Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-27

Thousands of acres of meadow land
i'm Addison county are submerged.
Burglars obtained about $40 in silver
and tobacco, cigars and pipes from A
b. Yandow's store in Essex Junction
Monday night
Norcross Brothers of Worcester have
tn, contract for building for f. 3. Jen-
nings at North Bennington house
which will cost 100000
Mrs. Mary Centerbar's farm buildings
near Enosburgh Centre were burned ear
~ Friday morning with all of the con-
tents. Two horses, q head of cattle
and four hogs We're burned in the barn.
Norman W. Mullen's store. store
house. house and barn in East Franklin
We're burned Sunday night with con-
tents. The buildings were erected last
year. The loss is partially covered by
insurance.
Terrence McKane has been awarded
ia county court at Montpelier a verdict
of S56-9.l damages against Mari Il Cor
don. Mckane was quarryman and
had been sent to dig out a hole in which
a blast had failed. II exploded and the
jar injured his spine.
Elmer Walker -. of Burlington. was
shot in one leg while hunting muskrats
on the Winooski river Wednesday, The
leg was amputated. \ gun which he
was removing from the boat caught
against something and was discharged.
the entire charge striking him in the
leg.
The Putnam House in Bennington has
been sold to b. G. Howe of ST. Johns
bury. The terms are private. but 1t is
said that the hotel block is valued at
$50 00o. The Ludlow House in Ludlow
al han ed ySl
ton retiring and j. G. Sollace of Bird
port taking possession.
The body of Nahum Bemis. %. who
disappeared from his home in Chester
last December was found Friday a mile
from the house. in four feet of water in
a brook. The body was partly covered
with brush. and 1t is thought by some
that Bemis was a victim of foul play
Arthur Giddings. a young man was set
ting traps for muskrats when he found
the body. Mr.. Bems served in Com
pany G., 9Th Vermont regiment in the
civil war. He is survived by wife
John D. Griswold. a well-known manu-
facturer of gun and mining powder. died
in Syracuse. y. Y, THURSDAY from a
complication of diseases. Mr.. GriSwold
was sixty years old and was born in
Bennington. In 1873 he built the Mar
cellus powder works, which was des-
truNcd by an explosion a Few years ago
He afterwards sold out to the Duponts of
Delaware. In 1851 he built a line of
powder mills near Cazenova, which
turned out 50OO pounds of mining powder
a day. These mills he sold out to a
syndicate. including his patents. which
greatly cheapened the manufacture of
powder. He was employed by this syn
dicate at the time of his death. He is
survived by a widow, two brothers and
three sisters.
Some Vermont golf enthusiasts met at
the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, last
week to make plans for the state golf
championship tournament to be held at
Burlington July Ii, II and Is, over the
course of the Waubanakee Golf club.
Prizes Will be given for the winner, run
ner up. low gross score winner of
handicap, and cup for the fiVe-men
team winning the competition. The fol-
lowing committee from the Waubanakee
club were chosen: Charles L.. Woodbury.
j. 7. Stearns and H. A. Torrey. The
other members of the committee are
Dr. +. NJ Pond of Rutland and James
l.. Taylor of Manchester. William H.
Dunn of Rutland is secretary and
treasurer.