Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-17

"A new DrehkWhJcT Will 70 cu'A' -
Lake Champlain, of Burlington ano
work was begun Monday.
The Barre city council Monday eve
ming passed city ordinance which
goes into effect in 30 days making 1T le'
gal for a police officer to arrest an in
toxicated person without warrant.
Maynard Ryan, a Central Vermont
brakeman, was instantly killed at st.
Adams Sunday night. He was open
ing a draw-bar and his foot slipped,
the wheels passing over his left leg
and the side of his body. Ryan was
married but had no children. He was
80 years old.
The Lyndonville Journal has been
sold to j. H. Fuller and Allan G. Hol-
brook of Newport. Mr.. Holbrook is an
experienced printer and newspaper
man, having been connected with The
Caledonian at st. Johnsbury and more
recently with The Express and Stand
ard at Newport.
The mill OF the Stark Paper Co. in
SALISBURY, near North Bennington,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday, entail
ing a loss of $4,000 The company
made plain, high grade ingram wall
paper and employed 30 hands. Some
Of the best machinery was saved. The
property was insured.
Mrs. Hermine Lamourex, wife of Ar
thur Lamourex, died at Rutland Thurs
day as the result of blood poisoning
contracted few days before from
finger being pricked on u rose thorn.
1t was thought that the amputation OF
Mrs. Lamourex' finger would save her
life, and this was done, but to no avail.
Gov. Mccullough and his party in
spected the house of correction at Rut-
land Saturday and reported everything
satisfactory. There are now 20S prls-
oners in the institution, the largest
ever had. This is against 120 for the
same time last year. The number has
increased 70 since the license law went
into effect May /.
Mrs. Jennie Aldrich was acquitted,
urday, of the charge of numbering Mrs.
II. The case had been on trial since
Thursday. The testimony showed that
Mrs. Massey was beaten by Mrs. AL
with their boys in childish quarrel.
alleged assault. The jury believed that
Mrs. Massey's death was purely acct
dental.
E. V. Rossiter, first vice president
Of the New York Central; Samuel X.
Galloway, president of the American
Locomotive Co., both directors of the
Rutland railroad, and II. H. Powers,
an attorney of Morrisville, have been
appointed by the Rutland directors an
executive committee to have charge of
the property during the absence of
President W. Seward Webb. Doctor
Webb is in such i'll health that his alb
sence abroad is likely to be of consid-
cradle length of time.
The state court of claims has been
called on to settle phase in the H. |
cense law. The state laboratory of |
hygiene wants money for making tests
of liquor to determine the purity of |
the goods sold by licensed places. |
Tests to the extent of $40 have already |
been made, and the laboratory is
afraid that the general appropriation |
for regular work will not hold out. AL |
ready q samples have been sent it,
and the cost of making the test /
amounts to 50 or "a each. The court
adjourned until Oct. % without doing
anything, owing to the absence of
Frank Plumley in Venezuela.
The lockout of Barre granite workers
was ended Friday when the cutters
union accepted the proposition of the
The settlement allows
to finish sub-contracts
now on hand, give them the right to
let whole contracts and certain parts of
contracts they cannot handle, and all
difficulties and disputes that may arise
over this agreement shall be arbitrated
without any strike. The agreement is
A compromise and insures against flu.
ture strikes, which is point for the
although the general
trend of the settlement was along the
ines contended for by the union.
cutters, however, demanded
change in the matter of settling diff
,ulties and voted not to go to work un- D..
question was decided. A settle
nept was agreed upon Monday and
work was resumed in all the Montpel-
er sheds. :