Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-04-28

did not arrive until o'clock in the morn
ing The estimated loss is $4,000 to
$11 ,000 with a small insurance.
William Mason of East Dorset, in the
municipal court at Bennington Wednesday
was held in $500 bail to await the action
of the grand jury, on a charge of assault
with intent to kill on James and Frank
Bushee of East Dorset, March IL. Mason
was unable to furnish bail. and was taken
back to the Bennington county Jail, where
he has been held since the shooting. Ma
son had a alteration with the Bushes
over property which he leased to them.
He fired on them, wounding both Sc
riously with buckshot.
Spofford H. West of the marble firm Of
Norcross & West, has bought the old
Kent & Root marble property at Dorset,
consisting of mills. quarries houses, and
lands. This property has been held to
be worth from $50, 900 to 500, 900, and has
been owned and worked by several firms.
Ernest West has bought Joe Bushels
farm which joins Vests farm on the West
hill thus doubling the size of his lands.
Marble underlies both farms. West is
superintendent at the West & Norcross
quarry.
The Boston & Maine railroad station
at South Fairlee was burned Monday
together with freight and the household
effects of Fred c. Wheeler the station
agent, who lived in a tenement over the
waiting rooms. Harry Barber, a section
hand, was seriously injured while fighting
the flames by being struck on the head
by a flying brick hurled in the air by
the explosion of the heating apparatus.
He will probably recover. The fire is
supposed to have been caused by the
falling of a stovepipe. The loss will not
exceed $4,000.
The last meeting of the season for the
Daughters of Vermont was held Friday
at the Vendome Boston, and was turned
into Vermont day." with appropriate
exercises and sugaring off, following the
business meeting. Mrs. N. B. Rich was
elected a delegate to the meeting of the
Massachusetts state federation at New
Bedford, Mass, April %. Mrs. William
P. Shreve and Mrs. E. E. c. Blair were
elected delegates to the annual meeting
at Everett, Mass, and the following were
elected delegates to the Vermont fedora
! ton meeting at Barre: Mrs. Allen, Mrs.
| William A. Barton, Miss Wilson, Mrs c.
A. Ketchum, and Mrs. Abby Cousins.
In the Chittenden county court Louis
| Trembley, who on Thursday pleaded not
| guilty to the charge of numbering Louis
Lamorra Jan. s, on Friday retracted his
plea, and was sentenced on the charge
| of manslaughter by Judge Watson to
seven years in state prison. Attorney
General C. c. Fits then announced that
the government would not prosecute
Dennis Trembley. indicted Jointly with
his brother for the murder of Lamorra,
and he was released from custody. In
| explanation of Louis Trembleys change
of plea, his counsel, R. E. Brown, stated
to the court that the Trembley brothers
and Lemorra, who was their brother-in-
law, quarreled at Lamorra's home on the
| evening of Jan. s, and that Lamorra at
tackled Louis Trembley with some instru-
ment, which Trembley snatched away
and in turn struck Lamorra on the head.
The blow caused death. Attomey-Gen-
| eral Fits then stated that the govern
ment could not prove that Dennis
! Trembley was connected with the affair
/ and moved that the indictment be
| dropped.