News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-31
STATE NEWS,

Milton Wilder fell in barn at Wallingford
last week, and broke his ankle.
Frank Hill of Bristol, had one leg broken
by wagon rack tipping over on him.
A sugar house belonging to Ambrose Tay
Tor in Plainfeld, was burned a few days age,
with all its contents.
Leon Creto, while at work for E. Martin Of
Piaintield, had one leg broken in two places,
| by log rolling on 1t.
d. R. Cutler was struck by stick thrown
by saw in mill at Searsburgh, and his jaw
was broken in three places.
! Mr. Farwel, Station Agent at South Lon
donderry, recently had one collar bone and a
rib broken while coupling cars.
Charles W Smith of Enosburgh Falls, has
| gone to the house of correction for 11S days,
for stealing a watch from Charles Mitchell.
The amount of hay shipped from points in
Franklin County during the past three months
averages between three and four thousand
tons.
Senator Proctor has offered Department
Commander Henry and his staff the use of his
private residence in Washington during the
encampment.
A three-Saar-old son of Walter Sutherland
of Barre, drank n quantity of acouite few
days ago and but for prompt medical aid
wonld have died.
Marble men claim that the new quarries
! being developed in Clarendon, just south of
! West Rutland, contain some of the finest
marble in the State.
! The total amount of the Huntington school
! fund this year was $211 131 AS and the in
terest amounted 10 $12.667.SS. The State
| Treasurer ENs sent Chez to each town for
! its proper share.
! Ezekiel Gardner, of Brunswick, dropped
dead in his shed while at work on a yoke He
| had held q number of the most important
town offices, and was chosen Representative
from Brunswick in 1890.
Warner Townsend, of Grafton, has been
amerced Sill, fine and costs, for an as
sault that he made upon Brad. Howe, of
Andover, on the piazza of the store of p. H.
| Robbins, at Chester Depot.
| There are two veterans of the Mexican war
| residing at Island Pond John Thurston and
! K. Mosher, and the former has just received
! from the Government deed of $50 acres of
bounty land, for which he filed a claim in 1855.
| Bessie, the little daughter of Coburn Jones,
of Barre, was badly scalded on one arm, one
| day recently, by tipping over a dish contain
| ing two quarts of boiling water, while at
! tempting to assist her mother in wipih G
dishes.
The Vermont Mutual Union Mutual and
| New England Fire Insurance Companies
| have joined in offering standard reward of
! $500 for information that will lead to the
! convection OF any persons setting fire to, or
attempting to set fire to property insured in
! these companies.
| o. NJ. Tinkham. of Pomfret, sailed for Eu-
rope by the city of New York, OF the Inman
Line Thursday. He carried credentials from
| the State Department aud from the Agri-
| cultural Department and will investigate the
| rural laboring of Great Britain with q view
! of comparing their status with the same
! class here.
Rev. G. W. Perry OF Rutland, is making
! arrangements for u summer camp at Grand
! Isle, Lake Champlain, opening in June. 1t
will be knewn as Eagle camp and will be the
! fifth season under Mr.. Perry's direction. The
girls camp will open Wednesday, June p
closing Tuesday, July ), and the boys will GO
into camp July 6.
| Ed. True, a few days since, stole a valuable
horse from Mr.. James, at North Troy, drove
to Irasburgh and sold the animal to Taplin
4 Rowell. He then left for parts unknown
Before Mr.. Jones had learned what had be
come of his horse 1T had been again sold tC
| down country parties. True seems to have
a mania for horse stealing, this being his
second offence.
The Democrats of Rutland held a largely
attended caucus Thursday evening, to elect
delegates to the State and district conven
tnns of the party. at Montpelier, May 3
i The delegates elected were instructed to sup.
port DR.. j. D. Hanrahan for a delegate &c
the National convention at Chicago, and it il
understood that this is a triumph for the
friends of Messrs. Smalley and Atkins.
William A. and James Perry. of Barre, hav,
presented to the Baptist society of that tow
! the lot negotiated for last season, on which
to build a new church, and the 81 ,27O paiC
for the lot has been given back to apply OIL
the building fund. The size is So feet from
and 12O feet deep. The gift is highly appre
cated and efforts are TO be made at once tC
raise the balance of funds required to erect
the edifice. Work will be begun on the foundu
| ton as soon as the ground is settled.
Grace, wife of Alpheus B. Joy. of Underhi
attempted suicide by shooting herself
through the head with revolver, and shot
herself twice. The first time the bullet en-
tered just over one eye, causing a scalp wound
! tore its way under the skin coming out at
the top of the head and striking the ceiling
the second bullet entered the right temple
No cause is assigned for her attempt at sci
destruction. She has been subject to great
NERVOUSNESS at times ansit is supposed she
/ was labOring under one of those spells when
| she attempted her lite.
The Troy Times says that D9niel Cutler OF
Searsburg, runs a saw-mill at that place
The other day the saw caught on a splinter
and hurled piece of wood with great veloc.
NY Inc pFoyeclle sUrucK Cutler on the point
OF the chin, and the jaw bone was crushed in
several places. Punctured wounds were also
inflicted, so that when Cutler tried to drink
the water ran out of the wounds and down
his chest He was taken to Wilmington,
wbepce the doctors sent him to North Adams,
Mass, drive OF twenty-five miles. He ar
rived there after midnight and went to the
hospital. Drs. Rice and Wright cut away the
entire bone and lower teeth The operation
lasted an hour, and anRsthetics could not be
employed because the flow of blood in the
throat would cause strangulation. Cutler
will recover, if erysipelas or blood poisoning
does not set in.