News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-23
STATE NEWS,


California. their combined value be-
ing $4,000.
Col. j. P. Low, chief engineer of the
treasury department, has been at st
Adams inspecting sites for the new
government building.
Z. Clara Doyle of Island Pond was
fined $10and costs for failing to keep
a stallion over one year old within the
limits precribed by law.
The railroad fare from Vermont to
the National G. A. r. encampment at
Detroit, August 3d-Sth, and return,
will be $13, and SIS, by Lachinerap-
ids.
The annual meeting of the Missis-
quot Valley Camp Meeting associa.
ton will commence on Thursday
August 20, and continue one week or
more.
The veterans of Franklin, Chitten-
den, and Grand Isle Will have their
special holiday on Thursday of this
week, at their annual reunion at
Missisquoi park.
The Cotton Manufacturing COM
pany of Montpelier has fitted up a
foundry at it's works, on the Berlin
side, and will hereafter make it's own
composition castings.
William H. Cummings. president
for the National Bank of Wells River
for the past IS years, died at his
home in Lisbon Wednesday, July 13,
of Brights disease, aged IA.
Hon. Franklin d. Hale of Lunen-
burg, who was appointed by secre-
tary Mobiles as gov ernment trustee on
townsite entries in Oklahoma, left
for that Territory Saturday.
L. ]. SWEET and II. j. Sturgis OF
st. Adams have contracted to build
a new station for the Central Yer
mont at Middlebury, in place of the
one recently destroyed by fire.
A Methodist revival camp meeting
will be held in Westfeld, beginning
July 81 and continuing till August
under the direction of State Revival
list, Rev. FL. F. Reynolds of Montpel-
Ter.
Work has been begun upon the
new iron bridge to be built this sum-
mer by the Boston and Montreal
railroad over the Connecticut from
White River Junction to West Leba-
non.
Patrick Hackett, aged about As,
was crushed under a $500 pound
casting at c. w. Osgood & Sons
foundry at Bellows Falls, Tuesday
morning, July IA, and died from the
effects of his injuries an hour later.
Allen Rogers of Rochester and son
Elmer was fishing one day last week
and their dog, which was with them,
was attacked by a bear, and they
were obliged to use stones and clubs
to save the dog. Young cubs were
to be the cause of the attack.
Frederick Powear, telegraph oper-
ator and employee in the Canadian
Pacific Railroad company's office at
Richford has absconded, it is said ,
with several hundred of the COM
pany's money. He also obtained a
number of loans and left unpaid bills.
A stranger from Montreal, giving
his name as John Kline, was hiding
between some freight cars in the
depot yard at st. Adams, with the
intent of stealing a ride, when a
shifting engine threw the cars to-
gether and his right foot was terribly
Hazen Blood of Damon's Crossing,
milkman and dairyman, has invented
a churn that is attached to the hind
end of his milk cart, and he churns
without extra labor, simply by filling
the churn with cream and driving.
Two miles moderate trotting on level
ground is sufficient to bring the
cream to butter.
The annual meeting of the board of
trustees will be held at the Soldiers
Home on Wednesday,, July %.
There are 81 members now at the
home, ~ present and Is absent now
on furlough. Several have recently
received pensions under the new act
July Is, but few of them are able to
take their discharge, for the amount
received will remain at home.
Will C. Warner Of st. Johnsbury
had a remarkable escape from drown
ing while fishing in Missisquoi bay, a
part of Lake Champlain, recently.
A sudden squall upset and sank his
boat two miles from shore. He tried
to swim ashore, pushing the craft be-
fore him, but after a two hours
struggle he tainted. He was rescued
four hours after the accident by some
residents of Highgate Springs, who
saw % dark object floating in the
water.
Last Wednesday a couple of men
calling themselves oculists called at
Miss .Betsey Harris in North Spring
field and said that they had been sent
by DR.. Hazeltine of Springfield TO re-
move cataract from one of Miss
Harris eyes, that had troubled her
some time. After some talk she
consented and they made some ap-
plication to her eyes that nearly
made her blind. They demanded S35
for their services and Miss Harris
gave them $25 and they skipped.
George Lamson went into a store
at Barre for a drink of water. The
floor OF the store was being washed
and the water on the floor had be-
come strongly charged by an electric
light wire passing from the base
ment. When Lamson took hold of
the iron handle of the pump the cir
cult was completed through his body.
and he received Il shock that REM
dered him unconscious. 1t required
the aid of two men to remove his
hand from the pump handle, and. had
Mr.. Lamson been alone the contact
would doubtless have proved fatal.
Bishop BROOKs.-After a warm con-
test of over two months the election
Of Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston as
bishop of the diocese of Massachu-
Setts has been confirmed and next Oc-