Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-07
NEWS OF VERMONT.
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OF some new machinery will obviate this
difficulty. The asbestos, though plentiful |
III the northern part of Vermont. Is found
in the largest and best quantities in Lowell |
and Eden. Mt. Belvidere n hill about 900
feet high on dividing line between Lowell
and Eden, is composed almost wholly Of
asbestos, the quality of which. according |
to experts, Is as good as that of any de- |
post in the United States Because of the
steady demand for asbestos on account of
its iireproof nature and because Of the ex-
tent and quality of the deposit, 1t is not
probable that the mining operations will
be interfcred with because of defective ma |
chinery; on the other hand plans for the
Improvement and enlargement of the plant
are already being matured. -Woodstock
Standard.
BOY THIEVES ARRESTED.
Five boys ranging in age from IL to 10
years, charged with breaking into a cot |
tage at Emerald lake, North Dorset,
July 16, were arrested In Rutland We'd
nesday by Sheriff H. S. Wilson of Airing
ton and Deputy Sheriff Fred Godfrey of
Bennington, assisted by the local sheriff g
department. The boys, John Halliday. Will
liam Day, Charles Crowley, Warren Brown
and Paul Britton, accompanied a Sunday
picnic party to North Dorset on the date
mentioned and It Is claimed broke into a
cottage owned by +. G. Gilmore and A. A.
Boyce of Manchester The windows of the
cottage were broken and much damage
done to the furnishings. The portieres
were pulled down, some Of the furniture
was broken, the chimney pulled down and
the whole building was ransacked The
five boys were taken to Bennington and
will be tried In the municipal court at that
place.-Rutland Herald.
FINGER TORN OFF BY A ROPE.
Wallace w. Brown OF Pomfret suffered
the loss of the middle finger of his right
hand in curious and very painful way
last Sunday. He had turned his horse loose
to feed near the house. and as the animal
was not easy to catch he left a long rope
attached to the halter Finally he walked
up behind the horse and picked up the rope,
when the animal jumped and ram dra wing
the rope through Mr.. Browns hand 50
violently that the flesh was torn and fairly
burned off from that finger leaving the
bone bare nearly to the middle joint, the
nail, with some skin and flesh, remaining
on the back Of the finger. DR.. Holbrook
was obliged to amputate the finger just
below the middle joint. to get sufficient
skin to draw over the end for healing
Woodstock Standard.
WORKMEN HURT BY a CAvE-IN.
Charles Brown of No. 90 Wales street,
Rutland, was quite severely injured about
80 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by the
caving in OF n ditch on Church street near
the head of Wood avenue where the Peo-
pies Gas Light company Is having n gas
main laid. An Italian employee was also
caught by the falling earth but was not
seriously hurt. The ditch in which the men
were working was about five feet deep.
Several tons of rock and earth piled on
the side of the ditch suddenly gave way
and tumbled down on the two men before
they could escape. Mr. Browns body was
imhedded to above the hips, but only the
lower part of the Italians legs were
caught. The men were dug out as quickly
rs possible by their fellow workmen and
removed to their homes in hack. The
of the mans pelvic bones was fractured
and his left leg severely crushed Internal
injuries are feared.-Rutland Herald.
RACES AT WOODSTOCK.
The Woodstock Driving club expects to
hold Il matinee meeting on Thursday after
noon, August {, on the fair ground track.
Three races are announced. to begin at two
o'clock. No. /, free for all, first race for
horses belonging to members of the Wood
stock Driving club, purse s2j; No ,, 2.35
class, for horses belonging to members of
j., =
horses owned by club members, and for
Pomfret horses, purse sl5. All races to he
half-mile heats. best two in three.-Wood-
stock Standard.
| FREIGHT TRAIN DAMAGED IN \
LANDSLIDE.
a serious landslide occurred about l a.
m. Monday morning about a mile north of
East Putney covering the Boston & Maine
| tracks for some distance and badly wreck
| ing a freight train which happened to be
passing at the time 1t is thought that the
slide was started by the down sleeper
which had passed the freight train at East
! Putney, but the man who watching
the clay bank saw no signs of any slide
until just as the freight was passing and
then had all he could do tokeep from being
buried by It himself. The engine of the
freight was badly smashed and thrown
from the track. Two or three empty cars
| In the middle of the train were doubled
| Up and broken in two by the sudden stop
ping of the train and one car went down
| the emhankment toward the river. A
wreck train was called from Bellows Falls
about o'clock but the track was not clear
ed until about noon. One or two cars which
were damaged the most were burned and
the engine was taken to Bratteboro. The
point where the slide occurred is only a
few rods from the place where the slide of
July took place and the bank for some
distance has been considered so unsafe of
late owing to the excessive rains and the
clayey nature of the soil that a man Is
kent on duty there day and night to watch
II ard all trains have orders to reduce SIP a
while passing. The suddenness of the fall
and the fact that 1t fell Just in front Of
the passing engine made it impossible to
stop the train before the fall was reached.
1t is very fortunate that no one was in
| jured.-Bellows Falls Times.
ELECTRIC ROAD TO FAIR HAVEN.
The Vermont and Whitehall Railway COM
parry with Its principal office in New York
city has just been incorporated at Albany,
N. Y, with a capital of 500 600. The com
pany proposes to build and operate an cleo
trio railroad nine miles long from White
hall. y. Y. to Fair Haven to connect with
the Rutland Street Railway company's OK
tended line The surveying for the White
hall road is practically competed and the
work on the grading is progressing rapid
ly The directors of the new company are
Daniel A. Slattery, j. Osgood Nichols X.
c. Morhous. Paul NJ MoNrey, Leroy W.
Baldwin, Harry NJ. Cough, Clinton T.
: Preaine, Donald X. Brown and Ezra A.
futile of New York city,-Rutland Herald
BROKE OUT OF LOCK UP.
Deputy J. II, Hart followed two mcu
to Bellows Falls from Springfield Friday,
who were wanted there for intoxica-
ton and disturbance, He arrested the
men on the afternoon mail after
the train crossed the river at Bel
lows Falls from New HAMPSHIRE and