Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-25

The business report of the Rutland
railroad for 1906 shows total profits Of
81, 799. 209 so. a gain of $237l20.74 over the
preceding u months.
Mrs w. NJ Parker of Clarendon
Springs believes that she has the record
lemon. native grown, for Vermont The
fruit measures Is inches. smallest cir
conference and weighs 90 ounces. 1t was
grown on a three year old tree hardly a
foot tall
Because a six months former sentence
did not cure him of cruelty, John l.. Reed
of Benson was sentenced at Rutland Mon
day to Jail for not less than one nor more
than three years for beating his step
daughter Mamie Lamphere, child only
2lA years old
United States District Attorney Alex
ander Dunnett of st. Johnsbury. who is
examining the title of the site for the
proposed post Office building in Barre,
finds that the entire heart of the city
of Barre was sold July 10, 1892, for
s.. 40. for taxes.
At a hearing held before Justice s. A.
Brownel in Essex Junction Saturday
william Hunt was bound over to the
Chittenden county court in the sum of
$1,000 on the charge Of criminal negli-
gence, the case growing out of the death
Of John Early, who was struck by Hunts
team and dragged a long distance. Hunts
parents furnished bail.
r. p. Coleman, manager of the Wet
more & Morse Granite Co Of Montpelier,
will probably accept the general manager
ship of the Great Northern Power Co. of
Duluth, which has been organized to de-
velop a plant of so, 900 to 100000 horse
power on the st. Louis river. Mr.. Cole
man was manager of the Consolidated
Lighting company in Montpelier four
years.
Terrace McKane of Barre town has
brought suit against NJ. NJ. Gordon and
Richard Hoar, attorneys in Barre, alleg-
ing that they are Withholding money to
which he is entitled. McKane recovered
from Mari & Gordon, quarry owners
in Barre, $4,000 for injuries which made
him a cripple for life. He alleges that
the lawyers sent him SlO75O and re-
tanned about $4,000.
Fred Hawkins whose arm was lacerated
on a saw in the Readsboro Chair COM
pany's factory recently, was taken to the
hospital in North Adams. 1t Is doubtful
whether the arm can be saved. Hawkins
was underneath the machine making re-
pairs when his sleeve caught in the gear
| ing and his arm was drawn against the
saw tearing off the flesh and badly in
! juring the bone.
| Harry James. 80, who had been en-
| ployed by f. F. Eaton as teamster in
| Woodstock, committed suicide at that
! place Friday. He used a shotgun the
charge entering his breast and causing
| instant death He had been i'll with grip
| and 1t is thought his mind was affected.
! He was a veteran of the Spanish Amer
lean war and served two years in the
| Philippines. He was unmarried, but has
| relatives living in Norfolk, n. Y,
Fay p. Leach of East Fairfield was
arrested at his home Friday night and
lodged in the county jail in ST. Adams
the following day charged with firing two
| shots with a revolver at Miss Frances
Pomeroy, IS, daughter of a well-knowr
cattle dealer in East Fairfield. Miss Pom
eroy was walking along the street In
front of w. S. Soule's store, accom-
panied by Miss Maud Warren, wher
| Leach fired the shots from the other side
of the street The bullets narrowly missed
Miss Pomeroy and one of them crashed
through the window i'm the store and
lodged in the woodwork Leach claims
that he fired at a dog owned by Miss
Pomeroys father Leach is an eccentric
man who has been twice married. His
second wife secured a divorce from him
He has two daughters. aged 20 and l6.