News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-12-31
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. y. G. Bailey of South Newfanc, slipped
on the ice and broke her wrist
The machine shops and boundaries at Fair
Haven are all doing a pretty good bust
ness.
At West Chester Otis SmaIley. a farmer,
aged Sc, dropped dead in the field of heart
disease.
three year old son of William Hughs, of
Bristol, fell from chair, and broke the up
per part of his right hip.
Antoine Greigor of Bellows Falls, fell on a
sharp stick which penetrated one eye so that
he had to have the eye ball removed.
The hills in Rutland county are being
shorn of their trees and shipped to the all
Mountain Paper company, Bellows Falls,
for pulp.
j. Williams & Son have increased the ca
pacity of their hoop factory at Morgan
and will send their production to Massa-
chusetts.
p. S. Martin of Jericho has undoubtedly
beaten the record for shooting cartridges in
this State. During the present season he has
bagged 102 birds.
Miss Lettice Bowen, the centennial ami
versary of whose birth was celebrated Octo-
Der &C. is gradually failing in health, and 1t
is feared that she will not live long.
Hiram C.. Winchester received a ragged
wound under his jaw, and was bruised about
the head by fall from building upon
which he was at work at West Brattleboro
The livery barn of Fred Landon, in Bristol,
was burned Friday morning with about 10.
tons of hay, some harnesses, whips, etc.
Loss $500; insurance on barn and contents
$1,000.
l.. c. Bass Of Boston, manager of the
American Spool and Bobbin company, has
purchased of W. E. Allen of Winooski the
yearllng sister of Annacander for the "trif-
ling" sum of $500.
Burglars entered the store OF NJ. B. Kelly
at BrattlebOrO, on a recent night, but took
only candy and cigars. The grist mill of
Frank Adams was also entered the same
night but nothing was stolen.
The remains of Rev. E. Gerry, of West
Randolph, were taken to Brooklyn, n. Y,
to be cremated. His $4,000 library will be
divided between his daughter and the West
Randolph Congregational church.
The horses belonging to Chauncey Brown
ell of Williston, which were being treated by
DR.. D. B. Hill for fistula, recently became so
helpless as to need assistance to stand and
the society of cruelty to animals ordered
them killed
Sylvester Spaulding and his wife, Pauline
Spaulding, of old residents of Roxbury, both
died Wednesday morning Dec. %. She had
been feeble for long time, but he had been
Ill Ohly d lew udyS, pneumonia DelnB JHe
cause. He was 81 years of age, she 81.
They had lived together over 60 years and
he died at O'Clock. she at 10.
The Baptist church in Chester is probably
one of the oldest in the State. 1t was organ
lied in 1888 A house of workship, 40x50
feet, was erected the same season, which was
occupied until 1885, when it was removed
and the present brick church built. Rev.
Aaron Leland was pastor of the society from
1888 until his death in 1881, period of As
years.
The State Prison at Windsor has not been
the scene of a hanging for several years, but
next Friday Sylvester B. Bell, the Fairfax
wife murderer, will pay the penalty of his
crime with his life. Bell received the death
sentence September 16, 1890, and has been
confined in the State Prison since January
L, 1890, as he was sent there as soon as he
was captured for safe keeping.
Judge Wheeler of the United States Court
has given his decision in the hearing in the
st. Adams bank case. The decision is
against the compromise asked for by the
petitioners E. A. Sowles and others. The
compromise asked for was that the assets OF
the bank be sold and that the proceeds
turned overto the petitioners, except enough
to pay dividend of seven per cent.