Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-20

FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION
ONE KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED
AT sWANToN WORKS.
Tuberculosis Commission at Work.
Bennington Crank at White Hous
Tho Seasons Deer Slaughter
Rutland Mans Useful Invention.
An explosion at the Robin Hoo
Powder Cos works in Swanton Wed
nesday afternoon, killed o. Blair out
right, injured several other employees
but not seriously, and wrecked severa
buildings. 1t is not known how thu
explosion occurred, but it is known
that it originated in the mixing room
of which Blair had charge and that thu
other buildings in the plant wer'
wrecked by concussion. The acciden
occurred at the powder making par
of the works across the river The
company has extensive shot shell fac
tories, etc. at some distance on the
same side of the river that are not in
volved in this explosion. Blair was 81
years old, was formerly a resident OF
Alburg, and leaves wife and foul
children. His body was literally blown
to atoms.
w. B. Hood, Topsham cider maker
has made so far this season, $4,000 gal
Ions with a number of hundred bushels
of apples on hand.
Hon. J. o. Sanford, state highway
commissioner, is quite i'll at his home
in Stamford with a severe attack of
sciatic rheumatism
The plan to move the Bullock
Manufacturing company's business
from Readsboro to North Adams,
Mass, has been abandoned
c. +. Kenison of West Barnet caught
golden eagle in a trap last week, and
has succeeded in keeping the bird alive.
1t measures seven feet from tip to tip,
and is a rare bird for Vermont.
Mrs. David Jackson of Addison, age
II years, is dead as result of poison
from paris green, administered by her.
self Sunday. Mrs. Jackson had been
in poor health and it is thought her
mind was deranged.
Frank e. Eldred, a retail druggist of
Burlington who was fined $50 few
days ago for selling liquor without
prescription and to minors, has sur
rendered his fifth-class liquor license
and will quit the business. He paid
$40 for the license.
While Jesse Powers, aged 16, and
two other boys some years younger
were camping in the woods near New
port Saturday night. through careless
handling a gun was discharged, the
ball passing through Powers's abdo-
men, penetrating the bowels and was
taken out at the back.
The insurance commissioners Of YER
mont have allowed the Loyal Protec-
tive association to be admitted into the
state to do business. They were refused
Feb. ~, 1903, but We're recently adj
mitted and their charter has been filed
at the secretary of states office. They
insure members of the Odd Fellows
fraternity.
Edwin Loosemore, of Burlington.
policeman and janitor of one of the
city schools, is missing He left home
with no word TO his family. He
leaves a wife and three children al
~
chief of police that he would not re-
turn. He said in the letter that he
could not stand his wife's scolding.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Society of Sons of the American Revo-
luton was held at st. Adams Nov IL.
A proposition to purchase a farm near
known as the Ethan Allen
and turn it into a public
park as a memorial to Allen was dis
cussed and a committee appointed to
investigate.
Miss Rachel Robinson, daughter of /
he late Rowland E. Robinson, the au-
.hor, who has been doing some artis-
lie work in line illustrations for maya
zines in New York, is now engaged in /
romantic points and his
ORIG places in vergennes and vicinity [
which viii be used as illustrations for
/ book soon to be published by the
Forest and Stream Co.
United States Marshal Horace w,
Bailey of Newbury has filed with the
,ity clerk at Burlington IL writs of at