Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-16
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

Powder - Kerosene for Kindling = Famous
Botanist Will Study Cuban Flora-The Cat
tie Commissioners and the Cattle Disease
Novel Defense Of Liquor Dealer.
Forrest Jepson, Bennington boy 10
wears of age, has saved four lives at the
risk of his own. In each case he saved
a boy from drowning.
The last state fair held at Rutland
was n financial loss to the tune OF
1897. 36. OF this amount the Rutland
Agricultural society assumes half. Inc
latter society is 81, 14S. 6S in debt.
C. Van Vlet of Essex junction has
a fac smile copy of the Boston news
Letter, the first paper ever printed ID
this country. 1t was issued MONDAY,
April "a, 17O4, and only three copies
are known to be in existence.
william McRae of Pittsfeld has been
arrested and placed in the house OF
correction in default OF bail, on ac-
count of a suit brought by Mrs. George
n Houghton of Dover who claims that
her husband was killed while under
the influence of liquor furnished MIN
by McRae.
Harvey Berry and wife. 22 and ~
wears of age, of Sutton, were struck by
a train from the south at noon Satur-
day on crossing at st. Johnspury
Center. and were instantly killed. The
bodies were badly mangled. They were
in a covered sleigh with bells and did
not hear or see the train.
Nellie Sullivan of Middlebury,
nurse at the Rutland city hospital, has
lost the sight of one eye and may lose
that of the other. 1t is supposed that
while attending her grandmother S
funeral, Jan. /, some face powder she
used got into her eyes by reason OF her
weeping, and caused the trouble
The residence of C. d. Baldwin at
East Middlebury. was totally destroyed
by fire Saturday morning. Only a
small portion of the contents were
saved and several of the family had mar
row escapes in getting out of the house
before the walls fell. LOSES 81, 200,
with insurance of s700 The fire start
ed around the chimney.
A combine of all the spruce butter
tub manufacturers in the United States
was formed last week at Burlington,
under the name of the Spruce Butter
Tub Manufacturers association. 1t Is
an outgrowth of one formed IN 1850
which has never been large enough to
control the market. The new associa'
ton includes about 20 manufacturers.
located mostly in Vermont and New
York.
Roy X. Bicknell, employed as cyl
inder press feeder and apprentice In
The Middlebury Register office, at
tempted to build fire under steam
boiler one day last week by throwing
pint of kerosene into the fire box
which contained bed of glowing Goals.
A violent explosion followed, sheet
, of flame striking him in the face, bad
, Is burning it and scorching his hair
and hands.
The sawmill and plant owned by
, John W. Blanchard and Albert Billa-
do of Rutland and located about four
! miles south of Tinmouth Center, was
/ destroyed by fire at an early hour
r Thursday. The building was just com
pleted and the plant had only been In
: operation short time. Cause OF lire
; unknown. Total loss, $1,000, unin-
sured. The mill will be rebuilt as
r soon as possible.
The state fish and game commission
ers charge the department of marine
and fisheries at Ottawa, Canada, with
, breach of faith They say that last
. winter it was agreed by the two coun-
! tries that no licenses would be issued
for fishing in either the Canadian OF
Vermont waters of Lake Champlain or
+ other waters contiguous to the two
\ countries and that Canadian fishermen
/ afterward got their licenses as usual.
1t is said that Eugene F. Fowler OF
' Burlington who owns the bottling es-
' Establishment where a big seizure of Ii
| ouor was recently made, will make the
9 defence, at his hearing, that the pro
? hibitory law is not now in force and that
i no legal process of law can be served
9 on him for alleged violation Of this
q law. Other dealers, who are said to
t dispense liquors with more or less free
dom from the law, are watching the
case with interest.
c. ]. Pringle, the famous botanist,
g keeper of the herbarium at the univer-
! sity of Vermont and botanical collec-
5 tor for Harvard university. left Bur
, lipgton last week for Cuba, where he
will remain for two months to secure
r the fora of that island for the colleges
/ he represents. Mr.. Pringle has just
, returned from Mexico, where he has
i been engaged for years in collecting ho-
! tanical specimens, which he has sent
; to all parts of the world and to the
r leading colleges and universities of
t Europe and America. The herbarium
2 which he recently presented to the
{ university of Vermont is almost price
! less.
g The case of the town of Bennington
! vs. the Bennington Water Co., brought
! to collect taxes for 1899 and 1900, which
the company declined to pay, claiming
the general appraisal of 1898 was ex.
, orbitant and the action of the board
of that year illegal, has been decided
against the town, after having been
four years in the courts. The town
, will appeal to the supreme court The
3 company has paid no taxes in five
years, although the appraisal has been
reduced $4,000. The decision is Civ
5 en- from the fact that the listers failed
. to make proper abstracts of the prop
T erty, and Jumped it all together. The
t company now owes about $40, 600.
The state board of cattle commission
ers met with the governor at Burling-
ton Friday and discussed the laws re-
latin9 to the duties of the board and
, plans for the future work of the com
/ mission. The secretary stated that all
. the diseased cattle'in the state have
been killed, the quarantine has been
: removed in the towns of Rupert and
I Grafton and it is hoped it may be re-