Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-05-11
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

DAON'oNSN r.
Adams's road mare.
G. e. Gilman has another carload of
horses due to arrive at his Elliot street
stables today.
A special conclave of Beauseant com
mandery will be held this evening to
work the Red Cross degree.
The convention of the Vermont Wom-
ans Suffrage association will be held in
the First Baptist church June and T.
Seats will go on sale tomorrow, Satur-
day. morning for The Rivals, which will
be given by the Jeffersons at the Audi
forum next Tuesday evening.
The board of village bailiffs will meet
tonight for the first time since the village
meeting. They will organize and prob
ably will reappoint the present police
officers.
Dispositions have been taken in Boston
this week in the patent suit of the B. G.
Corser estate against the National Wire
company of West Haven, Conn. c. c.
Fits appeared for the estate.
Allie Conwill, employed by the Brattle-
boro Cabinet company, sawed his left
hand at the factory Wednesday. The
back of his hand was lacerated and the
index finger had to be amputated.
A. " May, who sold his house last
week, has bought Of =. s. Hall the house
next east of the house which Mr.. Hall
occupies on Western avenue. He Will
move there as soon as the present tenant
vacates
Some good catches of trout have been
made in Green river this week. Clayton
Coane caught six, the combined weight
of which was nearly five and one half
pounds. Verne Winchester caught II
ranging from eight to IL inches in length.
A. N. Nesbitt, agent of the New York
syndicate which has put up forfeit for
the properties of the Brattleboro Gas
Light company and the Brattleboro
Street Railroad company, has been in
Brattleboro this week An attorney for
the syndicate will come here next week
to take some necessary legal steps.
A meeting Of the executive committee
of the Mutual Life Policyholders associ-
alton was held in Washington Tuesday,
which was attended by DIR. II. d. Holton
of Brattleboro. 1t was decided to incor-
porate the association under the laws OF
the District of Columbia. vermont
association will be organized soon.
Jessie Darling, the fancy skater, APP
reared in a return engagement at the
Centreville rink Saturday evening wnen
the season for skating closed. The usual
Friday night dance will be held at the
rink this evening. The dances Will be
continued throughout the summer and
the rink will be opened for skating early
in the fall.
The autobiography of the late Rev.
Lewis Grout. the matter for which was
prepared by him, and the publication ar
ranged for before his death has now been
completed and copies are on sale by
Clam & Jones. The volume contains an
Introduction by Rev. l.. NJ. Keneston and
has as a frontispiece steel plate por-
trait of Mr.. Grout.
George L. Durham, Charles o. Robbins
and c. f. GRAHAM were in Springfield ana
Greenfield yesterday to investigate the
workings of the boards of trade In those
places. They returned very enthusiastic
over the information they had received IN
Springfield where they were given every
nossible opportunity for investigation by
President Bowman and Secretary Drake
The company that will present Richard
Brnsley Sheridan's farce comedy Inc
Rivals" at the Auditorium Tuesday even
ing May 10, will consist OF Joseph Jel-
ferson who Is to be the or Luz a,
and William Winter Jefferson who as
sumes the role made famous by the late
Joseph Jefferson These sons OF an IL
lustrious father will be supported by the
same company that has been the support
of the late Mr.. Jefferson many years, m
Guiding such well known players as John
lack Rosa Rand, Blanche Bender, Arthur
Stanford, Henry Odlin, Richard Lyle anu
others.
The order of Judge John w. Rowell
that the expenses of Michael McCanrey'
who is in the state asylum at waterbury
be paid out of his property instead OF
by the state as formerly ordered, recaiis
a sad story which is told in the ST. Al
bans Messenger of yesterday. McCanrey
is fine father of Mrs. William Dusten'
who committed suicide In BrattleDoro IN
March by drowning in the Conneeueu'
river. Twenty-Five years ago. WINE IN
sane McCaffrey killed his wire anu
mother in Waterbury while they were
sleeping and hid their bodies IN the ger
lar He believed that animals covered
with hair were trying to XIII ms cliii ;
dren and he took them to the Vlllase
day or two afterwards. Mrs. Dusten wa
a babe at that time. Since her death heI
brother, Martin McCue, VINO came -
BrattlAboro to assist in recovering ths
body, has become insane. he starteU
from his home in Craftsbury TO the hoLil'
of his brother-in-law and Wheh over
nowered a revolver wrapped in hand
kerchief was found on his person Iht
accumulation from McCaffrey's pension
amounts to $780,
Miss Sarah Benson, who is spending
several months in travel IN huIoPS
writes her mother of the glimpse willci
she and a travelling companion DUAL M,
of the great eruption OF VesuVlus, IN
reports being favorable, they mace th'
Journey from Rome to Naples, nut th'
conditions were such and the aiaIih ~ ~
so great in Naples that they Fetu ~. q
miles from Vesuvius everything was COY
cred with fine white ashes, and the deptl
of the ashes Increased TO several meme
as the train proceeded All birds an
animals had disappeared. When Az ni ne,
from the mountain the appearances " h,aoI
horizon was that of an angry plaei
thunder storm. A few miles nearer TN
blue sky disappeared and the efIect WA wa,
lurid and terrifying. 1T was nAe oa
oft quoted yellow day only ten lll l,e
worse. 1t was as If gray pan huns . on,
everything, while the cloud or gust an
ashes above us was fringed with req
dish yellow" once in a while we saw
farmer with head protected by unDr1 ~
or soma broad covering looking over II,
desolate fields. At one shrine three W. tS1ni
faces -