Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-29
State Oerps.

The CongregatiOnaltsts OF MOrrlSYllle
/ dedicated new $4,000 church Friday.
with every dollar of the Indebtedness
4 pledged.
Frank Eddy of Clarendon, 20 years
old. was run over and killed by train
on the Bennington and Rutland road IN
that town Friday morning. He was
living between the rails, where 1t Is
believed he fell in fit.
George Clark of Hardwick, while
skating on Mackville pond recently,
skated into an air hole just large enough
to admit him. He went to the bottom
AS luck would have it, when ne came
up his head and shoulders came through
the hole and he was taken out by his
comrades.
David and Albert Brown of Groton
are suffering from the effects OF leau
poisoning from drawing cider through
/ lead pipe. 1t is understood that they
were conveying 1t to their mouths by
this method, instead of the regulation
method of drinking it from glass
Their condition is critical
An earthquake shock was felt at st.
.Johnsbury last week Tuesday night.
There were three shocks occurring be-
tween 8 and o'clock. Houses were
shaken and pictures thrown out OF place,
while cracks were made IN concrete
sidewalks. No damage was done, nut
people were frightened, thinking boilers
had exploded.
Horace Greeley Harwood, who owned
a saw and grist mill at Dorset, fell upon
a saw while working in the mill on re-
cent morning, and one leg was almost
severed above the knee. The leg was
amputated in the afternoon, but Mr..
HARDWOOD lived only an hour after the
operation. Mr.. Harwood represented
his town in the last legislature.
10. Haskell of North Calais came
very near freezing to death few days
ago. He went to call on neighbor, but
didn't return. Half dozen men began
a systematic search. They found him
/ living between two big rocks, where he
had fallen in faint. His shirt sleeve
was frozen, but happily his arm was I'M
Injured. There was frozen spot IN tae
middle of his forehead and he was other
wise badly chilled.
The annual meeting of the State Ag-
ricultural society was held FRIDAY at
White River Junction and the following
officers elected: George Aitken OF Wood
stock, president; II. Clark of Rutland,
secretary; j. C. Parker of Quechee, treas
urer. The president appointed the fol-
lowing committee to locate the place for
the annual State fair: Messrs. Cramton
of Rutland, Clark of Dorset, Parker of
Quechee.
The work on the first of about AZ
buildings which will make up the new
American university at Washington, the
contract for which is held by the Colum
bia Marble company at Rutland, is near
" completed. The work was started
about the last of last August and the
contract calls for completion near the
middle of March. The building is to be
the college of history and is entirely of
white Columbian marble. 1t is modelled
on the lines of the treasury building and
the contract price was Sl5S,OOO.
A peculiar case is that of VIM. Sey
mour vs.. the Central Vermont Railroad
company, from Chittenden county,
which was argued In the supreme court
at Montpelier on Friday. The plaintiff
claims gross carelessness and negligence
on the part of the defendant, by which
he received injuries by being struck by
a bell cord attached to a freight train
while he was walking on the track from
Burlington October 3, 1894 Tie plain
tiff claims that the rope caught his arm
and dragged him long distance. break
ing his arm and otherwise badly bruis-
ing him.
The Welcome Ramsdell building at
West Brattleboro, occupied by the drug
store of DR.. Otterson, the meat market
of Horace Prefontanie, by l.. ii. Knapp
as a dwelling, and containing two other
tenements, which were unOccupled, was
burned early Monday morning. Leroy
Amidon. student at the Brattleboro
school. was burned to death. lie rented
a room in the building, and 1t was
thought he had escaped, but severa
hours later his charred body was tounC
in the RUNS by the fremen. He was Il
years of age. and his parents live a
West Dummerston.
The commissioners appointed by Gov
Grout to represent Vermont at the len
nessee centennial exposition met a
Montpelier on Tuesday for organization
Ten of the ID members were present
The commissioners were Lieut.-Gov. y
w. Fisk of Isle La Motto, II. y. Turne
of St. Johnsbury, \. B. Valentine o
Bennington, NJ. F. Allen of Ferrisburgh
n. l.. Bovden of Randolph, \. q. vii
1iams of Bellows Falls, John n. Wood
lin of Rutland, Fred II. Wells of Bur
lngton, c. G. Warren of Waterbury, w
Tracy Smith of st. Adams, c. w. Pierre
of Brattleboro. A. NJ. Foster of Cabo
and II. w. Vail of Pomfret. An organi
cation was effected by electing ii. \
Turner of St. Johnsbury president, \
L. Boyden of Randolph secretary, c. c
Warren of Waterbury treasurer and \
G. Williams of Bellows Falls. w. Trac
Smith of st. Adams, H. w. Vail o
Pomfret, F. II. Wells of Burlington an
j. n. Woodtin of Rutland executiv
committee. There is every prospeC
that Vermont will be credtably repre-
.sented at the exposition.