Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

New Project for Rutland Montpelier Rail
way-Local Option League Plans to Promote
License Cause Accidental scalding Of Wat
erbury Hospital Patient - Barre Granite
Quarries Sold to Syndicate Union Labor
Cause to Have State Newspaper.
Hon. p. w. Clement, who has been
campaigning steadily in the local OPP
tion cause for six months, has gone on
several months trip to Europe.
DR.. w. S. Webb has renewed his of
fer to Burlington for the removal of
the Rutland railroad general offices to
that city and the mayor has called a
special city meeting for Feb 10 to
consider it.
The grand jury at Boston Saturday
reported no bill against Miss Catherin e
V. Richardson, cousin of Secretary
of State Frederick G. Fleetwood. She
was held on suspicion of attempting to
poison her mother, Mrs. Harley Rich
ardson.
The cause of union labor in Vermont
is soon to have an official organ, IA u
page weekly newspaper, called the Yer
mont Union Signal, printed at Rut-
land. 1t is said to have the official
endorsement of the state organization
of union labor.
Judge Wendell p. Stafford of st.
Johnsbury, is to be one of the speakers
at the Lincoln day banquet of the New
York Republican club at the Waldorf
Astoria. He will discuss the relative
influence of Abraham Lincoln and
Wendell Phillips.
Dr. T. G. Simpson of West Fairlee
owns the musket from which it is
claimed was fired the first shot at the
battle of Bunker Hill. 1t belonged to
his grandfather, Maj. John Simpson,
of Deerfield, N. H., who was a pri-
vate in that battle.
st. Johnsbury has 25 we'll developed
cases of typhoid fever and the disease
is fast approaching the proportions of
an epidemic. Polluted river water,
which forms a considerable part of the
village supply, is believed to be respon-
sible for the sickness.
John Blake, who has confessed him
self the man who tried to hold up
Louis F. Morse, bridge worker, and
shot him twice south of Rutland, jan
%, has been captured in Fitchburg,
Mass. Blake was arraigned at Rut-
land Saturday, waived examination
and was held for county court in 81, 900
bail
A project is on foot for a combina
ton electric and steam railroad from
Rutland to Randolph which shall con
meet at the latter place with the Cen
trail Vermont railroad. Eventually, it /
is believed, the new road will parallel /
the Central Vermont from Randolph to /
New York capitalists who +
have invested money in various enter
prises about Rutland, are back of the
plan.
A syndicate OF Barre men has bought
5he Wheaton granite quarries with 20
acres of land, for $40, 600: also the
quarry nearby. George P.
[de & Co, of Troy, n T., who have
eased the Vermont mills at North
Bennington, have bought the Spor-
,urg collar manufacturing business at
Albany and will move the plant to
North Bennington. 1t will be opened
Don with 80 hands
The Vermont local option league, it
5 said, will work to promote the Ii
ense cause during the next two years a
" inducing outside capital to invest
n summer hotels and industries kept
ut by the prohibitory law and by in
listing on the enforcement of the re-
trictive provisions of the new law p.
', Clement is quoted as promising
hat $50, 600 will be invested in hotel e
q Lake Champlain as soon as license o
NV is adopted. The local option league a
ill practically take the place of the
nti saloon league after Mar 3 in see
* that the new law is enforced.
A frightful accident occurred at the 4
'aterbury hospital last week, whenMrs.
emmett, II Barre patient, was put into
tub of nearly boiling water and ter
bly, scalded on her legs and back be- -
re she could get out The nurse who
He'd the tub forgot to turn off the
ot water at the proper temperature
Id another nurse who was supern-
nding Mrs. Benefits bath, failed TO
,tice the condition of the water be-
re putting the patient in. Both
lrses were at once discharged, but
RS. Benefits brother, who investi-
tied the matter, will make no trou-
e for them, as he was satisfied it
as an accident and one for which
ey were exceedingly sorry.
In the case of U. S. VS.. James A.
lmore, postmaster at Waterbury Cen
r, tried at Rutland Tuesday, defend
t plead guilty of mlsappropriating
oney order funds to the amount of
10. IL and was fined S75, which he
id. Another Indictment charging
N with taking certain letters ad-
essed to subscriber at his office and
stroying them was nolle pressed. Mr..
lmore has held his position for seven
irs. He runs a small store in CON
ction with the office About 80 of
J customers are pensioners and as =
" only draw their pensions once in
zee months Mr.. Gilmore had been
sting them and using the govern
nt's money to run his business in
ding to pay it back when the pen
n money arrived but the postoffice sbi
pector visited his office at the wrong Shi
lie and discovered the shortage. Mr.. ~,
more made the shortage good i'm Cut Cut
datply Cor