The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
STATE NEWS.
DIPHTHERIA RAVAGES.


DIPHTHERIA RAvAGES.
In the village of Newark, a score of
school children were taken with malig-
nant diphtheria on one day. One of
them died in three days and several of
the otheIs are in a very dangerous condi-
ton. The physicians account for it by
taking poison from brook. They had
been in the habit of drinking from the
brook which runs near the school house.
A lew rods above the house is barn
and the brook has taken the wash of the
yard. No one except the school chill
dren have been affected and all the pu-
pills who drank of the water came down
within twenty-four hours.
ARREST FOR INCEsT.
George Sias and daughter. of North
Danville, were arrested on Tuesday on
charge of incest. The daughter now
has child three years old which has
never been sworn on anybody, and is
now like to become a mother again.
Both are in Jail at St. Johnsbury.
The state fair is to be held at Mont
DelleT lOT tllc ucht lulcc yCdio.
Chief Justice Pierpont has recovered
sufficiently to hold the chancery term at
Burlington.
A Brand on canary, which had lost
its young, adopted brood of blueblrds
orphaned by cat.
"A Bradford dog recently killed an
eagle which measured nearly six feet
between the tips of its wings.
The Vermont State Spiritualst As
at Plymouth, Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, June ID, IA and To-
-Tuffield Provost, French laborer at
Fairfax, committed suicide Tuesday by
cutting his throat, from fear of starva-
ton.
The old brick freight house at Essex
Junction, belonging to the Central YER
mont, took fire from passing engine on
Tuesday afternoon and was destroyed,
with about $500 worth of freight.
"A Mortified spiritualistic lunatlc
haunts the village graveyard, robed in
white, 'to take and bear away messages
from the dead"
The Weldon house kitchen range at
ST. Adams exploded Wednesday, injur-
ing Nelson Eddy and Mary Connolly,
the cooks, and doing $500 worth of
damage.
Russell Hubbard, of Walden, a mall
Tied man, has been put in Jail at St.
Johnsbury, on change of rape and adult
cry. The victim is a daughter of his
wife, eleven years old.
james Rooney. principal of the
Catholic scqool at ST. Adams, has been
discharged for severely whipping a by,
and Rev. George X. Northgraves tai rs
his place.
Burlington has newspaper
Sunday Cruci6le, edited by f. T
and Roger Z. Chase, republi
democrat respectively. II is
end in politics and religion, an
ponent of the prohibitory lew.
About noon Saturday youn9 b
hired a hol Sc at the livery of FIR x
White, in Burlington, drove to VIZ
gennes, and there sold the team. The
police were notified and at noon Sur
day the man was in Jail, and the turn out
had been restored to its lawful owner.
Mrs. Isabella Brock of Barnet has
lately received notice that her claim for
pension for her son has been granted, to
the amount of 500 month, and the
back pay amounting to 1920. Her on
ly son, Robert Ii. Brock, colonel of the
18th Illinois regiment, died of disease
contracted in the service. Mrs. Brock
is 81 years old, and her husband is about
the same age, and they have been mar
ried nearly 60 years,-DanUite No. Star.
The other day at St. Johnsbury,
some kind of an insect crawled into Ma
son Halls ear, and caused terrible pain
and flow of blood. A doctor took a gold
toothpick and lead pencil, crowded the
ear open and saw the tail of some ami
NAL, speared it and drew out bug
of an inch long, very
slim and of peculiar kind which the
doctor had never seen before.
Judge Wheeler began session of
the U. S. Circuit Court at Rutland Mon
day. The chief case thus far heard is the |
petition for an injunction in the case
Of the Wardell steam stone cutter
against David Shortsleeve, this
case the Sutherland Falls marble company
Of which Gov. Proctor is the manager, is
The real defendant, and the case turns on
The question whether the right to use "A
patented machine carries with it the
right to make. The marble company
lad purchased of Wardell the right to
han on |
is quarry, and now attempts to have a
machine constructed by Shortsleeve, the
defendant. on which Wardell's company
brings petition for injunction, claiming
hat the marble company should pur
,hase of it. The petition of Mr.. Doran
# st. Adams, a bankrupt, to be released
rom Jail was heard. The register found
hat Doran had secreted $500 belong
ng to the estate, and he was imprisoned
bout six months since. The case was
endered interesting by dramatic reci-
al by Mrs. Doran of her struggles to
uppnrt herself and four child en- dur ing
Ter husbands incarceration, and the re-
lsal 10 admit her to the poor-house be-
ause lace shawl left her by her grand
Mother had not been sold with her other
lothing and furniture. A patent case
elating to stamp used in the New York
ost-ofiice lis to follow, and will be de- {
ended by the government. A decision .
expected in the cases of the assignee !
Eli b. Lathrop of Manchester against
arious members of Lathrop's family for
roperty claimed to be assets of the es
tie. On July 2 at Rutland the case of :
he steam stone cutter company against !
he Windsor manufacturing company !
ill be heard. Ii is big suit for in
ingement Of a patent. and has been j
ending for years. 9