Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-09

Mrs. S. T. Sawyer. TO- was probably
fatally injured by falling on the ice at
Rutland Friday evening.
Frank L. Condor committed suicide in
Mortified Nov. 30 by taking carbolic acid
while he was intoxicated.
Rev. j. H. Metcalf, pastor of the Uni
tartan church in Burlington the past ten
years. has accepted call to Taunton
Mass
A horse kicked over a lantern in John
Hickey's barn in North Poultney and the
building was destroyed with contents
The property was insured for $780,
The Central Vermont Railway comp
any denies that 1t is behind a project to
establish an independent steamship line
between Fall River and New York.
Thomas D. Barber of Burlington, who
served with Company NJ in the Spanish
American war, has been appointed sec
ond lieutenant in the marine corps.
H. w. Hughes of Poultney has been
fined s175 for Illegal fishing in Lake
Bomoseen. He is in the house OF correc-
ton in Rutland in default OF payment
j. B. Moore, agent for the Singer Sewing
Machine company in Addison county. has
disappeared. and the condition of his ac-
counts cannot be ascertained as he took
the books with him.
c. Guidici, a stonecutter, died Sunday
in Wiliamstown from the effects of TAX
ing corrosive sublimate several days be-
fore, when he was respondent after
spree. He leaves a wife and child.
The st. Johnsbury Packing company's
building was burned early Friday morn
ing and a horse belonging to Charles
Cook a bull dog, three live hogs and
about dozen dressed hogs were consum-
ed The building was insured for $500
but the company carried insurance on its
own stock. The cause of the fire is not
known.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Grange will be held in Bellows
Falls, Dec. 10. IA. Is and 16. There will
be public meeting in the opera house
vention will meet in Union hall Four
hundred or more delegates are expected
Gov. and Mrs. Bell will be present during
the entire session..
William r. Dorr, so, son OF Mrs. Julia
c. r. Dorr. the poetess. of Rutland, died
Thursday from pneumonia in Chicago. Mr.
Dorr was formerly associated with his
brother, the late Henry r. Dorr, in a bond
and investment banking business in Rut-
land. Later he was connected with manu-
featuring concerns in st. Paul. He is
survived by wife and four children.
W. N. Hickok and three children
Miss Louise Shivock and Victor Rhoades
and his daughter, Lena, were poisoned
Saturday at Mr.. Hickoks house in St
Adams town by eating sausages which
had stood in a brass kettle over night
All were in a serious condition and it
was thought at one time that Mr.. Hickok
and his youngest son would not recover.
Antonio Margida, 80. an Italian, en-
ployed at the Fonda lime kilns at Swan
ton Junction, was drowned in we'll Sun
day night. He apparently went to draw
water, slipped on the glare ice and fell
head first into the well, where his body
was found Monday morning. He had
been in this country only about six
months. He leaves a wife and child in
Italy.
Lena Blanchard, 90 has been arrested
in Rochester, charged with numbering her
illegtimate child last July. She mad been
housekeeper for a man named Martel,
whose wife had left him, and who has
four children. Her baby disappeared and
the body was found buried in a mud
hole in a swamp. Miss Blanchard is now
in jail in Woodstock, and the body of
the child has been carried there for eX-
animation. She had previously been ar
rested but had been released on probation.
Rev. Jerome Gelot. So. who was APP
pointed priest at Ludlow six weeks ago,
died suddenly Monday morning from
paralysis. He was found unconscious on
the floor at his home and died within a
few hours. He was a native of France
and came to this country through his
friendship with the late Bishop de Goes
BRAND. He was ordained in Troy, N. Y,
and had been stationed in Rutland, Poult-
ney, Underhill, Middlebury, Pittsford and
Fair Haven. He returned to this diosese
recently after an extended visit in France.
S. E. Brown, alias Nick Brown, shot
and probably fatally wounded himself
with rife Dec. 2, in his rooms at Bran
don. The bullet passed through his lungs.
He claims the shooting was accidental.
1t is said that he had been drinking heav-
lily of late. He is a son of Daniel Brown
of Goshen. Brown had invited several to
attend a fancy shooting exhibition, but
no one had accepted the invitation. F. r.
Barker, hearing the report of a gun, went
to Browns room and found the man lying
on the floor with the weapon at his side.
He was employed by the Brandon Mill
ing company and was generally regarded
as an Industrious young man. 1t is be-
lieved that the shooting was the result OF
being drunk. Mrs Brown was called from
Pittsford, where she was visiting.