News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
STATE ITEM S.

STATE ITEMS.
There will be 26 societies in the pa
rade at the French celebration at Rut-
land the oath.
There is a big jam of some 100000
900 feet of logs at the foot of McIn-
does Falls, and over 200 men are at
work trying to break it up.
A large number of nice horses
were shipped from Barton Landing
last week by parties from Boston.
George Hawley, of East Albany,
met with a terrible accident few days
since by being hooked by COW. One
eye was torn entirely out of its socket.
The total grand list Of Orleans Co.
S95,16S.57. The tax of six cents on
the dollar amounts to S., 710.11. This
tax is divided among the towns.
The West Rutland hose company,
during practice one evening last week,
ran 800 feet and made coupling in
AZ 1-2 seconds.
Mrs. Charles Mitchell, of st. AL
bans, attempted suicide on Tuesday
evening of last week by taking sui
phate of zinc. Dependency on &C
count of domestic troubles is given as
the cause of the act. She will proba-
bly, recover.
Considerable excitement was caused
in the streets of Rutland one evening
recently by the attack of crowd OF
drunken roughs on a seaman IN the
uniform of the navy. Uncle Sans
tar promptly knocked down several
of his assailants and held the others
OF bay until the police arrived.
L. P. Morton has offered to donate
to Middlebury college $4,000, pro-
vided sufficient additional amount
can be raised to enable the trustees to
found professorship of modern Ian
guages.
Mr.. and Mrs. William S. Weeks, Of
Clarendon, observed the 50th anniver-
sary of their wedding on Tuesday.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Vermont State Medical Society will
be held at Burlington Thursday and
Friday, June "a and 25. During the
meeting the Burlington Medical Club
will entertain members of the society
The old Methodist church in Barton
is to be torn down to make room
for new and substantial structure.
The Vermont Northern Association
Of Universalists is to hold its annual
convention at Glover, on Tusday and
Wednesday, June 10 and Is.
Harry Dunshee, of Bristol, acciden-
tally shot himself in the left armone
day last week.
The village schools Of Brattleboro
have closed because Of the prevalence
of measles.
Thos. Edmond, an employe of the
Dorset Marble company, had a mir
aculous escape from death Saturday.
He was working on the edge of the
marble quarry when the steam gauge
of an engine broke, and jumping back
to avoid the clouds of steam, he fell
90 feet into the pit. The first 80 feet
of the fall was broken by steep in
cline, at the end Of which is a perpen-
dicular fall of 40 feet. He landed on
his feet and escaped with shattered
ankle.
Frank Taylor's grocery store at
Waterbury, was broken open Friday
night. The safe was blown open with
dynamite and $50 in silver taken.
The explosion was heard by several
persons, and two men were seen going
towards the depot at daylight the
next morning. The hotel at Middle
sex was broken open just before, and
a watch and money taken fem-the
proprietor's clothes at the head of his
bed.
Supt. Willard, of Troy, n. Y, has
received communication from Yer
gennes, asking him to look for Gustav
Hanneman, who mysteriously dis
appeared May 81, from that place
He was a steady man, shoemaker,
aged SO years, had black moustahe.
and whiskers, was 5 feet 9 inches tall,
decently dressed. 1t was thought he
might be the man found shot in Mt.
Ida cemetery, but while the descrip-
tons were alike in some respects they
were different in important points.
Five tramps broke into freight cal
standing on the track at Montpelier
Junction, Friday night, and, with
pistols and knives, defed the railroad
employees to get them out. On the
arrival of a freight train the hands
succeeded in routing them. Two of the
gang were afterward captured at
Montpelier, and the officers pursued
and caught the other three. They
were a desperate gang. One slipped
the handouts and tried to escape ;
another jumped from a swiftly moving
carriage with the handouts on his
wrists, and officers fired three shots
over his head and were about to shoot
him down before he stopped. All are
now in Jail. They attempted to wreck
freight train by throwing obstruc-
tons on the track, but failed.