Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-08-11

Owing to delay in securing rights OF
way the trolley railroad between Will
Jamestown, Mass, and Bennington will
not be built this year. The promoters
hope to begin work early next spring
At a special meeting OF stockholders
OF the Merchants national bank of St
Johnsbury Monday it was voted to re-
duce the capital stock from $500, 900 to
$4,000. The vote was passed without
opposition, over four-fifths Of the stock
being represented.
II. L. White, chemist at the state
laboratory at Burlington, received a des-
patch Monday from States Attorney
Aimee to suspend further analysis Of the
stomach Of Lila Waterman pending the
hearing at Victory Thursday pre-
liminary report OF the analysis will be
made then. on the result depends fur
Their action in the case.
The annual meeting OF tho Vermont
Officers Reunion society will be held in
Burlington, Sept Z. The postprandial ex-
ercises will include an address by Col
Albert Clark OF Boston, and II is expected
that Gen Horace Porter, late ambassador
to France, who is the guest OF Gen. E.
L. Ripley, president OF the society, will
attend the banquet and speak.
The dedication OF the new Abbott Free
Memorial library just completed in South
Pomfret, the gift OF Judge Ira A. Abbott
que, n. NJ, will take place with suitable
exercises Saturday, August IL. On the
same day in connection Herewith the
seventh annual Pomfret Old Home meet
ing will be held under the auspices OF the
Pomfret Farmers club.
George W. Kelley, SO, was shot by I'M
known parties on the outskirts OF Burling-
ton Monday night He has been taken
to the Mary Fletcher hospital He has
two bad scalp wounds. Kelley, as near
as can be ascertained, was walking in a
lonely part Of the road at the end Of the
car line. He turned his head and saw
two men, one with gun in his hand.
The weapon at this minute was discharg-
ed and two bullets hit Kelley. He was
taken to the hospital by officer Marengo,
and the police are at work on the case.
which is a deep mystery. Kelley's
mother is very i'll.
One of the most important civil suits
ever tried in Vermont began in the Essex
county court Tuesday. The Connecticut
Valley Lumber company, George Van
Dyke OF Boston, president, seeks to re-
cover 100000 damages from the Grand
Trunk Railroad company for loss sustain
ed by the great forest fires of 1908, when
II is claimed that sparks from a locomo-
tive started fires which swept over 30, 900
acres OF timberland in Brookheld and
Brunswick and the unorganized towns
Of Ferdinand and Lewis. This is re-
garded as test case, as similar losses
were sustained by other owners Of timber
land.
Sheriff Wilson has brought to Jail at
Bennington William Lamphere Of Dorset
Hollow, who was arrested on a warrant
charging him with incest The alleged
victim was his only daughter, Lavinia
Lamphere Wescott, the admitted queen of
the bandits who had the fight with officers
in Rupert 10 days ago, and whose lover,
Ross, was killed at the time. She is also
in the same jail to which her father has
been taken. According to the girl, the
first crime was committed six years ago
and has been repeated a number OF times
since. Lamphere is man about 40 years
OF age. He will have a hearing before
Judge Bates in the municipal court.
Rear Admiral Charles e. Clark, who
made the battleship Oregon famous, and
whose name is so closely linked with the
history OF the destruction OF Cervera's
fleet at Santiago, was placed on the re-
tired list OF the navy yesterday, when he
reached the statutory age, for retirement,
81. Admiral Clark entered the service
from Vermont in September, 1860. He was
president OF the naval general board.
After the war with Spain Admiral Clark
was, at his own request, assigned to duty
as governor Of the naval home at Phila-
delphia, and later was called TO Wash
ington for his late duty. He has been
visiting at his old home in Bradford re-
Gently.