The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-05-09
VERMONT NEWS.

ing. The family had eaten
breakfast food, those using cream
becoming i'll while those who used
milk suffered no i'll effects.
Burt Bros clothing store in
Bennington, which was burglarized
Monday night was again entered
early Saturday morning. The
thief entered by the same window
as his predecessor, entry being Ell
fected by prying up the sash with
pillow points. Six new suits of
clothes were taken. Shortly before
five O'Clock farm hand on his way
to the village passed stranger in
the covered bridge about a mile
south. The man had a coat in his
hands aud the coat he was wearing
had tag on the back. Charles l..
Galusha, aged % years and native
of Bennington, was arrested Mon
day, charged with the burglary.
He was arraigped before Judge Il.
L. Bates in municipal court, found
guilty and sentence was held up.
Ga'usha had OH suit and rain
coat which are said to have been
among those stolen. His accom-
p.ice in the burglary is still at large.
Deputy Sheriff Reuben Greene.
turnkey at the Franklin county jail
at St. Adams, committed suicide by
hanging Sunday. His body was
found suspended in the basement of
the Franklin county court house,
which adioins the Jail. III health
is ascribed as the cause of the sui
eide. Mr. Greene was 43 years old
and was married only two weeks
ago. His wife survives him.
Orc Poor, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwa ] Poor, of Williamstown,
VISA recently attacked by vicious
bull and narrowly escaped death.
He was so tom in one leg and else
where, that some sixteen or eighteen
stitches had to be taken in dressing
his wounds. Whether there are in
ternal injuries or not that may be
serious is not yet known.
The Rutland Railroad Co., has
granted an increase in pay average
ing about ten per cent. to its train
men including brakemen and bag
gagemen. The arrangement went
into effect Thursday.
Friends of Pearl Whitehall have
received word from him from New
Castle, New South Wales. With
erall is a we'll known Middlebury
man, who has | cen on shipboard for
two and one-half years and in Feb
ruary of last year was on vessel
which foundered off the coast of
New Zealand. The captain. wife,
and nine of the crew were lost. 1t
was feared that Whitehall was
among the drowned, but he rode the
seas two days on chicken coop with
a smashed foot and was then picked
up. When he wrote he was about
to sail for Chill with the expectation
of ultimately returning to the Unit
ed States and to Middlebury. Two
of his aunts have died during his
wandering abroad.
The Adams opera house at Proc
torsville was dedicated Wednesday
evening, May 2, by a minstrel show.
The opera house has a seating ca
pacity of four hundred.
Tie Congregational Church Of
Bennington last week observed its
seventy first anniversary The So
ciety is one of the largest in YER
mont with a embersbip Of over
$50. The church property is val
ued at SIS 900 and is free from
debt
John Worrell, lumberman from
Wilmington, was taken to the hospit
al in North Adams, Mass, late Thurs
day afternoon. He had been lDjur-
ed in the woods and was treated for
severe injuries to his body, which
included several fractured ribs.
Charles Davenport, of Putney,
has several distinctions to his credit.
He is the oldest man in town, hav-
ing just passed his ninety-fourth
birthday anniversary He is the
oldest of five generations in an III
broken line who are pow living, and
he is the only survivor, SO far as
known, of the old Connecticut river
boatmen who ran fatboats between
Hartford, Conn, and White River
Junction. Mr.. Davenport has bt en-
i'll for some time, but is now recover
ing his health. He has vivid RI col
lections of his boating days and tells