The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-29
UT THE STATE.

ing a large manufacturing company
in England and another in France was
begun in Burlington Monday. The
plaintiff is f. J.. White and the de-
PENDANT the Lumiere, North American
Company, manufacturers Of photo
graphic supplies. The concern was
organized by English capitalists who
OWE the Lumiere Company IN Eng
land. Mr.. White was sent to this
country to establish an American fac
tory and a plant costing several hun
dred thousand dollars was erected in
Burlington. After the factory had
been nearly completed, the Englibs
company leased it to A. Lumiere &
Sons of France. When this became
known to Mr.. White he considered
that he he'd been discharged and, as
he had a contract for a term of years
at a constantly increasing salary, he
b rought suit to ecove $50, 900 dam
ages. He placed an attachment on the
plant here and it was closed for a
time.
The chicken coops Of William Fan
ming in Brattleboro were visited by al
expert chicken thief last Friday night
and about eighty of the best of his
300 odd birds didn't turn up 'Satur-
day morning. Since then Mr.. Fan
ming and the rest of the family have
been sitting up watching with loaded
guns but-not a thing doing.
The drivers of the second run of
pulp logs down the Connecticut en-
countered serious trouble at Cheshire
bridge zeal Springfield. No hooms
were used about the piers of the
bridge and nearly the whole drive be-
came ~entangled in a jam. 1t was
found necessary to cut the entire jam
through the middle and a force of
men has been engaged on the work
for nearly the whole of the past week.
Extensive improvements have been
made at Fort Ethan Allen this sum-
mer, including two new cavalry bar
racks, an addition to the guard house
and new quarters Tor the officers.
Electric lights will be installed
throughout all the buildings and the
proposed contracts for this, and the
heating and plumbing of the new
buildings call for an expenditure of
over $50, coo.
A contract was made on Monday
afternoon by the Ohittenden Power
Go. of Rutland with the Archibald,
Brady Co. of Syracuse, N. Y, for
the erection of a large power house
in Mendon. The contract price is
1925. 900. This power house will turn
into power the water in the Chitten-
den Power Go. s immense reservoir
in Chittenden and will furnish from
2, 900 to 4, 900 horse power continually.
1t will be used to run the street 1ail-
ways in this vicinity and what is left
over will be SOLD.
Loren Snow, a one-armed man,
who lives between Randolph Center
and Brookfield, met with a painful
accident ON Tuesday while coming to
Randolph on a load of hay. He had
a very large load and when turning
the corner at rear of William Bass on
Main street he drove too near the
gutter. The load tipped over, and
he fell, striking ON his bcck, with
the hay IN top of him. Help arrived
imm ediately, and in a few minutes
Snow was extracted from under the
hay in a bruised condition. He will
be laid up for some time.
Regarding the accident at Bethel
Sunday morning, September 1S, when
Dennis Lynch, Jerry Shea and Edward
Smith, employees at the Bethel gram
lite quarries, were struck by a Boston
& Maine freight train and killed. The
Hardwick Gazette says: Some
newspaper accounts have stated that
the men were intoxicated. When last
seen alive they were sober, and one
who was On the ground on Sunday
shortly after the accident informs
The Gazette that there was nothing to
indicate that the men were drunk.
No liquor was found near the place,
no empty bottles and no pieces OF
glass"
The Howe Scale Company of Rut-
land Saturday morning concluded a
deal with the commissary department
of the Russian army for 500 portable
platform scales for use by the Russian
army at Manchuria. The Russians
withdrew the condition that the
scales be landed in Vladivostok, so the
deal was concluded.
The will of the late Rev. Patrick
Cunningham of Brattieboro, has beer
p~robated. Certain individual be,
quests amounting to 81, 600 are made.
One third of the residue of his estate
is also given to the Catholic bishop Of
Burlington, to be used for the Chris
tian instruction OF people living fal
from any Catholic church or any Other