Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-11

| The Vermont Marble company Of
Rutland has bought the HOLSTER mar
BILE quarries near Pittsford and assumed
immediate control. The quarries pro-
duce some of the finest marble In the
state and are very valuable.
The Addison county fair opened at
Middlebury Sept. 2 with the largest
crowd in It's So years history. Alice
Wilds. owned by Lloyd Parker Of IT,
conderoga. won the 2.24 race for purse
Of $3.50. The attendance Thursday was
$500.
Some towns in the state are disap-
pointed In the apportionment Of the
state school money. This is because
the money was apportioned upon the
basis Of the taxes raised in the year
1902. and not 1908 as some had sup
posed.
w. B. Craven Of Burlington. holder
Of first class liquor license for which
he paid $1,000, has been fined 500 and
costs Of 1925 for violating the treating
clause of the liquor law. This Is the
first case In the state of a fine being
imposed for this cause.
Fred Bellanti. thought to be impli-
Gated In revolving crime at Gorham.
was captured at a camp in the woods
near Island Pond Friday. after several
days pursuit and an exciting chase.
with frequent firing. The man vehe-
mently denied his guilt.
Harry Lanctot Of Sherbrooke, p. O..
has been pardoned by Gov. ]. G. Nc
Cullough on petition Of his counsel.
Lanctot was sentenced to nine years In
states prison for burglary In Lyndon
vile and had served six or seven years
The pardon was asked for on the
grounds that he had been sufficiently
punished.
The residents Of Berlin are making
hot fight against the establishment
of a rural free delivery route from
Montpelier into that town, as they be-
lieve 1t means they are to lose their
daily stage and eventually their post
office. Many of the residents on the
line refused to accept their mail. but
insisted it shall go the regular way.
Leon Russell was horribly mangled
by being kicked by horse while at his
work in the. barn on the Billings farm
at Chittenden last week. 1t was at first
thought that the sight of both eyes
had been permanently destroyed but
it is now thought that the sight Of one
Of them can be partially restored in
time. The sight of the other Is en-
tirely gone.
Miss Ida Loverledge of Bennington,
got her fore and middle fingers under
the feed bar of her sewing machine
Thursday and the needle came down
through both fingers nearly in the CEN
ter of the nails, pinning them together. |
She had to walk mile in excruciat- |
ng pain, before she could reach a ply |
stefan who had to call in help to re- |
move the needle.
John z. Bishop, a brakeman, was
killed in the railroad yard at Newport
Thursday night. His foot caught be-
ween the rail and the guard rail- while
putting in the pin of a coupler of which
he chain was broken and he was
thrown under the cars and cut to
pieces, several cars passing over him.
He was % years old He leaves a
wife, two children, a mother, and two
,rothers.
Quo warranto proceedings were
brought at Burlington Tuesday by
,hief Brownell to make Chief Russell
how why he is exercising the duties Of
hief of police. The case is returnable
t the October term of the supreme
curt to be held at Montpelier. The
omplaint reviews the entire police
roubles These proceedings immedi-
tely followed the presentation to the
'oard of aldermen of two police pay
oils by the two chiefs.
Frank Bertsch of Newark, n. j., has
cen arrested at Burlington at the re-
uest of New Jersey parties the
barge against him being that he con- !
erted money held by him in a fiduc-
lry capacity. Bertsch came to YER
lont about two weeks ago and had
ards printed stating that he was a c
having studios at South
Zero and Burlington. and claimed that I
e paid $4,000 for one of them. Other
ne being that he was making a trip
round the world. 1t Is claimed that he
scaped from an insane hospital only a
ew weeks ago.
Labor day was observed in several
the larger towns of the state There
as a general suspension of business
Burlington and demonstration by |;
rganiZed labor which included an inn ii
osing parade with 1000 men in line f,
We bands and many elaborate floats fl
I'D including labor organizations of n
Iiddlebury, St. Adams, Swanton, Wi f;
)oSki, Essex Junction and Burlington. 81
rganiZed labor in Burlington is barely il
70 years old but there are now nearly b
100 union men at work within ra- N
us of 10 miles of the city Montpelier Il
Id line nearly mile long on parade, If
me good speaking and baseball. p
celebrated for the first time, Il
it'll much enthusiasm. II had a pa pr
de of laborers, an address and sports hi
the common. v;