Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10

The selectmen of Weathersfeld have
signed an agreement with the selectmen
OF Claremont, n. H., to pay Claremont
$4,000 upon the completion of the free steel
highway bridge to Ascutneyville, and to
build and pay for the approach on the
' ermont side.
An electric railroad will be built from
North Hoosck next year, giving direct
trolley connection between Bennington
and Troy. The franchise is owned by the
Bennington and North Adams company.
which also controls the Bennington and
Hoosick Valley railway
The Playground Railway company of
woodstock has been organized with
$4,000 capital to build a railroad from
Woodstock to the state fair ground in
White River Junction. Maxwell Evarts
j. l.. Bacon, George Aitken, Fred l..
Davis and w. w. Russell are directors
Two new cases of smallpox are re-
ported in West Berlin this week. Five
people are i'll with the disease in North
field Falls and one new case is reported
there A strict quarantine is being
maintained and 1t is not expected that
any fatalities will take place, as the dis
ease seems to be running in mild form.
Brig-Gen. Crosby p. Miller. T. s. A.,
native Vermonter, retired, will be placed
in charge of the important construction
work in progress a the soldiers home
come to Burlington at once to take pos
session of the house which he recently
bought, and after settling his family
there will return to Washington.
Peter Swanson, 80, formerly of Proctor,
was shot and killed recently near White
water, Colo. There is bad blood between
the sheep herders and the cattlemen
swanson and two companions were driv-
ing 2500 sheep from Cisco. Utah, to CHM
arron, Colo, when they were attacked by
masked cattlemen Swanson was shot
in the abdomen and died the following
morning.
Alfred Mahan was brought into the mu-
nicipal court Saturday morning to
answer to the charge of having murdered
his four years. old niece, Ethel Mahan. at
North Bennington on April 2S Through
his counsel o. NJ. Barber, he waived the
reading of the complaint and examination
and Judge E L. Bates held him without
bail for the June term of the grand jury
| Mahan was remanded to Bennington jail.
c. c. Gilmore Of Swanton has bought Of
Mrs Rosna L. Scott the Lakeside prop
erty of about 200 acres at Highgate
Springs. including Shad island, Shipyard
bay with its cottages, the famous Missis-
quot park and Lime Kiln point. 1t is
understood that a stock company will be
organized to develop the place as an i'm
portant summer resort, with the prob
extended to the Springs next season.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Howe celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary in St
Johnsbury Friday night. Mr.. Howe was
engaged in the hotel business 40 years
He came to st. Johnsbury from New
| Hampshire in 1875 He built the Avenue
House and ran it % years. 1t was burn
ed in 1895 and he rebuilt 1t. He has also
| owned the St Johnsbury House. At one
| time he was the largest real estate owner
| in st. Johnsbury. Mr. and Mrs. Howe
four children and seven grandchildren
were present at the celebration.
Miss Nina Brooks, who works at w. w
| Brennan's in Barton Landing. through a
| field glass was watching large buck in
| the field near o. A. Whites residence
| Thursday when she heard the report of a
| gun, saw a puff Of smoke and the deer
| fell She continued to watch for an
| hour, when she saw a man crawl out of
the woods on his hands and knees and
| drag the deer away. ]. +. Lyon. game
warden. who was notified, found the deer
and William Hall acknowledged that he
! dragged the body TO the woods but de-
MED shooting the animal
| Joseph F. Ranger of Hancock. a lum-
| herman, is in Jail at Rutland, bound over
| to the grand jury under $4,000 bonds on
the charge of arson. He engaged a room
! in the Vose House. Pittsfield conducted
!
ward men passing the hotel saw the cur
! tans burning in an upper room. They
| gave an alarm and the fire was eXtin-
| guished before serious damage had re-
suited. The bed in Rangers room was
burning and fires had been started in
the beds of two other rooms. When per-
sons approached his room Ranger ran
from the hotel. No motive for the alleged
| incendiary act can be given.
The State Y. NJ. C. A. filed articles of
association with the secretary of state
May 2. The signers include such well
known names as F. D. Proctor of Proctor,
! w. j. Van Patten and G. F. North of
Burlington, w. w. Stckney of Ludlow,
A. w. Bosworth of Island Pond, c. C.
| Fits of Brattleboro, F. II. Brooks of st.
Johnsbury, A. ]. Holden and L. II, Ross
| of Bennington, n. G. Williams of Bellows
| Falls, C. A. Woolson of Springfield C.
! H. Perkins of Burlington, c.. S. Manuel of
Richford F. P. Adams of Swanton, ]. A.
Mead of Rutland, A Buchanan, jr. OF
| St Adams, o. G.. Stickney of Barre and
C. II. Deming of Montpelier.
Johnnie Osmer, 16, son of John f. Os-
mer of Taftsville, was so seriously wound
ed by the accidental discharge of a gun
one day last week that he is not expected
| to recover. He was rowing across pond
with two other boys in the boat, and in
picking up his gun quickly from the bot
tom of the boat when he saw a kingfsheT
arise the weapon was discharged, and the
entire charge passed through his left arm
cutting an artery and tearing the mus
Giles terribly. The powder and waddinG
also entered the arm. He was given inn
mediate surgical attention and taken to
the hospital in Hanover, NJ H., where II
was reported that there was no chance OF
his recovery.
Forty men began work this week on the
construction of the dam and power plant
at Cavendish gorge on Black river in the
town of Cavendish. The Claremont Pow
er company, capitalized at S700,000 is be-
hind the enterprise, and 1t is expected thai
by Dec. / more than 1000 electrical horse
power will be available for manufacturing
purposes The wild beauty of the gorge
will not be disturbed by the dam. The
dam will be of reinforced concrete, 81
feet high and 100 feet long, and big stee
penstocks will convey the water to tur'
bines 1900 feet below the dam. The fal
is 124 feet. The wire carrying the cur
rent will run across country to Claremont
a distance of 20 miles
The court of claims in session at Mont
pelier this week had a curious case fol
consideration in the demand of Viscon
Giovanni of White Plains, N. Y, for
merly of st. Adams, for compensation
for confinement in the state prison from
April l. 1905, to September 10, 1906. II
the March term of the Franklin county
court, 1905, Giovanni was convicted o.
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