Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-08-04

Gay morning ana lHulCdtlOnS were lHul
he was murdered. An autopsy was per-
formed by DIR. d. H. Stone of the state
labatory and "a bullet was found just
below the heart. People living near
where the body was found say that they
heard three revolver shots just before
midnight. States Attorney Carver has
been looking for evidence. No reason Is
known why anybody should wish TO
take the life of the young man.
Dependency caused Samuel Wright of
Huntsville, near Bristol, to commit sui
eide by taking poison Sunday. He leaves
a wife and several children.
William e. Hawkes., vice president and |
one OF the largest stockholders of the |
Bennington County National bank in |
Bennington, died Saturday night. He |
was a large real estate owner ana at |
one time was engaged In the land and |
cattle business in the far West.
James Asa Lamson, 66, of Springfield.
a well-known citizen and n member OF
various Masonic bodies died Monday He
served in Company c, 9th Vermont regi-
ment, a part of the time as corporal. Be
fore going to Springfield in 1880 he ran
stage from Bristol to Richmond. He
was a mouder for the Vermont Snath
company
The body of Henry A. Thorpe, a stu
dent of the University of Vermont who
had been missing since the latter part
of January, was given up by Lake
Champlain at Burlington Sunday. 1t
was identified by means of clothing and
a fraternity pin. Thorpe DISAPPEARED
| Jan. 20 while skating. He was 20 years
| old and a sophomore.
| Four members Of the memorial hall
| commission OF Kansas, accompanied by
the state architect have been in Rutland
| this week on business relating to the
| contracts awarded the Vermont Marble
| company for exterior work on the build
| ing The company has contracts for
| $S7, 900 worth of marble for exterior fac
ing. The building will cost 100000.
| Placing a heavy Irvine sip-noose around
her neck and attaching the end to a
beam in the shed Mrs Lucy Lamson of
| Burlington, widow of Clarence Lamson,
| kicked from under her the chair on
which she was standing and committed
suicide Sunday. She was Respondent
over i'll health Mrs. Lamson was 45
years old and leaves four children.
The Shepard & Morse Lumber COM
pany's property on the lake front in
Burlington was decided to the Rutland
Railroad company Saturday. The rail
road company bought for location for
a proposed new station. The price paid
is said to have been about 100000. The
lumber company has leased the mills and
enough property to carry on the business
two years
Springfield is making preparations for
a fitting observance of the 150th ami
versary of the granting of it's charter by
Governor Wentworth of the province OF
New Hampshire. The original charter
of the town of Springfield, carefully pre-
served in the town clerks office in its
original covering of sack cloth. was
; granted Aug. 20, 1I61, to Gideon Lyman
and 81 others,
Patsy Pedro of Rutland was terribI,
injured Saturday night when both his
f legs were cut off just above the ankles
= He was lying on the tracks of the Rut
( land Railway, Light and Power com
= pany Horace S Cragin of Brooklyn
] medical student at Harvard university
was on a street car and rendered ait
e which probably saved the man from
bleeding to death.
The Rutland railroad which has $11
: $4,000 funded and 80 275,OOO stock indebt
1 | edness, is unlikely to enter into tn,
t pending consolidation of the New Yorl
i | Central lines as the majority control o
4 | 47,041 of its shares was last February di
I vided with the Mellen system, following
which the Rutland has been given al
3 independent status and no longer is op
l Grated part of the New York Cen
t | trail lines.
Col. James II. Walbridge, one of tn,
few survivors of the 81 officers wht
commanded Vermont Volunteer reg
ments in the Civil war, observed his Sis
birthday in Bennington Saturday. Whel
a boy he was a sailor before the mast
He was gold prospector in Caiforni;
in the fiftes, ran a border printing of
flee in the City of the Golden Gate, or
y | ganized the first company of the frs
u fighting regiment that Vermont sent t.
" the front and was railroad man on tn
| lsthmus of Panama a brief period.