The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-23

by taking large dose of paris green.
1t is expected he will recover.
| Many Italian laborers are leaving Rut-
/ land for lumber camps scattered about
the section. Annually nearly 300 Ital-
ians make Rutland their home during
the winter months.
A Brattleboro automobilist ran across
deer Saturday afternoon. The ami
chine for some distance. 1t was full
grown and but little frightened.
John C. Ball, who died at Troy, N.
| Y, Friday, was a native of Milton,
where he was born SO years ago. He
was at one time travelling salesman
and sold the first custom made shirt
made in Troy. He was prominent
Mason.
Rev. j. E. Berry has resigned as pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Poultney, the resignation to take eff
! feet the last of June He il to begin
work as pastor of the Third Baptist
church in Barnstable, Mass, July. He
has been in Poultney nearly four years.
A l2-mile trail has been commenced
in the vicinity of Mount kilhngton, to
be cared for by that section of the Green
Mountain club of Rutland The Bran
don section must extend the trail north
from the terminus of the KilIington
trail. All the trails will eventually be
suitable for horseback riding.
Alfred Ferro, a young Italian en-
ployed as a section man by the Cen.
trail Vermont road, received an ugly
wound while on the track in the rear
of the electric light station at Brat
tleboro. when he was shot by an Ital.
ian named Amelia Pelegrine, who
claims to have been stabbed earlier
in the day by Ferro.
Irving Ware, a prosperous farmer of
Wilmington, took his life May Q by
hanging. He left home early in the
morning, saying he was going to mend
fences, but when evening came and he
did not return his wife became worried
and called the neighbors. After search
ing for some time the body was found
hanging in the barn. Ii had probably
been there several hours. He leaves
wife and five small children, the young
est baby month old and the Oldest,
eight years old.
Brattleboro has its refuse left upon
the streets following the refusal of the
selectmen to pay S. a day for the use
Of teams and the refusal OF the
teamsters TO clean il up for less. The
sixth of May. the transfers served no.
tices that they had increased the price
Of teams from $3.50 To s. a day When
pay day came. the checks We're made out
at the rate of $3.50 per day, but were
returned and the teamsters called off
the job. With one exception, the team
sters have agreed on asking SIS a day
and the seleetmen must either pay at
that rate or buy teams.
Ernest Porter. employed at the Brat
tleboro retreat, went out on the mead
ows one day last week and in a short
time caught over 400 pounds of carp,
pike, pickerel and suckers The fish
swan onto the meadows when the wat
er was high and when it went down
they We're left in the depressions, where |
they were easily caught. Several large |
tubs were filled with the different va.
rieties. When dressed, the fish weighed |
$50 pounds and the inmates of the re-
treat hadF genuine fish supper The |
same thing happened last year during
the high water.
Sheriff F. H. Godfrey has mailed his
TO the citizens of Benning- I
ton county who have been drawn to /
serve as petit jurors at the term or |
court which opens at Manchester, June /
4. This is supposed to be the grand |
jury term, but for the first time in
many years, if ever before, no grand I
jurors were drawn for the reason that
there is not sufficient business TO war
rant such a proceeding. There are in
the county Jail at Bennington two pris-
oners held for a statutory offense, but
otherwise there is no business for the
states attorney. These persons will
be tried through the fling of informa
tions.
The Norwich cadets, tenting on the
campus at Northtied, are in a peculiar
position through failure of the law
to meet the situation at hand. When
it was determined that two of the stu
dents had smallpox, and the students
were ordered to leave the buildings by
Governor Mead, no provision was made
for their board, and as many of the stu
Tents worked for their board, and they 4
ire now without pay from the govern
nent or any other source, the condition
5 unexpectedly peculiar. Capt Frank
Tompkins of the 18th U. S. cavalry has
been furnishing food for the past few days
md in the meantime an attorney is
leing consulted to decide where sub
,istence is to come from during the two
weeks the students must stay in quar-
milne providing no new cases develop.
I is supposed either the town or state I
5 holden to provide provisions for the
student body. inasmuch as they were
ordered into their tents by the governor.
The affair is attracting statewide at
ention and more or less throughout I
lew England, as the 200 students are {
rom most every part of the nation. ;
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