The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-07-02
ABOUT THE STATE.
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The annual meeting Of the Morgan
| Horse Breeders Association is being held
1T the Bread Loaf Inn, in Ripton today.
! 4 cable from Porto Rico says the condi-
ton Of Paymaster G.. p Aud has taken
a turn for the worse, blood poisoning hav-
ing developed
/ Twenty horses were sold at auction at
| Shelburne Farms. the home Of DR.. W.
Seward Webb, Tuesday The sale at
traeted several hundred bidders and ami
mails brought high prices.
The grand list Of st. Johnsbury for 1908
shows a gain OF Sis. Ii over last year, and
4 gain ia polls Of Is, with at least 100 sol
diers exempt The grand list for 1902
was $40 67063 and for 1909 was S42, 1885,
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On account Of the scarcity Of hay, the
1 farmers Of Swanton and vicinity are now
ing portions Of their meadows to feed their
stock, and will plow and SOW for late
crops The windrows as the rake leaves
them. resembles the usual 'scatterings' In
an ordinary season.
AIyIon Barton, one Of the best known
men III Bennington county, died at his
! home in salisbury Yesterday morning.
Il He was 81 years old. He was born IN that
town and always lived there, He and his
father before him held the office Of town
clerk for over so consecutive years. He
represented his town twice In the legisla-
ture was county, sheriff two terms and
had filled nearly every town Office
The body Of William Dixon, who was
drowned Saturday afternoon at Franklin,
has not been recovered, although the pond
has been thoroughly dragged each day
. since. Circumstances in the case have
prompted the authorities to hold an in
quest on the body Of Edward Conklin, who
was drowned at the same time and JUS
tiee OF the Peace "A. d, Horskins has is
sued warrants for the same
Fred Worrell, who is about 30 years old
| and resident of Bartonsville, fell about
GO feet here Tuesday from the belfry
Of st. Luke's church while at work paint
ing. lie was on staging at the time,
and In trying to move himself to one side
. the board slipped off, letting him down.
When about 20 feet below the staging his
foot caught In rope, which broke the
power Of his fall somewhat otherwise it
would undoubtedly have killed him out
, right He struck the ground on his right
side on grassy plot. Young Worrell was
taken TO the Fullerton house, where Drs.
I Ray Ravens and Stevenson made an eX-
animation; they found no bones broken,
but are afraid Of serious internal Injuries,
A serious and probably fatal accident
occurred ON Saturday morning on the
barn now being built by Lawrence Far
rington in Cabot II. L SortWell, one Of
the carpenters, built a staging about Is Of
i 20 feet from the ground and while at work
on It found himself out 0f nails He put
one nail in the end Of board intending to
nail It more firmly later This he neglect
ed to do, and few hours after the stag
J ing gave way with Mr. Sortwelrs weight
and he fell to the ground, breaking his
back. lie Is totally paralyzed below the
point Of injury but is IN no pain. The
J doctors think he cannot live. Ills family,
! wife and three children are with aim,
T also one brother.
| A skull with an alleged bullet hole in il
l and almost all the other parts OF human
skeleton was unearthed by an employee ol
the Gas company on North street. Burllng.
; ton, Monday afternoon. The skeleton
! was dug up about four feet underground
Z The thigh bone, arm and leg bones, skull
and several ribs were In well preserved
condition The skeleton was that 81 al
understood man, possibly an Indian, al
the forehead was very low and receding
! and apparently had been buried man.
years The soil where the grewsome dis
covery was made Is sandy and from time
: to time during the past few years, various
3 parts Of human skeletons have been dul
lup