Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-11-10
Vermont News.

red one,
A recent snow storm drifted the
Troy roads so badly that teams had to
take to the field,
- Daniel O'Neil, an old resident OF
st. Adams, was knocked down and prob
ably fatally injured by some romping
boys, an evening or two ago
Norman Taylor Of Woodstock, re-
Gently ran five miles in twenty-eight
minutes. This time has rarely been
beaten,
= Brandon has a Reformed Mems
club, numbering sometwo hundred mem
bers-the result of the labors of Messrs.
c. @. Frost and H. M. Bryant.
- Neil Mcbride, a quarryman in the
employ of the Rutland Marble Compa-
ny, was so badly crushed by heavy
block of marble Monday that he died in
few minutes.
= Mrs. Louis Varette, Of St. Johns
bury, gave birth to boy recently who
had but one hand. The left arm stops
about half way to the wrist, and has a
single finger as a terminus.
Robert Elton of Cavendish, has
been thrown into bankruptcy again, the
second time within about year
His liabilities are about $4,000, and
his assets, as far as developed, are very
small.
The number of names registered at
the Vermont headquarter building, at
Philadelphia, on the first four days of
last week, was as follows Monday, SO !;
Tuesday, 154; Wednesday, 1873; Thurs
day, 237-total, 622.
49, The sixteen thousand dollars bail
in the case of Reeves, charged as being
the instigator of Benningtons recent
depredations, was furnished Friday,
Enos Adams, a prominent manufacturer
of that village, becoming surety.
- In 1880, there were fifty-five com
initials to the Vermont state prison, and
in 1876 there were the same number. In
1909, the year of opening the prison,
there were twenty ,four committals. The
smallest number of committals in any
year since the opening is that of 1847,
when it was only sixteen.
Mrs. Richard Dodge, who shot
Joel Dodge of Middlesex, and was tried
for an assault with intent to kill, being
armed with dangerous weapon, and
discharged about year since, has been
arrested and committed to jail in Mont
pelier, in suit in favor of Joel Dodge,
for private damages.
- Two youthful miscreants, last Mon
day afternoon, near South Royalton,
threw large stones into the passenger
cars of the north bound Montreal ex-
press train. One stone struck passen-
ger in the mouth in the smoking car, the
other nearly hitting a passenger in the
rear coach. They are known and will
be promptly arrested.
On Saturday p. M, little daugh-
ter of Stephen Young of Braintree,
eleven years old, was sweeping around
the stove in the absence of her parents,
when her dress caught fire. She started
on the run for brook about twenty rods
distant, but before she reached it her
clothes were nearly all burned off. She
lived until 2 o'clock Sunday morning,
when she expired,
- A very sad accident occurred in
the south part Of Poultney, last Thurs
day afternoon A barn belonging tc
Griffith j. Davis was set on fire by sew
eral little children who were playing
with matches, and little son of vii
liam G. Pritchard, seventeen months old
was burned to death. The alarm was
given Immediately, but the flames spread
too rapidly for the rescue of the little
fellow.
As Milo Mack and sister were driv
ing from Fairlee to their home in Thet
ford last Monday, their horse was fright
ened by horse Of III. e. Cotton, which
was feeding by the road, running about
them. Mack's horse ran, throwing hin
from the wagon, breaking his back anc
inficting other injuries. He died in two
hours. The lady was drawn some dis
lance under the wagon and badly bruis
ed, though not fatally injured. The
whole cause of the terrible accident wa:
| through Colton's carelessness in allowing
his horse in the road.
! L