Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-08-06
ROUND THE STATE.
EMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Ulcers of Orange County Raid Mounshne
|Distillerics- of Trainmen with
'Burgiars-A Rutland Woman Makes
Ripple in Sew York Life-Other Notes.
|Orange county is prolific field for the
owth of moonshinefs and the revenue
Ulcers have several times been called TO
at section i'm the last two or three
bars to look after violations of the in
|rnal revenue laws. United States
|arshal Emory ). Harris, Deputy Col
|ctor \. l.. Weeks and Deputy Marshal
bin Buzzell went to South ROyalton
st Monday night and early Tuesday
'orning proceed to STAFFORD, where they
hid reason to believe an Illicit still was
seated. They searched in that part OF
BE- town known as Skunk Hollow,
here some of the inhabitants have long
hid the reputation of being moOnshiners.
bid found two stills and quantity OF
'der brandy. One of the stills had
hpacity of $50 gallons, and was the
.rgest ever seized in Vermont. They
Frosted Pierce Bacon and John Woods
'hd took them to Burlington. Bacon
'hs once been tried in United States
burt. but was acquitted. This is Wood
rst offence of this sort. At hearing in
burlington the prisoners waived eNami-
alton and were committed for trial.
I he trainmen on Central Vermont
rain running into st. Adams and Deputy
|ollector j. A. lie Beau had an eXper-
nee with burglars Friday night that
as exciting for few minutes. When
he train reached s.. Lambert word was
.aceived that three burglars were on the
rain and to hold them. The men were
'bund on the front end Of the baggage
ar and the brakeman managed to get
! benz into the car. Deputy Collector lie
Beau was examining baggage, ant,
ointing to him, the brakeman said !;
This is an officer. You men are under
rrest." By this time the train had
topped at Brosseaus. Collector lie
Beau reached into his hip pocket for his
handkerchief, and when he turned found
! he lnuzzle of shining revolver unpleas
. nifty near his head. The other two
urglars were covering the baggage
laster and brakeman. Keeping the
. ben covered with their revolvers, the
+ urglars backed out of the car and es-
'aped in the darkness.
Nine. Alicia Kerr, or Alice Kerrigan,
Tho claims to hail from West Rutland,
Oes not appear very green, If she dld
ONE from the Green Mountain state and
as done up" New York people in reg
lar professional style. There are scores
! f people who would like to know her
khereabouts, but the city marshals and
herifis can't seem to get any trace OF
er. She borrowed money right and
Eft on the ground that she was to be
eft legacy of $4,000 from her uncle
. nd named a prominent police captain,
whom she said she was to marry. After
! appeared that he already had family,
HE said she was to marry eX-Judge
Burke. but neither of the men knew her.
he had some 40 dresses made by well
Inown dressmaker, in the city and ended
BY becoming a partner in the business,
bok money from young girls to teach
hem the business and has skipped with
. he dresses. board bill, rent bill and all
Their bills she could lay her hands on.
W. w. Jones of Randolph has been
conducting an experiment that will be
Rf interest to farmers. Last spring he
manufactured TWO tons of phosphate.
! Using hen manure for the base, with
proper quantities of potash salts, Nova
Scotia plaster. cotton seed meal and
shes. This mixture he puiverized on
. he barn floor and sfted 1t cost hin
IbOut s. a ton. whereas commercial
fertilizers cost from S2S to $50. lie
ent a sample to the experiment station
! nd received a favorable report as to IL
est. Stlll more important, he used j
II his cornfield, placing it side by side
with other fertilizers, and finds the re
ults fully as good.
As George Vim, eweler of Windsor
eft his house one morning not long ago
ne found a bat lying on the sdewan
with three young ones, each about al
nch long lie picked them up, carried
hem into the house and put them Of
he table, the old one i'm the meantim
showing fight. swapping her Jaws ant
nakipg an angry, Kissing noise. A
soon as she was deposited on the tabl
she lay on her back as motiOnless as
dead. The three young ones attache
themselves to the old one, when sh
burned over a. quick as flash and in "A
instant more had disappeared throug
3 the open window. taking her fami
with her
An oil stove which Mrs. Garretsor
wife of Rev f. V. d. Garretson, wa
lighting at North Pownal last Wedne,
ia tAllohNhf NNdAtCl illE AiAC Jul Hih1 -
bver her clothes and about the room
Her husband, hearing her cries, rushe
10 her rescue, and succeeded in eXtir
gushing the flames that were endangel
+ ing her life, but not until they ma
Burned her so severely that she will
|ncapacltated for work for some tim,
The woodwork of the house also too
hire, but Mr.. Garretson had the blal
under control before much damage la
been done.
Thomas NJ. Cooley Of Michigan
s whose mind has become "A wreck an
who has been taken to a sanitariun
studied law at Woodstock. lie was a
sistant clerk of the Vermont house {
Representatives at the celebrated nike
political session of 1853. After his a,
mission to the bar he practiced a sho
time in Rutland and then went to Mich
gan, where he became a profound Law
yer and was chief justice of the supren
court of that state. He was chairma
of the first board of interstate commerC
commission, position he held for 81
years.
A Mr.. Domorest of Rutland astOnisbt
+ Coney Island people Sunday by burnin
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