Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

last week among lne license toNlh
Worcester, has been released, tn
number of license towns in the stat
to a.
Custom house records for Februar,
at Burlington show amount of mer
chandse Imported, $299,Sl6; duties
1873, 7SI6S; amount of goods export
ed, $950,532.
George T.. Edison of St. Adams anC
of the class of '76 of Norwich uni
versity, Mortified, has just presented
the university a very valuable geo
logical collection, consisting of min
erals and fossils but mostly fossils.
Horace Ouimette, 7-year-ol1
Swanton boy, while playing black
smith Monday March 13, struck an
old anvil, knocking off piece which
penetrated the eye. The sight was
destroyed and the eye will have to
be removed.
Arthur Ballard, aged 27 years, OF
East Wells committed suicide by
shooting himself Saturday night,
March II. The cause of his action
is said to be anxiety over some trou-
BILE in which he had become involved,
and for which he was to have been
tried in the courts this week.
Hannibal II. Best, owner of the
Quincy house at Enosburgh Falls,
pleaded guilty to selling intoxicating
liquor without a, license and was fined
5000 and costs Monday, March 49,
Best served a sentence for liquor SELL
ing in the house of correction at
I inf nd
law
The alumnae of the University of
Vermont in Burlington will ask the
trustees to establish a chair of house
hold economics in connection with
the new Morrill, agricultural hall to
be erected this year. The women of
the state grange have already pre-
sented q petition for the establish
ment of such chair.
A girl baby about a week old, was
left on the door step at the home of
A. G. Jones in Sudbury one night last
week. The child was wrapped in an
old sheet and shawl and when found
was in critical condition as the re-
suit of exposure. Both legs were
frozen below the knees and the child
had been drugged. Footprints in the
snow proved that a woman was re-
sponsible for the deed.
The body of John Haskins of
Readsboro was found hanging in his |
barn Saturday evening, March IL. He |
went to the barn and being gone an |
long time Mrs. Haskins /
went out and found the body hang /
ing by rope, life being extinct. I
ic ha
deed. Mr.. Haskins was a prosperous /
farmer about So years old and is
survived by a wife and six children.
Miss Celia Hitchcock, about 70
years old. who was i'll in bed at
Northfield was fatally burned Sunday /
night, March IL. In attempting to
get up and light the lamp, she net the
amp fall, the oil igniting from the
lighted match and setting her clothes
IN fire. A Scotch collie gave the
alarm and the woman was rescued
rom the flames, but she died Tues
lay. March IA, from the effect of her
INJURIES.
S. H. Wood, department command
n of the G. A. r. for Vermont, has
made the following staff appoint
md assistant quartermaster general, ]
Iiram E. Perkins, Post No. go, st. s
Albans; Judge advocate Edward +. !
sawyer, Post No. 81, Hyde Park; de- t
inspector, Eli N. Peck, Post s
70. 2, Burlington; chief mastering |
ficer, George R. Crosby, Post No. l, I
It, Johnsbury. {
The Marshfield game warden has c
otified Commissioner Thomas that
he carcasses of nine deer have been
ound near Hardwick. Parties of t
Italians are said to do much Sunday '
uniting in that vicinity. Mr. Thomas t
gifted the selectmen of every town i
'ebruary Is to appoint fish and game i
yardens before March 7, according to y
he provisions of section 4,571, YER Y
lont statutes, as the terms of war n
ems would expire the first Tuesday G
f March Up to March 10 he had :
ecelved returns from one town. h
Charles w. Sanderson, the noted
-ater color artist, died in Dayton, o.,
Wednesday, March 8, of bronchitis o
nd asthma. He was about 20 years n
Id and unmarried and was born in r
where burial will be made. "
If. Sanderson started in life to be- n
ome a musician, but met with an +,
ccident to his hand, and gave up h
lie study. He then took up art He Il
udied abroad, and painted in Swift F
etersburg. Many of his paintings n,
lorn the homes of the foreign no. rs
lily. is
1t is reported that Hon. Olin Merrill It
Enosburgh Falls, collector of Gus. d,
ms for the district of Vermont with fl
at Burlington, was Of bI
red the position of assistant secre- Sc
ry of the treasury a few weeks ago.
It declined the offer. Robert B.
rmstrong, who has held the posi- 81
IN, which includes general oversight bs
customs matters, resigned, and af- hi
r Mr.. Merrill declined the position r
was offered to James b. Reynolds or
Massachusetts, who accepted. II III
,expected that Secretary Shaw will he
tire from the cabinet in about a 10
ar, rumor having ii that he will OIL
Fix to capture the next republican e.
for the presidency. hi
Thomas C. Cheney of Morrisville, VIC
rk of the house of representatives an
by his assistant, Fred L. ira
milton of Salisbury, and Fletcher pa
Proctor of Proctor. will leave early ers
April for a trip to Albany. n. Y, fri
ere they will study the rules and tn,
mime into the workings of the two the
Uses of the New York legislature.
compliance with the provisions of
joint resolution introduced at the
Sc of the last session by Mr.. Proc
for the appointment of a commits tai
n to revise the rules of the senate acl
house. The full committee ap- he
nted to perform the work is: DO,