Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-29

| Governor Mccullough has given $1,000 ia
! the endowment fund of the St Johns
| bury academy and $4,000 towards the con-
tennial fund being raised for the Uni
| versty of Vermont.
The Vermont Bird club elected those
! othcers at It's closing session on Friday:
! President, Prof G.. II. Perkins. vice. nrne-
! ident. Carlton Z. Howe Of Essex june
! ton; secretary and treasurer. c. H. Ross.
| of Rutland. The club passed resolutions
| to appoint a committee to confer with the
| Vermont Fish and Game League regard
| ing the better protection of birds
| The Col Gleason house and horse barn
owned by ID. j. Sduires were burned at
| Richmond Saturday night The horses
| and wagons were saved but the Clothing
| furniture and hay were a total loss. The
| IRE is thought to have originated i'm the
| cellar from the furnace. The loss is es-
| timated at $4,000, and 1t was insured for
| $500. Mr. Squires was absent at a neigh
hors and no one was in the house at the
time.
Tho license commissioners announced
in Manchester Friday they had revoked
the first class license Of William Coulstone
proprietor Of the Colburn house at Man
chester Centre on the grounds that he
had violated the law relating to treating
that he had sold liquor between the hours
OF IL j. m, and "a. m, that he had sold
to persons fined for intoxication and
posted for six months and that he had
sold on Sundays.
Notwithstanding the cold weather. a
large amount of marble is being quarried
at the Norcross-West quarries at South
Dorset Eighty feet below the surface a
layer OF white marble has been found and
this is being used in the construction of
the New York library building. Mr. Nor
cross has the contract for the erection
OF fVe new buildings for the Harvard
Medical college at cost OF about 50
100000 and large amount of gray
marble is being shipped for this purpose
Park II. Bradley committed suicide Fri
day night In his room in the Avenue house
in St Johnsbury. by shooting himself in
the head and through the heart with a re-
Nover. The body was not found until
Saturday morning, the sound OF the shoot
ing having evidently not been heard by
anyone. Bradley kept the restaurant i'm
the Avenue house block. He was un-
married. The cause OF the act is be-
ieNed to have been dependency over
financial affairs.
Mrs. Isabel Morgan Dewey. who was nc
quilted in Springfield. Mass. last week
on the charge Of passing worthless checks.
Is now under arrest in Washington for
"A similar offence. 1t is claimed that she
passed one check OF $50 at dry goods
store and another 81 S3S at the Metro
Of the late DR.. +. y. :. Morgan OF Ben
nington. She has figured in several sem
sational episodes before. At one time she
was a leader In social circles in Benning-
ton and Springfield.
Tho $'th annual encampment Of the de-
partmcnt of Vermont. G.. A. r. will be
held in MorrisVile Feb. q and % Cen
ohm c. Black Of Washington commander
in chief, and his stan, will be present
Headquarters will be established AT the
Hotel Randall. The Woman's Relief
Corps Will give reception at the town
hall Tuesday evening. Feb 23. A camn-
fire Will be held Wednesday evening in the /
town hall under the auspices Of Warner
post No 1. Many prominent speakers
VIII he present. The following comrades
nave been appointed a committee on /
courtesies for prominent visitors and their
guests; g. w. Doty, Post No (: G T. /
beach, Post No. ?, H. Il. Taylor Post No.
:. and Albert Harris. Post y l.