the watch factory dam on
Andrus brook, and much property was
damaged, especially that of the Central
Vermont Railway Co. Water was five
feet deep on Main street. Persons were
swept off their feet but no one was in
jured. The damage caused to the dam
is estimated at 81, 600 while the loss to
the villagers is over $4,000.
The stockholders of the defunct Far
mers' National bank of Vergennes are
making an effort to have the recent de
cision of the United States courts,
whereby S25, 900 was ordered returned
| to Mrs. Frances p. Hallett, reversed
and the money turned over TO the de
| positors. An effort will also be made
to make certain parties pay sums which
| are claimed to be due the bank but
which have never been received.
After reporting two disagreements
and being sent back each time the Jury
at Montpelier have brought In yer
| dict sustaining the Cowdrey will. The
case had been on trial week. Mrs.
Almira Cowdrey was city pauper un-
| til her nephew died, leaving her 5000.
She died willing most of her estate to
| Overseer of the Poor George Wheeler
aud leaving some for benevolences.
The heirs contested and will now take
the case to the supreme court.
The unusually high water in Lake
Champlain, dashed into fury by ter
rible south wind, did considerable dam.
age Friday to docks, lighthouses and
other shipyards along the lake front.
AT Rouses Point. about $50 tons of coal
belonging to the Lake Champlain trans
portation company was washed into
the lake, and dock badly damaged.
The railroad drawbridge between
Rouses Point and Alburg was rendered
unsafe and traffic was stopped for sew
eral days. At Burlington and several
New York points much damage has
been dpne