Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-26

Rev DR.. ]. II. George. pastor of the
First church, Burlington, has resigned to
accept the presidency of Drury college,
Springfield, Mo, of which he was former
" trustee.
\. L. Murphy, a private in troop L.
18TH T. 5. cavalry, stationed at Fort
Ethan Allen. committed suicide Friday
by shooting himself. His motive for self
destruction is not known, though it is
thought it may have been a result of the
oppressive heat.
John jenkins alias John Burne, was
sentenced to three years and six months
at hard labor in the house of correction
in Rutland in the United States circuit
court in Windsor Saturday on conviction
on o charge of burglarizing the post Office
at Norton Mills. He has served two
terms in prison in Maine for the same
offence.
Daniel Case So, an employe of the
Rutland street railway company, was
struck and instantly killed by a west
bound Delaware and Hudson train near
Castieton village Tuesday afternoon,
within a short distance of the place where
his father met his death by a train some
years ago. Case was lying on the track
on sharp curve, and it is believed that
be must have been intoxicated.
William Richardson, a farmer near st.
Adams, had a narrow escape from death
Monday morning while in the hay field.
Richardson was sharpening his scythe
with a milestone when the scythe slipped
and plunged into his side striking the rib
Just above the heart and cutting a bad
cash. requiring several stitches to close.
Had the big blade struck him a quarter
ci an inch lower down, his heart would
have been cut in two.
The body of Mrs. Elmer Davis of Bur
lhgton was found by the side of a spring
In pasture near her home Friday after
noon after an organized search of thirty
hours. She had been dead for some time,
having committed suicide by taking ar
Senlc, Mrs. Davis was As years old and
The wife of a prosperous farmer She
Aad tried twice before to take her own
Aio with morphine, but each time prompt
medical assistance saved her life.
William Sheridan, 65, employed in a
quarry al Graniteville, Barre, was ms
tantly killed Monday morning while
working in a pit sixty feet deep. A large
stone had just been brought up by a
derrick and in swinging it out it struck
a marker weighing 800 pounds, and
Knocked it over the edge into the pit.
I.s great stone struck Sheridan in the
middle of the back, nearly cutting his
p'dy in two. < wife and four children
survive him.
What is believed to have been an at
Iempt to wreck an express train on the
Rutland railroad a mile north of South
SALISBURY by placing sleepers on the
track was frustrated Tuesday by two
children, John and Mary Patten, who live
nearby and who removed the obstruction
before the train went through. The
sIeepers were found on the track earlier
pF the crew of a freight train and re-
moved to one side. Evidently the Sleep
Ell We're again later placed on the track.
David Redwood Bennington's Oldest
C4uzen, died Friday morning, aged 81
years. He was born in Newfane and
moved with his parents to Bennington
NAeh a child He was a stone mason by
trade and the Oldest living member Of
Ae Bennington Methodist church. He
was the only living person who
could recall the period when Will
nam Lloyd Garrison edited a weekly
newspaper in Bennington Centre. He
on unctly remembered seeing the noted
a6olitionist carry his papers from the
rtHuhg office to the post office at Ben
Ahston Centre.
-, arrangements have been completed for
He construction OF a new railroad line
NNy'Ween Manchester, VT, and Granville,
~. l. The new line will be about %
.'"es long and will connect at Mancnes-
VT with the Rutland railroad and at
''"nNllle which is near the Vermont
'EN'r, with the Delaware & Hudson sys-
'H The road will be known as the Met
,}i"ee valley railroad. 1t will absorb the
''lchester, Dorset & Granville railroad
Iu VIII continue the line from South
toiSSt TO Granville, through a rich
,,.snI ana passenger region. The sur
:, Is now in progress Caspar L. Leach
president of the new company.