News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-01-17
STATE NEWS.

fire in house in Orange, owned BY Syl-
Vester Davis and occupied by Merrill NJ John
son, caused So 600 damage, recently,
The state insane asylum at Waterbury is
badly conRested. 1t was made to accommo-
date 4S0 patients, and 534 are there now.
A Bolton correspondent writes that an un-
known man was killed by train Saturday
night at the vest end Of the Ridley station
bridge.
Royal A. Hatch, SO, who died of PARALYSIS
at Straford, has been a manufacturer and
prominent citizen of that town 40 years He
was treasurer of the grand lodge of Good
Templars several years.
The case of Benedict VS.. the Tunbridge
Worlds Fair Association resulted, in the
windsor county court, in a verdict for the
plaintiff tor the sum of So 900 damages
for injuries received in bicycle race at the fair
IN S97. The suit was brought for $40 600
damages
Daniel C. Landers shot himself Thursday in
his room at Quechee. HIS wife heard the re-
port and found the body. He used revolver
which be bad borrowed. He had run a gen
eral store in Quechee the past ten years, and
had been pressed by his creditors lately His
busr ess troubles probably caused suicide
Martin Haynes of Hydeville had both
hands blown off Friday by premature ex-
ploslon in the Bolger slate quarry. He IN
dertook to drill out hole which had been
charged with powder, when there was an ex-
Plosion that threw out Is tons of rock
Haynes hands we're torn off at the wrists.
ana MS right arm was badly shattered 1t is
| doubtful if he survives the shock. He ia
married and lives in Hydeville.
Articles OF Incorporation have been filed
| with the secretary of state for an immense
powder and ammunition plant. William
| Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific railway,
e. Dickinson and F. w. Heubach of Wiuni.
peg, A. s. Richardson OF st. Adams and N. p.
Leach OF Sheldon are the leaders in the con-
| Germ. 1t is expected that factory will be
built in Franklin county, probably at Swan
ton, and that 800 hands will be employed.
State Highway Commissioner Vial reports
that liz miles of permanent roads we're built
IN vermont in 1899 or more than in the en-
tire period from 1892 to 1898 He saws this
was accomplished at practically no expense
| to the state, for the commissioner is not an
| thoriz I'd to issue vOuchnr which will allow
the state tax to be drapn until the perma.
nent road work has been conn l-ted and IT,
sp' cted and the saving in the interest ht s
been more than enough to pay the Commits
siontrs salaFp.
Daniel c. Landers of Woodstock, who has
been in business in Quechee for about 10
years, shot himself through the heart last
| Thursday afternoon. He was in his room at
home when his wife heard a shot, went up
Stairs and found him dead. He had kept a
genera store, which was lately closed by his
credit ors, and business troubles may have led
to the deed. He leaves a wife, a daughter oil
the late Oscar Barron, and one daughter
about eight years old. S. T. Landers his
father, lives in Lebanon, N. H.
I The eRh'-year-old son of Charles South
gate was xii ed in frightful manner Wednes
day evening at South Royalton. He was
placed on the back of horse to ride the
animal to the barn after the horse had been
unhitched from the wagon. The horse began
to run and the lad was thrown off His foot
becoming entangled in part of the harness
| he was dragged three miles before the horse
was stopped. The boy was not dead when
help reached him, but cuff, ed greatly for
several hours before his injuries ended his life