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in Addison county are submerged
Burglars obtained about $50 in sill
yer and tobacco, cigars and pipes from
A. B. Yaudow's store in Essex June
tion, Monday night.
The commissioners on the estate Of
the late Gen ". W. circuit Of Kirby
have not given out the amount of
claims proven against the estate, but
good authority places the amount
above 500, 600, beId largely by banks.
The body of Nahum Bemis 73. who
disappeared from bis home in Chester
last December, was found a mile from
the house in four feet of water in a
brook. The body was partly covered
with brush aud it is thought by some
that Bemis was a victim Of foul play
Terrence McKane has been awarded
in county court at Montpelier YER
dict of s., 900 l6 damages against Mari
& Gordon. McKsne was a quarryman
and bad been sent to dig out hole in
which blast bad failed. 1t exploded
ana the jar injured his spine
Elmer Walker, 32, of Burlington,
was shot 10 one leg while hunting
muskrats on the Winooski river
Wednesday. The leg was amputated.
A gun which be was removing from
the boat caught against something and
was discharged, the entire charge
striking him in the leg.
Dexter Moody, 6j, fell into the Win
ooski river at Montpelier Wednesday
and was drowned. he left his home
with a wbeelbarrow of rubbish, and
after his wife became alarmed search
was begun, and bis hat was found in
the river about q quarter Of mile
from the point where be probably dis
appeared Moody was formerly
brakeman on the Central Vermont
railroad. He was a giant 10 physique,
standing 6 feet four inches tall and
weighing $50 pounds One Of bis com
rades in Company B, 10th Vermont
Regiment, was Hiram Smith, a Mont
pslier man, who committed suicide b,
hanging last week.
The official investigation into the
circumstances leading to the death Of
Mrs Sarah G Bennett at the Vermont
Insane Hospital closed Saturday at
Waterbury, A stenogra 2bic report of
the proceedings was taken and the
supervisors of the insane r. f. Steele
of Montpelier, G. S. Foster of Putney
and L. NJ. Green of Bethel. will hold
a special meeting within short time
and prepare a report to be submitted
to the governor. From the evidence
shat has been taken it seems almost
certain that the substance Of the, re-
port will he that the scslding Of Mrs
Bennett was due to gross negligence
on the part Of Mrs Perry, the nurse
who prepared the bath and put the
patient into the tub, and contributory
negligence on the part of Miss Vince
lock, the charge nurse Nothing that
points with certainty TO criminal neg
ligence on the part Of anyone, or even
hints at Encouragement on the part
OF the officials was shown by the evl
deuce
The merino sheep breeders are find
ing the spring demand far in excess Of
the supply, Fancy animals are com
manding unusual prices, and the
breeders of Spanish and Rambouilett
merinos find that they have made prof
liable ventures Nearly every sheep
raiser in Addison county is turning
attention to breeding merinos. A re-
cent consignment Of choice animals
shipped from Middlebury sold at prices
ranging from $50 to $500 a head, and
one exceptionally fine bucK from a
herd in Shoreham sold at a trihe over
$1,000. With the close Of the Jloer war
the market 10 South Africa took on
new activity. During th past year
1900 choice, fancy breed breeding ami
mails haze beeu shipped from Middle.
bury to Durham, Natal, and other
large consignnents will leave 10 a
short time, Australian markets are
also paying fancy prices for Vermont
breeding sheep, and several shipments
have already beeh made to that coun
try.
David L. Howe OF Woodstock, who
is in his 87th year, is the oldest Free
Mason 10 the state, and also the Oldest
printer. He was born in Thetford,
February 3, 1917 When ABOUT I6
years of age he learned the printers
trade. working on the American Wing,
a paper published in anti Mas me
timss. This paper was small week
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