Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-05-20

Frank Fits OF Rutland mas iouhu
graphite In paying quantities on his
farm at Bread Loaf. He has leased
1t to a York state concern for ss
years The latter are now at work
opening the mine.
The democrats of Burlington In
caucus Friday night, May 10, elected
delegates to the state and list district
convention in that city June %, in
structing them for Judge Parker, and
favoring Y. A. Billiard OF Burlington
for state delegate,
The Rutland board Of license COM
missioners decided Saturday, May IA,
to reject the license applications Of
All nine men who were given a hear
ing two weeks before for the towns
one license The whole of Rutland
will therefore be dry the coming year.
Eugene y. Fcss of Boston has made
a large conditional gift 10 the Uni
yersity of Vermont, Burlington. He
/ will give $4,000 10 every 100000
subscribed TOW ards the S1O00,000 en-
1 dowment fund now being raised.
About $4,000 has so far been sub
scribed
I Wilbur Kinds son Of Eli Kinds, shot
f himself Friday, May 10, at his par
4 ents home in Eden and died Mon
day. May 16 No reason is given for
+ the act. The young man had been
called queer by the family at times.
/ He was IS years old and well liked in
Z the community.
/ Claiming that several Burlington
firms employing carpenters have
/ failed TO pay all the men $3.50 a day
/ about 80 workmen have struck The
firms affected decline to pa the wage
named to unskilled labor, and one
/ firm notified all employees Of their dis
charge.
I Incorporation papers have been filed
4 i'm the office of the secretary of state
4 at Montpelier for the Vermont Worlds
Fair association. The capital stock is
I $4,000 divided into 10000 shares. 1t
is proposed to erect a copy of the old
( Constitution house at Windsor to be
exhibited at the expositions to be held
al st. Louis, Mo, and Portland. Ore
gon,
A bold attempt at midnight rob-
berry was thwarted at Plainfield Sat
urday. May II, by resistance on the
part of Dr. d. b. Smith. aged 60, who
was called TO the door to be met by
mic
tol in his face. An alarm was raised
and the robber fled leaving stolen
horse in the yard.
Mrs. Anna Manchester and four
minor children and Mrs. Amanda Gar
land and three minor children, have
brought suit against the Central YER
mont railroad for 100000 in each of
the two cases for damages because of
the deaths of William Manchester and
Martin Garland, husbands of the wo-
men. The men We're both killed in
the West Berlin wreck March s.
Henry L. Stillson, of Bennington
has just completed an article of about
10000 words for the Encyclopedia
Americana, on the history of YER
mont Many portions of this article
have never appeared in print before.
He has also contributed to the same
work articles on odd Fellowship, Ma
sorry. The Maple Sugar Industry, Red
Men and Knights of Pythias.
Miss Alice Howard. age So of Hart
ford. who it has been believed died
of nervous prostration, really COM
mitted suicide May 9 by cutting her
throat with a razor. Miss Howard
had been ill some time with nervous
prostration and was al the time de-
mented. The nurse had left the room
for five minutes and when she re-
turned Miss Howard was missing.
They soon found her dead in the at
tic.
The 54th annual meeting of the
Vermont Homeopathic Medical So