Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-09-04
State 11eps.

Mrs. Abel Stearns of Highgate died
Aug. "a, aged l03 years, months and
II days.
Frank Haikey of Swanton has been
Jailed at st. Adams for assaulhng a
young girl.
Prof. Lee, the hypnotist, who recently
gave exhibitions in Vermont towns, is
charged with having made insane an
Amsterdam, n. Y =, man whom he hypno-
tized \
Rudyard Kipling was recently offered
b handsome price for his Vermont resi-
Hence, but refused to sell. lie intimately
THAT he would occupy it permanently
safter next year.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Springfield electric railway held in
Springfield last week. it was voted to
issue per cent bonds not to exceed
100000, to complete the road and put it
IN running order.
Two summer visitors IN Woodford,
clergyman from Connecticut and doc
tor from New York, were lost for two
DAYS in the woods along the southern
portion of the Green Mountain range
and came near pershing in Vermont
wilderness.
John LaClair of johnson was killed
upon the Hardwick e Woodbury. railroad
Friday morning. He went to board
the construction train when 1t was NOV
ing. He slipped and fell under the
trucks, six pairs of which passed over his
left leg and arm close to the body.
The body of Justus G. Briggs, we'll
known farmer of West Haven, was found
in the mill dam at Carvers Falls Monday
morning. Mr.. Briggs had been de-
ranged since the death of his wife last
fall, and had made two previous attempts
to drown himself. He was about 90
years of age.
Alonzo Williams, a Braintree man,
has owned up to the fact that he lost
SO while in Montpelier attending the
recent circus. He had the money sewed
into his clothes and the mystery is how
anybody had an opportunity to get it
out without his knowing it. With the
money was note for $50, which was
also taken.
There will be reunion of the 18th
Vermont regiment at Burlington Sep
TENDER - and 16. The meeting of the
first day will be held in the Stannard
post hall at , O'Clock IN the afternoon.
Addresses will be made by GIG. Benedict
of Burlington and II. a. Huse of Mont
pelier. In the evening there will be a
camp fire.
The Rutland County Agricultural
society has just issued its premium list
of the 5lst county far, which will be held
September S, 9, 10 and II. The special
features of the fair will be the exhibition
+ by German trained horses, cavalcade of
trained horses and floral parade. The
races which will be given in the afternoon
OF each day promise to be good.
Erastus Hebard, prominent citizen of
Randolph, died quite suddenly Sunday
evening at his home on Hebard Hill. He
was sitting in a chair on the piazza, when
he died instantly The cause was organic
heart disease, with which he had been
affected for some time. Mr.. Hebard had
always been quite prominent in town
affairs, having held many of the higher
offices.
Barney Breslin, GO years of age, was
4 instantly killed by a passenger train in
the railroad yard at Brattleboro Friday.
Breslin was walking with his two child
rem, and, in endeavOring to escape from
a switch engine, did not see the passen-
ger train approaching. He threw the
children to one side, but had no time to
save himself and was thrown 10 feet,
his neck being broken and his skull
fractured. He was a veteran of the
civil war.
William Culver of Barre lost his only
good eye last Saturday as the result of a
peculiar accident. He was driving a
yoke of oxen along the road, when a
small boy who was practising with a
split stick and small stones. threw a
pebble which struck Culver in the eye
and injured it so that the contents of
the eyeball ran out. Mr.. Culver had the
sight of his other eye destroyed 10 years
ago by getting hit by the iron point of a
cant-hoOk.
\ startling Illustration of the power OF
electricity was given at Swanton one
day last week during a thunder storm
a four year old colt on the farm of E. p
Smith was killed during the shower
Being a valuable animal, Mr.. Smith and
his boys searched every day, anC
Wednesday found what was left of the
colt in the woods back of the pasture
Under a small tree, which is blackened a:
by fire, were the bones stripped of every
particle of flesh There were a few
scraps of hide, part of the tail and the
hoofs were separated from the skeleton
The head lay a few feet away as white
and clean as if the flesh had been boleC
of. The smell of burning hair and flesh
led to the discovery.