News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-31
STATE NEWS.

Waterbury has issued FIVE hundred invita-
lions to its Old Home Week celebration.
A coon that weighed 81 pounds has been
killed by John Kelly, a Moretown farmer.
A Westminster man, said to be of temper
ate habits, has killed a black snake that
measured Eve feet long.
The sudden squirt in the granite business
has resulted in a shortage of help. In Barre
there is employment for at least $50 more
stone cutters.
As the result of a bee sting received a few
days ago, Lena Stafford, a young girl living
in Burke, is dying OF paralysis. Thecase puz-
zles the physicians.
A man answering to the description of
Blondin, the Chelmsford wife murderer, work,
ed in Bellows Falls and Springfield several
days during haying.
Arrangements are being made in Roxbury
for the observance August IA of the f~ortieth
anniversary of the enlistment of the soldiers
of Co. H., 9th Vt. Infantry.
Mrs. Peter Belval of East Burke met death
while helping her husband in the hay field.
She fell from the loaded wagon and the wheels
passed over her body, killing her instantly.
The Paine property in Jay, consisting OF
about 1000 acres of land, has been puTchas.
ed by men from Greenfield, Mass, who will
erect a saw mill and cut up the timber for
market.
A lunatic named William W. Lyman, who
escaped from an insane asylum near Cleve-
and, o., June 16, was arrested the other day
n Rutland. He had arrived in Rutland on a
freight train.
A memorial window, bearing the name of
Dorothy Parker Cabot, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William B. Cabot of Brooklyn, Mass,
has been placed in st. Michael's Episcopal
church at Brattleboro.
II. Y. WemPle of Randolph had his herd of
cattle tested for tuberculosis and from %
tested, 26 responded to the test and were
killed. Each COW seemed to be in the advanc.
ed stage of the disease.
The crop of fish stories this season is large
in spite OF the drouth Walter Gilbert of Bur,
llngton is said to have caught off Shelburne
Point the other day a pickerel three feet long
which weighed between ten and eleven pounds
Arthur Hayes, a tramp who says he halls
from New Jersey, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff E. c.. Fish at West Rutland on the
charge Of stealing a watch from the official o.
s.. R. Sargent & Sons mandatory at Castle
ton Corners.
One of the largest deals consummated il
Vermont for some time is the recent sale by
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Goslant OF Marshield, OF IA tract of IA ,0OC
acres situated in the towns of GFoton, Marsh
field and Peacham.
Edward C%onant, principal Of the stat,
normal school at Randolph, who wac recently
injured by a fall from "a rapidly moving troll
ley car at Niagara Falls, N. Y, has returned
to Randolph. He is last recovering IRON
the effects of his injury.
Mrs. William r.. Granield Of MontpelleI
was nearly burned to death whlle lighting
gasoline stove. Her clothing caught fire anC
only the prompt aId OF her husband anl
neighbors saved her life. she is at the Hea
ton hospital and will recover.
One Barre granite manufacturer is using
some stock THAI comes from the new quarrl
near Windsor The stone is gIeenish i'll color
is very hard and takes a tiue polish. As ye
the quarry has not been operated longenOugl
to enable good stock of large dimensions tC
be taken.
Bert Stafford and Fred j. Bailey, of tn,
class of 1901, at Middlebury college, have re
ceived appointments as teachers in the Phil
ippiDe islands and will sail this week from
San Francisco. Stafford was manager of th,
college base ball team last year and Bale.
, was a member OF the team.
In the suit of.Horatio s.. Jossely, late man
q ager of the State Odd Fellows Home at Lud
low, against the trustees Tor S2OO, addltlona
compensation, which would make his salary
$500 instead of $500, received by him tn
first year, the court gave him 5000. He hat
agreed to remain for the 5000 increase.
Chas. W. Mussey, the defaulting bank cash
!, Ter who was recently pardoned, is now conva
lescing rapidly at the Rutland city hospital
, He sits up in a chair a little each day and cal
, take a few steps around the room, The pa
, tent expects to leave in two weeks for LAX
Champlain. where he will pass the remainde
, of the summer.
The people of Bennington are much please
with the action of the trustees of the Soldier
Home in appointing Mrs. Coffey, widow c
Col. Cuffey, who was for fourteen years super
intendent of the home, the matrOn for tn
? year ensuing. Mrs. Cofey's service has e2
tended over a like period, and her tact an
uniform kindness nave won the esteem OF tn
soldiers.
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