Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-03-26

II. J, Lilley & Co. of Hyde Park, man.
ufaoturers of the celebrated Lilley wagon
have made an assignment. They have
liabilities to the amount of $13,797.9S
and assets equal to Sl6,775.96. The as
signment is made to T. G. Cheney of
Morrisville, who will go on with the
completion of wagons now in process of
construction, and it is expected that the
firm will pay 100 cents on the dollar.
AT a meeting of the Randolph school
committee and building committee it
was decided to build a new school build
ing at the Center village on nearly the
same ground where the old building
stands. III. w. Mcintyre is drafting plans
for four-room building. to accommo-
date about 100 pupils. The old building
is to be sold and work on the new one
will be begun as soon as possible. The
new building will cost about $4,000.
The tub shop of III. A. Harding & Co.
of Barton was burned Wednesday fore
noon of last week. catching from blow
pipe. The engine and boiler room were
saved. The insurance on the shop and
machinery destroyed is S6570. e. S.
WEIGH, contractor and builder, occu-
pied the south end. His loss is severe.
Forty men are thrown out of employ
ment. The company lost shop by fire
in September, 1900. New buildings will
probably be erected.
Martin IIanlon of Mortified, aged SO
years, veteran of the Spanish American
war, was instantly killed at about IL
O'Clock Thursday by falling from tele-
phone pole, distance of about II feet
The fall was occasioned by the breaking
of the pole on which Mr. Hanlon was
working. Mr.. Hanlon had for several
years been in the employ Of the village
and at the time of his death was in
charge of the mechanical department of
the electric lighting plant.
The Brattleboro bridge over the Con-
necticut will hardly be completed before
late in the fall. AS is usual in contracts
made with bridge companies, since the
rush of business all over the country be-
gan, there is no penalty for failure to
complete at certain time. With the
rush of business and the great difficulty
of securing steel, it would have been
practically impossible to make con-
tract for reasonable sum with penalty
attachment. The officers of the two
towns simply did the best they could
and every effort will be made to get the
steel portion of the bridge as early as
possible.
George II. Bennett of Barre, a granite
Jumper employed by Jones Brothers,
raised the firms check from 1886 to
S1O.S5 Wednesday afternoon of last week
and has been arrested charged with for
gerry he waived examination before
city court and has been bound over I'M
der $500 to await the action of the grand
Jury. The Barre National bank cashed
the check, though suspicious of it at the
time, as the forgery was clumsy. The
boy gave back 81 to the bank when ar
rested. He has always had good repu-
tation, and said he did it to get money to
buy clothes.
The commissioners of the new Penn
sylvana capital building at Harrisburg,
Pa, arrived in Montpelier Thursday to
look over the Barre granite quarries
with a view to using Barre granite in the
S10,O00,000 capitol being erected in
Pennsylvania. Should Barre get the
contract for the structure it will give
employment to many hundred men. The
party included Senators w. p. Snyder /.
L. Eyre, Attorney R. X. Young, who are
commissioners; Joseph Huston, the arch
itect; Charles G. Wetter, the general con
tractor; B. r. Greene, the consulting en-
gineer, of Washington, D. c., and ii. L.
Brown of New York.
A quantity of silk silver and liquors
brought from Hong Kong on the United
States transport Seward has been seized
by the collector who has ordered the ar
rest of Capt. Harry Chamberlain and the
quartermaster of the vessel on the charge
of smuggling. The goods were pur-
chased in Hong Kong at the request of
prominent army officers who deny any
attempt to defraud the customs. The
officials say smuggling is frequent on
transports and regular navy vessels and
they are determined to put a stop to it.
Captain Chamberlain is son-in-law of
G en-. II. II. Gilmore of Fairlee. He served
in the war with Spain as quartermaster-
ergeant in the First Inf vt. Vols, and
while in service with this regiment was
made quartermaster with rank of cap
tain. After the war he received a com
mission in the regular army and served
for a time in Cuba before he was sent to
the Philippines.