Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-17

Arthur Ballard. %, of East Wells shot
and killed himself Saturday. He was in
volved in a court case which was to have
been tried this week.
The announcement that the E. b. Ellis
Granite company will move its plant from
Mortified to Bethel because Mortified
voted for license is denied by Mr. Ellis
Mrs. Celia Hitchcock, a widow who has
been bedridden for some years, in at
tempting to move a lamp. at Mortified
Sunday, upset 1t and was probably fatally
burned.
Gov. Bell has appointed Luther A. Cobb
of Island Pond to be inspector of finance
to succeed Frederick S. Platt of Poultney,
resigned, and Mr.. Cobb has accepted the
position.
John Haskins. S. of Readsboro, COM
mitted suicide by hanging Saturday, the
body being found in the barn by Mrs.
Haskns. He leaves wife and six chill
dren. The motive for his deed is not
known.
Fire which caught from ignited gas in
the basement of the Clement block caused
a loss of $4,000 at Burlington Thursday
night The building was occupied by a
furniture store and a tenement, the occu-
pants OF which barely escaped with their
lives.
Bishop Arthur c. A. Hall of the Episco-
an operation for appendicitis Saturday,
was resting comfortably at the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington yesterday.
The physicians stated that they now con-
fidently expect recovery.
A dozen iceboats secured the 10 miles
of Ice between Burlington and New York
state Sunday and found the body of Will
lam b. Howard frozen in the ice a mile
from the New York shore. Howard
Lob a,
March s for Fort Kent, N. Y, but was
overtaken by a storm and frozen to death.
He leaves a widow and three children
in Burlington.
John II. Ayres of Bennington has just
been notified of his appointment as civil
engineer in the government service in the
Philippines at a salary of 500 a month.
He will sail for Manila on a government
transport from San Francisco March 81
He graduated from the University of YER
mont engineering department last year
and recently passed a very creditahe
| civil service examination in Rutland
Secretary of State Fleetwood has grant
ed AS licenses for automobiles, in ac-
cordance with one of the new laws of the
last Legislature. By request, No. 10 was
granted TO DIR. ]. NJ. Allen of st. Johns
bury, who was laid up for over a year
with injuries received in an automobile
accident at the county fair in st. Johns
bury, September II, 1908, and in which
accident Herbert Lanpher was instantly
killed
Abbott & Cady's store in Bethel was
burglarized Sunday night, the intruder
taking $50 in cash in addition to a car
and a pair of shoes. Harold ID, Leases
jewelry store was also broken open and
robbed of a. quantity of chains and rings
| During the day a young man who gave
his name as Tom Blake was arrested in
Randolph, and a part of the stoler
property was found on his person. He
has been bound over to the grand jury
and is now in jail.
Andrew N. Adams, 70. died Monday
| from pneumonia at his home i'm FAN
| Haven. He was born in that town, was
/ educated in several institutions, including
the Harvard divinity school, from which
he graduated in 1855. After preaching
| five years in Dedham and Franklin, Mass.
he returned to Fair Haven and engaged
| In mercantile business and later In the
marble business. He published the history
OF Fair Haven in 1870, had written thu
histories of three branches of the Adami
family, and devoted the past 10 years L
genealogical and literary work. He repre-
scented Fair Haven in the legislature II
1884 and Rutland county in the senate II
1888 He is survived by wife and thre'
daughters.