Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-23

Burlington high school in the class Of 'O2,
has been elected president of the senior
class of Dartmouth college.
At a hearing held before Justice T. B.
Wheeler of West Rutland, Edward Holm
of West Rutland. who cut his wifes
throat and then attempted suicide Feb 6,
was held in $4,000 for the grand jury of
the March term Of the Rutland county
court
The annual state meeting of the Y.
NJ c. A. will be held in Windsor April
1928 inclusive. The speakers will in
clude o. K. Ober field secretary of the
international association. and John r.
Boardman, international secretary of re-
ligious work.
The Christian church in Woodstock
will celebrate the Tooth anniversary of
its organization Feb. % to % inclusive
The church has had but five pastors in
all these years. 1t has $50 members,
mostly residents of Woodstock and sur
rounding towns.
Campoli Adams, an Italian laborer from
New York, was instantly killed at East
Ryegate Feb. IA by falling so feet from
brich wall into the wheel pit
He was employed by Callahan Bros,
| contractors. who are building a paper
| mill in East Ryegate.
span OF bay horses belonging to the
Vermont Marble company, valued at
$780, broke through the ice on the reser-
| voir south Of the village of Proctor last
Friday afternoon and were drowned
| They were driven on the ice to scrape
of the snow preparatory to cutting ice.
John Cainor of Readsboro, while at
work in the woods logging Thursday, re-
ceived a badly fractured leg and crushed
ankle by a log rolling on him. 1t was
necessary to place him on a sled and
draw him over a log road out of the
woods to where medical assistance could
be obtained
The Vermont association of Boston is
| arranging for a meeting in that city to
commemorate the first session of the gen.
eral assembly of Vermont, which was held
in the Old Constitution House in Windsor
March IL, 1878. A committee has been
appointed to arrange for an excursion of
members of the association to Washing
ton about April Is.
The Inauguration of Henry c. Ide of
| ST. Johnsbury as governor general of the
Philippines will take place April 2. Dean
c. Worcester, native of Thetford. who
| was member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Michigan when he was appoint
ed one of the commissioners to the
| Philippine islands, will be secretary of
education in the Philippines
Articles of Incorporation have been filed
| with the secretary of state by the
Demeritt & Palmer Packing company,
at waterbury. This company will do a
canning business and has already made
plans to erect factory at Randolph.
| Ultimately the company will have
numerous factories Throughout the state
James Louney, 43, a weaver In a mill
in North Pownal, while intoxicated,
wandered into an abandoned lime kiln
near that village and when found both
feet were frozen stiff. He was taken to
the hospital in North Adams, where the
physicians said this was the worst case
OF freezing they had ever seen. 1t was
necessary to amputate both feet at the
ankles. Louney comes of an excellent
family in New Bedford Mass
Nathan Cross. Sc, died from suffocation
in Morristown Feb. IA. Charles Marshall,
with whom Cross lived, went into d.
Coles's house, leaving Cross sitting in
the sleigh holding the horse. When he
came out half an hour later the horse was
standing on the other side of the house.
the sleigh was overturned and under
1t was Cross's body, his face being buried
in the snow. When the horse started the
sleigh evidently struck the doorstep and
was overturned.
c. b. Kendall & Sons store in Shore
ham was burned the night of Feb. IA
causing loss of $4,000 to $4,000 to the
firm Connected with the store was a tin
shop and on the second floor was the
quarters were burned. Kendall & Sons
| BOOKS and papers were saved, also Mr.
Kendalrs books as town treasurer. A
tenement house adjoining the store in
which three families lived caught fire
several times, but was saved II is
thought the fire started from spontaneous
combustion among paints and oils in the
store.
Mrs. Fred Daniels, 2S, was instantly
killed Sunday afternoon at the Portland
street crossing of the Boston & Maine
railroad in st. Johnsbury She was be-
Ing taken to her home in a carriage
when the horse became unmanageable
and dashed between the gates at the
crossing. The horse was caught by the
locomotive of a sOuth-bound express and
killed instantly 1t is thought that Mrs
Daniels was struck by the engine and
thrown against a switch as the body
was crushed between the switch and the
train. Miss Hyde escaped by jumping.
Mrs Daniels was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Topeck Of st. Johns
bury. She leaves a husband, who was I'm
Michigan at the time OF the accident, a
young son, and three sisters and two
brothers. all of St. Johnsbury
A fire which is supposed to have start
ed from crossed electric wires broke out
In DR.. George Scott's block on Main
street, Randolph, Sunday morning. The
names broke through the ceiling and
caused gasoline stove to explode in a