Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-06-26
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Jerome Jones, native of Brattle
boro, who died at her home in Brookline,
Mass, recently, leaves S75, 900 TO benevo-
lent and religious institutions. The rest
of her estate is distributed among her
heirsat law in various parts of the
country.
The Rev. L. d. Ringrose. of Whiting
ham, who has just returned home from
the North Adams, Mass, hospital is in
very poor health and has given up his
pastorate at the Baptist church, his resig-
nation taking effect Sunday.
The cash drawer and a tin document
case taken from the safe of the Whining
ton postoffice at the time of the burglary
about eighteen months ago, were found
by Road Commissioner Gleason's men
the other day under a stone pile which
the men were moving. They were found
about a mile east of the village, on the
Jacksonville road, near the Averill tavern.
AT recent special town meeting held
in Troy. special tax of rs per cent on
the grand list of 1908, outside the village
of North Troy, was voted, to raise money
to enable the town to pay the sum of
SO, S55 SO to the North Troy graded school
district in conformity to the decree of
the supreme court granted said district
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according to the terms of the will of the
late Moses Dodge its share of the Dodge
fund.
The Rev. II. A. Buzzell, who for the
past fifteen months has been acting pas
tor of the First Baptist church in Mont
pelier, closed his labors there Sunday.
He will take rest of several weeks be-
fore deciding whether to accept the assist
ant secretaryship of the Baptist State
Association of New Jersey or go to Val
lao, Cal. as pastor of Baptist church
there. During his pastorate of the Mont
pelier church its membership has been
increased forty.
States Attorney Benjamin Gates, of
Montpelier, will not have a clear field,
as at first supposed, in his candidacy for
denomination at the Washington county
convention to be held here July T. Will
liam Wishart and NJ. NJ. Gordon both of
Barre, having announced that they are
candidates for the position. Both are
well known attorneys of the Granite
city.
The funeral of Charles NJ. Wood,
United States vice and deputy-consul at
Rome, whose body was brought to Bran
don Friday. was held at st. Thomas's
church Saturday afternoon, the Rev.
Charles B. Carpenter officiating The
honorary bearers were eX-Gov. E. j.
Ormsbee, of Brandon. H. O. Carpenter,
H. F. Field, NJ. c. Weber, Egbert G.
futile, of Rutland and c. F. Partridge,
of Proctor. The bearers were w. r.
Kinsman, S. Hurshfield, C. T. Brown, of
Rutland, Fireman Scofield, of Pittsburg,
Frank Wood and Rollin Wood, Fred E.
Backus. The burial was in the family
lot at Pine hill cemetery.
A murderous stabbing affair occurred
in Montpelier shortly before midnight
Saturday night and as a result Alonzo
Larvey, Frenchman, is laid up with a
badly slashed head and Angelo Stane, an
Italian, is in Jail, charged with assault
intent to kill. 1t is said that Stane had
been boarding with Larvey and late Sat
urday night attempted to change his
boarding place and take away his per-
sonal effects without paying his board
bill, to which Larvey objected. Larvey
attempted to get possession of suit case
which Stane was carrying away when
Stane grabbed butcher knife from
table and attacked Larvey, sashing his
head and face in brutal manner.
Edwin j. Norway, formerly of New
por. Center, was accidentally killed at
Bath, N. H., Tuesday, June o. He was
employed on the farm of Joseph Nutter
in Bath, and was at work in the field
with land roller. 1t is thought that
Norway stepped from his seat to the
ground in front of the roller to adjust
some part of the harness, dropping the
reins as he alighted, and that as he stood
there the horses started, knocking him
down, the reins meantime catching I'M
der the roller and bringing the team to a
stop with the roller resting on his body.
Nazzareno Moretti of Readsboro, aged
Is years, was drowned Saturday after
noon, June 10, while bathing with a
friend at the head of Newton pond in the
Deerfield river. The friend who was
with Moretti, narrowly escaped losing
his life trying to rescue Moretti. After
vain attempts he rushed to the village to
obtain help. An unsuccessful search for
the body was made by large number of
people until they were prevented by
nightfal. At dayb Sunday morn
ing Grovanori Maroni and William Abb
rowed to the point where Moretti was
last seen, dragged a long pole with a
hook attached to the end of it in the
river, and soon hooked on to one arm of
the body deep down in the water and
drew it to the surface. From the con-
tracted condition of the legs and arms
when the body was recovered it is evil
dent that the boy was seized with cramps
which caused him to drown. Theyoung
man is survived by two sisters.