Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-03-08
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

a Dummerston Mans Fight with "A Lynx
Horrible Brutality of BrattIeboro
Farmer to a Cow-State Quarrying In
tcrests Form Com bination at Northfeld.
Ira Gates went to his barn in Dunn
merston the other day to do the milking.
On entering the barn yard, he discovered
large lynx under the shed near the horse
barn and made a hasty retreat to the
house for his shot gun. When he re-
turned the lynx was ready to take the
offensive, but he shot it in the shoulder.
Before the enraged animal had time to
spring at his antagonist, another shot
was fired, striking the lynx in the head
and ending the conflict. Gates won the
battle and state bounty of So.
Complaint against Clinton Adams for
abusing an animal was recently made by
Mrs. Jennie Powers of Brattleboro.
Last July Adams became enraged at a
steer which had got into the moving.
He drove the steer to the barn, poured
kerosene on it and then set it afire. The
animal did not die but was horribly
burned. Adams admitted the deed to
Mrs. Powers. He was arrested, pleaded
guilty and was fined $24 so, including
costs. He was released on promise of
good behavior.
Chairman Wheelock of the Montpelier
health committee has called the atten-
ton of Health Officer w. II. Hardness to
the report that books are being let from
the library to families In which scarlet
fever exists, and that officer has notified
the library. As not all of the scarlet
fever cases are made public, the library
attendants had no means of knowing in
what families the trouble exists.
Gen. j. G. Mccullough of North Ben
nington started last week for a trip over
the Erie and Atchison systems. He will
probably go as far as Mexico. looking
over the different properties. He returns
via the Mexican International and the
Southern Pacific to New Orleans, and via
the Illinois Central to Chicago, and
thence back home on the Erie.
Report comes from Mortified of the
forming of a combination of the slate
quarrying interests of that place, the
Northfleld Slate company, with a capital
of $4,000, having been purchased by
the Union Slate and Real Estate COM
pany. with capital of S25 600, which is
to be doubled soon. This company is
negotiating for other quarries.
George +. Royce of Rutland will soon
open another marble quarry near his
present working at Florence. As in the
first quarry there is an unusual amount
Of the finest statuary marble. The quar-
ries are on land which Mr.. Royce in a
clever deal kept out of the bands of the
Vermont Marble company and purchased
himself years ago.
William w. Cantwell of the law firm
of Cantwell & Moore of New York,
which is defending DR.. Samuel j. Ken.
needy, charged with the murder of Dolly
Reynolds, attended the University of
Vermont and was graduated from the
/ Albany Law School. He is 81 years of
age and lived in Plattsburg until two
years ago.
a big tree was cut the other day by
+. NJ. Butler in clearing a pine lot at
East Jamaica. There were Il logs IN it,
All but two were II feet in length, and
the butt one, measuring feet through
| yielded 1852 feet, board measure, while
the top one was / inches through at the
top. The tree yielded 3i09 feet.
William A. Buckley, Rutland fire
man, who was injured in an accident
last fall in which the south bound flyer
was struck by runaway car of lumber
has sued the Rutland railroad for $40 900
He claims among other injuries to have
lost the hearing of one ear.
Adiutant and Inspector General w. II
Gilmore has issued orders to Col. j. G.
Estey to have the various companie,
composing the national guard recruit t.