Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-19
.AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

! bans-Peculiar Accident to Young
Recommendations of - Week.
Burglars forced an entrance Sunday
morning into the Rchford postoilice.
The window was forced with tools
stolen from the blacksmith shop. a hole
drilled in the safe and the door blown
off, heavy blanket having been placed
over it to deaden the sound. Stamps,
registered letters, money and valuable
papers were stolen. An envelope con-
tanning money was dropped on the floor
and left behind. The burglars escaped
into the cellar and thence into an alley.
and the theft was not discovered until
the clerk opened the Office Monday
morning. The postofiice authorities at
Boston were at once notified. The
thieves are thought to be the same ones
who broke into the office at Sutton,
Quebec, some 10 days ago.
Ed. Sturtevant, a fireman on the
Central Vermont, shot himself Tuesday
at his home in st. Albans. He was
sitting on the lawn with his sister, Miss
Sturtevant, and brother. Vernon Sturte-
want, when he took revolver from his
pocket and fired. The ball entered his
body few inches below the heart and
passed around to his back. Drs. Paige,
! Berkeley and Robertson were called and
pronounce the wound not necessarily ia
tai. The ball has been removed.
He is about y years old and
is a son of Smith Sturtevant, who was
killed In the Hartford railroad accident.
No cause for the action is known, but he
says that it was intentional.
\ boy named Roberts, who resides in
Cohoes, n. Y. was badly shocked the
other day by touching the overhead wire
of the Bennington and Woodford electric
railroad with fishing rod. The pole had
Just been cut from a clump of alder
bushes, and it was probably owing to the
green condition of the wood that caused
it to conduct the electric current so easi-
ly. The boys left arm was rendered
useless for time. and his speech was
greatly impaired. The accident occurred
three miles east of Bennington. The boy
entirely recovered from the shock at the
end of a couple of hours.
Leonard, the young son of William
Ewing of Montpelier, got into the water
beyond his depth while playing in the
river recently. Mrs. Ewings attention
was attracted by the screams of an older
child who was on the river bank. She
ran at once TO the scene of the excitment
and jumped into the water up to her
waist before she could rescue her strug-
Cling child. Mrs. Ewing handed the boy
out to some men on the wall and then
climbed out herself on a log, which was
fastened to the shore.
Thomas Harris, alias Simon Newman,
Charles Slocum, who was arrested at
Bennington as horse thief week ago.
was taken to Worcester Mass, Satudav
by State Officer Pease and Constable
Cutting of Lee, Mass. He confessed to
stealing a horse July 10 from Brown &
Son of Webster, Mass, and told of his
trips though Compton. Conn. Lee,
Mass, and other places until he was
arrested. During that time he had five
different carriages and carts.
Henry Galaise, aged l ! years of Mont
pelier, was taking his COW to pasture sat
urday when the animal swung its head
around to drive away the flies, striking
the little fellow in one eye with its horn,
almost knocking the eye out. The pro-
tectng bone of the eye savedit. lnham-
nation has set in and the eye is turned
upwards. He was taken to the doctor,
but it Is not believed that the sight will
, be impaired.
Postmaster Hall says that the rural
delivery system of mails in South Bur-
lington shows up well since it was first
started about three weeks ago. The idea
was simply an experiment to determine
whether the scheme would pay or not
and it has been demonstrated thar II
will. The system will probably become
permanent. Postmaster Hail is to per
sOnally inspect the route in the near fu.
,, ture.
James Stewart. who was arrested and
lodged in Jail at Bennington several week;
ago on the charge of defrauding Samue
Jewett, pleaded guilty last Thursday anc
was released on the payment of SO anC
a costs. Stewart sold Jewett a receipt fol
= making gasoline nOn-explosive, receiving
B, S3G in money and note for 5000. The
t money and the note were returned tC
e Jewett. 1t cost Stewart $40 to get ou
S of the scrape.
t A Shelburne man, Joseph Ladue
f thought he would take quiet nap, so ht
= went into the barn and picked out sof
d place on the haymow. As he did no
t show up that night the family gave tn,
f alarm and the people spent two day
e searching on the mountains for him
I Some of them are pretty mad now am
e are inquiring where he got the booz
o that would make man sleep three days
a The Morrisyille News and Citizen las
II week issued fine 24-page supplement
e containing numerous pictures of Nor
II risville citizens and institutions and
e very thorough write-up of the town, it
I. history and advantages. If Edito
Lewis doesn't get that postofiice afte
such an evidence of enterprise as thi;
;. MOrrisVillq dOaen'f daearva tho oo0