Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-06
SOME VERMONT MATTERS,
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

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A Newspaper Libel Suit Smallpox at Rochs'
ter-state Educational Statistics Shameful
Abuse Of an Orphan Waif--Strikes Threat
ened by Vermont carpenters-A Dangerous
Imbecile Attacks His Mother.
Col. ]. II. Brigham Of Washington,
assistant secretary of agriculture. Is
| with the state board Of agriculture TINS
week making addresses at its meetings
The secretary of agriculture has Is
sued an order releasing Vermont cattle
from quarantine. They may now, under
proper inspection, be shipped for i'm
mediate slaughter
DR.. W. Seward Webb has refused
Burlington's proposition for the re-
moval Of the Rutland railroad offices
to that city. The mayor has asked for
specific objections.
Eugene Philie, II, of Burlington,
skated into a crack in the ice on Lake
Champlain Sunday and was drowned.
The body was recovered. The boy was
bright pupil of the Cathedral school.
Rochester has II we'll developed
cases of smallpox in the western part OF
the town and exposures without num-
Der have been made. Great excite
ment prevails in surrounding towns
because it is not known how far the
contagion has spread.
Mrs. Alice M. Ruble, member OF the
lower house of the Colorado legislature.
who distinguished herself by making
the nomination of Henry M. Teller for
United States senator, is a former Yer
mont woman, who is having her first
experience with official life.
r. G. Flood, editor of the Brandon
Union, has been sued for the amount
of s., 600 by James II. Cross of Rut-
land, who claims to be seriously de-
famed through letter written by W..
L. Lambson of Westtield, Mass, and
printed in the Union Nov. T.
Judge Bingham in the probate court
at Burlington Saturday rendered de-
cision wherein he holds that religious,
charitable and educational institutions
without the state are not subject to the
inheritance tax on legacies, as contend
en- by j. E. Cushman, state tax COM
missioner.
John Shannon of Rutland, aged %,
who holds the Vermont record for num-
Der of times arrested, was sent to jail
for the 117th time last week for breach
of the peace. Shannon has averaged
four convictions a year for nearly 30
years. In his younger days he was a
prosperous merchant.
Eli B. johnson, one of Burlington S
best known citizens, died last week
from paralytic shock. He was well
known to New England druggists, as
travelling salesman for many years. He
was one Of the founders of local paper.
The Earth, and published the Vermont
farmers Advocate for several years.
| A warrant is out for the arrest of
Louis Trudeau of Swanton, charging
him with shamefully abusing little
waif, boy eight years old, from the
| Catholic orphan school at Boston.
When Trudeau finally threatened to
burn the child on hot stove. the lit
| tie fellow ran away and told his story.
The report of the bureau of forestry
| for 1902 under the head of Vermont,
says that during the year, in co-opera-
ton with ex-Gov. Smith of St. Adams.
the bureau began general study Of
| the forest resources and conditions of
| Vermont with a view to recommend
ing forest policy. A complete report
is in preparation.
Former Lieut.. Gov George N. Dale
died at his home, Island Pond, Thurs
day, at the age of SO years. He was a
native of Fairfax, and was lieutenant
governor in 1870, and president of the
Vermont Bar association in 1856. He
had been states attorney, representa-
tive, state senator and United States
consul at Coaticook, p. q.
Very encouraging reports of the rails
ing of Vermont Merinos were given at
the annual meeting of the sheep breed
ers' association at Middlebury last
week The society is in fiourishing
condition Cyrus H. Smith of Bird
port was elected president and he read
very hopeful paper on the outlook
for the merino sheep industry.
Dillingham; Bros, merchants, of
Stowe have failed because of suits re-
Gently brought by Waterbury National
bank The firm has liabilities of a.,
oil, assets, 1900. |. NJ. Dillingham;,
father of the partners. is involved
through signing notes with them to
the amount of 81, 700. Besides this, he
has g, 05S liabilities, assets 50, 600
The story that portion of the Howe
Scale works is to be moved from Rut-
land to Chicago is misleading: as only
a certain pattern of coal conveying ma
chinery, the revenue from which is
very small, will be manufactured there,
the Rutland plant losing only one en-
ploye. The change is made simply be-
cause the machinery of that pattern is
used in the west
The Barre city council committee
have exonerated the officers of the cit,
police force from all the charges pre-
ferred against them in connection with
the so-called "dish water whiskey
cases and the policemen, who were sus-
pended during the Investigation, have
resumed their duties. The investiga
tion of the remarkable change of whis
key into water will, however, continue
Capt. Cornelius NJ. Brownell of Bur
lington, the volunteer officer who ad-
ministered to Father Augustine in the
Philippines, the water cure that re-
suited in the priests death, will not
be put on trial for that act. The at
torney general has, at the presidents
request, looked up the case and ad
vises Secretary Root that there is no
lawful way of reaching Brownell as
matters now stand.
Lewis A. Morse of South Acworth,
n H., builder employed on Rutland
railroad bridge at North Clarendon,
was assaulted and shot twice by an I'M
known man while returning on the
railroad track from Rutland Jan. %.