Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-03
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC.
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.
Apportionment Of Reserved Income Of State
School Tax-No Receiver for Queen City
Park Association Valuable Sheep Killed by
Dogs Strike at Barre New r. r. Terminal.
The state Sunday school convention
will be held at Burlington Oct. 2O-22
Mason s. Stone, former state super
intendent Of education, who recently
returned from the Philippines does not
intend to return to Manila.
A skif containing four men capsized
on Silver lake, near Franklin. during
Saturday night and Edward Conklin,
25, and William Dixon, 30, were
drowned. A nearby boat rescued the
other men.
Dogs Friday night killed 80 sheep on
farm mile east of Middlebury.
The sheep were blooded animals, some
of them valued at $1,000 apiece, and
were the property of G. ID. Miner and
Robert Cartmell of Middlebury.
vt has been decided to hold the an
nual midsummer meeting of the Yer
mont Fish and Game league at Fort
Frederick, Sept. 4. The members will
gather at Burlington and take the
steamer Chateaugay up the lake.
W. B. johnson, proprietor of John
sons hotel at Essex Junction, was ar
rested and tried there Tuesday on the
charge of violating the antitreating
clause of the local option license law.
He was found not guilty and dis
charged.
George Truman Swasey, son of Geo.
T. Swasey of Barre, has passed the
mental entrance examinations to the
U. S. naval academy at Annapolis,
Md, and his entrance is assured. or
the 400 boys who took the examina
tions, only AZ passed.
The seal of car containing liquor
was broken Thursday night at North
field and two barrels containing 240
bottles of beer were stolen, part of
which were buried in field back of
the railroad station. The police OBJ
tanned clue and later found 100 bot
ties. Arrests are expected to follow.
Gov. Mccullough has sent his check
for 81, 600 toward the $500 endow-
ment fund for Burr & Burton seminary,
at Manchester, that it is hoped to
raise before July l. This must be
done in order to secure several thou
sand dollars that are pledged with the
provision that the entire amount shall
be raised by that time.
S. n. Spring, of the bureau of for
estry, will this summer make study
of large areas of waste land coming up
J., To. h Matn
southern New Hampshire, parts of Yer
mont, northern Massachusetts and some
areas in Rhode Island and Connect
cut. These areas, if protected and en-
couraged, will soon become valuable
timber.
A man giving the name of n. d. |
Smith and claiming to be "Congre-
gational Methodist minister was
placed under arrest at Montpelier |
Thursday on the charge of violating |
the city ordinances by begging. He
had visited two local clergymen and |
both aided him, and also begged of
others. He told different story to
each person.
Fourteen employees OF Bonazzi & Bon
azzi, granite manufacturers at Mont
pelier, Friday struck because G. Cetti,
a member of the firm, sharpened
tools and does not belong to the tool
union. The manufacturers
contend an employer could work for
himself in any capacity. The union
admitted its mistake Monday and the
strikers returned to work.
The Rutland Railroad Co. has prac-
tically abandoned Rouses Point, n. Y,
rs a divisional terminal and has moved
its quarters to Alburg. A large yard
with a capacity of 400 cars has been es-
-ablished and a roundhouse containing
seven stalls is nearly completed. 1t is
probable that new station will be
erected there soon and that about 30
antilles and as many unmarried men
will move to Alburg from Rouses Point
A suit has been brought by Leo Dan
rev, a l4-year-old boy of Winooski,
through his father, Frank Dandrew
against the American Wooden Co., for {
he recovery of damages of $500. The {
plaintiff claims that the boy did not I
Ittend school as required by law and
hat he was employed without parental {
or consent. Also that his
cot was crushed by an improperly con i
tructed elevator so that he was Grip
lied for life.
Contractor Roger has arrived in Bur- /.
ington from Washington and will i'm
nediately begin the construction of the S
temporary government building. The G
tructure will be so by 60 feet in size, 9
wo stories high and will cost about !,
10, 600. 1t will be completed by No
ember l. As soon as completed the a
ustoms department, postoffice and of O
ce of the clerk of the United States -
ourts will be removed and the present
overnment building will be torn down
to the erection of the new a
uilding next year. O