Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-08-30
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no deaths resulted.
The six-year-old son of Fred Blanchard
of Jacksonville was thought to be lost
ana a telephone alarm was sent out.
About midnight he struggled in, having
fallen from nay NOW while asleep and
received severe blow on the head.
Angelo D'Santi and Peter lame, the
Rutland Italians, who were arrested in a
street brawl over Angela D'Santi in
which Charles Finelli was killed, have
been given hearing and bound over to
the grand jury in the sum of $4,000
each.
Friction from the wagon wheels ignited
a load of hay at West Rutland. First
thing the driver knew his whole cargo
was on fire and he made high dive be.
tween the horses for his life. He was
badly bruised and the animals were
burned severely.
Tax Collector Pollard of Montpelier has
a few hard cases on his hands. He made
a dozen calls at one house and finally,
finding the doors locked, gained entrance
through the hatchway. He went into
every room but one, the door to which
was locked. He coolly took the casing off
and located his man within. The matter
of taxes was then quickly arranged.
John HI. Moore, St. Johnsbury letter
carrier, has been appointed band leader
of the Indian school, Haskell Institute),
ct Lawrence, Kans.
Two hundred and fifty dogs, from all
over New England and even farther
away, have been entered for the Rut-
land Kennel clubs dog show, Some of
the CANNES are valued as high as 1000
each.
While trying to make a trolley car
tow him through Merchants Row, Rut-
land, an Italian was thrown from his
bicycle and slid several feet on his face.
His features were all mixed up and one
shoulder badly injured,
A mistake IN labelling samples by the
liquor commissioners, it is stated in the
Barre Times, caused the State labora-
tory to pronounce Diamond Wedding
whiskey not up to standard. A note
to the effect that it failed to stand the
test was printed in this column yester-
day.
| Wild tales come from Hartford, Conn.,,
through the Springfield Republican
about the experiences of John Roberts
of Barre. He was tearing up and down
the Hartford highways with both hands
full OF green backs, which he was try
ing to give away, when the police took
him in.
May Holden and Stella Preston of Rut-
land were staggering home when the
former imagined herself insulted by
little Georgia Ackley She seized the
child by her hair and maltreated her SO
that she tainted three times after being
rescued. A crowd gathered and man
attempted to hold May until the officer
arrived but he was bitten and scratched
so severely that he gave up. Later the
two women were taken from the gutter
and sent home, only to be arrested and
locked up by Officer Packard
The Bennington street car line has been
completed but the New Haven people,
who are back of it, are staggered at its
cost. The road is but l | miles long, but
is probably the most expensive bit of
trolly line on the face of the earth, cost
ing only S1S less than a million dollars.
1t is said that several different corps of en-
giners have been engaged on the job and
that almost every yard has been rebuilt
three times The cost has been $50, 900 a
mile greater than that of the average
road.
Ezra Jones, aged Sc, who lives near
Green River, is recovering from one of
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ord. The old gentleman was found hang
ing from woven wire fence, a rope
about his neck and bleeding profusely
from several wounds. The circumstances
point to suicide, but Jones claims he was
on his way cross lots and fell in an at
tempt to climb the fence, catching his
feet in the upper interstice. AS his cries
brought no help and his suffering became
unbearabe he tried to cut an artery in his
wrist and his throat. Not being success
full he tried to strangle hi mself with the
rope, but was too weak to accomplish his
purpose.
Angus Colvin has been bound over to
Washington county court on charge
of selling Intoxicating liquor without a
license. Bail was fixed at $500 which
was furnished by c. H. Senter, his
counsel. Colvin is i'll with consumption
and will probably not live many months
He has large family in destitute cir.
cumstances.
For the second time this summer the
quarantine has been removed from all
the houses in West Berlin and North
field Falls which have been quarantined
for smallpox and the epidemic is again
declared at an end. In West Berlin
alone during the two stages of the cpl
demic there were As cases, none of which
proved fatal.
James Handley. hackman, narrowly
missed losing horse Saturday in St. AL
bans by electrocution. Handley was
driving across the street railway tracks
in front of F. w Fonda's residence when
great blue flame suddenly shot from
one of the rails and the horse dropped as
though dead. The animal fortunately
fell outside the rail and afer a few min
utes it was able to get TO its feet and be
led home. The trouble is supposed to
have been caused by leak in the cables
carrying the power, (which in some way
found its way 20 the rails.
The next map of Vermont will show
new lake lying in the town of Morris
town. The flood gates of the great con-