Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-03-30

Perclval w. Clement, who returned
from a two-weeks' business trip in the
West last week, announces that his cam
| paign of public speaking will begin about
the middle of April. 1t will be largely on
the lines of the 1902 tour, and the Poin-
ciana negro quartet, which achieved
fame as Clements coon quartet
| during that historic canvass, has been
engaged to sing wherever he speaks
The grist mill in East Randolph owned
by d. ]. Camp, was burned Saturday
! night.
o. w. Barrett of Clarendon, plant in
| PRODUCER in the bureau of plant industry
in Washington, is said to have devised
remarkable system of color photog-
raphy.
NJ. E. Wheeler Of Rutland who owns
hundreds of acres of timberlands on the
| Green Mountain range, is considering
plans for the erection of a large summer
hotel on the summit Of Killington peak.
Charles Baird's residence in Plttsford.
| known as "Hermt's Rest" was burned
early Thursday morning. Mr.. Biard and
| his hired man barely escaped. There
was only small Insurance on the property.
E. C. Rowe recently killed in the west
ern part of Bethel sable or pine martin,
an animal which is seldom found in this
| state. Its body was IA inches long. with a
| tall six inches long. The fur is very
fine and is said to be worth SIS to 500.
John Milton, SS, a granite cutter in
| Barre who was member of several fra
| ternal organizations, died Thursday night
at the Heaton hospital in Montpelier from
peritonitis caused by a fall in his bath
ROOM when he struck his side against a
| marble stand.
The steam saw mill in the Cox brook
neighborhood in the western part of
! Northfeld owned by H. o. Ward of More
| town, was burned Monday night. The
| loss is $4,000, with but small Insurance.
| The mill will probably be rebuilt. as there
is a large stock of logs in the yard.
Edward Sprague, so, who had been Ill
in Bristol since Feb. ~. died Tuesday
| from the effects of eating raw ham af-
fected with trichina- A young son died
| from the poisoning Feb. 10. Mrs.
Sprague and her daughter are still i'll,
| the latter being in dangerous condition.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Dodge of Rutland
| are the parents of a healthy girl eight
| weeks old who weighs only ~ pound. The
child Is kept in an improvised incubator
| fastened to a radiator. The mother has
given birth to two other children. now
grown, who weighed less than four
| pounds each at bin tn.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fischer moved from
Rutland to Winchester, N. H.. early in
| March, taking with them the family pet
a large tiger cat. On being allowed to
| run out door at Winchester March puss
| disappeared, and was not heard from until
| March 90 when Mr.. Fischer received q
letter from his brother in Rutland saying
the cat had returned to her old home.
Mayor John S. Manning and DR.. John A.
| Mead Of Rutland with Congressman Fos-
ter, were guests of Vice President and
Mrs. Fairbanks in Washington one day
last week, and later Mr.. Foster presented
| Messrs. Manning and Mead to President
| Roosevelt. Introducing Mr. Manning as
a delegate to the last convention, who sup
ported Roosevelt and would be glad to do
so at the next. The President thanked
Mr.. Manning for his support but said he
could assure him positively that he would
not have an opportunity to support him
at the next national convention.
The body of an unknown man was found
shortly before 8 o'clock Friday on the
| tracks above Windsor station of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad at Windsor. 1t is
| believed that he was killed by the train
| which arrives at Windsor at 735 o'clock
In pocket was receipt for taxes made
out to IN. L. Walbridge, Norwich, VT"
and SIS in money The man wore a fur
| coat with a White River Junction tag
|
| thought 1t was that of Thomas Pagen, a
| White River Junction blacksmith. 1t was
| viewed by Drs. Richmond and Brewster
| and later taken to an undertaker's shop
to await identification.
The Amsden Lime companys property
in Weathersield has been sold by Mr. and
Mrs c. E. Woodruff to Maxwell Evarts
| of Windsor who has formed a stock
| company to carry on the business. All
| but a few shares of stock are held by
Mr.. Evarts and Stephen Palmer of New
York. Luther C. White of Windsor will
| be manager of the new company and Mr.
Woodruff will give some attention to the
business for the present. Only the old
Amsden homestead is reserved the prop
erty sold including the lime kilns, store.
| three storehouses beside the storenouse at
| Cavendish railroad station, saw and grist-
| mill, blacksmith shop, barns, nine tene-
ment houses, IL horses, two yoke of oxen
| and team equipments and other livestock,
about 1000 acres of land and all tools and
other property connected with the lime
business so long and successfully conduct
ed by the late Charles Amsden.
Roy Mullen has been arrested in Barre
charged with murder by administering
| poison to Fred Batchelder, who died
mysteriously March 16 The case was
| continued until Saturday and Mullen was
taken to the jail in Montpelier Batchel-
der was taken i'll March IA and died two
days later. His case was at first dag
nosed as acute indigestion, but later II
was thought that he might have been
| poisoned by eating candy Roy Sykes,
who lived in the house with Batchelder,
was Ill in a similar manner, but recovered.
An examination Of Batchelder's stomach
at the state laboratory in Burlington
| showed the presence of a large amount OF
| arsenic, and Mullen, who was his nurse,
was arrested. 1t is alleged that on the
| night that Sykes was taken Ill he was
given a sandwich by Mullen, who also
gave one to Batchelder. Mullen was alone
with Batchelder when he died. No motive
for crime Is known. Mullen is a COM
| parative stranger, who came to Barre
| from Newport a month ago. He claims
to be a Red Cross nurse and says he has
worked In Burlington. He is about %