Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-17
AGAINST CENTRAL VERMONT.
Two Suits Brought by Attorney General,
Alleging Excessive Freight Charges.

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and the second, for $4,000 damages, de-
mands the return to the state of amounts
alleged to have been collected IN excess
of the regular rates Attorney General
Fits alleges that the state has been COM
PEELED to pay higher rates for all coal
bought and used at the insane asylum at
Waterbury than private concerns have
paid. In particular II is charged that the
state has been compelled to pay 40 cents
a ton more than a certain coal dealer in
Ogdensburg, N Y, has had to pay for
shipping coal over the railroad line
The action is brought under sections
1902 and 1903 of the Vermont statutes pro-
vidlng for equal and reasonable rates to
all corporations from carrying companies,
under a penalty. 1t is returnable at the
September term of the Washington
county court, which will be held at Mont
pelier.
A. c. Bates, who organized the Rut-
land Electric Light company, the first
concern of its kind in this state died at
his home in Rutland Sunday after a long
illness with paralysis. He was a native
of Richmond and came to Rutland from
New Haven in 1862. Mr. Bates was
village trustee and superintendent of
streets in 1865. He was largely instru-
mental in bringing the Howe scale works
to Rutland and in causing the Chase Toy
He erected the original Bates house in
1866. The building was destroyed by fire
and rebuilt in 1877. He also built the
Bates block on Centre street. son and
daughter survive him.
DIR. c. c. Hendricks, of Atlantic City
N. j., has entered suit in the city court at
Pittsburg Pa, against Mrs. Laura Biggar
Bennett widow of Henry NJ. Bennett, a
former theatrical manager of Brooklyn
and Pittsburg, demanding $299,9S0 for
professional services. Dr. Hendricks
alleges that he attended Mrs. Bennett in
his private sanitarium in New Jersey two
years and that he was paid only 500 in
that time. The suit Is in the nature of
foreign attachment on property In the
hands of Peter ]. McNulty and James
Piatt of Pittsburg, the executors of the
will of Henry NJ. Bennett. DIR. Hendricks
says Mrs Bennett now lives in Chicago.
Mrs. Bennett and DR.. Hendricks formerly
lived on a farm in Chester and are well
remembered by many people there.
Lieut.-Col Frank Stowell Harlow,
U. S. A, who died in New York Saturday,
was a son of Albert G. and Caroline NJ.
(StowelD Harlow, and was born in
Springfield, VT, Feb. Is, 1857 He grad
uated a West Point in 1879 and was APP
pointed I'd lieutenant of 9th infantry.
Later he was transferred to the first ar
tillery and was an honor graduate of the
Warren and at Newport. was professor
of astronomy at West Point for u years.
teacher of artillery practice at Fortress
Monroe six years, and was on the tor
pedo board at Fort Totten, N. Y, until
he retired recently after 81 years service.
The body was taken to Claremont. where
the funeral was held Tuesday at the
home of Col. Harlow's uncle, Col George
H. Stowell, and the burial was in the
Stowell mausoleum.
The post Office at Bennington Centre,
said to be the Oldest in Vermont, has
been discontinued. The Office was estab-
lished 145 years ago, and had been in
continuous operation since. Anthony
Haswell, postmaster general of Vermont
before it was admitted to the Union, was
the first postmaster holding the place
after Vermont was admitted. The late
Rev. E. H. Chaplin was for some time
connected with II as clerk when a young
man. Several of the prominent men OF
the town and county have been in charge
OF II, and for a long time II was the
principal Office in town. and people are
now living in the village who can recall
the time when people then living in
Algiers, as the village was then called,
now the populous section OF the town,
had to go up to the Centre to get their
mail.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles F. Morse cele-
brated their 50th wedding anniversary at
St. Johnsbury Friday Thirty were pres
ent at the family dinner, including eight
children and Is grandchildren. The only
absentee was son who is in business in
Guayaquil, Ecuador. Mr.. Morse, who is
81 years old, is a native of Derby. He
graduated from st. Johnsbury academy,
Amherst college and Andover theological
seminary. Mrs. Morse was Eliza Winter
of West Boylston, Mass. Soon after
their marriage they sailed for Constanti-
nople as missionaries of the American
board. They were the first missionaries
to enter the kingdom of Bulgaria and
they labored there many years and seven
OF their children were born in that
country. Mr.. Morse is the author of
Bulgarian dictionary which will soon be
published in an enlarged form. Mr.
Morse has been known throughout the
state in recent years as canvasser for a
cyclopedia.