Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-03-25
General Vermont News.

The body OF Jane, h-unison, the driver
ufthv Ma~uuKiIle hotel bll- Nhu Wa III" ilrd
recently. Wa- found ami taken 20 ia~l hlrh-
ford, where the funeral was held ia'ii'4iAi7
uf the as.slirnl from rgr Witnesses show
how uarruN an esraTss the whole party had.
lu-ii- Ih- ~l-igh we've EdWard frrAln>.
LYMAN huuNltnn and Edgar blanrhArd- Tor
d time after the team was swept "N The ruad
by the OVERLOOKING water nuihiuS hut
The empty sleigh and fHaming water over
She struggling horses could br seen.
Soon the three passengers were seen
swimming aud Heating towards some tall
elm trees aud Mr.. Eruuisnn Wa swimming
toward the land. tlg wH~ making good
progress until about three rods from safety,
when h- suddenly sank and never came o.
the surface again. Search Tor the body wa~
kept up continually Tor nearly 30 hours,
when u was brought up out 81 10 feet of
water hv LuriuS Mooney aud 'lr Trbo. II
had been carried about 80 rods uP stream by
"a back current caused by IA" overflow.
Only one OF the three survivors was able
10 get out Of the water into the trees they
reached and the other two were obliged To
stand ia the water up tu their chests for an
hour and "A quarter while RAFT was con
-tructed tn reach them. Mr.. kuoWlion Is
about 20 years old. and was - hcnumhrd 10y
the cold that he lost hi~ strength aud would
have been carried down stream but Tor the
fact that his arm bee anne wedged in the
crotch Of the tree 80 tightly that 1t held him.
The three men were All well cared for and
are recovering from the effects or their ter
ribe experience.
q. X Brttrll aged 81 wears, has just ,ied
suddenly 40 his home iu NryhrldSe after
about two DAYS illness lie had been in
usual health all winter End was taken with
capillary bronchitis which was the cause Of
his death Mr.. Brittcll was born in Nry-
bri !g,, Jan. Il. 1850. When he was 2i years
old he went with his father To California aud
engaged la the butcher trade and afterwards
went To Nevada, where he remained several
years and worked at the carpenter and JOIN
. err trade "A trade he had learned IN his youth.
{ lie returned To- Weyhridgr in 1850, Travelled
west for "a year. and in lsGG be settled ON
the place where he died. In 1861 II" mar
rird Miss Sarah Allen. daughter of the late
Putnam Allen of Ferrishurgh, who survives
him. together with three children, John T.,
who Is travelling for an Ogdensburg lrm,
MARY f.. who resides at home, and {. Ray,
who j. a student in the Troy Conference
academy Mr.. Britte has held many OF tue
town offices, being the representative to the
Legislature in 1856. Tie was member OF
the Methodist church. and had been one of
the leading church supporters Tor many
years.
4 correspondent of the Boston Herald,
who reviews at length the records of two
public men in that city-eN-C nited States
, ,,Ii't - 80 -. tb,t' in 1877 Dnn-
'a rs - .r,," Lv N.rrnnt
w. ~ i'''" 't,i',i,I oo,,ooi,,. Ths ,naynr of
en- ~ "u oi'' WiiIiar S,,t, aa whn ,.nms
from Orange county. while the Green Noun
tain boys in the State House were Alvin
Marsh, attorney general, James Rice,
secretary of state; d. 7. Kingsley, state
uuu''Ut' ;,,r,,., ',,'r,,,,issi,,,,.r.
- ~, t'I, n;,,,,,,.I.,,,t ~ ,,,,Ili,
"u, L. - i ~ :" , rom Arn.
lilSti u'''"i, i,,rIt,J thn .itv "f
P"iloc co'.'H' W. w V,r,',.',g uhii. fnnr nt
m,,r h,ilJ Tram, ,bat .tata
, Iri.inauv Al thnt time the richest man in
, ,bn .,nt4. yvu. n A W Tabor. the leading
Iivin, Nyron W Reed. the most prominent
,,nI .nrrcrii,. business man. CoL James II
pI,tt. rhe most prominent physician, DR.
; Da,i.nn and thr most prominent district
. i,ayn p Huhhnrl MI of whom came
Trnn, the banner Republican state of Yer.
mont
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! '',''"uN W w We -, ~ ~ .t n.,+i,,, ~
''l.',on GiV tbo lst ta ,,entin
NV ''"i' III 'g'''7 ~ .tnn tr nh..,r,aro, F
Su apr W =, iU 70, ~ ii,i',i ~,
~ 10 ,,, tLa riIIagae i,
WHEN ',,,,nr,,,,rintr services shall be held
Thev i,,t.r,,rnt mis- os meaning that the
! ,n.t .h.I ia a hndv decorate The. grave,
Of comrudr. buried AT Ouarhee and Wcst
Uartrnrl rs well rs those in the two GENE
ferries nrar the Junction or else not receiv,
th,. upuropriation. The members of tn,
most mr., few in number. some of them old
and nearly ali rnfrrbled bv wounds or sick
nos, A Irlrvn+ion has in late wears faith
rully attended To decorating the graves o
yp+,.r,,n- NJ Ouelrn and West Hartford. T,
morrh to rbrse villages and perform tn
q. A. II. ritual in the cemeteries there alte
, the service here is something beyond thei
strength. The expenses OF commemor ~
the day aIthe Junction about equal the !
appropriation from the town.
MAYOR II. $. Peck of Burlington has file
the vacancy OccasiOned by the death q
Chief Of Police Jerome Dumas, who die
February 4 bv the appointment of LOOM
4 J. Smith to the position Mr. Smith is
I Republican. Some question has arisen rs &
the right of the mayor to appoint for NOR
I than the uneXpired term. When asked a0ou
I the term of appointment the mayor sald l
I was governed by the city charter; lhecha!
l ter says the chief of police shall be ap
\ pointed for three years, and does not pro
vide for an uneNpired term. Mayor-eIect l.
W. Sutton is Democrat. ana there ar
party candidates for office.
Hon. W. d. Crane Of the law firm O
4 Crane 4 Alfred has been found dead in hi
bed. He was ut his office the day Preyou
in apparent good health. he was born Il
4 East Franklin " years ago During the wa
l he settled in North Troy and entered int
1 trade, later studying law ana practlclng. ii
went to Newport in 1870 forming partner
| ship with Frank E. Alfred IN 1873. MrCran
4 was for many years United States commits
sionef' ana OF iate h"u peeH prom .I.
the insurance ileIn ne i'"u peoh mari 'e
twice, ana his last "iio al" So"HS '''l'" III
dead