Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-08-21
State 11eps.

tackled and tossed by a bull the other
day, but a man with a club arrived on
the scene in time to prevent fatality.
Charles Evans of Barnard fell from a
hay NOW the other day and struck upon
a sled stake in such manner that 1t
passed into his bowels, inflicting dan
gerous and possibly fatal wound.
Edward Mcintosh, turner in furni-
ture shop at Randolph, met with bad
accident Saturday. While trying to run
a splitting saw he had his left hand drawn
on it, badly mangling his fingers.
Pearl Busbee, twenty-five years old,
was drowned at Manchester Center re-
Gently while bathing. His brother and
another young man saw him sink, but
thought he was foolng them, so paid no
attention to him.
While practicing for a bicycle race,
Alfred Brant of Bennington, who broke
his collar bone about three weeks ago by
being thrown from his wheel, was
thrown to the ground by the breaking OF
the Wheel again breaking his collar
bone.
Willis Dunbar, night watchman at the
shoe shop at Bethel and special police
officer, was fired at by some unknown
person Friday night, the ball passing
through his leg above the knee. Nothing
has been heard of the wOuld-be murderer
since.
Arrangements for the Vermont de-
partment, G.. A. r., at national en-
campment are now complete and every
thing bids fair for large attendance.
Indications are now that not less than
200 will avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to visit the Northwest.
\ Boston young woman iourneying to
northern Vermont on horseback, with
her escort, said in Burlington, where
they put up for a rest, that she used a
blcvcle for short trips near home, but
preferred horse when going into new
country, as it gave so much better op-
portunty to enjoy the landscape and to
study nature.
\ six-year-old child of Martin Cronin
of South Poultney was burned to death
Sunday. The child had been playing
with a lantern and it is supposed spilled
the oil on its clothing, and in trying to
light the lantern set fire to the clothing.
. The lantern was not exploded. Every
part of the body was burned, even the
soles of the feet.
There is project on foot to extend the
Bethel Electric Light and Power COM
pany's line to Randolph. The low rates
of the Bethel company-$l.5O per year
for house lights and 81 for stores-makes
the cost about that of kerosene, and it is
thought Randolph would take about 1000
lights. Twenty-three hundred lights
have been placed In Bethel since last De-
cember.
The big piece of Ascutney granite for
the base of the monument which is to
mark the site of the old "Catamount
Tavern in Bennington was CARED, Fri
day, after fortnight's struggle to move
it from the quarry to the station. The
stone weighs about l6 tons, and has
been taken to Montpelier to be polished
on its four sides. The top of the stone,
on which a bronze catamount is to stand,
will be hammered to smooth surface.
Chelsea was made the shire town of
Orange county in 1876, and the event is
to be COMMUNICATED Wednesday, August
20. Hon. Matthew Hale of Albany, a
native of Chelsea. a son of Hon.
Harry Hale, county clerk 1888 36 and
orator of the day and United States
Senator William F. Villas of Wisconsin
born in Chelsea in 1910, will make gen
eral address. a banquet will be served
at night.
a. L lClOCs tIC "a "a YAH
didate, has been nominated for repre-
Sentative by the st. Johnsbury repub-
licans. o her republican nominees for
representative are Rutland, DR.. j. f..
Thomson; Brandon, Charles Bump ;
Montpelier, VIM. \. Lord; Poultney, f.
S. Plat; Castleton, II. l.. Clark; Norris
town, George NJ. Powers; ST. Adams,
Col. Geo. Il. Child; Shelburne, Or. w.
Seward Webb. In Burlington G. p.
Smith, the representative in 1894, has
been renominated
May Ellsworth, aged 20, and Alice
Varney of Sutton, aged IS, were struck
by train at st. Johnsbury last week
Thursday evening. The young women
s were driving and reached the track just
ahead of a freight train. Their carriage
had crossed the track, but the horse sud
denly turned and threw the ladies under
the train. Miss Varney's body was ter
ribly mangled and she died instantly
Miss Ellsworth lost both legs and suf-
fered spinal injuries, dying soon after.
The interstate fair of the Champlain
Valley Fair association will be held at
Howard park, Burlington, on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep
TENDER /, 2, and 4. Among the special
attractions will be music each day by
the Sherman military band, three exhi
billions of speed each day in which some
of the best racing blood IN New England
will participate, and bicycle and foot
races. Troop F, United States cavalry
Capt. G. A. Dodd commanding, is ex
pected to give at least two exhibition:
during the fair
Annie NJ. Pitts, the 10 years old daugh
ter of Charles Pitts of Rutland, elopeC
with an Italian by the name of James
Rowans Monday morning. The couple
went to Bellows Falls. The mother re
ceived letter Tuesday from her daugh
ter, dated at Bellows Falls. She sale
that she was going to be married t
ROwans In the afternoon. The maj
who has gained complete control oYe
the young girl shovels coal in the rail
road yard at night. The parents of tn,
girl had newer seen him hmt twice am