Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-08-30
STATE NEWS

Two young ome Miss Mary Whit.
man of Troy, N. Y, and Miss Margaret
Richter of New York city were drowned
in Lake Bomoseen Saturday night, when
a motor boat in which they were riding
with two young men collided with the
lake steamer A. B. Cook. The men, Will
liam Bushee and Robert Edward of this
town, succeeded in freeing Miss Whitman
from beneath the boat and, after assist
ing her to hang to the upturned bottom
of the boat, tried to rescue Miss Richter,
who was held beneath the craft. The
boat sank, however, and Miss Richter
was carried to the bottom with it. The
two men then started to swim ashore
with Miss Whitman, but after they had
gone some distance they found they
were carrying a ~lifeless burden, the
woman having apparently died from
exhaustion.
Edward Carroll, a brakeman on the
Central Vermont railroad, was killed by
his own train at Jonesville early Sunday
morning. His train, No. 76S, south
bound, was pulling into the siding at 2
o'clock to permit a passenger train to
pass, when Carroll fell between the cars
and was run over. He had been EN-.
ployed for thirteen months on the rail
road. He was 30 years old and leaves
his wife and children in st. Adams.
Two large barns and a hoghouse on
George j. Hobart's farm OF Osgood hill
in Westford were destroyed Saturday
night by fire caused by lightning. The
hay, grain and farm tools were burned,
but the livestock was saved. One barn
was 10Sx40 feet and three stories high
on the back side. The farm is occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. William Brown, for
merly of Williston, The property is in
sured. Mr.. Hobart resides at Essex
Junction.
Archie Bosworth of Fair Haven was
struck by a Delaware and Hudson train
at Whitehall, N. Y, Sunday morning
and instantly killed. He was walking
the track and was struck from behind.
Mr.. Bosworth was 80 years old and his
only surviving relative is an uncle,
Frank Bosworth, of Ceder street.
The horse barn of the Burlington street
department near the county Jail build
ing was Quilted by fire Sunday after
noon, causing a loss of several hundred
dollars. There were 10 horses in the
barn at the time, and all were rescued.
Most of the harnesses were saved also.
The fire broke Out in the haymow. where
were stored seven or eight tons of hay,
which had just been placed there. The
firemen had a hard time fighting the
fire because of the dense smoke coming
from the burning hay, and they did not
have the fire under control for an hour.
Six streams of water were poured into
the burning building. The property
was insured.
Wilbur Prince, sixteen years of age,
was Friday pardoned by the State penal
board and dismissed from the industrial
school at Vergennes after serving one
year of his sentence, which was for the
remainder of his minority. Prince, who
lives in Burlington, was arrested and
convicted on a charge of stealing wire
from the New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co. A petition, asking for the
pardon, was recently circulated through
the city by the boys father.
Mrs. Simon Rising of West Pawlet
was instantly killed near Salem, n. Y,
Thursday evening, when the automobile
in which she was riding ran into a tree
at the roadside. Mr.. and Mrs. Rising
had been spending the day at the Cam.
bridge fair and on the return trip the
steering gear on the car broke and al
though Mr.. Rising applied the brakes
and shut off all the power, the machine
from the road and struck a
tree, throwing Mrs. Rising over the
dashboard and hood of the car and
the tree, where her skull was
by the impact. Mr.. Rising
was practically uninjured.