Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-07

The 18th annual reunion Of the Ninth
Vermont Regmental association will be
held in Newport oct -
The post Office in Warren was broken
into Sunday morning and the safe rob
bed Of 5000 in cash and $500 worth of
stamps. After gaining entrance by
breaking a rear window the robbers blew
off the safe door with nitro-g lycerine.
On their return from a funeral Satur-
day afternoon Mr.. and Mrs Lincoln
Campbell OF Bloomington found their
young son dead and their barn in ruins
Lightning struck the boy while he was
al play in the front yard and al the same
time ignited the barn.
Silas w. Finn, formerly judge Of the
city court Of St. Adams and brother of
Lawyer f. B. Finn of Springfield, died
suddenly of heart disease in the home
of his aunt in Milton Monday afternoon
He was a native OF Milton and was ad-
mitted TO the bar in 1892 He was Judge
from 1894 to 1898. A wife and two chill
dren survive.
The Vermont branch, Womans Mis-
sions, in the business session OF its con-
vention in st. Adams, elected these Of
hcers: Pres, Mrs. NJ. II. Buckham, Bur
lington; honorary pres, Mrs. A. A. Wy
man, Cambridgeport. Mrs. C. G. Bene-
dict Burlington, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks.
kirkland, Bellows Falls; treas, Mrs. Mary
Z. Manley, Pittsford.
Timothy Healy, 40, Of Utica, n. Y, son
OF Mrs. Jeremiah Healy OF Rutland and n
| former resident of that city, was shot and
killed In the Adirondacks near Racquette
lake recently, being shot by Arthur
Blanchard, a guide, who mistook him for
| deer. Both men were following the
same deer, and Blanchard, seeing Healy
IN the underground at a distance of 100
yards, fired upon him, the bullet striking
him in the abdomen. Healy wore a brown
canvas suit.
The 3Ith annual reunion of the Eighth
Vermont Regimental association will be
held in Randolph Wednesday, Oct. 10, on
the 10th anniversary of the memorable
battle of Cedar Creek. The exercises
or the day will include a visit to the
birthplace of Col. Stephen Thomas,
where a suitable marker or tablet will be
erected; In the evening a camp fire will
pc held In Chandler hall. 1t is expected
that Gov. Mead and other distinguished
guests will be present
Two freight trains on the Central Yer
mont railroad cOllided Friday two miles
south Of Mortified and score or more
OF cars were piled up in the wreckage
1t is alleged that the collision was due
to a mistake in orders Several trainmnn
We're bruised and Engineer Lewis
Busharde Of st. Adams sustained a frac-
tured shoulder The collision occurred
only quarter of a mile below Harlow
bridge, the scene of the big wreck 10
years ago, and only two miles from the
location of the August wreck in which
several lives were lost.
Thomas Kentworthy of Ludlow. n
weaver, has brought suit for $4,000 against
Policeman p. H. Conlin of Rutland. He
alleges that while being placed in the
lookup in Rutland Sept 8, his thumb was
caught In the door and practically cut Off
the cords being torn to the wrist. He
claims he was left in the lookup over
night, then taken to the hospital where
ms wounds were dressed, and afterwa rds
ne pleaded guilty to intoxication and paid
hne. Since this time he has been in
the Mary Fletcher hospital in Rurlinp-
ton. 1t is possible he may lose his fore
arm by amputation.
Rev Isabelle Phelps of Whiting will
leave next week to enter evangelistic
work in north China for the American
Board of commissioners for foreign mis-
slohs ana the Woman's board of missions
She Is the first ordained woman ever sent
out by the American Board. Miss Phelps
Is graduate of Kimball Union academy
| ana daughter of the late Rev Fred
erick B. Phelps, a well-known Vermont
pastor. She is appointed to take the
place of Miss Mary Morrill,, who went as
a missionary from Portland, Me, and
was massacred in the Boxer uprising in
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