Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-04-23
STATE NOTES.

George Truman Swasey of Barre, sor
OF Attorney George T. Swasey, has re.
celyed an appointment as mdshipman in
Ohe naval acauemy at Annapolis, as
result of the examination held last
week at Montpelier The first alternate
IS Rollo c. Palmer of Charlotte and the
Mills.
Lieut.. Wallace n. Batchelder of Brat
| tleDoro, has received from President
roosevelt pair of front horse shoes
from the presidents saddle horse Re-
nown, and pair of hind shoes from his
saddle horse Blenstein. The shoes will
De given to Lieutenant Batchelder's
rather in Springfield, who owns the
SHOES taken from President McKinley's
laVorite pair of horses.
Claude f. George of Marshfield, who
was tarred and feathered January 10 bv
tour students while at school at Mont
Pelier seminary, has brought suit against
James Howard, a student, to recover
SooOV damages Howard is the only stu
dent on whom papers have have vet been
! served, but others in the case will be
taken on civil process as soon as found.
George was accused by students of ''spy-
ing and the broke into his room one
mlgllE gaggea him and administered a
light dose OF tar and feathers.
Isaac Pratt now rs years, old, the vet
erah trapper If Bennington county, has
trapped 10 bears, besides large numbers
on other species of wild animals of which
he has kept no record. A close second
to him is Edwin Roberts of Burtonville,
\. y, now Is years old. He commenced
hunting and trapping when ten years old.
and since then has caught or Shot, 400
foxes, 900 coons, so bears, one of them
a white one, 900 minks, so offers, 40
Wild cats and 30 sableS. Most of his
time has beer spent in the woods. lCay-
ing ms cabin to go out to set his traps,
and while waiting in his cabin in reading
his Bible, which he has read through 43
times. lie is in good health and is an
interesting tal5er.
The follow ing schedule has been ar
ranged by Norwich University baseball
team Tor the season of 1903. April rs.
23d battery a. Fort Ethan Allen; April
70, National Life Insurance team, at
Northfield; May 2, Goddard Seminary at
Barre; May Z, Boston University, at
Northtield; May 9, Middlebury college at
Northtield; May -, Kimball Union aead-
envy, at Mortified; May 16, Goddard
at Northfield; May 81, Yer
mont academy at Saxtons River; May %,
Wollaston semir airy at Easthampton,
Mass; May q Massachusetts, State col
lege, Amherst Mass. May 2S, 23d Bat
terry at Northiold.
The will Of he late T. w. Wood, the
artist, was opened last Saturday and it
is found he leaves an estate of $50, 900.
After making some small requests the
bulk OF the estate, amounting to $27. 900,
is left to the Wood Art Gallery, which
was started by Mr.. Wood and named
after him. Charles Paine of New York
gets the contents of the New York stu
dio, John Ryan, who had charge of Mr..
Woods property in Montpelier, gets the
farm in Middlesex and 81 900. Mrs.
Minnie Warren Hobart of Texas receives
$1,000, Mrs.JameS Ridley of Bristol, form
erly Mrs. Minnie Robinson Morse, re-
ceves $1,000 and her daughter $500. The
will was filed November 4, 1898.
Capt. Louis Daniels died suddenly |
Thursday night at his home in Vergennes |
from heart failure, in the Goth year of |
his age. He had retired to rest ap-
parently as we'll as usual. A short time
after he had dropped to sleep his wife
was awakened by his loud breathing, but !
he passed away before medical help
could be summoned. He left wife, two
sons, Mitchell j. and Frederick, and two
brothers, Alderman Juba Daniels of
Vergennes and Joseph Daniels, residence
unknown. Captain Daniels was prom
inent business man of Vergennes and
owner Of the steamers Alexander and
Victor, and was also coal dealer. Cap
tain Daniels was widely known up and
down the lake, and was one of the oldest
steamboat captains in the service. He
was man of strict probity of character.