Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Accident and suioide-A Boy Forgsr- Death
Of Prominent St. Johnsbury Man-Vermont'
or Charged With Smuggling Expio'
sion in West Rutland Quarry.
The annual convention OF the state
v M. G. A. will be held in Burling-
ton April II, Is and ID.
Judge Henry G. Ide, now on his way
home from the Philippines, Will be Me-
mortal day orator at st. Johnsbury.
The state tournament, held under
the auspices OF the Vermont league OF
Golf clubs, will take place in Burllng-
ton July 16, II and IS.
G.. b. Howe of St. Johnsbury has
bought the Putnam house, the largest
hotel in Bennington. The block is
generally considered worth $4,000.
Mason S. Stone, Vermont's former
state superintendent of education,
now assistant superintendent OF schools
in the Philippines, is to give up his po-
sition there and will soon return to the
United States.
Martin Hanlon, aged 80 years, a vet
eran OF the Spanish American war, was
instantly killed Thursday at Northfieid
by falling - feet from telephone pole.
The pole on which Mr.. Hanlon was
working broke.
Sons and daughters of Vermont,
about 100 in number, members OF the
Vermont association Of Hartford, held
their second annual banquet Thursday.
Among the speechmakers were Col.
George Harvey and John Hendricks
Bangs.
Antoine Carpenters house and barn
in Monkton Ridge were burned Thurs
day. Most of the household goods were
saved. One COW was burned. The ire
caught from a spark from the black
smith shop nearby. The loss is placed
at $500, insured.
Terence McKane has been awarded
at Montpelier verdict OF %, 629. 10
damages against Mari Il Gordon. Nc
Kane was quarryman and had been
sent to dig out hole in which blast
had failed. 1t exploded and the jar
injured his spine.
Hiram Smith, So, truckman, Of Mont
pelier, committed suicide Thursday
afternoon by hanging himself with a
strap fastened to the rafters OF his
barn. He was doubtless temporarily
insane. He was veteran of the Civil
war. He leaves a wife and two sons.
Roy Crawford, 16, has been suspend
ed from Lyndon institute for. refusing
to disclose where he obtained a cigar
cite which he admitted to the school
authorities he had smoked. The mat
ter was taken to the parents eff the boy
who uphold him in the matter, saying
that they do not wish to have their son
act the part of spotter or informer.
George H. Bennett, II, employed as
granite Jumper by Jones Brothers,
Barre, raised the firms check from
g. So to 80 So and was arrested
charged with forgery. He has been
bound over under 500 bail for the
grand jury. The Barre National bank
cashed the check. The boy committed
the crime to get money for clothes. He
restored 81 of the amount.
Principal W. r. Davenport, formerly
presiding elder of the Vermont confer
ence, has resigned from the Montpel-
Ter seminary, and will not return to
the conference, but engage in another
line of work. The trustees would not
accept his resignation and have re-
elected him for another year. The
matter has been left open until the an
nual meeting in June.
H. j. Lilley 4 Co. of Hyde Park,
manufacturers of the celebrated Lilley
wagon, have made an assignment. They
have liabilities to the amount of S13, :
| 707. 50 and assets equal to SIG, 10. Sc.
The assignment is made to T. G.. Che
ney of Morrisville, who will go on with
the completion of wagons now in pro-
cess of construction, and it is expect
ed that the firm will pay 100 cents on
the dollar.
The farm buildings of Mrs. Mary
! Centerbar, near Enosburg Center, were
burned Friday, together with all the
household goods, IA cows, three year
lings, four calves, four hogs, two
horses and all farming tools. The fire
broke out in the barn and was not dis
covered until the building was so
nearly consumed that none of the con-
tents could be saved. The loss was
partly insured
The night gang, engaged in blasting
rough marble at the Batten quarry of
the Vermont Marble Co. at West Rut
land early Thursday morning, touched
off the blast and ran backward several
yards, when a can of powder, which
Alexander Kemperty carried exploded,
killing him and seriously injuring six
others. 1t is believed that the man
was smoking and spark fell into the
can.
Capt. Harry B. Chamberlain, who is
under arrest at Manila, p. l., charged
| ~ ,Ss ~ 10 "A.
Gen. W. H. Gilmore of Fairlee. Capt.
Chamberlain was at one time comman
der of Co. G, Vermont National guard,
Bradford, and served on the staff of
Gov. CIRCUIT. Before going to the Phil
ippines as captain and quartermaster
in the regular army he served for a
time in Cuba.
In the case of Mrs. Frances P. Hallett
of Dorchester, Mass, VS.. F. L. Fish,
receiver of the Farmers National bank
Nf IaotSiar ID Mr., al