News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-24
STATE NEWS.


the late Col. COtfey as superintendent of the
Soldiers Home. Mrs. Codey is retained as
matron.
Sneak thieves have been numerous in Wind
sor. Six or seven houses have been entered
by night and small sums oil money taken from
nearly place.
Detectives are searching diligently for Mrs.
NJ j. Leach, of Fletcher, who disappeared IN
Burlington the other day, but have as yet
found no clue to her whereabouts.
slate boom predicted in Castleton. The
slate so far uncovered by the Bomoseen Slate
Company at the quarry opened last spring is
excellent in quality and quantity.
The eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Taylor is paralyzed as a result of bolt of
electricity which passed through their house
in Middlebury during recent storm.
W. E. and Fred Terrill, of Montpelier made
a record as fishermen few days ago. They
fshed for one day in Stowe and secured 339
trout which weighed twenty-seven pounds
Minnie A. Rice. of Castleton, and Alice NJ.
Townsend of Derbyshire are the only Yer
monters in attendance at the course OF
library economy now being given at Amherst
college.
The yield of blueberries this year is uncom-
monty large and the fruit is almost a drug in
the market. Bushels of the berries are picked
daily on the high ridges of Bald mountain
and Mount Anthony, near Bennington.
The force of men at work on the new gym
nasum at the University of Vermont is to be
increased quantity of new material has
arrived, and it is hoped TO have the structure
completed before the opening OF the college
year.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the House of Correction it was voted to in
crease the size of the women's quarters at the
institution, the present accommodations
being entirely inadequate for the large num-
Der of prisoners.
The three barns of William H. Anderson, Of
| Waterbury Center, were struck by lightning
July s during the storm and burned to the
ground, together with their contents includ-
ing one hundred tons of hay. The property
was insured for 5000.
Gen. Daniel Butterield, who died last week
at New York, commanded the fifth army
corps during the last part Of the Civil war
and was thereby known to many Vermont
soldiers. He was only 81 years old when he
took command of the fifty corps.
Leslie Taylor of Maidstone, 2 / years old,
| left home with the intention OF shooting
crows. He did not return and his family
made search through the neighborng fields
and found the body. Taylor had been acct
dentally shot through the heart.
These Vermont pensions are announced
| Increase, Henry NJ. Durand, Hinesburg, IS
original, widows etc, MINOR of Latavor C.
| Perkins, North Cambridge, Sl0 Emma L.
/ Allen, MorrisyiIle, S. special accrued, June
%, Lizzie F. Tton. Danville, IS.
Alex Dunbar, a former well known resident
of Barre. is back in the city after an absence
of five and one-half years most OF which be
has spent in Aberdeen. lie is to enter the en-
ploy of Mari & Gordon and expects to bring
out his family consisting of a wife and two
children.
DR.. J ohn Gibson of Vergennes who was for
several years resident of Burlington has re.
ceived the appointment of adjunct professor
of materia medica and therapeutics in the
medical department of the University of Yer
mont. DR.. Gibson is a graduate of the mpdi.
cal college in the class OF 1898. He is a ma
tive of Scotland.
DR.. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago, the philan
thropist, Bradford boy, announces that
during the remaining six months of this yeaI
/ be proposes to give $215 900 to struggling
colleges in the western states DR.. Pearsons
has distributed SO 100, 900 he will dispose OF
nearly $4,000, 600 in the ten years he has al
lotted himself to live.
The 13-year-old son of Frank Fisher O
Brattleboro was badly burned about the face
last Wednesday afternoon while playing with
| pUWueTs COlutCbcu IL iuSb Wlbu d
of powder and then attempted to light the
fuse with a piece of burning paper. A sparE
from the paper ignited the powder and the
lads face and the back of one hand were sc
badly burned that the skin peeled off.
Fayette Stratton recently captured large
black bear in a trap on Woodford mountain
He received the state bounty of Sl2. The
same day four children belonging to Petel
Galopo were on the mountain after berries
and while wandering around came across 6
nest in which were four bear cubs. They
stopped to look at them and while so doing
heard noise, and looking into a bush saw
the mother bear coming. They fed, and the
old bear did not follow them.
Hetty Green, her husband, Edward Green
and her daughter, Sylvia, are at the family
residence ia Bellows Falls and keeping house
on very modest scale. Mrs Green gives
Bellows Falls rs her residence aud pays taxes
on $l35 600 property valuation, decidedly
clever scheme of hers, and the town authori
ties are perfectly agreeable. She is the frs
to pay her taxes. she breads newspaper meI
and camera fends Recently to dodge one o
the last named, she climbed high fence bacl
of her house in order to get to the post-ofice
william C. Tyler of st. Johnsbury has re
eeived word from Mrs. James Gray, his sister
that the British government has just grant
ed her permission to return Pretoria after al
absence from her home of two and one hal
years When the Boer war broke out Mrs
GRAY at once left the city, and her hus
band, who was a Presbyterian pastor there
was given his choice by Kruger to enter the
Boer army or leave the city within % hours
Mr. Gray chose the latter course and was TO
a time chaplain in the British army, Late
be became librarian of the Pretoria library
receiving this appointment from the BIRTHS
government