Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22
VERMONT MATTERS.


place, and will soon enter upon his duties.
VERMONT MATTERS.
suicide at waterville'
Emerson Carpenter, aged twenty-three |
years, committed suicide by hanging Fri |
day in the house of his brother in .
WaterVile. The cause of the crime is |
caused from long sickness.
Sad Accident at MiddIebury.
Charley La JOY, a nine-year-old son of
Frank La Joy, was playing with some of |
his playmates in Tupper's mill Friday, and .
in some way got against an augur run by |
machinery. His right arm was badly in |
jured, the whole arm being badly mangled |
and much flesh being torn off. Dr. Rus |
sell assisted by DR.. Smith sewed up and |
dressed the arm. The little fellow stood |
the test with great grit. No bones were |
broken and the arm may yet be good for
something
The Montpelier Postofiice.
There is a great struggle over the post
office at Montpelier. The removal of
George w. Wing, the present incumbent, +.
is demanded ON purely partisan grounds.
The interest in the fight arises not only
from the fact that the removal of an eff
found is demanded. but is in the scram-
bic among the Democrats for the place,
there being three applicants for the posi-
ton i. \. Mead, l.. u. Gleason and f.
H. BascOm. The latter is very sanguine
AZ to his chances for the place.
Excitement over Diphtheria at White
River junction.
White River junction is fevershly eX-
cited over the conduct of Irish people at
wake Tuesday night. The sealed coffin
containing the body of Michael O'Brien,
who had died in Boston of malignant
diphtheria, and was brought home Tues
day, was unscrewed and left open all
night, contrary to express orders. The
schools are closed, all exposed persons
have been temporarily discharged from
work, and everybody is busy diolnfecting
The village authorities should make the
reckless offenders suffer for their action.
The Work of Burglars at Ludlow.
An attempt was made Tuesday night
to rob the pOstoncc and W. ID. Ball 5 hard
ware store at Ludlow. At the postoilice,
entrance was made through Il window,
which showed marks of having been pried
OPEN and IL hole was bored in the door of
the safe, but the thieves could not blow it
up, and no further damage was done and
nothing was taken. At Balls store both
front and back doors We're tried, an en-
trance finally gained at the front door y
hole was then made in the door of the
/ safe which was blown open and the door
completely shattered The burglars evil
IDENTIFY got scared at this point for they
lett without finishing their work or taking
anything.
A Burglar Escapes Capture.
Thursday night officers undertook to ar
| nt hnrUlDr
r.. Watson, who has been committing de
predations throughout Vermont the past
| year, but he escaped after exchanging
sohts with him.
Drowning Accident at Chester.
A sixteen-yearold son of 5. 5. Tenet
of Chester was drowned Friday after
noon while bathing in the river.
The North Hero Fridge.
The contract for the great bridge across
Lake Champaign, from North Hero to Al
burgh. has been awarded to the Il. F.
Hawkins Iron works, Springfield Mass,
for little less than 100000
This is to he the first iron
bridge across any part of Lake Cham
plain, and the finest bridge in the State of
| Vermont, and one of the finest i'll New
| England The Hawkins works are now
building extensive bridges for the New
York Central railroad the Boston and
Albany railroad and the city Of Boston.
+. b. Hoisingion in taking up the floor
in an old building built nearly ninety-tive
years ago found il silver dollar coined III
1855.
A woman's relief corps is to be organic
ed at Wells River as an auxiliary to
Col Preston Post No. 81.
Montpeler's total list, which was about
3OOO, 900 last year, will be increased by
about 100000. This is about evenly
divided between real estate and
personal property and is some $4,000 more
than the increase of 1881 over lsS3
f. NJ. Calkins of Warnersvlle has fin
ished Il model of Mt. Vernon, Washing
tons residence, his death bed scene, &c.
with life like moving figures, rocks, trees,
rivers railway cars, &c, The whole is on
Il platform IX2O, and the figures were all
carved with IL iackknifc He has been
twenty years doing it.
No clue has been obtained of the burg
lar who escaped from the officers at
Springfield, Tuesday night, He left his
valice behind, which contained an assert
ment of burglars tools, dynamite cart
ridges, etc. 1t is thought he was one of
the gang who operated at Ludlow on
Tuesday night.
Two new g. \. r. posts have been or
ganiZed since the last annual state en-
campment, held at Rutland in February
These are the +. V. Randall No II OF
Danville and the Abraham Lincoln No II
of Hartford A charter has also been APP
piled for by Grafton.
The Vermont Press association will hold
its annual meeting at Brattleboro, July $,
and go on an excursion the next day To
Block Island.
The Vermont State Spiritualist AssOcia-
ton will hold its next quarterly conven-
ton at c. +. Randalls hotel hail. Hyde
Park, June >, Gand I, commencing at 1876
H. m, Friday,
The Rutland trustees have ordered the
barber shops closed on Sunday hereafter
ut the request of nearly all the proprie
tors of the shops Those failing to com
ply with this mandate will he proceeded
against.
f. f.. Bryant of Madison, Wis, who has
been appointed assistant attorney general
at Washington, was from EnoaburEh
: Franklin county.
\ private telegraph line has been estab
lished between Georgia station and Fair