The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-01

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was fatally injured recently at Cat
by powder explosion. The men
were tamping charge consisting of
key of powder for a blast when it ex.
ploded. The Patnaudes were thrown
90 feet i'll the air and AIascotte was
thrown 80 feet and buried under mass
es of stone.
There are circumstances connected
with the failure Of Judge Dcavtt of st.
Adams that make the case worse than
at first supposed. 1t is stated that
many sewing girls and other poor peo-
pie placed their savings in his hands,
with the belief that it was safer to do
thus than to deposit in any bank. The
sequel has proved that Judge Deavtt
could hold out longer than any bank in
I st. Adams, but bad investments and
the prevailing mania for speculation
were too much for him. According to
current report, he will not pay over
twenty-five cents on dollar Watch-
man.
The following circular is being sent
through the State, dated at Burlington
and signed democratic Committee:
taken in Vermont, regardless Of party,
concerning our prohibitory law. The
platform of the Democratic party Of
Vermont in the present campaign de-
clares for high license law. The
Democratic nominee for governor has
always, in public and private, advocat-
ed a license law as best for the int rest
and morals of our people and State. A
little extra eXertion on your part, in
your vicinity, may bear good fruit in
the coming election. What say YOU
will you take holdY
A distressing accident occurred in
Jay, Orleaus county, on july II,
whereby the only child of b. f. Wake
man, a boy of % months. was killed.
At the request of the child, lad some
ten years of age, who is living with
Mr.. Wakeman took a shot gun from its
accustomed place, and after swapping 1t
twice without eflccting DISCHARGE
supposed it was unloaded, and at the
little ones question "lIow do 'ey soOtW
pointing the weapon at him with the
reply "This is the way they do when
they shoot folk" at the same time pull
ing the trigger. The charge of shot
entered the little fellows right eve, car
rying away the bony structure about
the eye and coming out the right
side of the neck. The right ear was
also terribly lacerated. Or. SMITH was
called and did all in human power to
save the little sufferer, but without
avail, death ensuing in few hours. -
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Nermonters sometimes congratulate
themselves on reading of Western tor
nadoes that there is nothing of the sort
to be found here. The following ac-
count of a storm in Craftsbury shows
that the wind can blow in this State:
Mrs. Kilburn, David Scribner, her
hired man, and Rebecca Cowles, an
old lady boarding with Mrs. X, were
in the house at the supper table when
the storm struck Mrs. X. went up
into the ell to close window in the
east gable. AS she attempted to close
the window the cyclone struck the
l building in full force and in all instant
she found herself eighty or ninety feet
to the north landed by plum tree,
the ell part of the house being COM
pletely demolished, with braces, shin
giles, boards, timbers and household
furniture scattered over eighty or two
hundred feet, everything flat on the
ground, and much of it as fine as kind
ling wood. The gable end was found
at the left or west, having passed COM
pletely over her head. She was but
little hurt, though carried so far and
from the upper story too. She had
hold of an old fashioned loom beam
which was by her side when she land
ed. Had she been carried three feet
west or anywhere inside the space COW
ering eighty or two hundred feet, she
must bave been killed or terribly hurt,
tor there is not a space scarcely foot
square that is not covered with debris.
Mr.. Scribner rose from the table and
stepped to the door which opened into
the ell part; the next thing he remem-
bers is, that he found himself on his
back in the buttery, with the buttery
door lying on him. Mrs. Cowles sat
at the table on the side toward the front
wall and was blown, table and all,
across the room and thrown partly I'M
der the table. When Mr.. Scribner
got on his feet he went out where the
ell should have been, but it was gone.
The stove was carried some distance
and the fire had caught among the de-
bris, which he Immediately put out.
1t seems that the whirlwind formed
about 80 rods southwe est from the
house in Mr.. A. Il. Gravin's woods.
Here, little southwest of Mrs. Kill
burns buildings, nearly 80 rods from
her barns, are some five acres of heavy
timbered land where about every sim
gle trees is turned up by the roots or
broken OLA perfect slash of trees.
From this center the wind moved d.
rectly toward Mrs. Kilburn's build
ings. 1t struck the barns and unroof-
ed both of them. The longest was
struck broadsde and though it contain
ed large quantity of hay was moyed
on its foundation. 1t took the front
side completely OIL and laid it i'll the
, dooryard, split the long posts and tore
away the whole front side, leaving
only three sides up and roof gone, the
hay exposed to the storm. Most OF
the posts of the other barn are wrench.
ed and cracked. Passing by the east