Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-04-27
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.


Happenings ola Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain state.
The case of Bridget Mullen VS.. DR.. W.
G.. f Flanders, of the Fanny Allen hos
pital, Burlington. was tried in Rutland
before Judge Rowell last week. Or.
Flanders was charged with malpractice
by the plaintiff Miss Mullens testi.
mony showed she was suffering with club
feet, and that Dr. Flanders assured her a
simple operation could cure her. As a
result of alleged improper care gangrene
set in and one Of her feet was amputated
and the other operated upon contrary To
her consent. She j. now a helpless Grip.
pie while before going 10 Darlington she
could do considerable housewOrk. OF
these charges DR.. Flanders made Il gen
eral denial and testified thet had his di-
rections been followed the pl4intill could
walk now The Jury on Saturday found
a verdict for the plaintiff to recover
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Frank and Dustin Shaw, father and
son, broke out of the county Jail at
Woodstock Monday night, the escape
being discovered about ( o'clock next
morning by the night watchman. The
men, who were not locked in the cage,
but were given the run of the Jail. broke
out through window in the third story.
This was protected by light iron rods,
which the prisoners were able to bend
and twist until they could squeeze
through. From the window the two
men Jumped to the roof of the county
record building and thence by "A rope
made of blankets reached the ground.
The Shaws are from New York STATE.
and the father is said to have been in
prison before. They were charged with
/ larceny, and were committed from
| Rochester.
W. II. Childs of BrattebcrO has re-
ceived word from his son, G. Fred
Childs, who is on trip around the
world, that he had broken his leg while
/ in Egypt. 1t is understood the accident
occurred while Childs was climbing a
pyramid. The fracture was close to the
ankle lie was in a hospital for some
/ time but is out now and had crossed to
/ COnstantinople He has his ankle in a
plaster cast and goes upon crutches
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cident until after he had been out of the
hospital some time.
The saw mill of w. II. Taft with the
grisr mill connected and operated by
Levi BOydPn were burned at West
Townsend about o'clock Friday morn
ing. How the fire originated nobody
knows. as the whole building was
ahlaze when the fire was first discovered.
Nothing was saved of the contents. The
loss is about $500 on the saw mill and
the building with small insurance and
about 5000 on the grist mill. The mill
had been standing about II years and
had been operated by Mr.. Taft for or
10 years.
The hotel at Queen City Park, Bur
lington, was broken into Wednesday
night. DR.. Smith, president of the Park
association, was notified at Brandon Of
the fact. Upon investigation it was
found that nothing had been taken so far
as could he aScertained. The hotel will
be open on June for guests. The pro-
gram j. now being made up for the
annual meetings of the SpirituaiStic
association. DR.. Smith says that the
complete list of speakers would be
printed about June |.
The directors of the Waterbury Nation
al bank opened the doors of the bank
Friday afternoon. They state that they
were able to do this, under Instructions
from the treasury department at Wash
ington. without any impairment of the
banks capital. Ascending Teller Far
rar has returned 5000 of the amount
stolen. 1t is now believed that $50 600
will cover his SteaingS.
Six of the largest derrick spars that
have ever been seen in Barre arrived
there recently. 1t required four ears to
carry them. They are from 20 10 80 feet
in length. Three of them are 30 inches
/ through at the base. two y inches and
one 2G inches. They were shipped all
the way from British Columbia for the
/ Barre firm.
Cob IL. W. Hall of Burlington, chair
man Of the board of trustees Of the GIL
odd Fellows Home at Ludlow. has
called the annual meeting of the board
to be held at the home in Ludlow, Mon
. day. May I. An application has been
made for admittance to the home from a
brother in Felchvile Lodge, No. g..
I Application for authority to establish
"The City National Bank of Rutland"
with capital of 100000 has been filed
at Washington with the comptroller Of
the currency. The applicants are John
A. Mead, Nilas Griffith, \. Z. Kingsley,
". Il. Page, L. c. Tuttle aud Others.
Both the Bratteboro National banks
have applied to take out the additional
circulation under the new law. But they
each had before the full circulation al
lowed by the old law, 90 per cent. of
their capital. instead of par as now, so
that the increase Is only so, 900
Clarence Burnet Davis, who has been
one of the crew on the United States
transport ship SOlace for nearly four
/ 1-aorc arrived a his boma N Cbaator no