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

eminent in the presentation of its Vene-
zuelan claims before the arbitration com
mission. The state department, how
ever, has been requested by the three
European nations preferring claims
against Venezuela, to name the umpres
and Mr.. Partridge will accept as one.
Slas Mastin of St. Johnsbury. aged -.
died Saturday morning after a long i'll
ness. He had been employed at the
Fairbanks scale works so years. For
about 50 years he had been foreman in
the finishing department He leaves a
wife and one daughter, who is the wife
of T.. II. Crane of the Ludlow Tribune.
Mrs. Jennie Aldrich of East l1ardwick
was arrested Friday and ordered held for
the grand jury on a charge of man
slaughter in causing the death of Mrs.
Mary Massey at that village. 1t is
charged that Mrs. Aldrich assaulted Mrs.
Massey and then pushed her into a ra-
vine. Bail was fixed at 5000. and as
Mrs. Adrich was unable To secure it she
was taken to the jail at ST. Johnsbury.
George Truman Swasey. son of Attor-
ney George r. Swasey, of Barre, has
been appointed a midshipman at the
United States naval academy at Annap-
oils by Senator Dillingham; as a result
of an examination held in Montpelier
Friday. He is Is years old and is a
senior in the Spauding High school. He
is captain of the school base ball team.
The alternates are Rollo c. Palmer, of
Charlotte, and G. NJ. Cook. OF Post Mills.
DR.. w. Seward Webb has gone on an
extended European trip, leaving unset
tied the question, so important to the
people of Rutland and Burlington, as to
whether the shops of the Rutland rail-
road shall be removed from the former
city to the latter Persistent rumors
that p. W. Clement is buying control
ling interest in the Rutland railroad at
the present low price of the stock are re-
newej.
The will of the late Thomas W. Wood.
the artist, was made public in Montpelier
Saturday. 1t gives to the Wood art gal
lery in that city the entire estate with
the exception of Il few small requests.
The estate is valued at $4,000. The art
gallery will receive about $4,000. The
contents of Mr. Woods studio in New
that city, who is mentioned as a very
dear friend
Claude T.. George of Marshield. who
was tarred and feathered January 10
by four students while at school al Mont
pelier seminary has brought suit against
James Howard, a student, to recover
$1,000 damages. Other students of the
tar and feathers party will be joined in
the prosecution. George was accused
by students of spying and they broke
into his room one night, gagged him and
administered a light dose of tar and
feathers.
1t is said that the orders issued by the
Massachusetts state cattle commission.
prohibiting the driving of cattle from
Massachusetts into Vermont and vice
versa, on account of the hoof and mouth
disease, are causing farmers on the line
between the two states to wonder what
they are going to do about turning their
cattle TO pasture when a part of their
land lies on one side of the line and part
on the other-and whether if their cattle
cross the line under such circumstances
they are liable for violation of the regu-
lations.
y hearing was held in the county court
at Rutland last Saturday afternoon.
on motion of the defendants, for a new
trial in the case of the Patch company
against the machnists' union. The mo-
| ton was based on the allegation that
one of the jurors publicly discussed the
| case three days after it was begun. on
Monday morning Judge Haseton an
nounced his decision declining to sci
aside the verdict. He said that the jul
ror in question had not acted as he
ought, but all the questions in dispute
would he considered when the matter of
a new trial is taken up by the supreme
court TO which an appeal has beer
| taken.