News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-01-24
STATE ITEMS.

iCil iuNO pau VI DOllDR water WHICH ndu
been placed on the floor at her home n Barre
Wednesday and was so badly scalded that
she died in a few hours.
NJ. j. Leaden. a well-known cattle dealer
and farmer of East Berkshire. was buncoed
out of $3.50 on bogus che OK while in Boston
last week with load of cattle. he was an
easy mark who believed what a stranger told
him.
Mrs. Henry McFadden of Wells was return
ing from Middleton, where she visited her
parents, when the sleigh struck the horses
heels, causing the animal to run. The sleigh
was overturned, and Mrs. McFadden struck
on her head, sustaining an injury which
caused her death.
The receiver Of the Bradford Savings Bank
Trust Company gives notice that pursuant
to order of the Court of Chancery, a second
dividend of20 per cent. will he paid on aud
after February l, 1900, to all depositors or
other creditors who have proved their claims
pursuant to the statute, and in accordance
with the Chancellor's order of March l, 1898.
c. A. G. Jackson, secretary of the Demo-
cratic state committee, has secured Armory
hall for the address of Hon. W, J. Bryan, at
Montpelier, February 2. This is one of the
largest halls in the state, and will easily seat
/. 800 people, Admission to the hall will be
by ticket. These tickets will be given away
by Mr.. Jackson and his associates on the
committee.
Washington county court took faal ad-
lournment Thursday morning after being in
continuous session since Septem Der 6, barring
Supreme court and holiday recess This
September term has been the longest and
most expensive the county has ever had
The total expenditures for the term was 3d.
800 and the receipts Sc 100. The expense of
an average term is from sc, 900 to $4,000.
Postmaster Shedd, of Montpelier, has a
petiGion containing names of over 200 pa
irons of the postoftice in the outlying districts
asking for a rural free delivery. This petit
ton will be sent to Congressman Grout to be
brought before the proper department. The
proposed route of the rural carrier will he l 8
miles day, and the radius from the Mont
pelier postoffic9 will be from five to eight
miles.
Charles H. Lord, clerk in the office OF W A.
Lord, National Bank Examiner at Mont
Ielier, was arrested at Woodsville, n. H.,
Thursday, on a charge of passing worthless
drafts. he was arraigned in the Woodsville
police court and held in the sum of 5000 for
the grand jury. He is understood to claim
that the drafts which he has passed, on which
complaint was made against him, were right
fully drawn and have been wrongfully dis
honoreI.
James Mckay, 81, a Scotchmau, was
blown to pieces by the premature explosion
of blast in Fred Mebber's granite quarry
at Groton last week. The charge had failed
to go off and he was drilling it out when the
dynamite cap exploded, and instantly the air
was filed with fragments of the rock and his
body. Three pic ts Of rock passed through
the body. Several o her men who were a
short distance away bad narrow escape
Mckay leaves a wife and two children.
novel society has been organized in
w aitS HalI ,DIor > bo &c =
The articles of incorporation etate that the
society will carry on the business of a CO.
operative community, such as mining, manu-
featuring, farming, stock raising, equipping
and running schools, and do such other work
as may be necessary to the welfare of the
community as one great family The office
of the Incorporation is at Waitsfeld, and the
capital stock is $4,000, divided into 100
shares at $40 each.
! Laura Duval, young woman who former
| ~ lived in st Johnsbury, called at one OF the
banks in that town Saturday and asked for
blank check She dated it at Green Forks.
D. G., making it payable to herself for $35
and signing fictitious name. She present.
ed it at a store where it was cashed, bnt up
| on presentation at the bank on Saturday
evening it was refused She took the after
noon train for Greensboro, Saturday after
noon, but was traced there by Sheriff Sullo-
she is now in jail.
Saturday evening the ice above the Bristol
Electric company's dam mile and a half
east of that village went out carrying the ice
| guard, penstock and a small house used for
| tools and shelter. Edison Tart was raking
| off rack at the time when the house and guard
gave way carrying him over the dam and he
was drowned About II O'Clock Sunday
Homer Hewitt found Tart's body near E. B
= r. d.. N,1 LNl,4, H.
| the village. The body was nude except the
shoes and stockings. 1t had been carried
about three miles and was badly bruised.
The Vermont Veterans Association of Bos-
ton and vicinity will observe its 18th annual
banquet at Young's Hotel, Boston, Tuesday
evening, January 80. A reception will be
held from to O'Clock. Gov. Smith Lieut.
Gov. Bates, Gov. w. Murray Crane and Lieut..
Gov John l.. Bates of Massachusetts,, Sena-
tor Proctor, Admiral Dewey Rear Admiral
Sampson, Department Commander F. G.
| ButteIfl field of Vermont, Department Com
mander John +. Gilman of Massachusetts,
General Stephen Thomas, ex-Gov. John W.
| Stewart, Rev E. A. Horton, and Others have
been invited.
Michael McNally, of MoDtp' lier, is the latest
| arrival at the Soldiers Home at Bennington
He 81 rived eight years in the English army, in
India and the provinces. At the breaking
out of the Spanish American war he enlisted
in Co. II. 1sU Vermont volunteers, and served
all the time the company was gone. Soon
after his discharge he went to Plattsburg and
enlisted in the Twenty first I. S. Infantry.
He accompanied the regiment to Manila,
participated in several skirmishes, was taken
sick with malarial fever and finally dis
charged for disability. He returned TO Mont
pelier, and from there came to the home. He
is the first soldier that served in the Philip
pines to enter the institution,
Murray j. Smith tf East Richford acct
dentally set fire to his house Thursday night,
while intoxicated, and persisted in the flames.
A search of The ruins revealed his body.
Smith was a widower and lived with house
keeper whose name ia Mary Ellen Mead.
They kept four boardeTs, all lum bermen, and
they we're all absent at the time OF the acct
dent One had gone to get some whiskey,
one had changed his clothes and started to
find a new boarding place, and two were in
the woods 1t was shown that the party had
been holding more or less of a debauch since
Christmas and had procured their liquor at
the cline house" toward Glen Sutton. Smith
had been drinking heavily right along and
was also under the influence of morphine, to
which drug he was addicted. The theory il
that he overturned lamp and was too faI
stupefed to be able to extinguish the flames
The house and contents we're destroyed, even
the property of the boarders going up in
smoke. There was $500 insurance on the
place in the Vermont Mutual company
There were three guns and some dynamite il
I the house and there was very considerabl,
explosion when the fire reached them.