Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-24

special committee of the Burlington
board of aldermen have reported in IA
vor of establishing a municipal lighting
plant.
NJ. E. Sears, 50 years old teamster
for L. G. Fullam x Son, was found dead
in his bed Sunday morning, presumably
from heart disease.
Mrs Ruth Mellen of Plainfield. aged
49, died Sunday afternoon. She was the
oldest person in town and an aunt of eX-
Senator John NJ. Thurston of Nebraska.
y large mandatory for school sup
plies and house furnishings is soon to
be started at Richford. The old overall
factory building will be utilized for this
purpose
Captain Louis Daniels. 60. of YER
gennes. one of the best known of the
Lake Champaign steamboat captains,
died last week Thursday night from
heart disease.
II. H. Morgan of Ludlow is to build a
new factory as an addition to his skirt
and wrapper factory, the business of
which has grown rapidly since it was es-
tablished a few years ago.
\ cooperative fire insurance company
is to be organized in Burlington by prop
erty holders who believe that the present
high rates of the regular insurance COM
panies are eXorbitant and unjust
William Bessette of Burlington was
fined 80 and costs Tuesday for splitting
in a street car after he had been ad-
monished by the conductor not to do so.
This is the first conviction under the new
Vermont law
The saw mill of L. G.. Fullam & Son,
an important industry at Ludlow. was
totally destroyed by fire last Friday
night. The building was full of lumber
and nothing was saved. Loss $4,000,
insurance $3.50.
Herbert Perry of Chester committed
suicide at his home on Depot street Sun
day by taking laudanum. He was about
50 years old and was newcomer in
Chester. Family troubles We're probably
the cause of the act.
a two-year old son of an Italian family
at Barre was drowned in a wash tub
containing a foot of water standing on
the kitchen floor last Saturday. The
child had been missing 20 minutes when
he was discovered in the tub dead.
At the annual March meeting in Ches-
ter it was voted to appropriate $4,000 for
lot and schoolhouse to be located on
Main street for the primary department.
At a largely attended special town meet
ing held last Saturday the vote was re-
scinded by large majority.
Photographic views are to be taken at
the Swanton fish hatchery to present a
continuous picture of the spawning pro-
cess from the time the fish are landed in
the net until they are returned to the
water. These pictures will be part OF
a series TO be exhibited at the st. Louis
exposition.
\ large white bull dog went on a ram
page in the streets of Montpelier Sun
day evening, biting three men and snap
ping at the skirts of women. He was
finally driven into the stairway of the
Argus building and shot. 1t is not
known definitely whether the animal
was suffering from rabies.
The Putnam hose house on river
street, Bennington, was burned with all
its contents early Tuesday morning
Two buildings. a grocery store and q
dwelling, which adjoined the hose house
were badly damaged and the stock in
Drysdale's department store was ale
considerably damaged by smoke anG
water.
Frank c. Partridge of Proctor has de-
clined to accept the appointment Offered
him as agent for the United States gov