Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-26
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.

SOME VERMONT MATTERS
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.
The Crop 0utlook-Cost of the New Hedgehog
Law-Gen. Young Appointed Chief of Staff
Famous Quarries Reopened Novel Question
Under New License Law-The State Episco
pal Convention.
At Washington, d. c., Friday, John
G. Foster of Vermont was announced
as consul general at Ottawa, Ontario.
The Vermont Bar association will
have summer meeting this year at
Newport, probably the first week in
August.
Rev. Geo. W. Morrow, G. W. Osgood
of Bellows Falls and Rev. r. f. Lowe
of Barre have been speaking in the in
terest of the state anti-saloon league
the past week.
Howard j. Hill of Bristol was ar
rested Monday, charged with abstract
ing funds from the Farmers National
bank Of Vergennes, now defunct, while
he was clerk and teller of the bank.
Ann Story Chapter, d. A. r., of Rut-
land have erected granite drinking
fountain as memorial to old Fort
Ranger at Center Rutland and to mark
the old military road from Charles
town, N. H., to Grown Point, N. Y.
Maj. Gen. S. B. M. Young was Satur-
day assigned as chief of staff on the
general staff corps, provided for by the
act to increase the efficiency of the ar
my, approved Feb. IA last. Gen. Young
is relieved from duty as president of
the army war college.
At hearing last week at Ludlow on
the estate of James f. Gill, late of
Boston and owner of the Ludlow wool
en- mills, to determine the amount of
collateral inheritance tax due the state,
it was decided that tax of S3,051. Al
should be paid the state
The hedgehog bill passed by the last
Legislature has cost the state $1,000 up
to date. Returns from town clerks
show that nearly 1000 of the animals
have been killed for the 30 cent boun-
ty, 434 in Windham county. The num-
Der of foxes reported killed is 5,015:
lynx, "A; bears, 40.
1t is practically settled that Prin.
W. r. Davenport will stay at Montpe-
lier seminary another year. With the
aid Of a committee he will work for the
enlargement of the endowment fund of
the institution while Prof. Howe, vice
principal, will attend to much Of the
details of school work.
Lou Northrop, daughter of Clark
,,,fN Mn 81 faI
eide Monday by taking laudanum. She
had tried to drown herself in the river
that afternoon, but was prevented Sc
we're attacks of illness to which she
had been subject are thought to have
been the cause of the deed.
At the second annual breakfast of the
alumni of the university of Vermont at
Burlington Tuesday, it was decided to
appoint committee to raise 81, 600, 600
by June, 1904. The centennial cele
bration of the university will be held
then the fund will be known as the
University of Vermont centennial fund. !
Great excitement was caused at Mont |
peler, Tuesday, by the finding of what |
was supposed to be dynamite bomb |
in the state house yard, but it was dis
covered, after the town had been kept |
keyed up to high pitch for consid
cradle time, that the supposed terror
izer was nothing but harmless dry !
battery from a patrolman's lamp.
The once famous marble quarries east
Of Middlebury are being pumped out
and will probably be operated again by
a party of capitalists after lapse of
nearly % years. These quarries are
the oldest in the state and were
operated by the Addison Co. marble
Sculptors have asserted that
this quarry has produced some of the
finest statuary marble in America, both
Of the white and flesh tint variety.
E. W. Eastman of the Avenue house,
st. Johnsbury, was last week arrested
charged with keeping a house of i'll
lame. He furnished bail in $1,000
The Avenue house is St. Johnsbury's
eading hotel, owned by Nj. j. Caul-
peck. A former landlord, last year,
vas heavily fined for selling liquor and
or several months the house was
,losed. 1t was then leased to a syndi-
,ate of commercial men with Mr.. East
nan as the leading spirit.
Charles j. Bell, secretary of the state
BOARD of agriculture, states that the [
outlook for the hay crop In Vermont Is {
cry much improved and that it will {
be more than one-half the {
Usual quantity. Corn is doing fairly Y
veil, although potatoes are uncertain q
nd very backward The dairying in l
erests of the state are in good shape i
nd there is more stock on hand than i
or some years. Considering all the c
circumstances, the conditions are very
e
A novel question arising under the v
lew license law has come up in Gale I
onia county court. A man named r
Constantine was charged with keeping
intoxicating liquors with intent to G
ell, without license, and complaint L
'as drawn under section IS of the Ii C
ense law. His counsel demurred on +
he ground that the law is unconstitu- =
ional, in that section 6S provides for a +
ne of not less than 800 in cases of
onviction, but is not limited as to
he amount that may be assessed
gainst convicted party. Judge Stat
ord did not care to rule on the ques
ion so the demurrer was overruled,
no forma. and the case was passed to
ne supreme court for decision of this
oint before trial.