News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-02-28
STATE NEWS.

Sundays storm was the most severe of the
season so far.
N l.. jenkins of Addison recently shot a
lynx, which though very poor weighed ten
pounds.
Daniel Carpenter of Bennington. one of the
oldest residents of that village, recently cele.
brated his seth birthday.
George Il. Holden, Montpelier LAWYER. and
long known as an eccentric character, has be.
come insane over religion and politics
Harry Wiloughby of Bennington has fitted
up billiard room for the use of women. He
has put in three tables. The rooms will be in
charge of a female attendant.
The sawmill, bara and carriage house own.
ed by G. W Mansur at Weston village were
destroyed by fire. The fire was started bv
sparks from the mill chimney. The loss is
5000 with no insurance
Alfred W. Shepard of Turner, Mich, has
copies of almanacs printed in Bennington in
1890, 1871 and 1913, which he will probably
donate to the Bennington Battle Monument
and Historical Association.
Captain W. F. Wills, of the Burlington fire
department has been discharged from the
service of the department on the charge of in-
subordination towardChief Murray. Captain
Wills Joined the department July 4, 1886
The second annual concert of the Bellows
Falls Choral Union was held in the Opera
House in that village Tuesday evening, Feb.
ruary 20. The soloists we're assisted by a
chorus of $50 voices, which showed careful
training
These petitions in bankruptcy have been
filed Hiram Cheslpy, fireman of st.
JOhnsbury, liabilities $721 IS, assets S21S
70, exempt 500; Arthur d. Bradford. print
er and editor Of Swanton, liabilities $1,797,-
Al assets 81 n @ pypmnt & O05
Salma Davis, aged about 10 years, died on
his farm in Sheffield Sunday, February, 49,
Two weeks previous he stepped on nail or
tack while putting on slipper and blood
poison followed with fatal results. He was
one of the prominent men OF the town, and
had held numerous town Offices and twice rep
resented the town in the legislature. He was
one of the side judges of Caledonia county.
He was lifelong Republican.
The ore now being taken from the Carrie.
Mary copper mine is being saved for shipment,
as Superintendent Hall considers that pay
ore has been reached. This will be encourdg-
ing to tie projectors as it had been expected
that the shaft would have to be sunk to a
depth of at least 100 feet betorepay ore could
be obtained and it is now being obtained at
depth of little more than sixty feet. The
projectors expect to have their plans so form
ulated that the company may be inCorporat-
ed sometime in March The company is in
hopes that it may take its charter from this
state but that may prove difficult, as the min
ing laws in Vermont are not particularly well
adapted TO a scheme such as this one. Burl-
ington parties are among recent investors in
the mine and several Montpelier parties are
contemplating taking a large block of stock
at the ten cent rate.
Rutland was the scene of another serious
confagratiOn Saturday night when the old
Ripley marble mill at Center Rutland was
completely destroyed and one man killed.
The wheel hOusa, coping shop, storehouse,
and nearby dwellings, were saved by the hard
work of the fremeD. The fire started in the
east end of the mill in the oil room and spread
quickly. The blazing oil foated on top of
the water thrown into the fire and the thick
smoke hindered the fireman. Four men were
in the building at work on a night gang. All
of them got out safely but Patrick McGarry.
He was probably bewildered by the smoke
which rapidly filed the building and over
come by suffoCation. The flames reached his
body and when recovered this morning no
flesh remained on the bones McGarry was a
man about 60 years old and leaves a wife
and several children.
Vermont farmers are to have an extensive
rival in the maple sugar industry this spring
in the shape of an orchard of $4,000 trees
er of Hon Seth Low. Mr.. Lows orchard is
situated at Horseshoe in the Adirondacks
and it is the largest maple sugar orchard in
the world In former years only 10000 trees
have been tapped, but this season many adj
ditions and Inprovementsha have been made so
that an immense number of trees will be util-
lied. There are three large steel sugar houses
in the orchard with sixteen evaporators,
which have capacity of Il, 900 gallons of
syrup every 10 hours. The sap is gathered
by steam locomotives. which draw cars on
which are the tanks for gathering purposes.
All the new machinery that was put in this
year was bought of a Vermont firm and the
syrup and sugar is made under the direction
of Mr. Hebb of Cambridge. The cost of the
improvements this season is about 100000.
The syrup is marketed in New York City and
brings large prices on account of it's fine quail.
ity and the attractiveness of it's packages.