News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-12
STATE NEWS,


i r. Byrd and J. f. NcGreen, Vermont s
two candidates for West Point, have present
ed themselves for entrance examinations
Herbert Tracy and Grover Osgood, the two
Barre boys who escaped from the industrial
school at Vergennes, have been captured and
returned to that institution.
Jonas q. Holden, the Burlington boy who
was on the battlpship Maine as naval cadet
when she was blown up in Havana harbor,
has been promoted from the grade of ensign
to that OF lieutenant junior grade.
John G. Mccullough of North Bennina ton
and Frederick B. Jennings are soon to begin
the erection of II story brick and stone
hotel in New York city. The plot Of land is
5OxSS feet. The building will cost 5000 600.
Cehaldo Guieseppein was sentenced in
Washington county court to not less than
four and half and not more than five years
at hard labor in states prison at Windsor.
He was one of the Italians mixed up in the
shooting OF Chief of Police Brown at Barre in
December last, and was found guilty ofsimple
assault by the jury.
Leon E. Sawyer, an emplOye in the mill OF
Waites River Paper Company at Bradford,
WAS caught in the machinery Tuesday even
ing and injured so badly that he lived only
half an hour. He was "a years of age and
leaves a wife and one child. He took out a
policy tor 81 900 last week in the United
states Life Insurance Company.
James FITZGERALD who stole horse and
carriage belonging to DR.. Robert Weir OF
Rutland Tuesday evening, was caught We'd
nesday near Fort Edward, N Y. DR.. Weir
started from Whitehall in pursuit and over
took FitzIerald on the tow path. He was
placed in Fort Edward jail and as soon as re-
QUESTION papers can be made out he will be
ta4en to Rutland.
c. j. Bell, Master ofthe State Grange, has
appointed Saturday, June %, Chdren's day
in the grange. Mr.. Bell says On this day
may the subordinate oranges interest the
cbildI en-, instruct them in the blessings and
beauties that surround them teach them tlial
devotion, loyalty to state and country, and
a love ahd reverence for the God that has
placed them III such pleasant places.
Isaac T. Pratt, the veteran bear trapper in
Bennington, caught bear Wednesday in a
Iavine traversed by the He'll Hollow Brook oil
Wo, dford. 1t weighed about 1925 pounds
The fur was in prime condition. being thick,
long and glossy black. This is the third bear
that Mr. Pratt has captured within few
DAYS in that section and the 10Th that he has
trapped during his lifetime. The bear was
the largest that has been captured in Ben
nington county for many years.
LeauUer II. hdlIeS OF W uleTDuTN, VIM
was stricken with paralysis May 30, died
Thursday afternoon l O'Clock at the age
OF 81. Mr. Haines went to Waterbury from
Cabot in 1862 and engaged in business in a
general store with J. q. Stimson. Since then
he has been an active business man in town
and has once represented the town in the
state legislature. In more recent years be
was in the wholesale grocery trade under the
firm of Arms & Haines and later with Atkins
& Haines, from which latter firm he retired
about a year ago, on account of ill health
He leaves wife and five daughters.
While Mrs. Dexter Capron, her daughter
Mrs. Leonard Bushway, and two young
children were driving down a steep hill near
Pomfret poor farm Wednesday afternoon
their horse ran away. Mrs. Capron and one
of the children were first thrown out and Mrs
Capron instantly killed. Mrs. Bushway and
the other child we're thrown to the ground
Mrs. Bushway being severly hurt, and both
children injured. The accident was probably
caused by the breaking of the harness. Mrs
Capron leaves a husband who runs the Pom
fret poor farm and one or two children be
sides the daughter who was with her She
was about fifty years old.