Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-08-08
STATE NEWS.

been discovered in Hard wick. Two {
the children suffering with the disease
are about two years old and the third Is
a boy of 10.
G.. E. Somerville of st. Johnsbury lost
80 fancy bred hens which the family
was unable to save, 80 suddenly did the
rush of water come upon the place Mon
day.
A $50, 900 cement dam is to be built by
Trow & Holden of Barre, manufacturers
of granite working TOOLS to replace the
present wooden structure.
Porter Chaloner Spencer, aged "a and
for 80 years steward of the Brattleboro
retreat, died Friday of heart disease.
He had lived in Brattleboro since 1850.
wilfred H. Deyo and Arthur S.
Graves of Brattleboro have been ar.
rested at Belchertown. Mass. on suspicion
of being the two highwaymen who held
up Monson trolley car Monday night.
The annual field day and outing of
Clan Gordon. o. S. c., was held Satur-
day at Barre. Mrs George Gordon was
awarded first prize for the race for clans
mems wives and first honor went to Miss
Margaret Riddell in the young women's
race.
Engineer Martin w. Mcmahon and
Fireman Corse of Barre had a narrow
escape from death Thursday when
stray bolt was blown out of their loco
motive and the cab filled with steam.
Both men jumped. The engine was
hauling a string of freight cars.
While Louis Sweet was moving on
side hill in East Enosburg recently, the
pole to the moving machine broke and
| the machine ran on the horses. One of
the horses was hit by the section knives
on the hind legs and the cords were
severed and it was necessary to kill the
animal.
Engines on the railroad are responsible
for several fires in East Ryegate hav
fields the past few days. Some of these
came near being serious, and with the
men in the field on hand to fight them,
burned up several tons of hay before
they were put out. Farm buildings have
been greatly in danger.
Walter Metcalf of Poulthey has
brought suit for 5000 damages from
James O'Day of Hydevile, alleging that
the defendant was guilty of carelessness
when Metcalf's horse and cart, driven by
ODay, went into an old quarry hole, the
horse being drowned.
Morris Guerin, an 1S-year.old boy of
New Haven, Conn, has been released in
500 bail at Barre for his appearance at
the September term of Washington coun-
ty court on a charge of entering houses
under the pretense of peddling His ar
rest followed series of bold daylight
thefts.
Miss Ella E. Cults, a professional
nurse and graduate of the Claremont,
n. H., General hospital, and David NJ.
Morse, proprietor of store in BartonS-
vile, were married Saturday in Proctors-
vile by Rev. A. j. Hough, pastor of the
Methodist church of that town. They
will live in Bartonsvile.
j. c. McReynolds, attorney general of
the United States, will address the Yer
mont Bar association at its annual ban
quet to be held at Montpelier on the
evening of October Z. This is the first
time an attorney general of the United
States has been guest of the association.
1t is expected that there will be large
attendance of Vermont lawyers for the
occasion.
Fire of suspicious origin caused con.
siderable damage Sunday evening to the
barn of f. S. Adsit of 1877 Pearl street,
Burlington. The flremen were occupied
nearly an hour, as it was necessary to
turn over d large amount of hay before
Iuty were SdIlslltu IidI IHt DldZt was
entirely out. Two carriages were among
the property DESTROYED. The blaze an,
parently started on the exterior of the
barn, and an inquiry is being made.
CLARA Affair was arrested about il
o'clock Sunday morning by Sheriff
James H. Allen and Officer David Demag
of Essex junction, following search OF
her place on "42d street" in French
Village" near Fort Ethan Allen, and
was locked up in the Chittenden county
Jail on a charge of illegal selling of in
toxicating liquor. A quantity of beer
and whskey was found by the officers.
A new variety of turtle was caught at
Highgate Springs recently with hook
baited with worms. Its shell was most
ly oval, was soft and flexible. Its nose
also soft, was very pointed, with nostrls
at the extreme end. The tail was about
two inches long. The whole underneath
of the turtle, both flesh and shell, were
of pinkish white color. His feet were
webbed with only three claws projecting,
showing him to be purely a water turtle.
He measures a foot in diameter. No one
who saw il had ever seen, in fresh or salt
water, specimen like 1t.
young man, said to be Syrian, was
seriously injured on North ave, Burling-
ton. when, In attempting 10 recover his
hat, which had been blown off, he
jumped from rapidly moving trolley
car. The instant he landed he was hurl-
ed violently backward upon the hard
roadway, where he lay without moving.
The car was stopped, and the victim was
carried to the roadside, where it was
seen that his face was fearfully bruised
and one ear partly torn off. The man
was placed on the car and taken to the
o lice of PHYSICIAN.
Bradstreet's weekly Vermont trade re-
port contains the following: Crop re-
port show corn in fine shape. The farm
ers IN a majority of cases have nearly
finished the work of haying and some
have completed that work. Reports
confirm these already made of a light
yield in the southern part of the state
and large yield in the north The
damage done to fruit crops by the cat
erpillar was large, the farmer now re.
ports that maple trees have also suffered