The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-04-05
State News Notes,

While Henry w. Clapp was driving to
Plaintield village with load oil nay drawn
by four horses, it tipped over INTO the
river and one of the horses was drowned
+. l.. Shackett, formerly manager of the
Bardwell House in Rutland, has taken
possession of the Bristol House at Bristol'
He has had experience in the hotel busl-
ness in the west.
Eugene Mazzoni, a lineman for the Bur
lington municipal electric light plant, was
instantly killed Saturday while handling
a dead wire which came in contact with
n live wire. Twenty-seven hundred VOLTS
passed through his body.
Walter X. Famsworth, who this week
begins his duties as city Judge IN RUTLAND,
is one of the youngest men who have helu
that position. He was born in Windsor
November II, 1870. He has been assistant
Judge for three years. He was admitted
to the bar in 1898.
A hundred men commenced this week
TO set out thousands of little spruce ana
nine seedlings at Shelburne Farms, DR..
Webb's palatial estate at Shelburne, ms
is an annual custom there. In 1871 there
were set out 25.0OO trees, mostly elms ana
the following year 10000. The seedlings
are started in large nurseries at the iarils'
One of the familiar sights about Mont
n,lier this winter has been Louis Barney,
an old blacksmith, and his dog team. The
dogs are two years old, smooth coated
Demands and he has trained them both
himself With a single dog he has taken
trips of 10 or % miles and back IN a DAY
and the dog has not appeared to suiier
from the eXertlon.
II. C. Shaw. former editor and acting
manager of the Middlebury Register, mas
been appointed confidential clerk to former
Gov. Carroll $. Page, and Will remove TO
HYDE Park Immediately to begin his new
duties, Mr.. Shaw served as secretary to
Joseph BatteIl for one year and was for
merly acting secretary OF the Morgan
Horse Breeders association.
As milk from two model diaries in Ben
nington has fallen below the standard set
Inv tbe state board of health, it has oc-
Cured to practical dairymen whether 1t is
not possible to take too great care OF the
cows. The diaries referred to are those OF
two wealthy summer residents, j. Y. tol-
gate and Lyman Van Santvord, who are
in the business for pleasure and not proht
and keep their cows in unsurpassed lux
ury.
The official itinerary of w. J: Bryan s
visit to Vermont is as follows: Mr., Bryan
will leave Lowell, Mass, the morning OF
April "a and will go to White River June
ton where he will speak in the afternoon.
He will take the 400 o'clock train Tor ST
Johnsbury and will speak there in the
evening. He will leave at [ O'Clock the
morning of April 20 and will go to Bur
lington where he will speak in the alter
noon and at Barre in the evening.
A practically air tight, three-story brick
and concrete structure has been begun at
the stereosconie factory of the II. G. White
company at North Bennington. The
course of the river has been changed TO
accommodate this building. The windows
will be sealed and air will be drawn IN
through screened pipes and heated or
cooled as the condition of the weather
demands. Every precaution will thus be
taken to prevent the spotting OF negatives
by dust.
Arthur Arnold of Westminster was
brought before Judge I. Fl. Albee Satur-
day afternoon charged with feeding his
herd of 10 or u cows with an insufficient
quantity of food. The complaint was made
to the state attorney by Mrs. jennie NJ
Powers. humane officer of keene, n. H.
Mr.. Arnold admitted that four OF the
cows were thin and two of them very thln
but claimed that he fed them what in hl9
Judgment was proper and that he had
been unable to put flesh onto the cows
The court discharged him,
The first malpractice suit ever brought
against osteopathic healers in this, state
was ended in Burlington Friday when a
Jury after four hours elaboration, brought
in a verdict for $270S damages in favor OF
John S. Wilkins. The plaintiff sued to
recover $4,000 from DR.. w. w. Brook and
his assistant, DR.. L. X: Roselle, osteo
pathic healers, who had attended WI
tlins's wife. The case has been on trial
for more than three weeks. Wilkins al
legged that as a result of the treatment the
two osteopaths had given his wife she
became a confirmed invalid and that TOR
year and half before her death she
was unable to walk. The suit in which
the verdict was rendered was that, against
DR.. Brook, DR.. Roselle having defaulted.
Albert f. Palmer, 20, shot and killed
himself in front of his home in Fair Hay
en- Saturday night while fleeing from his
brother William, following a hand to
hand tussle to prevent him from carrying
out threat to take his life. The tragedy
followed a quarrel between Palmer and
Miss Nora Bentford, %, and which is said
to have been due to the fact that her fam
lily favored the attentions of Elmer