Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-02

railroad was badly damaged bv fire ~
LVhdonVille Friday together with sever
a. oots stored in the building. The loss
Is estimated at $4,000. The cause of
the fire Is not known.
Assurances have been received from an
oIhclal source that the bennington q
lioosac Valley electric railroad. which
mas been absorbed by the New York. New
raven Hartford interests, will he re-
punt in the spring of 1908
The body Of Hiram Merrihew. &c. who
Ilad been missing from his home in south
Burlington several days, was found Fri
uay floating inside the brealtwater. A
WE and nine children SURVIVE Mr.
dener. s'i-
Henry o. Carpenter, Walter r. Kins-
man and Fred a. Field have bought Of
iugh H. Baxter Of New York q building
Iols IN Rutland, lying between North
Main street ana Kingsley. Roberts and
Lincoln avenues The property is a part
OF the old Gen. Baxter estate.
The state board of railroad commits
slohers was in session at Barre Monday.
considering plans submitted by the Cen
IIai Nermont railway for a new passenger
station The plans are for a one-storv
prlck building, IS by 2S feet, to cost about
S9oVo, Following somewhat the form of
the central Vermont station at Windsor
theodore n. Vail of Lyndon and Miss
Mabel r. Sanderson of Brookline Mass
were married Saturday. Mr.. Vail is
president of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company and receives the
largest salary Of any man in New Eng
land. He divides his time between ms
palatial country estate in Lyndon and
the company's offices in Boston.
several large trout were found dead i'm
indian river. West Pawlet and p. H.
Stickney of Rutland. county fish and
game commissioner, who investigated
found that paris green which Fred q
Nelson used in his potato field. had been
washed into the river. Nelson promised
to buy fingerlings for stocking the stream.
so there will be no prosecution.
Walter Magoon, 10. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leslie Magoon of Cambridge Mass
died July % In Newport as the result of
the accidental discharge Of a rife in the
hands OF his younger brother, Leslie
The father loaded the rifle intending to
try a shot at some eagles, and left It
standing In n corner OF the cottage at
knowlton Bluffs, where it was found by
the boys
Fully 700 Masons and their families took
a trip on lake Memphremagog to Owls
Head mountain by the steamer Lady Of
the Lake July %, the event being the /
the Lake June %, the event being the semi
centennial of Golden Rule Lode. A. +.
has the only open air natural lodge room
IN the world situated 1900 feet above the
lake on mountain, and it is its custom
annually hold one open air meeting on
top OF the mountain and invite all Free
Masons to attend. Nearly every province
in canada was represented and 81 states
in the United States
Greensboro on the shores Of Caspian
lake boasts of being the most popular
summer resort in Vermont, having at
present over 700 visitors and over 100
cottages owned by business men all over
the country. The lake is one and one
half mile wide by three miles long and
is over 1900 feet above sea level, being
the highest lake in the state 1t is
artificially stocked with trout, and since
1900 there have been more trout taken
from the lake than from any other in
the state. Up to 1902 the catches aver
aged 40 to so pounds a day until the YER
mont legislature restricted the catch of
each person to Is pounds a day.
At an Italian picnic held on Blue noun
tain near the granite quarries in Ryegate
Sunday Giacomo Cacimi, a man with
quarrelsome disposition. attempted to
start a fight with Giovini Frediani. The
men were separated but a little later
when Frediani's back was turned Cacimi
knocked him down by striking him with
a large stone. He fed to the woods, pur-
sued by several Of his countrymen who
We're unable to catch him. Frediani was
taken to the hospital in Hanover N II.
1t is thought that his skull was fractured
and his recovery is considered doubtful.
1t Is probable that Cacimi will be ar
rested, as he has been seen near the
Groton quarries not far from the home Of
his sister
Alpheus Haynes Of Middletown Springs
celebrated his Tooth birthday anniversary
Monday The affair was arranged by the
congregation of the Baptist church. Of
which Mr.. Haynes has been deacon 10
years, and the entire village joined in the
exercises. \ dinner was served on the
village green, and was followed by
speeches, a band concert and literary eX-
ercises. one of the speakers was Judge
Roswell Buell., 96, who told Of the days
when he and the deacon We're boys to-
gether. Mr.. Haynes is as active as most
men Of So He goes about the farm daily
and does light work in the hay field and
garden. He has cast his vote regularly
for every President since Andrew Jack
son.