Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-12
STATE NEWS.

Monday at the Burritt homestead in
Hinesburgh by gathering of about 30
relatives and friends. A collation. was
served. and generous purse presented.
Chip Woodward, alias Tilton, received
a sentence in Caledonia County court of
not less than two and not more than five
years in the state prison at Windsor for
horse stealing. After being turned down
by liveryman, he calmly appropriated
a horse and carriage he saw in the
street, but was soon Overtaken.
Clarence, the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George LaForest of Mortified was
badly burned last Sunday. The lad,
with several other children, was play
ing with matches and in some manner
the back of his Indian suit caught fire,
and his back and legs were badly burned
before the flames were extinguished
The boy is confined to the bed and his
condition is quite serious.
The Austine institution at Brattleboro
is practically completed and will be
opened next fall. The building Is erected
for the care of the deaf, dumb and blind
and was made possible through the be-
quest Of Col. William Austine, retired
army officer, in 1904, and the appropria.
ton OF $50, 900 by the Legislature of 1910.
Miss Helen q. Throckmorton, who has
been for number OF years employed in
similar work, has been engaged as prin-
cipal Of the school.
Charles II. Pratt Of the Perkins In.
stitution for the Blind at South Boston,
Mass, is making a summers sojourn in
Randolph. In the fall he will take up
his work at the Institute again but in a
new place, at Watertown, Mass, to
which the institution will remove as soon
as building costing LOCO, 900 and now in
process of constru ction, are completed.
The plant at South Boston is old and no
longer adequate.
Harry Abbott, 10 years old, of Burling-
ton was caught in the quicksand at the
Winooski river Sunday morning and be-
fore his two companions who were in
a rowboat nearby could reach him. he
was pulled under the water and drowned.
The water in which young Abbott met
his death was only about four feet deep.
His companions were fishing in the boat
some distance away when they saw
Abbott's hands showing above the water.
| His head was under and before the two
in the boat could pull up the anchor and
reach him he was dead. The three
young mel went camping Saturday
night.
Motorman Butterfly, of the Rutland
Railway, Light anu Power company had
his eyebrows and lashes badly siDged,
and barely escaped more serious injury
Sunday when an arc light he was put
ting under the front seat of trolley car
in front of the station blazed up threaten.
Iugly. The reason for the near accident
was that the motorman had placed the
arc light between the headlight fuse and
the air motor fuse, under the seat, thus
establishing an open current.
The old high school building on Cherry
Hill, Bellows Falls, was leased to the
Roman Catholic diocese of Burlington
after an hour and half of spirited dis
cussion at the largest special town meet
ing held in the town of Rockingham in
years. The building is to be leased tc
the diocese for a period of 10 years fol
the sum of $3.50 year. 1t was voted
that the school directors be authorized
to finish off a room in the new high
school building for the manual training
school, at sum not to exceed $4,000
The meeting then adjourned.
A serious accident took place near AL
giers in Guilford Saturday afternoon
! while Charles Hutchinson was driving 6
pair of oxen attached to a truck upon
which his vile and daughter, Mrs
Ernest Starkey, and little child were
riding The animals became frightened
and ran away, throwing the occupant:
from the forward bunk of the truck
Mrs. Hutchinson sustained broker
shoulder and minor injuries. Mrs
Starkey was badly cut on one leg anG
had other injuries. The child escaped
with slight bruises.
Burt Aubin, aged 80, a brakeman
employed by the Boston and Maine rail.
road, met with horrible death nnder g
freight train at White River junction al
8 AS o'clock Thursday night. He was
uncoupling some moving cars about a
quarter of mile north of the station
here, when he caught one foot in 6
switch frog and was drawn under the
train. His nose was cut off, an eye
gouged out. and his skull split open
He was rushed to the hospital at Han
over, N. H., in light engine, but died
before reaching the hospital. Aubir
leaves wife and three children at Lyn'
donville.
! Kenneth, son of Everett Morse of Ma,
pie Corner, Calais, was seriously injured
Friday afternoon while driving a young
horse. He was going down hill when
the shafts fell in some manner and he
was thrown out of the carriage. He was
badly cut about the head and the base OF
the brain and had one shoulder injured
He was believed also to have sustained
internal injuries, as his breathing was
affected. The horse ran to quite dis
lance before being stopped, and the car.
riage was wrecked
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