Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-08
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

player viii leave March for Kansas
City, Mo- whore he is to play shorts,op
on tho Western league team.
Persons IF Scotch ancestry in st. Johns
bury have formed society called the
Scotia club and they he'd their frs, pub
lie meeting on Robert Burns birthday,
January %.
William w Lawrence serving in State
prison sentence of 10 years for shooting
Judge Saaver at Woodstock, some tine
ago, has been pronounced insane by ply
slcians and transferred to the asylum at
Waterbury.
The corps of cadets at Norwich Unver-
sity are to have sabres for us in drill;
il has been several years since the corps
has been thus equipped and doubtless new
interest will attach Itself to this particu-
lar drill.
Rev. Lucian W. Cheney who was born
in Barnard in 1922, died in Dundas, MINI.
After a pastorate which extended over AZ
years, he retired from the ministry in 1893.
lie was a brother of Moses Cheney the
great singing master.
While on the Green Mountains recently
Homer Lyons of Bennington. well
known tr9pper, came across a hollow tree
in which We're four full-grown coons. He
cut down the tree and captured the coons.
whiCh wore in fine condition.
Mrs Henry McFadden of Wells was the
recent victim of a runaway accident. She
was thrown from the sleigh but was APP
parently unnjured. A few minutes later
she dropped dead from heart failure
brought on by the excitement of the in
cident
II. G. White is in London in the inter-
est Of TIE camera department. of the Waite
Stereoscope Works near North Hcnning on.
The company has just dispatched an
agent to South Africa to get "a collection
OF war views. Mr.. White viii stay in ku-
rope some time.
The Columbian marble company hee
requests of the United States government
Will furnish eiEht varieties of s.ected mar
be four of which are from its quarries
az Bristol and Mallets Bay, for the in
terror finish of the United States eXhi1i-
ton building at the Paris Exposition.
Representative Foss. form erly of Frank
lin. who represents u Chicago district in
Congress, has already taken charge Of
the committee on naval affars as its act
ing chairman and is making an excellent
impression as the temporary successor Of
CAPT, Boutelle of Maine at the head of
that committee.
The graphite mine owned by T.. ".
Kent of Panton is to BE- opened in the
carly spring. So far as developed Ii bids
falr to prove rlCn ana or very me qudlllN.
Samples tested prove its excellence, and
there seems To- be no question as to there
L-inG Il quantity. a large water power
near by can easily be utilized
Wood cutters are busy in the vicinity
of Lake Hancock. and the fine tracts Il
forests in thlt region viii! he laid low by
spring. Deer have been plentiful ~ the
lake. but with the disappearance of the
woods the deer will also disappear, The
-tt t..r
ing parties but the wooded hills will APP
pear to the campers next summer as bare
and rocky sleeps.
charles L. Saunders OF Rutland has
carried off the Bowser prize offered by
= f. Bowscr Of Fort Wayne, Ind, the
P owner of the Bowser works there for the
largest number of sales made by any one
salesman of the Bowser works during the
year 1899. The prize is a trip to the Paris
exposition and Mr.. Saunders Will make
the trip with his wife.
| While the midnight train was making
the trip from Barre to Montpelier Tues
day night, Engineer Stack, on approach
ing the bridge near the Pioneer village &c,
observed a mans form lying across one OF
the rails. lie brought his train to such a
, sudden stop the passengers for moment
thought the engine had struck boulder.
The trainmen Went to where the man
lay and found Charles Chamb Rim in Il
drunken stupor lying ACROSS the rail with
his head and feet hanging down below
the slcepers. Chamberlain was loaded on
The train and taken to Montpelier. lie
said he could not tell when or how he
came TO be in such a precarious position
The north entrance to the canal just
north of the Rutland bridge at Bellows
Falls is being materially widened. Some
20 feet of earth and rock on the west
IN, l. l,s.a. k.., ntAI Il