The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-23
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drinking wood alcohol.
Payroll of the Vermont Marble Co. fol-
May was the largest in a number OF years
about $4,000. - s.
Rev. L. E. Rockwell of Rochester N
T., at one time chaplain of the Vermont
state prison, has accepted call to the
largest church In Portland, Oregon.
Edward E. Miller, a y. V. M: student,
has sued Prof. A. W. Slocum for $4,000
damages for experimenting on his leg
with X-rays, while it was broken.
Hon. A. N. Swain of Bellows Falls has
contributed 200 volumes of well-selected
books to the Gilbert A. Davis public Ii
brary in Felchville, his native town.
The telegraphers, train dispatchers and
trainmen of the Passumpsic division of
the b. q. M. were given substantial in
crease in their pay June LIST.
Troop F, u. S: cavalry, Capt. Dodd, the
crack troop of the service, will be the big
attraction at the Addison county fair this
year.
Admiral Dewey's health continues to
improve. He will need it all to stand up
against the welcome that awaits him
on this side.
Raymond Goodwin of Plainfield, 10
years old, has been sentenced to the stat Q
industrial school for the remainder of hi s
minority. Larceny is the cause.
At the sale of Col. LIE Grand Cannon's
horses at Shelburne last Friday Yer
mont Chimes - brought $1,000. Nineteen
others sold at from $40 to $500.
The Goth annual session of the North,
ern Association of Universalists will be
held with the church in Lyndonville
June 1929.
The commencement exercises of the
Norwich University at Mortified take
place June % to 20. The review by Gov.
Smith and staff, followed by drills, will
occur at $50 p. m. Thursday.
Many Canadian societies will attend
the great Fourth of July celebration to
be held in Burlington. The John de Bap-
tiste societies of Quebec will be present,
500 strong.
A st. Adams bankrupt has 10 creditors,
nine of them being physicians. The bills
for medical attendance are $500, 5000,
and down, the total being 1868, or 40 per
cent of the mans Indebtedness
E. J.. Carey, formerly of Brattleboro,
was killed in the cyclone that nearly des-
troyed New Richmond, Wis. His part
ner was also killed and their drug store
destroyed. He was 30 years old.
An old history of Salisbury relates
forest worm plague in 1926 that killed so
many naples that the sugar making indus
try was practically destroyed and had to
wait for a second growth of trees.
Jesse Oliver and Will Wells were
drowned on the night of June while re-
turning in small boat from Plattsburg
to Grand Isle. The boat, oars, a Jat, hat
and bottle of whiskey were found.
A bill in chancery has been brought
against the owners and leSSeeS of the Ber-
wick hotel in Rutland asking for a tenn
porary and also permanent injunction.
The bill claims that the hotel is a nui-
sance under the prohibition law.
While Geo NJ. Payne was drawing stone
June Is he was thrown from the wagon,
the rear wheel running over his head and
crushing 1T so badly that death came in
stantly. He was 81 years old and much
respected resident of Bridport.
. The Grand Central hotel at st. Adams
was recently raided and bottle of wine
found. The proprietor, W. 9. Prouty,
was given jury trial. Evidence showed
that the wine was kept for cooking pur-
poses and Prouty was acquitted.
In Middlebury they have found a new
method for destroying the caterpillars
dinner horn is blown under the trees
and swarmS of worms come gliding down
their silken threads and are gathered by
waving stick back and forth.
John f. Gutenberg of Hartford was
found dead on the railroad track June IA
In his pocket was found a letter written
to- his wife saying that he was tired of
life and the probability is that he threw
himself under the train.
Rufus Benson of Fair Haven, q years
old, was tramped to death by horse
few days ago. His face was jammed
beyond recognition. He fell in the stall
and the horse, frightened, kicked and
stamped.
A six-pound cannon ball recently plow-
n fl,o foc So ~ Dill No
chester is supposed to be a revolutionary
war relic. The troops of Gen. John Stark
encamped in that vicinity just previous
to the battle of Bennington.
James Schoocraft of Barre was recent |
ly arrested on the charge of bigamy. 1t
is alleged he married his present wife in |
less than three years after his first wife |
had secured divorce. The second wife |
is now commencing divorce proceedings. |
He appears to be playing in hard luck.
After June 30 no passes over the Cent
raj Vermont road Will be honored unless |
signed by the vice-president and general |
Fitzhugh. Old passes will thus
be no good. 1t looks as if politics was 60
ing to havs less to do with this road than |
heretofore.
Immigrants came through the port of
st. Adams during the month of May as |
follows: Russia, 523 Austria, "a; Germa-
lily , EHRlduu . DODenlb D, hungary . ,
Poland 3; Galicia 3: Ireland =; Italy 2 ;
Denmark 2; Jamaica 1; Romania / !; total |
57S.
Some choice Morgan stock will be sold !
from Col. lie Grand B. Cannon's Yer
mont Stock Farm Col. Cannon has
been breeding fine horses for 40 years, %
Of these on his farm in Shelburne. A
systematic and intelligent method has /
produced some remarkable results.
Rudyard Kipling is now on the other
side of the ocean, He will never forget
.he spring spent here-a long fight with
usually mortal disease and the loss or
child. But he has been privileged to feel,
rs few have, the deep sympathy of the
world for one whom it admires.
Mrs. Mary Howe. LAWN and Lucien
Howe will sail from Hamburg for New
York June o. Mr.. LAWN, who has been
singing with the Bostonians, is now at his
lome in Detroit, Mich. He will meet
Mrs. LAWN in New York and probably
,ome to Brattleboro to spend the sum-
ner.
One of the tires on Burlington young
mans bicycle exploded the other eve
ling with a report like that of a
PISTOL. The youth was somewhat sur
,rised to have a policeman tap him on
he shoulder and inform him that he was
rrested for disturbing the peace and car