The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-27

George Armour, an escaped prisoner,
has been returned to the state prison at
Windsor, after an ungranted liberty OF al
most three months. He was located IN
Uerkimer. y. Y. Oliver Germaine who
escaped with him. has not been found
Twenty-one head of cattle belonging to
H. T. Bartram of Rutland, and which
were tested last week and found to nave
tuberculosis. have been slaughtered under
tbe direction of DIR. Robert Weir OF hut,
land, Every one of the animals was found
TO be badly affected, and some OF them
were in serious condition. The hides were
saved and the carcasses were buried.
Francis NJ. Edgerton, 81, who died re-
Gently at his home in Richmond Hill, l..
l.. was a native of East Poultney and was
second lieutenant of the company OF vol
unteers which was organized at Middle
bury college during the civil war. lie was
n friend of Abraham Lincoln and Henry
Ward Beecher and was prominent IN pup
lie affairs in the old city of Brooklyn
The Mount Mansfield electric railway,
which runs from Stowe to W waterbury, d
distance of 10 II miles, was sold at auc-
tion last week for the mortgage, the
American Trust company of Boston: A.
II. Soden of Boston, president OF the
electric company, was the successful bid
der at $4,000. 1t is understood that Mr.
Soden plans to extend line IRON Stowe
to Morrisville, a distance OF eight miles,
Charles NJ. Skinner, So, author, play
wright and brother of Otis Skinner, the
actor, died at his summer home III Proc-
torsville Friday following an operation Tor
stomach trouble with which he had been
afflicted for more than year. He was
for many years on the editorial stan, OF
the Brooklyn Eagle and represented that
paper in the relief expedition which went
to the Isle of Martinique at the time OF
the great volcanic eruption. Mr.. SKINNER
had written number OF plays ana was
dramatic critic on the Eagle Tor 10 years.
Ernest Minor, formerly an employe OF
the Franklin County Telephone company
who is now alleged to be an lnVald III
nitiful condition from shocks, burns and
INJURIES received in line of duty by COM
ing in contact with heavily charged live
wire. has brought suit against and at
tached property of the Vermont Power
and Manufacturing company and the
Franklin County Telephone company Tor
$40 600. Minor was injured while work
inc on a pole in st. Adams last summer,
being badly shocked and burned. The
suit is returnable at the March term OF
Franklin county court.
DR.. George N. Weber, 81, who died a, at
the home of his daughter in Springfield,
Mass, Friday, was for many years pro,
lessor of moral and mental science at
Middlebury college and later lecturer on
mental philosophy at Smith college. Dr..
Webber was a graduate of Amherst col :
lege and the Andover Theological semi
nary and his first pastorate was at st;
Johnsbury where he settled IN 1923 ana
remained for four years. lie served MIG
dlebury college from 1867 to 1874. lie
afterward became pastor OF the FIRST res
bvterian church in Troy, N. T., and be-
came widely known in that part OF New
York state as a preacher OF ability ana
force.
There is every indication that the gov
eminent trout hatchery Tor winch con-
gress appropriated $4,000 two or three
years ago, will go to Holden, village on
Furnace brook in the town OF Chlttenden
about u miles from Rutland. Govern
ment surveyors, who are now in Holden IN
fine interest of Senator Redteld Proctor,
under whose direction the hatchery is to
he built stated that the idea entertained
early in the fall of locating the hatchery
aft Arlington where an experimental
hatchery has been kept up during the
past year, has been given up, the success
of the stripping station at the Rutland
railway light and power company pond
in Chittenden established temporarily in
October being the turning point.
A two-story wooden building at Rut-
land Center, in which the Vermont Mar
bic company conducted a general store,
was completely destroyed early Saturday
morning by fire of unknown origin. A
large schoolhouse nearby was saved after
hard fight. The store carried $4,000