Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-27

thinks her i'll health may have led her
to go away.
William r. Paige, who boarded at
Warren Bates's in Sherburne, attempted
to commit suicide Sunday by drinking
tincture of opium. After being in a
stupor eight hours he was revived by a
physician from Rutland.
The johnson house in Bethel, occupied
by the families of c. o. Spauldng and
Mrs. Martha Graham, was burglarized
Friday evening while all Of the occupants
were out door and the doors unlocked.
The intruders secured $35 in cash and
a gold watch and chain.
The work Of raising $50. 900 for a Y.
NJ. c. A. building in Rutland will be
started at a banquet in September, at
which Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, and G. X. Ober of New York,
international secretary of the Y. NJ. c.
A., will be the speakers.
Edward Mccormick, 81, who had held
many town offices in West Rutland, was
found dead Friday night in a pasture.
He left home early in the evening to
visit his son. It is thought he was over
come by heat as he worked out of door
all day. A wife, two daughters and four
sons survive him.
Mrs Nathaniel Jenne, who disappeared
from Hartland Friday, was found in
pasture three miles from her home Tues
day. She had been i'll several months
| and her mental condition was affected
| when she wandered from home. She did
not appear to have suffered from her ex-
perienoe, and her recovery is expected.
Senator Redheld Proctor and his grand
son. Mortimer, left Tuesday for Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland. They will
meet DR.. Grenfell and will visit some OF
the Doctors hospital stations on the
| Newfoundland and Labrador coasts
| The Senator's son-in-law, f. G.. Holden of
| Boston, and Gen Ainsworth of Wash
ington will join the party at st. Johns,
| N. f.
Ira b. Smiths farm buildings In Monk
| ton were burned Friday. lightning start
| ing the fire in barn. The loss is esti-
III. tea al $4,000, with $4,000 insurance,
During the same storm buildings in Lin
| coin and Starkesboro were INIT BY night
ming The Swimming station of the CO.
operative creamery in Irasville, Waits
| field, was burned Friday night The loss
| is over $4,000.
Mrs. ]. G. Giacobbe was probably IA
| tally burned at her home on Seminary
street in Barre Tuesday. She drew gas
oline from a tank in the cellar. spilled
| some of 1t upon her clothiI e. which took
fire when she attempted to- light a stove
| in the kitchen. Her whole person was
| enVeloped in the flames and a woman
| who was in the room extinguished the
fire by wrapping a tablecloth around her.
Wallace Martin, S3, a farmer in Calais,
was drowned Sunday in the pond at
! Kmts corner in that town He was
| seized with cramps and sank before a
| companion could reach him. The body
was recovered from 80 feet OF water.
He leaves a wife and two small children.
Martin was a brother of Adelbert Martin,
the Mortified desperate who escaped
insane at Waterbury.
Felix Trovalind, an Italian, had his
skull fractured by falling marble in the
Columbian Marble company's plant in
| Rutland Friday. He was working under
the large traverse used in carrying mar
BILE when a slab fell to the ground.
striking him in the face, breaking his
nose and fracturing his skull. He was
taken to the hospital. 1t was thought
that he would die but he has shown re-
markable vitality and may recover.
Tony Poluski, "a, a Polander, was
caught in the machinery and killed In the
American Wooden company's mills in
Winoosh Friday. He was fixing a belt
when he fell into the basket of one OF
the big extractors, which was making
1900 revolutions a minute. No one saw
the accident and the machine was not
stopped until other workmen noticed that
it was not working properly. Polusk
had one arm torn off and was terribly
crushed. He died soon after he was
taken from the machine.
The S5th annual session of the Baptist
State convention will be held in Mont
pelier Sept 1926. At the opening session
Monday evening the speakers viii includ,
Rev. DR.. c. II. Spaulding of Boston and
Rev. DR.. o. c. S. Wallace of Lowell
Mass, formerly chancellor OF MacMastel
university, Toronto. The closing session
| will "Wednesday nj
cipal speakers will be Rev. DR.. NJ. f
Wood, president of Newton Theological
seminary and Rev. DR.. A. G. Dixon
pastor of the Ruggles street Baptist
church. Boston.
Col William L. Brown of New York,
native Of Vermont who has had varie,
career in public and business affairs. II
critically i'll at his summer home IL
Great Darlington, Mass. Col. Brown
served in an Ohio regiment in the civi
war and became aid on the staff Of Gov
William Allen of that state. After th'
war he settled in Montana, but later re
turned to Ohio, where he became stat
, senator. He was owner of the New Yori
Daily News many years and served II
the New York legislature as senator
from the fifth district
Warden Curtis one of the youths VIII
J escaped from the house of correction il
Rutland last Thursday by digging undo
the wall, was captured IueSuay IN IAN
! ada about ten miles from the Vernon
line and was brought back to RUTLAND
without extradition papers. The captur
was made by john Smith, a guard at tn
house of correction, assisted by Canadian
officers. John Babbitt, who escaped wit
, Curtis, was not captured, but 1t
r thought he will soon be in custody. TIL
I two walked to Whitehall, N. Y, "a miles
I and then made their way up the Nev
J York side of Lake Champlain by stealin
! rides on freight trains.