The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-01-02

y Vermont State News y

Inc SIX months old baby OF Pet
er Sears and wife of Morrisville,
died Friday night from suffocation,
being smothered while asleepin bed.
One of the four barns on ]. d.
Redway's farm near Brattleboro was
burned recently with contents, in
Guiding 18 fine Jersey COWS, 80 head
of swine and farming tools. Loss
$1,000, partially insured.
Hunters and trappers of Vermont
are receiving higher prices for their
raw fur than ever before from the
Burlington fur manufacturers, e.
Spear q Son, who use all the YER
mont furs they can get in making
fur coats, muffs and bols.
John A. Stanley, a prominent cit
izen of Washington died on the oath
of complication of heart trouble
and dropsy. He has twice represent
edit the town in the state legislature,
has held various town offices, and
will be missed all over the county.
The cattle commissioners have fin
ished the work of Strengthening and
cremating herds affected with foot
and mouth disease. Three hundred
and sixty-five head of cattle were
killed by them in Chester and the
adjoining towns of Windsor, Graf
ton, Andover, Reading and SPRING
field
DR.. A. Oscar Gates, former Nor
risville boy, who has been practic-
ing osteopathy in Adrian, Mich, for
the past two years, is about to locate
in Detroit, Mich, and will have Off
ces with DR.. r. L. Rider, former
professor of chemistry in the Amer
lean college of Osteopathy at Kinks
willie, Mo.
C. r. Prescott, formerly we'll
known in Orange and West Top
sham, an account of whom was late
ly published in this and other papers
as having arrived al Bennington
Soldiers Home with badly frozen
feet, was taken to Massachusetts on
Monday where both feet will probab-
ly have to be amputated.
The checker match for the cham
pionship of the state, in progress at
Rutland for four days, between Geo.
c. Anderson of Barre and N. A.
Bailey of Rutland, was decided in
favor of the Barre man Saturday
night. Anderson has been cham
pion since last October, when he
won the title from Bailey at match
played at Barre.
Fred Miles, 10-year-old son of
Thomas Miles of Goshen, was shot
in the leg Saturday while hunting
with another boy. The two boys
were in the woods hunting rabbits
when the young friend started rab-
bit toward young Miles and instead
of the rabbit getting hit, young
Miles received the charge of the
buck shot in his leg. =
Word has been received fr9na
adam authorities that -
Metcalf, who in 1893, WI
rily. s>eties asP-fs. h. r
at Groton, sliin1nw6
$500. of the 6yv(sN
now serving Hive vel
Kingston, Td.fonto, penn
robbery. When his presefNss
pires he will be taken for 'VMer
offences.
John F. McGuirk and Mrs. Maria
A. McGuirk were united in marriage
Wednesday night for the second
time by Rev. N. Prouix at Rutland.
McGuirk is a we'll known grocer.
The couple were married first in
1886, and divorce was granted the
woman last September for cruel and
abusive treatment. Subsequently
an injunction was served on McGuirk
to compel him to keep away from
the woman.
| c. l.. Spear of West Corinth APP
peared on the 23rd before the Barre
city board of aldermen, in behalf of
the Orange County Telephone Co.,
| for a permit to run their line into
Barre and establish two or more CEN
trail Offices. On the motion OF AL
derman Mckenzie the matter was re-
ferred to a committee of the whole
to report at the first meeting in jan
uary, including a public hearing in
the meantime.
y. E. Aldrich, a farmer of East
Shrewsbury recently made hunt
part of the town. He brought back
with him about the largest amount
of game which has been captured
by any local hunter for some time.
He killed 3 foxes. three musk rats,
three minks, three raccoons and FIVE
skunks. He sold the skins of all
the animals in one lot for S123,
which he considers good pay for a
weeks work.
Samuel Shepard. who has been
working for 7. d. Haughy at West
jay, in his lumber camp as cook,
went to East Richmond Monday,
and got a check for $50 cashed at
the office of L. Baker & Sons, and
started to go to Glen Sutton. When
about one mile south of the place,
he was run over by the Canadian
Pacific express going south, due
here at Has a. m, and was instant
ly killed. Mr.. Shepard was so years
old and somewhat deaf