The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-09

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grandmothers, four great grandmothers
and one great-great grandmother.
| During the electrical storm that visit
ed Bennington Friday, lightning struck
the barn of L. NJ. Hall in the east part
of the town and burned it to the ground.
The building was insured for $3.50.
F. w. Taylor, who has been employed
by +. & T. Fairbanks & Co. in st.
Johnsbury, for the last 40 years, for
Is. years with the engineering depart
ment, has resigned his position and on
Saturday closed his connection with the
company.
Andrew Anderson, employed in the
shops of the Porter Screen company at
Winooski, lost 800 in a pocketbook
which he left on bench in one of the
rooms few minutes during his alb.
sence. Upon his return the money was
gone.
/ The Newton saw mill in Hubbardton
was burned to the ground June %.
Besides the loss of the mill quite
large quantity of lumber was badly
scorched The loss will reach several
hundred dollars. The fire is supposed
to have caught from the engine.
The American Gas CO., it ia under
stood, has secured the power at Bolton
and at Middlesex. II is further under
stood that the company will connect
this power with its power at Essex
Junction and will consolidate the three,
and furnish power TO Barre and inter
mediate places.
Silas f. Perry of West Rutland had
narrow escape from death recently, when
the horse attached TO a milk cart from
the Campbell farm, where he worked,
stepped into ditch, overturned the
outfit and nearly buried Mr.. Perry be-
meath the milk cans. The man was
thrown upon a pile OF rocks and was
unconscious for long time. He was
badly shaken up and bruised and one
side of his face was torn.
Doris Hunt, the l4-year- old daughter
of Edward Hunt OF Troy, n. Y, a.
former resident of Bennington, was
drowned Wednesday in Troy. The girl
wild flowers and finding shallow spot
to go in wading. Neither girl could
swim and the Hunt girl stepped into a
pool over Is feet deep, never coming
to the surface.
Thursday evening about the same
time the steamer Ticonderoga was struck
by lightning during the short but SEE
we're storm near Colchester reef light
house, the Chateaugay was also struck
and only slightly damaged. Never be-
fore has a steamer of the Champlain
Transportation Co. been struck by light
ming and the sailors have had a theory
that moving object could not be struck
on the water. That two boats should
be struck on the same evening is all
the more remarkable.
Miss Evelyn Bourbon, daughter of Mr.. |
and Mrs Joseph Bourbon OF Windsor, |
was badly injured recently by being |
struck by train while walking on
the track between her boarding place |
and the business part Of the village |
Miss Bourbon is deaf mute, 20 years |
old, and very bright young woman
She was walking beside the track when |
the train overlook her, and the whistle /
was blown loudly and repeatedly, but |
of course she did not hear it. The young /
woman had taken the same route on pre-
vious occasions. and it is supposed she
thought herself far enough from the
rail to be safe, but was hit on the hip
by the car step and thrown violently
across onto the next track. The blow
OF the car step bruised her hip so Sc
riously that the flesh seemed loosened I
was broken in two places, and a cash
was cut in the back side of the scalp,
which required fourteen stitches to close.
The mysterious robberies at st. AL
bans Bay which have been going on
all the season, during which % cottages
have been robbed, were stopped Friday,
when Walter Labadie and Frank West
aged IL and Is years, respectively, were
arrested and confessed to having COM
mitted the bnrglaries, and d large guam
tity of plumber, including some from
almost every place robbed, was recov-
cred. The confession also included the
breaking into and robbing OF the furni-
lure factory OF several fixtures, the city
stone plant of dynamite, wire and bat
5eries, and the Main street theatorium
If a quantity of stuff The Labadie
roy has had bad record from early
,oyhood and his influence was the West
,oy's undoing, it being the latters first