Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-19

\ l5-day campaign is being made in
st Johnsburv To- raise $4,000 for the Y.
NJ. G a SlS,So2 was raised last week
Or Seward Wchbs Chauffeur has been
fined 500 ana costs at burlington for OK
cccding the speed limit for automobiles.
A Burlington man has sued the pro-
prictor Of the 81. Adams House for $50
for damage To his clothes from fresh
paint while that hotel was being reprinted
last spring.
John Clarihow, 20, was drowned sun
day afternoon while bathing in pool in
an unused quarry near Granitovilc. I'm
Barre. The body was found in twenty
feet Of water
James Townc, aged 10, Of Purdyvillc,
died OF lockiaw Sunday from a wound re-
crVed Independence day. The boy was
handling a revolver loaded with a blank
cartridge, when it accidentally went of.
badly wounding his hand.
Issachar Potter was fined $50 and costs
in the Rutland municipal court last Sat
urday for aiming a revolver at an auto
omihle party who passed his farm. The
day his ofcnse was committed Potter had
been crowded out of the road by the
driver Of an automobile and wanted re-
venge, but got the wrong man.
Francis Couture of Windsor Mills p
O. was run over by the cars near Lyn-
donvile early Sunday morning. He was
asleep and got carried by the station.
moving train and the cars cut his left
foot above his ankle and the toes of his
right foot He dragged himself about so
rods TO the nearest house.
The Vermont association of Boston will
start on its annual Old Home week pill
ErimaEe To Vermont on Thursday. Aug Is.
reaching Burlington that evening Friday
will he devoted to a steamer trip among
the islands of Lake Champaign and II is
expected that the governor lieutenant
governor and other officials and prominent
residents of Vermont will accompany the
association. on returning to Burlington
the party win break up and its individual
members will visit different parts of the
state
Ernest Miller, employed as lineman for
the Franklin County Telephone company,
was nearly eectrocuted last Satur-
day afternoon. by coming in contact with
a live wire, while working on a pole in
front of the st. Adams house. He fell
across a cross-arm like a dead man, and
when lowered to the ground ii was found
that the flesh had been burned 10 the bone
on one arm, one shoulder and one leg
near the knee. He was taken to the
hospital and will recover, though he may
be crippled for life.
The Vermont state fair commissioners
met at White River Junction last Satur-
day to revise the premium list and settle
the question of advertising The COM
mission went to the fair grounds and in
spected the work in progress They
expressed themselves as well pleased with
the outlook and anticipate an unusually
successful fair. The fair will be held Oct
1913. 1t is announced that $4,000 will be
offered in premiums, that the kite-shaped
track will be put in fine condition, and
that the grand stand will seat 1000 people.
Benjamin Woolhouse was convicted of
an unusual offense in the Windsor county
court at Woodstock this week. He was
charged with conveying letters from a
convict in state prison to persons in the
outside world. These letters were in
structions as to what the addressee of the
letters was to do when the writer eff
fected his escape. The respondent was
employed as a stone mason working on
the prison wall repairs He said he did
not realize IL was such a grave offense;
that he felt sorry for the poor man who
"only wanted to send a line to his
old mother" The court sentenced Wool
house to not less than two years nor more
than two and One-half years in the state
prison,