News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-08-10
STATE ITEMS.

Gov Fuller has been granted patent for
a reed organ.
The steam mill of j. r. Booth at Underhill,
burned Saturday night. Loss 81 900: insur-
ance $4,000.
James Morris, aged 81, of Rutland, was
struck by a switch-engine and instantly killed
in the railroad there August 4.
Hon. and Mrs j Phelps of Burlington,
sailed for home from Southampton on the
American liner " Paris " Saturday.
The 25th annual convention of the State
Sabbath School Association is appointed to
be held at Rutland, October 1925.
Rev. D. B. Randall of Portland, the Oldest
Methodist minister in Maine, was born in
Hardwick, VT, July Is, 1907, and has been
in the ministry sc years.
The Burlington cadets, private and indie.
pendent military company, will, it is under
stood, attend the annual muster of the Yer
mont National Guard at Rutland.
The new house and barn, including a horse
and five tons of hay, of Martin B. Ladd, at
Island Pond, was destroyed by fire Saturday
night. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The commissioners for Vermont, New
Hampshire. and Massachusetts on the ques-
ton of the boundary line between the two
latter states, will meet in BrattlebOro Au-
gust 10.
Jonathan Niles, the oldest man in Ben
y
bury August 2, aged 81. He was vigorous
till year ago, when he began to gradually
break down.
Gen. VIM. Wells Camp, No. 10, Sons of
Veterans, has accepted the resignation of
Capt. &. S. Cahill, and filed the vacancy
caused thereby by the election OF past Capt.
F. F. Morse to the Office.
Details from the various companies in the
Vermont National Guard will arrive at Rut-
land next Friday to put the muster grounds
in order and put up the tents. The work will
be under the supervision of Quartermaster
Greed.
Ex-Gov f. J. Ormsbee will be urged for
department commander of the G. A. R., of
Vermont, at the next annual encampment.
Brandon has never as yet been in the field
with a candidate, and its citizens feel that it
is time they were recognized.
Hon. Henry Ballard of Burlington ca refully
treasures four pieces of the tibia bone recent
ly taken from the leg of VIM. johnson of
White River Junction. They will figure
evidence in the case of Johnson vs. The Cana
dian Pacific Railway, recently heard in the
United States court and is to come before
the court on exceptions at session to be
held in Rutland in the fall.
The contract was closed Thursday night
between the village of Swanton and Hawkes.
Electric Company of Boston for complete
electric light system. This includes a West
inghouse eleven hundred light dynamo and a
thirty-five arc light dynamo of either Bell or
Brush pattern. The contract calls for the
completion of the plant Nov. LIST. The set
ting of poles and wiring will begin in about
two weeks.
Murde Mcleod, a quarryman at work for
the Empire Granite Company at Barre was
blown 20 feet out of the quarry Thursday
afternoon, by the premature explosion of a
blast which he was firing. The men had all
left the quarry. Mcleod landed on his feet
% feet away, unconscious, nearly skinned,
and with his body full of sand, steel and bits
of granite. He will recover without losing
any of his limbs but his eyes are badly hurt.
His escape from death was miraculous, as he
was standing over the blast when it exploded.