Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-17
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Three Boys Drowned Last Week urling
tons Fall Carnival-vermont Soldier Par
donsd-Pay for Liquor Tests-Ths Lockou
Of Granite workers-A Missing Girl
The excursion Of New England news
paper men to Burlington and othe
cities as guests OF the Rutland railroad
company has been postponed indefi
nitely.
The Haywood Chair Co. of Gardner
Mass, has purchased some 800, 600 fee
of oak timber cut last winter, in Hoo
sick and Bennington. A portable saw
mill will be erected and the lumber al
sawed before it is taken away.
Lemuel Lyon of Waterbury, aged 40,
a farmer, has been arrested, charged
with assault last February on Jessie
Denell, aged IA. Since the assault
the girl has been respondent and tried
to kill herself with paris green.
Malvina Cortell, aged Is, daughter
of Adelard Cortell of Barre has mys.
teriously disappeared, not having been
seen or heard from since Friday morn
ing, when she left home to go to church.
The police are investigating the mat
| ter.
Walter E. Ranger of Montpelier,
state superintendent of education OF
Vermont, was last week reelected a
member of the board of directors of the
! National Education association. Mr..
Ranger made good record last year as
a director.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge Turner and
son, Levella, of East Arlington, were
poisoned last week by paris green. The
tered by Mrs. Horton, an old woman
whose mind is unbalanced. All three
victims will probably recover.
John d. Rockefeller will spend the
month at his daughters summer home
near Bennington Center and there is
said to be a prospect that he may pur.
chase the estate of the late John Wool
Griswold, one of the finest in town,
and erect summer residence on it.
Frank McRae, formerly of Co. E,
Barre, sentenced to life imprisonment
for killing an officer in the Philippines,
while member of the 18th U. s., has
been pardoned by President Roosevelt
and has returned to Barre. The officer,
it is said, unwarrantably attacked him
ana he urea III sell oeiehse'
The five years old son OF Thomas
Lynch OF Montpelier vas accidentally
shot in the. side Saturday. evening.
Lynch was fooling with loaded re-
volver at his home when one chamber
was discharged. The ball went through
partition and struck the lad who was
in an adjoining room.
Mrs. Florence Burke, aged 40, and
living some zig miles from Randolph
committed suicide by hanging herself
in her room Thursday afternoon. She
had been in her usual health and no
reason is given for the deed. Mr.. and
Mrs. Burke owned good farm and do
nestle relations were happy.
Cecil Mckenzie of Cabot died Mon
dsy from lockiaw. the result of n bul.
let wound received July 4. Mr.. Me
kenzie's revolver was on the chair he
side his bed and in the night he took
hold of it to lower the hammer and it
was discharged, the ball entering Mr..
McKenzie's leo between the knee and
the hin The wound was not consid-
cred serious until lockjaw set in.
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ADDITIONS are peing maze 10 the
barns at the Soldiers Home at ben
nlngton so that as soon as completed /
ten more cows may be Kept, and the
butter used at the Home can De MADE
here bs s sG Of lT Tb tons cdpac xSes
iiso 70 DC auueu' me ioun.ain, ~hIcn
= sh h 70 Je 'ie his1 ha; narI ia one
10 tne woriu, Is also peIhg ptaceu III
list class conultioh' LUIS e,, ,Uuh hn
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nrow T an inch slfe can 20. 100 iee' ~ me
NJ Inc Uasin IS ooo ieet ~ cilcuin-
Z No eA'ra appiopfIa'ltpn ps
ne s'a'e VIII DC necessary ior the re-
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burlington business men VIII give
an cainleai cary III oepleiupel wnlcn
: uesiSneo W pe an ihuustriai eneEe
= wen as one Vi aniusenien.. IL -
Tanned 10 cover woe .erlltor! ana
0 prlng TO burlington as many people
5 posslole ior tne purpose Oh getting
neni acquainted VIII Tue ieauihe anu
80 50 na.ri; 80 ~ daSnr;,. ;an Iii
80 ,,ror;dad "a .,a1o VOL, ;s ,,r",,,
"a A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ara ha;nn ,,,o5.
,ith ali tho ra;irnsds in tho state and
he steamboat lines on Lake Chamnla;n ;
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