Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.
Stockholders Nut Return Dividends -Sensa-
t,onal Case Decided -state Golf Tournament
Tho Champlain Monument-To Pardon
Murderer The New Steamer Vermont =
Hung Himself With Barbed Wire.

Hung Himself With Barbed Wire.
A forest fire on the mountain north
of Stowe has destroyed 300, 600 feet Of
Lumber and unless rain falls large
amount of valuable timber will be de
. stroyed.
, Clan Gordon, order of Scottish clans
of Barre, celebrated their 10Th anniver-
sary Sunday. sermon was preached
Presbyterian church, before the society.
The clan is the largest of 1876 in the
United States and Canada and started
with 20 members. Its membership
now is $50.
Peter Miller sustained fatal injuries
in Norton Bros. state quarry near Paw
let Friday afternoon. He was putting
stone on car when it tipped and
hurled him into the pit, which is POO
feet deep. When picked up he was
alive but unconscious. His skull was
fractured and many bones in his body
were crushed.
Horace L. Wadleigh, we'll known
Ludlow farmer. was killed in run
away accident Friday. He was driving
pair of horses with load of wood
down steep hill when the horses be-
came frightened and ran; he was
thrown to the ground and the load
passed over him, crushing his head
and breaking one of his legs
The wife of DR.. A. p. Grinnell of
Burlington has entered suit for $780,,
600 damages against Edward Weston of
Newark, N. j.. and four detectives of
New York, who some months ago ar
rested DR.. and Mrs. Grinnell at New
York and charged them with swindling
Mr.. Weston. 1t was a case of mistaken
identity, but very humiliating to Mrs.
| Grinnell.
Angus Nicholson, 35, Barre stone
cutter, hanged himself to tree near
the village Friday. He took piece
of barbed wire from fence nearby to
make the moose, hammering down the
barbs so that the moose could slip.
Nicholson leaves wife and three small
children, one only week old. The
motive for his crime is unknown ex-
cept that he was respondent.
william Pierce, %. shot his brother,
Charles, 20, twice, wounding both
arms, near Quechee village Thursday.
A family quarrel, of years duration,
was the cause of the shooting. His
friends say that he is insane but he
does not seem so since his arrest He
waived examination and was held in
81, 900 on the charge of attempted MUIR
der. Both men are unmarried.
The new steamer Vermont, the third |
10 succession of that name to ply the |
waters of Lake Champlain, will go into |
commission Memorial day. She cost |
800, 600. On her trial trip Thursday
she developed a speed of % miles an
hour, and is easily the fastest boat ever
on the lake. She will be in command
of Richard Arbuckle and will ply be-
tween Plattsburg, Burlington and III
conderoga.
Judge Henry Ide of the Philippine
commission reached st. Johnsbury
sence He appears in good health, hav-
ing gained both in flesh and strength
since he has been in this country. His
two daughters accompanied him from
He will remain in st.
about two months for rest
and recreation and return to his for
eign post in August.
The state golf tournament will be
held in Burlington July 16, II and 1S !
The matches will consiit of the state :
anu lot tue :
sight men who lose in the first round
# play for the state championship.
There will probably be match open
o the second Is players in the quail
ying round for the state championship.
The handicap match will be played the
asst day of the tournament.
The French societies of Burlington
md surrounding towns have organized
he Champlain monument association
or the purpose of erecting monu-
nent to the memory of Samuel de
the discoverer of Lake 7
)hamplain. twill probably be placed
n Battery Park, Burlington, upon S
t is expected that the base of the mon
ment will be put in place July %. f
Subscriptions are being solicited E
the state for a fund for
effort to obtain pardon for
William Buzzell, now serving a life Z
entence in states prison. Buzzell and
lrs. George Marsh, both of Mortified.
ere convicted of numbering the lat
sr's husband by poisoning, several years
nce, and both were sentenced to be
ung. The legislature committed the +
cath penalty to life imprisonment.
Mrs. Florence Westcott of Dandy as
,ulted Mrs Jay Phillips Friday,
mashed windows, broke furniture,
as arrested, bound over to county
,urt, sent back to Jail, went to her
ONE with an officer to get some cloth
,g, and attempted to wind up things !
Y taking Paris green. The officer
loked her and prevented the poison
ON going down. She is now safe in
lie county Jail, but is being watched
The sensational case of Beverly Rob-
son against Robert S. Stephenson
I'd others has been decided by the
nited States circuit court for the de-
ndants. 1t involves 500, 1000 worth L
property and the paternity of child. -
obinson claimed that the child was
,rn to his wife, but others testified
at it was born to her sister. Mrs. r.
etheny. The verdict gives Mr.. Meth II
y title to the property through the
lid born to his wife, Mrs. Robinson =
d the child were shot at Fairhaven
the summer of 1878. Mrs. Metheny
ed there in commissions the day be-
re. W,
Voyer, alias Albert Rodier, w
Jail at ST. Adams, on charge of bur- GIG
arizing the Summerskill residence ual
Gently, has been positively identified \
an old offender from Canada, who is
Gently out of the St. Vincent de Paul
in Montreal on ticket of VI
we, of good behavior. He is said to
burglar and thief by occupation. -
will be tried for burglary in St. -
hans in Captap,bar and then turned