Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-08-12
STATE NEWS.

Alphonse II. Duhamel celebrated his
5Sth birthday Thursday by performing
| his usual duties as foreman of the Bur-
llngton Free Press news room, where he
was presented with a watch fob as Il
reminder from his co-workers. Mr.. Du-
hamel has been connected with the Free
Press for IS years.
Mayor Burke of Burlington has re-
ceived a communication from O. r.
Lovejoy, the general secretary of the
| Child labor committee of New York
city. in which a desire is expressed to
aid in securing child labor laws in Yer
mont, and suggesting that an organiza-
ton be formed to further that end. 1t
is expected that a meeting will be held
soon, when some action in the matter
will be taken. The names of B. n.
Clark, G. p. Cowles, Rev. E. G. Guthrie.
Julia Smith and DR.. j. b. Wheeler are
committee for membership.
Mrs. G. f, Parker has started the fresh
air fund in Casteton for city children
18th gift of $50 and committee has
been formed in Rutland to place children
in private families, manage them in
camp, and collect funds, etc.
The barn belonging to the tenement
house Of John Elmer at Nergennes, &C.
the ground recently, the fire being caused
by Mr.. Pierre's three. year. old son light
ing matches in the barn. A quantity of
hay and some harnesses were burned.
Thursdays electrical storm did con.
siderable damage in Poultney. A COW
belonging to Edward Butler and valued
nt hui icrh i'm nd Ii
A barn owned by Daniel Mack, of East
Poultney, which had just been filled
with hay and oats, was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground.
The Curtis water power at Jericho,
Jericho Granite Co., has been greatly
improved. A new dam has been con-
structed and a modern water wheel is
to be installed, which will furnish suffi-
cient power to operate the surface cutter
and all pneumatic tools in and about the
shed, making it one of the modern equip
ped granite works of the state.
Louis H. Faunce of Fayston, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
a shotgun Friday morning, notwith-
standing the efforts of his wife and son
to prevent him. Mr.. Faunce was about
40 years old. Besides his wife and son
he is survived by two daughters.
A suit for 5000 against Jones Bros,
granite manufacturers, has been filed in
Washington county court by Onesim 9
NORM of Barre, who alleges that he was
injured March last by an explosion of
blast near him while he was operating
steam drill. Negligence of the defend
ant company is alleged and the plaintiff
sets up in his declaration that he is Grip
pied for life.
The work of taking the quadrennial
appraisal is practically complete, and,
while definite figures are not obtainable,
enough information is at hand to war
rant the statement that the present APP
praisal when completed will show an
increase in the tax valuation of st. John
bury real estate of not less than million
and quarter of dollars. The personal
property valuation in the April canvass
resulted in an increase of $629, 900. The
last real estate total was something more
than S4,300,000.
Seventy-two cases were heard in Bur-
lington city conrt during July. AS
usual. the intoxication cases outnum-
bered all others, there being 4S. The
other cases are classified as follows:
Lettering, /; larceny, l; assault with at
tempt 10 commit rape, Z; forgery 3;
breach Of the peace, a; violating liquor
law, 5; violating slaughter house ordi-
nance, /; prostitution, 2; violating auto
mobile ordinance, 1; open and gross
lewdness, l /; non-support, L, physicians
not registering, l; tramp, hurting hard
substance at train, /.
During the electrical storm Thursday
afternoon the new residence of Hurd F.
Montague, of Jericho, was struck by
lightning and somewhat damaged but
not set on fire. The lightning struck the
chimney, passed to the ventilating shaft
of the bathroom, following that into the |
room and along the water pipes to the
kitchen, SCATTERING the sinks and faucets. |
The entire family was more or less af-
fected but Mrs. Montague, who was
ously shocked, it being some time before |
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