Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-17
STATE NEWS.

Ddnlei AUSTIN, VINO Is ~ years OIu
and the oldest man in Pi ttsford, ha;
taken out hunters license.
Assistant City Judge j. Dyer Spelman
of Rutland, who has been at the Rutland
hospital for about month as a result oil
injuries received in fall from an aero
plane during fair week. has recovered tC
such an extent that he has been taken tC
his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Daley of Ludlow
celebrated their 50th wedding anniver-
sary Monday. Solemn high mass was
sung at the Church of the Annunci9tio ton.
1t is the first time in the history of the
parish that such an anniversary has
taken place. Friends presented them
with a purse of gold
The corner stone of the new high
school building in Montpelier was laid
Monday morning in the presence of ,O0O
school children who took an active part
in the ceremony. An address was made
by Mayor Estee.
The first fatal accident on the Somer-
set dam job occurred Saturday when two
foreigners were killed by being caught
between steel tubes weighing about two
tons. A gang of men were shifting the
immense steel pipes, 80 feet long and
four feet in diameter. Some of the
workers We're in the pipes as they were
moved down an incline The pipes broke
away and rolling to the bottom crushed
two men.
Sixty cents dozen for fresh eggs is
the probable price Rutland people will
have to pay this winter. The production
of eggs in that city and vicinity has
been steadily declining for a year or
two because of the going out of business
of large poultry farms.
Batiste Somainti, a granite cutter of
Barre, may be blind as the result of
being struck in the right eye by piece
of steel or granite. His other eye was
hit by piece of steel year ago and a
cataract has already destroyed its sight.
He is % years old.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene D. Chison, of
Vergennes, celebrated September 30, the
fifty sixth anniversary of their marriage
at the home of their daughter, Mrs. w
A Dalyrmple. Only members of the
family being present. Mr.. Chilson is
veteran of the Civil War, member of
Company B, Fifth Vermont, and served
over three years. He participated in Is
engagements, including the battles of
Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
He is carpenter.
Marshall Sherman, who, with his
brother, was committed to the state
prison at Windsor year ago for being
found guilty of robbery, was fatally in
jured Friday at the institution when the
cable rope of an elevator broke. Sher-
man was removed from the carrier I'M
conscious and died a short time after
ward.
George Davenport, of Brattleboro,
was almost instantly killed Saturday
morning by 20-foot fall at the EN-
erson building which is in process of
construction. His chin struck on
brace as he fell through an opening and
that was the main cause of his death.
His lower jaw was fractured, there was
a compound fracture CT the skull, and it
is thought that his neck was broken,
Fred Sweeney, aged IA years, and
George McJarrett. also IA years old,
brought back to Montpelier from
Northampton, Mass, have been sen.
fenced to the state industrial school
at Vergennes for the remainder of
their minority. They were charged
with stealing money from the home
of B. Tomassi. Robert Isgood, 10 years
old, who was on probation on a charge
of stealing turkeys and cider, and who
was also brought back from North
ampton, will be sent to the house of cor
rectlOn to serve his sentence of 300 days.
A large brown eagle which measured
six feet two inches from tip to tip was
captured at Loyal Spaulding's bay III
Panton by Mr.. Spaulding and G. s.
Curier, local fish and game warden. The
eagle was discovered fiuttering in the
water and on investigation was found to
be so disabled that 1t could not fly, al
though no marks of injury were found.
Roy Potter of Barnett dropped suit
case containing $4,000 in currency and
check for 81 900 in ST. Johnsbury the
other day and after it had been kicked
about the sidewalk for an hour he re
turned and found the money untouched.
The suit case fell out of the rear of his
automobile and he had gone consider
able distance before he noticed his loss.
DR.. d. d. Grout, superintendent of
the State hospital for the insane al
Waterbury, has just taken back to that
institution from Burlington John Benoit,
who escaped few days ago and who
now goes back with a sentence of II
months staring him in the face. The
method used at the asylum in the case of
those who are sent there to take the cur-
for alcoholism, Is TO allow them liberty
in order to give them an opportunity TO
develop their will power.
A threshing gang of seven men EN-
ployed by George Nichols at Enosburg
Falls were all taken seriously i'll at the
aama time last Monday Their symn-