Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-23
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

THE NEWS OF THE STATE bhlEFA LII AVAO
Ludlow Gold Mine to Be Reopened- consolida
ton Of Railroad Affairs-Grain Famine in
Vermont - End Of the Whiting Poisoning
Case-Dorsst Mans Valuable Invention
State Railroads Appraised.
Bellrose's drug store in the Warner
block, Burlington, was damaged by hre
to the amount of 81, 800 Thursday while
the damage by smoke to other stores
in the building will bring the total loss
up to $4,000.
Mrs. F. ID. Gallupe Of Boston, aged
AZ, took paris green at Bethel Thurs
day, at the home of G. 0. Hopkins
where she was staying. and is not ex-
pected to recover. Mrs Gallupe has
been subject to mental troubles.
The Vermont botanical and bird
clubs held their annual sessions at the
University of Vermont, Burlington,
Friday. The annual address was by
Clinton d. Howe of the University of
Chicago on "Some Results of Defor-
estation in Vermont.
A party of New York capitalists have
bought the old gold mine on Joseph
Shows farm in Ludlow and will soon
begin to work it. A company will be
formed under Vermont laws. The party
report prospects very bright, the ore
tests having been decidedly satisfac-
tory. .-- IS.
This years annual meeting of the
state grange will be held in Rutland
Dec 8, 10 and II. There will be no
election of officers, as they are elected
biennially and were elected last year.
The state grange has about l5O mem
bers and there are about 80 oranges IN
the state.
The portrait of Admiral Charles r.
Clark, unveiled in October in the lob
by of the state house at Montpelier,
has now been placed in the lower hall
near the entrance to the state treasur-
er's Office, where the artist, Frederick
p. Vinton of Boston, thought the light
would be most effective.
Five Danny boys, from, s to IL
years of age, broke through the ice
while skating on Otter Creek Saturday
and one, the youngest son OF James
Stoppile, was rescued in an uncon-
scious condition by the Others who
crawled out. 1t was impossible to re-
vive him, but the other four, though
seriously i'll, will recover.
A scarcity of grain and feed stuffs
has existed in Vermont for several
weeks. There is said to be practically
no corn in all New England. This con-
dition is not the result of a short sup
ply but because the railroads are un
able to haul it from the west to east
ern markets, owing partly to the coal
famine and partly to shortage of To-
comotives.
John Stanisky, young Polander,
employed by the Vermont Marble com.
pany at Proctor, was seriously injured
Thursday by getting caught in the fast
revolving belt of the hosting power.
His body was whirled around the shaft
near the belt and was bound around so
tightly by his clothing that the latter
had to be cut to release him. he Is
thought to be hurt internally.
Thirteen cows belonging to L. j.
Sanderson Of Highgate, which were
badly affected with tuberculosis, were
slaughtered last week by representa-
tives OF the state cattle commission.
Eighty per cent of the appraised value
or about S32 per head, was allowed the
owner. About 1000 head of choice
stock in the section about Vergennes,
have been held back from market on
account of the quarantine against foot
and mouth disease.
The first biennial appraisal of rail
ways and steamboat lines under the
law passed at the recent session of the
legislature was completed Friday. 1t is
a slight increase over the old one. The
value of each property is ascertained
for the purpose of taxation by its earn
ing capacity, its market value and its
location with reference to obtaining
traffic from other roads. There are
twenty five million dollars in railroads.
Capt. B. H. Stickney of Co. A., Rut-
land, who was scored severely in the
order from Governor Mccullough re-
garding the findings of the Dyer court
of inquiry, will not resign his commits !
sion. He will carry the matter no fur. |
Their, but has asked Col Estey for the
discharge of IA members of Co. A. The |
court of inquiry fully sustained Major |
Dyer in his criticisms and placed the |
responsibility for the state of certain |
men of the company at the last annual
June drill day on the company CON- |
mander.
Under the orders of President W. I
Seward Webb of the Rutland railroad |
business affairs of the Ogdensburg /
Terminal company, the Rutland Tran |
sit company, operating fleet of freight !
steamers between Ogdensburg and Chi
cago, and the main Rutland railroad /
offices at Ogdensburg, n. T., have been
consolidated with the most sweeping I
reduction of employees. Many offices
have been abolished and heads of de-
partments dismissed, some of whom
have been in the company's employ for
40 years.
Statistics collected by State Super ,
intendent W. f. Ranger show that in
the 40 colleges of the country from
which returns have been received,
there are now 9S7 students from Yer
mont. OF these the University of Yer
mont leads with 511 Vermonters: Mid
dlebury college has ll9, Dartmouth So
and Norwich university 45. Tufts and
Mt. Holyoke have 81 each: Harvard
and Smith 26 each; Yale Is; Columbia
10; Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology ID; Wesleyan 10; Boston Uni
versity u; Williams Z; Wellesley Z;
Cornell Z; University of Michigan 4
and University of Chicago 8.
Fred r. Brown of Whiting, who has