Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-16

A trout weighing six pounds and mea-
surfing 26 inches was caught from the
Battenkil river recently by Carl Kohler,
IA, of Manchester Depot.
The sixth annual convention Of the
Vermont branch of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has been in session in
Burlington this week. Seventy
lodges were reported as affiliated with
the state branch
Ernest Ranney II, employed in Webb's
hotel in Lyndonvlle, was drowned while
swimming in the Passumpsic river at that
place Sunday He was a good swimmer
but was seized with cramps and his COM
panion was unable to reach him.
Herbert Edmunds, %, employed by the
Rutland Railroad company was drowned
Sunday evening while bathing in Otter
Creek in South Walingford His crippled
brother Leonard, witnessed the drowning
from the bank but was unable to assist
him.
Guiseppi Mirable, an Italian laborer
employed at Cavendish gorge on the bull
ding of a dam, was fatally injured Mon
day while at work A big rock had been
losened by a blast fell, striking Mirabe
fracturing his skull. Another Italian Ia
! borer sustained a broken leg.
Fred Carpenter of Groton, 80. employed
by w. NJ. Wilson of Corinth, was killed
Sunday morning, one and one-half mile
north OF bradford. Inc pOuN WAS louuu
| on the railroad tracks badly cut and
mangled and Identification was difficult.
lie leaves a daughter three years old.
| Victor Copn Finnish quarryman.
was drowned Sunday in an abandoned
| quarry hole in Granitevile He is said
to have a family in Quincy, Mass, from
| which place he came recently. He was
seen Saturday in the company of two other
men and all three appeared to have been
drinking. The case is being investigated.
/ John b. Vincent SO, an employee of the
| Spaulding & Kimbal Co., slashed his
| throat with razor at his home in Elm
wood avenue in Burlington Sunday. He
made a cash four inches long but Will
| live, as he missed the large arteries. lie
! declares that he will make another at
tempt as he is tired of living. owing TO
! family troubles
George w. Buzzell, president and man
| ager of the Citizens Telephone company
| of st. Johnsbury. was instantly killed
about o'clock Monday afternoon by
| coming in contact with a live electric
wire, caused by a crossing of telephone
and electric light wires Mr.. Buzzell is
survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lena
owen.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed by the L. l.. Smith company OF
Barre for quarrying, manufacturing
buying and selling of granite and leasing
| property for the purpose of handling
granite. The capital stock is $780, 900 and
those holding the stock are John E
Smith, Donald Smith, Florence +. Smith
Ethel A. Smith and Angus Smith.
During the performance of the Fore
paugh Sells Brothers circus in Burling
ton Monday. seats containing about 4OI
people collapsed, all of the occupants
falling to the ground. Clifford Nichols o.
Essex sustained a broken leg and Mrs
Peter Sorel of Grand Isle a broken arm
while several people were badly bruised
Suits have been filed against the cir
Gus company by II persons for damages
amounting to $4,000. One report Il
that two drunken men fighting under thu
seats knocked out one Of the supporting
timbers, causing the collapse.