Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-01

| OF $40 and costs with possession OF the
premises was awarded the plaintiff
nv the will Of Mary r. EnElesby of this
city, which was proved in probate court
Monday public beduests amounting
to $500 are made. OF this amount, the
Home for Aged Women receives Sl,"o;
the American Home Missionary society.
81 .O0O and tho American Missionary ASSOC
citation $500. Other requests of S1.0N each
are made to survivors in the family and
$50 each Is bequeathed to Mrs. Engles-
bys servants who bad been in her en-
ploy more than a year. The remainder
of the property goes to the immediate
heirs. Mrs. Englcsby's will was executed
In 1895 and the witnesses were Judge +.
e. Wales, Jennie f. Stacy and George
w. Deberville, all deceased. Or. w. r.
| Englesby Ia appointed executor and II.
L. Ward and w. c. Isham commission
ers and appraisers.
Cincinnati despatch announces that
the national baseball commission has d.
rected that John Halstein, formerly first
baseman on the University of Vermont
baseball team pay the sum Of $275 to the
management of the Chicago Americans,
with whom he signed. The management
alleges that Halstein was advanced $3.50
on his salary when he signed and was
also forwarded So for travelling expenses.
The commission further states that after
five days have elapsed Ialstein cannot
play with a club under national agree
ment If the money is not paid over. Hal
stein signed with Chicago ut the close of
last season but It developed that he had
previously signed up with Lowell. The
latter management declined to let him go
to Chicago, and Halstein was therefore
unable to keep his agreement with the
latter club.
Edward Haley Of this city was injured
by It fall while at work in Shclburne
harbor yesterday and was hurried to the
Mary Flet, hor hospital. but last evening
was reported to be resting comfortably
and the only injury discovered at that
time was broken ankle HALEY was en-
ploy ed with some other men by contract
to unload bargeload of coal and is
said by the other workmen to have been
intoxicated when ne went to work in 'he
morning The foreman at the harbor told
him that he was in no fit condition to
be around but he maintained that he WINS
anu was finally allowed to start in
About noon he fell the distance of several
feet and as it was thought he WAS seri-
ously hurt, the Mariquta was Immediate
| ~ dispatched with him to Rurlinetou
wrorc it was met by the ambulance and
Haley taken to the hospital.
\ lot of good sportsmon are scct'linc
4 'r the manner In which the Canadians
across the Inc are scining fieh r
u out Of the Vernon: fishing season
''-o canadian government declines tc
H@s any law which VIII 90 anythinq
I''c protecting tho fish and as a result
largo percentage Of the fish whict
are produced from Vermont and New
York hatcherios finally land in tht
Canadian markets ono woman who own,
a scning ground short distance rortl
Of Alburg SAYS tina, in six weeks she
made n profit of 81 go, and that is mo-
unusual The MAGNITUDE of the practic,
is also shown by the fact that one MAJ
saw a. barrels of fish ready to he ship
: ped to Montreal at one small station
. The fishermen are not allowed "a sci
. their catches in the markets of the Uni
ted States. hut get around this 10y ship
- ped them to Montreal. whence they arr
supplied to the New York and Boston
q markets.
Il. q. Blanchard and Frcd Wood wer
4 arrested Monday afternoon by SpcriA
- officer John Seth for disposine of ic,
- alleged to have boon cut in the Winoosh
=, river below Fort Ethan Allen. contra
- to law. They were later arraigned in cit
:. court ami wcr" allowed out ON bail %
. $50 each for the hoarin.- this morning Il
- II O'Clock. The arrest was made on Nj
a .f II .gft
- the men h"d disposed of four loads anon
, the residents ~ the city. Tho mon wer
arrested on a warrant sued from the Of
flee of city Attorney Horton ana aft
v they ha. been warned that they Shout
te not dispose of more of the ice among tn
n people of Burlington. The water of 4.
a Wnooski river. whore the ice is elaine
n by the Officers to- have bee
a cut, is contaminated as the sew
5 age from Fort ethan Allen Is omptie
p into tho stream only a short distanc
:. above H. ,puling the past few weeks
80 considerable amount of scarlet fever AN
n diph'hDia has been reported and il
ID thought that tho ice may be- 4 source .
lie the trouble.
John Audette OF Springfield. who wa
arrested late Thursday nigh, for lntox
~ cation after he had deserted his bin
'o wife IN the railroad station in order to =,
drink was in city court Friday morr
~ ing and pleaded guilty to n charge of il
u tuXication. He WIS fined s. and cost
~ which he could not pay, but in order tn;
VI he might TAX" care of his wife, the cou,
10 suspended the sentence and RENTED II
vi costs. Audettcs case differed from I'll
ne plain drunk in that he left his wife
= her helpless condition and went out on h
~ tour of joy. He drank everything in siei
~ and parted with most OF his money
'e the early hours of the evening and ";
70 pretty far gone when he was placed
the lock-up shortly before twelve ocloc
u. Meanwhile his wife had been patient
ia waiting In the station but about elevs
p. o'clock made her predicament known
some people there and they cared for ne
=, | She was in court with her husband we
H., terday and the two went away togethe
. Audette promised faithfully to keep sob
- and said that he would never again tai
drink. A man by tho same name HI
=, | appeared in city court twice before b
80 on those occasions gave Cavendish as h
place of residence,
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