Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-20

pneumonia and paralysis
Editor p. c. Dodge of the Burlington
Independent was kicked in the head by q
two-year-od colt on Tuesday and quite Sc
riously injured.
The commodious house at North Troy.
built 40 years ago by Judge Rowell, was
burned last Friday night, and ID. W. Por-
ter and wife, who occupied it, were nearly
sutfocated.
Giles 5. Appleton, aged 81, one of the
oldest railroad men in the state, died at
Burlington last week He was for many
years station agent at that place. and one
of the first aldermen of the city.
Jerry Ryle was knocked down by fall
ing tree while chopping on the mountain at
Waitsiield last week Thursday, and had
shoulder dislocated, two ribs broken and
an ankle spraned.
The director of the state fish hatchery at
Roxbury says a building has been erected
% feet long by % feet wide, with Matching
troughs sufficient to handle 1000. 600 trout
eggs next year.
A lighted chandelier fell in the Baptist
church at Pownal Sunday evening. while
the sexton was ringing the bell and dam
age of several hundred dollars was done,
though the building was saved.
farmer in Essex county received
short time ago a consignment of imported
cattle which were billed by the railroad
clerk in Boston as "three cows and one
bull cow
The new agricultural and mechanical
buildings of the University of Vermont
and state agricultural college will be dedi-
Gated Tuesday. December /. The dairy
school also will In OppupI tbp satpp ,laN
Clayton Daniels of Greensboro Bend
fired a heavily charged gun, when the
breech pin was blown out, striking him i'm
the face and cutting it badly. He was also
badly burned about the face and eyes.
The agricultural society recently organ
lied at South Royaltun has leased the Buck
Meadows. north and on the opposite side
of the river from the village, and a half
mile trotting track is being built upon
them.
The Mortified News states that Charles
y. Cilley of West Berlin recently caught a
panther in fox trap. He went to his
house to get a gun, but when lac had re-
turned the panther had disappeared with
the trap.
The barn of Charles Wheeler in Marsh
field was DESTROYED bv fire last Friday
nlRul anu w COWS lJtIlSntu III TIE lldllltS.
Ira Spencer has been arrested. charged
with setting fire to the barn while intox-
Gated.
Miss Georgia O. TiltOn of West Con
cord, who has been teaching school at Cole
brook, ~ H., was thrown from carriage
at that place on the evening of the 9TH
inst. and sustained fracture of the skull.
There is a possibility of her recovery.
Danvile few nights ago and ran away,
throwing Mr.. and Mrs. Coveney out,
breaking Mrs. Coveney's arm and spran-
ing her ankle, brlising Mr. Coveney severe
ly and running the harness and wagon.
John Richie, a Wells River youth who
INDUCED himself in cheap novels. wrote to
young woman threatening to play cal
my on her if she did not marry him.
He was arrested, pronounced insane, and
will be taken to the asylum.
A flock of - Spanish Merno sheep were
shipped from Boston recently for Sidney,
Australia. These sheep were owned by +.
y. Bissel of East Shoreham, and were Sc
lected by him last winter from the best
flocks in Vermont and Michigan.
The Vermont Columbian commission. ap-
pointed under an act of the last legislature,
organized at Burlington last Friday with
Gov. Page as president, II. II. Mcintyre
of West Randolph as secretary and treas
urer, and Hiram Atkins of Montpelier as
auditor.
George Soule, a ST. Adams letter carrier,
in order to save time attempted to cross
the railroad track by short route one day
last week, but as he climbed up between
two cars the train suddenly started and he
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crushed, necessitating amputation.
brilliant wedding was celebrated in
Trinity church, Rutland, on Tuesday,
when Thomas f. Ripley of Tacoma, Wash.
a son of Gen. w. Y. w. Ripley, was mar
red to Miss Charlotte Clement, the only
daughter of W. C. Clement, vice president
of the Clement national bank.
Thomas McGrath of Bennington, while
visiting in Troy, y. Y, one day last week
attempted to cross a lot between two streets
in the evening and fell into lime pit, in
iuring his spine. He was not discovered
until noon of the following day, and OF
Saturday his death resulted.
The sold Constitution house at Wind
sor, where the independence of Vernon
was declared in 1777, is being converted in
to a wheelwright shop, and the question il
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be taken to buy the building and preserv,
it as a relic.
The four-years-old son of c. J. Hibbar,
of Newport set fire to his clothes on Mon
day with small sticks which We're LIGHTED
by pushing them into the furnace. Whel
discovered by his mother the little fellow
was enveloped in flames, and his burn
were so severe that he died in a few hours
Peter SAKE died in San Francisco tn
other day at the age of II years. He wa
the last of the Vermont family of fou
brothers, of whom John G. SAKE, tn
poet, was the eldest. He had lived in Cal
ifOrnia since 1871 and was the foremos
dealer in blooded stock in San Francisco
His body was cremated at Los Angeles b
his request,
The 25th anniversary of Rev. Fathe
Boissonnaults ordination to the priest
hood was celebrated at st. JohnsbuIy las
week Wednesday. An address was mad
by the Bishop, and 80 priests and tire
friars from different parts of Vermont an
Canada were present. Over $500 was pr,
sented to Father BoissOnnault by his pa
rishioners.
John Wiley of West Hartford was pre-
nounced dead a few days ago, the gray
was dug, the coffin procured, and men wen
present to place him in it, when he opene
his eyes and groaned. The following day
however, it was evident that life was e,
tinct, and he was buried in the grave whic
had been prepared while he was still aliv,
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