Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-27
SOME VERMONT MATTERS,
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK
Industrial Notes-A Successful Invention
Cruel Shipment of Live Stock Deaths OF
Notable vermonters State Tax Commits
sioner Appeals in Mission Legacy Cases.

Alden Bass of Willamstown, tn
well known actor, died very suddenl.
in Milwaukee, Wis, Thursday night
The body was brought to Williams
town for burial.
Warren Pierce, eight years old, wa
terribly scalded at his home in Soutt
SALISBURY Feb. H. Passing the stove
he hit tea kettle full of boiling waite
and turned it over on him.
The residence of Emery Patnode q
East Shoreham took fire from defec
tive chimney Saturday morning anc
was consumed. Most of the contents
were saved Partly insured. -
Capt. B. H. Stickney has resigned
from Co. A., V n. G. of Rutland, as
a result of his controversy with Maj.
H. f. Dyer who made an unfavorablt
report on the condition Of the company
at last summers muster.
Glens Falls, n Y, capitalists have
South Wallingford and will open a
graphite mine. A first the product
will be sold, but later pencils will
probably be manufactured there
.Adna Browns livery stable and Put.
nam, Lafountain & Co. $ tinshop at
Springfield were destroyed by fire Sun
day. Two horses and two cows were
/ burned. The fire started over the office
in the stable and spread rapidly in the
hay.
Gen. Charles Doolttle, one of Tole-
dos best known citizens, a prominent
civil war veteran and banker died Fri
day. He was born in Vermont II years
ago He rose to the rank of brigadier-
general in the civil war and was brew
eted major general.
There are at present l22 rural free
delivery routes in operation in Vermont,
Enosburg Falls and Middlebury each
having five routes running into the
country and other towns have from one
to four, All the carriers are paid from
the Burlington office
Joel Foster, who conceived and es-
tablished the Montpelier water works
system and was its superintendent for
20 years, is dead al the age of u years.
lie was for many years Identified with
the several public works of the city
and was held in high esteem.
james Pirrie of Montpelier has just
perfected machine for sharpening all
kinds of granite tools 1t is an I'M
qualified success and will do the work
that now requires six men, Mr.. Pirrie
has been working on the idea for -
years and has experienced repeated fail
ures.
Lieut.. Col. f. d. Dimmick, ID cav
airy, commanding officer al Fort Ethan
Allen since last June, has asked TO be
placed on the retired list of the army,
after having served more than 80 years
He will relinquish command at Fort
Ethan Allen the first week in March,
after receiving his colonelcy.
While Smelling corn in machine at
Salisbury Thursday, Mrs. Charles Ev-
erts caught the forefinger of her right
hand in the cogs and could not free it,
After waiting and calling for help for
an hour, she literally tore the finger
off at the second joint and walked half
mile to have the wound dressed.
Mrs. Eliza NJ. Stearns of Boston has
sued Attorney ]. p. Lamson of Cabot
for SANDER and wants g, 600 damages.
She says that Mr. Lamson made dam
aging remarks about her during the
trial of the Washington county case of
Mckinstry vs. Collins. Mrs. Stearns
is sister of Morris Mckinstrv.
Work will probably begin this sum
mer on the electric railway line from
Vergennes to Highgate. This viii .
form part of great system which in .
a few years is to connect New York .
with Montreal Burlington capitalists I
will also extend electric railroad ser
vice from St. Adams to Vergennes.
Frank Barrett, age about 45, one of
the best known Central Vermont rail
way engineers, was run over and in
stantly killed by shifting engine at
ST. Adams Friday. He had just ar
rived on local passenger train and
was crossing the yards. While watch
ing a passing freight train he was
struck by the switch engine.
Five electric railroads in the state
are dissatisfied with the appraisal of
their systems recently made by J. E
Cushman, state tax commissioner, and
have taken an appeal. The commits
sion to whom the appeal is taken is
of Lieut. Gov. Zed S. Stan
on, Auditor H. F. Graham and Sec
'etary of State F. G. Fleetwood
Gov. Mccullough has ordered an in {
Testigation of the recent unfortunate {
ieath by scalding of Mrs. Sarah c. {
Bennett of Calais. an aged inmate of |
he Vermont asylum for the insane at s
Waterbury. The officials who will con- {
luct the investigation are the super
'isors of the insane. They are ordered '
o report the result of their findings to c
he governor and he will take further j
ction in the matter should he deem a
/ necessary. |
William S. Spencer, new principal of v
be American college at Pueblo, Mexi- t
o, has been chosen principal of Brig
lam academy to succeed G. II. Morrill,,
'ho resigned recently to accept the po- {
ition of principal of the Randolph d
formal school. Mr.. Spencer is a son r
f the Rev. H. A. Spencer, for many I
ears leading Methodist clergyman of
'ermont, presiding elder of the Spring -
ED and Montpelier districts, and at
he time of his death pres iding elder
f the st, Johnsbury district.
John Pashby of Burlington. an old
eteran &C years old, is missing. Pash-
Y, who has been quite i'll with asth- :
Ia. left home Feb. II with quite
um of money in his pocket He left
wife and children in destitute cir
umstances. Pashby is a veteran of
ne civil war and gets pension of $50
quarter. Three of the children have :
cen taken to the home for destitute L
hildren, two have pneumonia and two
Tiers are practically helpless. The {
ty is helping the family.
The Barre granite cutters have con- d
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