Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-07

| OF HUNTINGDON, leii uoWh v" ~.
bankment Saturday, Oct. ], whiie
playing at the top. His head struck
stone, cutting a cash that may prove
fatal.
Andrew Martin. aged SO years, OF
burlington is missing. He ieft ms
home Friday evening, Sept. 80, ana
there IL a suspicion that he has COM
mitted suicide. No cause Is assigned
He leaves a family.
The house and buildings on the
farm OF A. A. Rowell, Derby Center,
were burned Saturday Oct. !. Inc
contents were saved. The cause or the
fire was defective stovepipe' Inc
buildings were fully insured.
The animal meeting of the Vermont
state osteopathc association Will be
held at the Office of DR.. III. X. Sher-
burne In Rutland october 10 ana IL.
There are II osteopaths In the state
and probably nearly all Will be pres
ent.
Firebugs caused considerable dam
age at Castleton Friday night, Sept.
40 The barn of Mrs. Il. j. lnman was
! totally DESTROYED, with its contents;
loss only partly covered by insurance
Il. II. Armstrong; barn nearby, was
also set on fire, but was saved With
out much damage, by neighbors.
F. II. Chapman of Rutland is can
didate for the appointment by Gov
elect C. j. Bell as member OF the
state fish and game commission Inc
term of Commissioner Il. A. Davis or
Bethel expires Dec. |. Mr.. Chapman
represented the commission In his
vicinity for six years.
! The town OF Jay has at last made
official return of its vote in the sep,
TENDER state election and the ofncial
figures of the vote for governor can
now he announced by the secretary or
state They are: Bell. 4S,111; Porter,
1886: Comings, LIZA: Morse, 75g;
scattering, I. This makes the plural
| ity for Bell 31,565, and his majority
over all, 29,625. The vote of the town
of Jay was: Bell, So; Porter, IA; Com
| ings, |.
| Perley Fuller, 20. an adopted son OF
Elijah Fuller of East Warren, was the
unfortunate victim of shocking ac-
cident Tuesday Sept. 81 While try
/ i'm motion, his clothing caught on a
| set screw and the flesh on his abdo-
! men and the lower part of his BODY
was torn off. The young man was
| taken to the Mary Fletcher hospital,
Burlington. 1t is thought he VIII re-
cover
| The secretary of state has just COM
pleted compiling the official grand llst
! az the state for 1904. The results
show a considerable gain over the list
of 1908 in all of the component items
! They are as follows: Polls, ltS'25s:
acres real estate 5,306,l5S; appraisal
S126.473,245; personals, S4l,5SS,53l; one
| per cent, s16S01lT76; dist for state
| tax, $l,S5S,355.76. The figures for 1908
were Polls, Sl75,2S6; acres OF reai es-
| tate. 5.2S7,SS0: appraisal, $125,35O,29S;
personals, s40,724412; one per cent,
81 $50. 6l6.49; list for state tax, ST.
S35, 9O2,49.
At a meeting of the stockholders or
the National bank of Lyndon, held IN
the banking rooms Sept. q, II was
voted to go into voluntary liquidation
| OF the banks 500 shares of stock 42S
were represented either in person or
| by proxy, and il was unanimous vote
thai the bank go into voluntary liqui-
dation, to take effect Sept a. 1904
| It will probably require several
months to close up the affairs OF the
bank and il will be some time before
the doors are closed on all business
The bank was opened for business
May l, 1860.
In the case of Alderman Stiles OF
Burlington against policemen OF that
city for $4,000 damages for false i'm
prisonment in county court at BUR
lington recently, Judge POW
ers decided that the warrants is
sued by the board Of aldermen for Mr..
Stiless arrest We're Illegal leaving
only the question of damages for the
Jury to decide. Alderman Stiles was
forced by the police to attend meet
ing of the board called last october
by Mayor Burke for the purpose of
passing a resolution relative to bonds
for a municipal electric light plant.
CITY Judge C. L. Woodward Of
Nontpelier committed suicide in his
law office Sept. 2S by hanging. He
had been dead about half an hour
when his body was found by the city
sheriff. Judge Woodward had been act
ing strangely for several days and II IS
thought he had become respondent
over financial embarrassments, and
the possibility of losing the office OF
city Judge He was AZ years old ana
is survived by wife and two emil
dren. He was born in Braintree ana
had taught school and practicei law
in West Topsham and Plainfield, ana
moved to Montpelier about six years
ago
Gov. Mccullough will soon be asked
to pardon Patrick Lucia, Burlington
man. now serving a sentence of not
less than three or more than three
and half years at the states prison
at Windsor for an alleged criminal
assault on Catherine Myers. Three
reasons are given for the pardon.
one is that Lucia has always borne
good reputation. Another is that the
girl has declared she swore falsely
against him because her father COM
PEELED her to do so, and the other Is
that her record since then has shown
that she was of bad character. The
girl has made a sworn statement to
this effect.
! The list annual convention of the
Cniversalists of Vermont and Province
of Quebec. the 14th annual conven-
ton of the Young Peoples Christian
union of Vermont and Quebec and
| the Woman's Missionary society OF
| Vermont and Quebec met in annual
session in the Universalist church of
the Good Shepherd of Springfield Sept
26, 81, 2S and 20. At the state Y. p.
| C. U. convention the following officers
were elected: President, Rev. c. III.
Pennoyer; vice presidents, George A.
Bates of Barre; secretary, Ernest K.
Ball of Bellows Fails: treasurer,
Charles Waterman of Chester. After
the election of officers the large debt
of the state Y. p. c. u. was raised.
Rev. E. E. Marggraff of Derby Line