Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-10
State News.

dl6|I nun Vi l1ot WcCk Aohidl hdUlOi
storm passed over the north part of
Caledonia county. Rain enough fell
in 20 minutes to fill the streams to
overlooking, carrying away bridges,
&c. The barn of Willard Brockway, |
in Burke, was struck by lightning and
set on fire. Josiah Andrews had an
OK killed by lightning. In East Burke,
the water from the river came into
the road in a few minutes. S. Beck
with of West Burke, had his pump
logs torn out in consequence of
brook overlooking and the stream run
ming through his barnyard. r. Dolloff
it is feared lost all his hop vines
Argus.
Boy DROwNED.-On Wednesday
afternoon as party of boys were
bathing in the Passumpsic, in the rear
Of J. Fl. Paddock's machine shop, one
of them, Frankly Hancock, aged, ten
years. was drowned. 1t seems he I'M
dertook to swim across the river, but
became exhausted and sunk. Fred
die Bruso, lad of about the same
age, ran ashore for help. Mr.. James
Heyer, who was in Mr.. Paddock's
shop, hearing the cutlery, ran out and
plunged in to save the drowning boy.
He succeeded in reaching him. and
started with him for the shore, but
having his clothes on, and there being
a strong current, he became exhaust
ed, and was barely able to keep him
self and the boy above water until
some men on the shore pushed a board
to him. Heyer seized the board,
when those on the shore pulled on it
so suddenly that he lost his hold of
frankie, who Immediately sunk. Elk
pert swimmers began at once to dive
for him, and although they continued
to do so for long time, they could not
find him; and not until a hook was
made and the bottom of the river drag
ged was his lifeless body recovered
1t had been in the water over an hour
The place where he sunk was not over
fifteen or eighteen feet from the shore
bat the water was fifteen feet deep
1t seemed one of those unaccOuntablt
and mysterious cases where nothing
availed. A score of anxious men will
=, willing hands were almost within
: grasp of the boy, yet they could no
save him. frankie was the only sol
of Mr. Joseph Hancock, and the at
iiicted family are greatly bereaved--
CaiedontdR.
0 THEFT.-Jonathan Weston, ALA
e Wesson, who was jailed here som
e. time ago for taking a horse of on
lie Brainard in Burke, but who was di;
70 charged the June term for want O
IN sufficient evidence that he intende
j. stealing the horse; on last Sunda
TX night he stole a white horse from job
~ Proctor Of Lyndon, and a harness an
{. wagon from Charles Whipple, an
Il horse letters from Hiram Caswell.-
to With this property Weston was tracI
.e. ed down through the east part Of Lyt
in don into Kirby, where he was foun
d. 10y Sheriff Ide on Monday, secreted
Iy the woods near the house of Calv
in Woods, He was taken back to Ly
rs, dan v-ho,o he La 80 e4.e, .a.i.. :, - .
De, and was bound up in the sum of $50
he for trial at County court. For wa
Of bail he was committed.
Is From what we have learned Of til
a Weston, we think him foolish or
al sane, and perhaps both. If simp
al insane, he shows no method in h
dy madness.-CaIed0nion.
- FATAL ACCIDENT.-Friday evenil
~ about six o'clock hand car was II
- into the draw while open at Missisqu
b. bay, near Alburgh Springs, and a m;
~ named Isaac P. Drew, a section han
~ went down with the car and W
~ drowned. He leaves a family at
,I1 burgh Springs. Three others we
.o1 Oh the car, but they saved tbemselv
-, by jumping from it.-Free Press.
Some roughs, in Shoreham a we
ago Sunday, tarred and feathered NJ
DR. Fisher who was suspected of poisC
1Ii- ing the Ducelle family, broke in h
". windows. damaged furniture to t
the amount of two or three hundred d,
ing lars and threatened further violen
Co. to her person if she did not leave t
eSs town within three days.
An FATAL ACCIDENT.-One of a ga
,nr, of laborers, going from Montreal
tbo Woodstock, attempted to jump on t
-; train as it started out of St. Alba
,od depot Tuesday evening, was thro'
tha under the wheels and two trucks p
ots sed over him, crushing the right fc
" and leg below the knee, and the
,o4 arm and shoulder. He was taken {
tho a senseless and almost shapelesS ma
rho conveyed into the depot and
Ia1 wounds dressed, but he died ab,
bo midnight. de was without nor
i and without friends; but Mr.. Geo.
20 Stone supplied all that was necess;
uo for care of him, and the r. r. com
,ro- ny paid the expense of his burial.
,itb unfortunate mans name was JC
the Gardner; he had gone with seve
lod others into an eating saloon, a
roS when the train started, tried to iu
l. on.
this ATTEMPTED SUIoIDE.-Stephen c
ex- per, a young man about "a years {
TACT attempted to commit suicide il
SEQ grove a mile east of Westford Cen
ltu on the 18th ult., by stabbing hims
ciai III the breast with a pocket knife
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