Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-05-07
VERMONT NEWS.

Twenty-Five buildings are being erected
in Bennington.
F. S. Elkins of North Troy will plant
10 acres TO potatoes this year.
By an explosion in the Ely mines the
other day William Kennedy was killed.
A sheep belonging to Dudley Holbrook
of Newport gave birth To four good-sized,
healthy lambs on the 18th inst.
The Mount Norris hotel at Eden Mills
was burned April "a. Most of the furni-
ture on the first floor was saved.
Joseph Clutter of St. Johnsbury was
kicked in the face by horse, receiving
serious injuries, but will probably re-
cover.
The Bradford Savings Bank and Trust
company has declared four per cent
dividend on its capital stock, payable
April 30.
A. B. G. Davis, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Waitsfeld, in fit of temporary
insanity April %, committed suicide by
drowning.
Some 80 acres of heavily timbered
land, in Colchester, owned by L. B. Plat
and H. M. Villas, has been burned over
during great damage.
Arthur C. Randall of St. Johnsbury
recently received fine collection of
stuffed birds from Providence, R. l.
There were over 100 varieties.
William Freeman and John Edwards
were blown up by the premature explo-
sion of a blast at West Pawlet. Freeman
was fatally and Edwards very seriously
Injured.
Victor Hurlhurt, at work on the bridge
between North and South Hero, was
badly hurt about the head by the falling
of the massive iron draw as it was being
put in position.
S. w. Mayo, of Middlebury, formerly
of Lincoln, dropped dead within Is min
utes of leaving his work. He was pen
sioner, having been member of Com
pany X, I'd VT, during the war.
P. G l.. Cushing of Lyndon has an in
teresting relic of anti-slavery days in an
issue of the North Star of Danville of
1880. The paper contains extracts of
Webster's reply to Hayne.
The Sheldon art museum of Middle
bury is one of the permanent and rapid
ly increasing institutions of the state.
The collection and property of the
museum are estimated to be worth $10,-
600.
Some unknown villain placed rail on
the railroad track at North Troy last
Thursday morning with probable intent
to wreck the Boston express but FORUM
ately the engineer had her under full
control.
Mrs. Susan M. jerks of Mansonville
station has rented her farm to one Lem
uel Leavitt, receiving so pounds of but
ter to the COW in payment for the same.
This is rather of a novel way in which
to rent farm.
The work on the frame of the new shoe
factory of Burlington is now well under
way The building is substantial wood
frame 1877 feet long, 36 feet wide and
two stories high, and is to be completed
by the first of July.
The ticket office of the Central Ver-
mont railroad at Barre was broken into
the other night, but the cash drawers
were empty. This is the eighth time it
has been broken into, and the total
amount taken is just seven cents.
The farm house of Henry Clogston, in
the ssHorn of MOON neighborhood, in
East Montpelier, was burned Monday,
April 26. Mr.. Clogston was absent at
the time. The cause was defective f1ue.
The building was insured for $3.50.
St. Johnsbury has been troubled for
some time with her electric lights not
being good and now the company have
instituted legal proceedings against mill
owners who fill the river with sawdust,
thereby injuring the water power at the
above place.
A million feet of logs in boom at
Samsonville broke loose last week and
started for the lake. The logs belong to
the Richford Lumber company. They
were purchased in Canada and run down
what is known as the "north branch"
and is probably the first lot of logs
brought into the state by that route.
Warren Bailey left some wood by the
railroad at South Newbury and while
LYMAN Robes wife and daughter of
Piermont. n. H., were driving past 1t,
the horse took fright, throwing them
out. They were more or less bruised,
and the carriage was all smashed up.
The matter was settled by Bailey for
500.
The storm of April Is did considerable
damage i'm Bennington. The rain fell in
torrents, while trees and electric light
wires suffered in consequence of the
severe lightning, which struck in several
places. In Center Bennington hailst Dnes
| of immense size fell, killing birds and
breaking the windows Of a number Of
houses.