News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-06
STATE NEWS,

STATE NEWS.
Farmers of CRANKY have new pota-
toes in abundance.
A. j. Virgins, of West Burke, aged
rs years, was killed by lightning
July25.
Charles LaDoux of Franklin was
nearly gored to death by a bull the
other day.
Barnet merchants have agreed to
close their places of business on Wed,
nesday evenings.
1t is reported that the thief who
stole the money from the Lyndon
institute has been caught.
A mare in the pasture of Charles
W. Downing, West Burke, was killed
by lightning a few days ago.
A swindler made $40 out ofsome st.
Johnsbury men by getting some small
bills exchanged for $40 one
Paul Morris and family of Guilford
were thrown from their carriage July
81, and all were seriously INJURED.
An unusually large number of cot
tagers and campers are enjoying
themselves on the Caspian lake, in
Greensboro.
Henry Supernant of Orwell, fell
from load of brush, July 25, and
broke his breast bone besides receiv-
ing other very serious injuries.
The Capital soap works of Mont
pelier have been sold to Boston par
ties, and it is said the establishment
will be turned into glue factory.
Mrs Ayers Bemis, of Lyndon, aged
Sugars, fell june "a and broke her
right leg above the knee, splitting the
bone downward to the knee Joint.
Deacon Moses johnson of Barnet
owns an arithmetic dating back to
the reign of Edward w., the unfor-
tunate boy king who reigned in 1547,
e. A. Morse, the contractor who is
doing concreting at Burlington was
struck on one arm by pick in the
hands of a laborer and the flesh was
badly lacerated.
Addie L. Reed, daughter of James
M. Reed of Brattleboro, has returned
home from Kimball. South Africa,
where she has been a missionary for
the past 10 years.
Marvin Hasbrook of Benson, was
kicked in the head by one of his hors-
es in the pasture July 25, and one ear
was torn nearly off his head. He lay
unconscious fiva hours
Willie, the eight-year-old son of
Thomas Long, of Brattleboro, fell
fifteen feet while at play about the
new Connecticut river bridge there,
and striking on his head his skull was
crushed.
The barn of a Mr.. Coveny at st.
Johnsbury was struck by lightning
July %, and A. F. Lawrence was
rendered unconscious for some time
by the shock. The barn did not
burn, but two pigs were killed.
Some sneak thief or thieves broke
into and entered C. E. Blacks store
at East Barnard Wednesday night,
July 20, and stole somewhere from
$40 to S15 in pennies, nickels and
postage stamps, also some other
articles.
Frank, Oldest son of Lewis Lamar
Use of Shelburne, which playing on
the sandbank Thursday, July 80,
at Shelburne Falls, got too near the
edge and the bank cleaved off, cover
ing him. When he was found life
was extinct.
The only person in Vermont engag-
ed in the manufacture of silk is Mrs.
George Gregory of East Burke, who
has about 1000 silk worms busily
in turning green mulberry
caves into the raw material from
which silk is made.
The Ninth Vermont Veteran Asso-
,iation will hold their 18th annual
'eunion at Bennington, Tuesday,
August 18th. All comrades are re-
luested to be present. All railroads
within the State will sell round trip
tickets at reduced rates.
Joseph Williams, a tinsmith of
Rutland, went to Boston July % to
" have some fun ., and as a starter
got drunk. He knew no more until
the morning of July 30, when he
awoke at Crescent Beach minus 800
in cash and gold watch.
Capt. John Jackson of Burlington
of the schooner, James
Averill, bound from Mallett's Bay to
Ticonderoga, N. Y, with brick, was
knocked from his boat by a swing
ing boom when near Chimney Point
Wednesday, July 20, and drowned.
John A. Fitch, esq, junior member
Of the law firm of Ballard, Burleson,
< Fitch of ST. Adams, died the Doth
Of Typhoid fever, after brief illness.
Mr.. Fitch was born in Sheldon, April
%, 1889 He graduated from Mid
llebury collegein 1862 and enlisted in
18th Vt. Vols, serving as sergeant of
E