Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-08-10
NEWS OF VERMONT
More Important Events Grouped for
Free Press MISUNDERSTANDING Acci.
dent IN NorthAeid.

serious shooting accident occur
red In Northfeld Monday morning in
which young man lost his right arm.
charles Affair 81 years Of age. the
son OF Isrial Abair. living at the Four
corners. was handling q shot gun.
| While the. muzzle was pressed against
his right wrist the gun was In some
way accidcntly discharged, tearing the
| fiesh on his arm to the shoulder, maxi
ing horrible wound. Dr. Hurley was
| Immediately summoned and did every
thing possible for tho unfortunate
young man. An effort Is being made
TO save the arm but IT Is thought that
IT is more than probable that It's am
putaton will be necessary.
| ITALIANS VIOLATE GAME LAWS.
Portions of the carcasses of many
deer have been found In the woods
about East Wallingford by farmers and
fishermen. Residents lay the blame to
the Italian wood choppers who have
camps In tho woods. and also charge
them with illegally taking trout of all
sizes from the brooks.
a WHITE DEER SEEN IN JERICHO.
Henry Murdoch has a field of beans be-
low his house in Jericho. next to a piece
of woods and the deer seem to think it
was planted for their benefit. There
were one or more deer in there, every
night last wick. Friday night at seven
| O'Clock there were four a buck and "a
doe and IA fawn and what looked to be a
| vA.h IL
white as calf would OF the same color
| They were there FIVE or ten minutes be-
1ore they went into tho woods, and the
| whole family stood and looked at them
Mr. Murdoch and his son saw the same
| -FOUR wednesday morning he said the
white one has some red around it's mock
BIRDS AND DOG CHASE A DOE.
S'ldon White and T.. G. Freeman of
Woodstock were driving towards Shcr
""fhe on fishing trip in tho early morn
| INK 1" Few days ago when, between Bridge
water ana the Corners, a doc dashed
'cr"ss inc road and plunged into the river
ii'r head was covered with blood and
n"N"rinG along just above her as tho
men drove up were three birds which Mr.
"hItc thought were ravens II is char
actfrlstic OF these birds to watch and
follow sick or wounded creature and
'h's VuIturc-likc trio, dropping down now
ana then almost to tho does back, seem
ca 10 be waiting for feast if the animal
succumeh. little farther up tho river
inc hsncrlnon met "a dog that had attack
ed ana wounded the doe. They fired a
shot or two to drive il off the track, but
II confined tho chase. The doe had n long
lead. however. and after going down
stream for 20 rods turned and went into
the woods.
| PREPARING FOR A COON HUNT.
The Woodstock Hunt club. an organiza-
tion of considerably more than local
fame, will soon begin its annual cam
paisn, the recent rain delaying operations
somewhat. The club intends to try out
some young dogs first. Hedgehogs ara
the worst enemy. bill" the clubs rcgu-
lar dog. getting messed up with EN- at
every opportunity. and the idea is to
break the younger ones of this habit
before hunting for coons. which is the
| main object of the club.
PETTY TtIIEvING AT DORSET.
| Everything in the line of personal prop
| erty that it is possible to move with the
aid of derrick is being padocked or
| taken in over night by the people of Dor
set. For some weeks Il gang of about 80
Italian laborcrs has been living in a
| freight ear at that station and making
| the larger portion of its existence from
]on the surrounding country. Potato
patches gardens and wood piles have
been raidcd and small articles have even
been taken from houses No action was
taken by the authorities as it was recog-
nizcd that IL would be impossible TO dis
cover any of tho plumber. the most of
which found its way into the stOmachs
of the sons of the sunny peninsula soon
after ii came in their poss, s>ion. The
climax was reached. however. wscn
George Griffith found it would he impos-
sihlc TO start his SAW mill for the reason
| that the main belt was missing. suspicion
at once pointed to the Italian camp and
Il search by Constable NJ. Convey re-
vealcd the missing article snugly stored
away in an old dress suit case. The bolt
was about 40 feet long and 10 inches wide
and the thief had appropriated the leather
to use in making taps for the shoes of
| himself and companions As is the case
in all camps of Italian laborers the men
do not respond to names but To numbers
On the suit case was the number |. o56 and
tho Italian who correspondent to tho fig
ures was arrested. He is a young man
between 20 and 80 years of age. lie
promptly denied stealing the belt but was
brought before IL justice and taken to
Manchester. A telegram was sent to
Rutland for the 'padronc" or boss re-
ouesting him 20 come to Manchester and
identify the man under arrest