Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-05-30
STATE NEWS.

plOslOn OF acetyllne gas, died the same
night. He was 40 years old and leaves a
wife and several children.
An unidentified man was found dead
in l.. B. Chapman's pasture at Clarendon
Springs Monday afternoon. Mr.. Chap
man gave the man his breakfast and then
sent him after the cows. 1t is thought
he died of heart failure.
A throat disease, diagnosed as a viru-
lent form of tonsilitis, has developed in
Readsboro. Three children have died
within "a hours after being stricken
Another child is very i'll. 1t is thought
to be the same disease, which has been
prevalent in Canton, Mass.
The steamer Vermont began her tenth
season Wednesday coming over to Bur
lington from Shelburne harbor and at
five o'clock leaving for Pittsburgh to
start on her full run to Montcalm Land
ing The schedule will be as last year
during the week, and the Sunday service
will begin in July
Nelson Williams, now in Jail on the
charge of larceny of goods of all de
scriptions from the Strong theatre, Bur
lington, his arrest following the seizure
Of large amount Of property at his
home. will have hearing in city court
some time this week. An effort will be
made to locate the owners of the pro.
perty.
E. A. Lee of Vergennes has an old
fiintlock musket that has been in the
Whitney family for many generations.
The gun was used in colonial days and in
the disturbance in and around Boston
before the American Revolution broke
out. 1t also saw service at Bunker Hill,
at Bennington and Plattsburgh and is
now in good state of preservation. Mr..
Lee also has ship carpenter axe that
was used in hewing timber that was used
in the building Of Macdonough's fleet,
that was built here in 1894 in the
basin below the falls.
Mrs. Sarah A. Dixie celebrated on
Monday her Tooth birthday at her home
on farm on Furnace flats" in the
town of Pittsford where she has lived for
over 20 years. Mrs. Dixie is in possession
of all her senses, being able to read the
daily paper and a chapter from the Bible,
or more if she chooses. Born in Fitch
burg Mass, one of eight children. Mrs
Dixie moved with her parents to New
Boston" in Chittenden where she lived
until she was a young woman After
teaching several terms of school she
married Cyrus Dixie and the couple be-
gan housekeeping on the farm where she
now lives, known as the Keefe place.
OF her own brothers and sisters, one
only is living. Mrs. John P. Peabody Of
Pittsford, 80 years old, who is in very
poor health.
1t is expected that the comm ission ap.
pointed by Gov. Allen NJ. Fletcher, to
provide for the celebration in Vergennes
of the centennial Of the construction of
the fleet of Commodore Thomas Mac
donough and the erection of a memorial
to the American commander. will meet
in that city in about week for organi-
cation. The commission consists of Gov.
Fletcher, Charles II. Darling of Bur
, lington. Judge Frank L. Fish, Senator
Robert w. McCuen, Rev. L A. Vezina
and Representative John Donnelly of
Vergennes and Harry c. Shaw of Rut-
land. The celebration will be held dur
ing the summer of 1914, and it is ex.
: pected that many distinguished visitors
will be present and take part in the
program.
One of the two or three cases OF
poisoning resulting from a dose OF
bichloride of mercury in the United
f States recently, which number includes
the case of S. Sanders Walker, the young
Macon, Ga, banker who died Thursday
is in Rutland, and the existence of this
2 situation was made public by DR.. j. d.
f Hanrahan, the physician in charge. The
man, Leroy NJ. Bryant, No 10 Grove
street, took the viruent poison a week
ago. A week ago Saturday Mr.. Bryant
4 who was suffering from slight stomach
trouble, went to the pantry TO find some
thing to obtain relief. There were two
hslf-pint bottles on the shelf, one con
2 tanning an extract of ginger, and one
2 containing solution of bichloride OF
mercury. He took the latter by mistake
and, according to reports, drank a con.
siderable quantity. AS soon as Mr.
Bryant discovered his mistake DR.. George
Rustedt was summoned and prescribed
and administered the usual remedies in
; case of poisoning.
=, Jacob PIutah, an Austrian Pole dice
Tuesday morning as a result of fall a
his new home in West Rutland. The
6 man tumbled the entire length of a Ions
- set of narrow stairs and broke his neck
living but few hours after the accident
: MIR. Plutah, who was employed by thu
B., Vermont Marble company lived in ont
= of the company's houses in Red City
but because there were to be a numbe
of changes made in the house he was
n forced to vacate, and he moved his
v household goods to his new home which
= was to be in the upper tenement of tn
Caffaey house on Pleasant street Tn
J. work was nearly completed and most O
!, the furniture had been installed when
: while lifting on one of the last pieces
he slipped and tumbled to the bottom o
> the stairs. When he landed his hea'
was doubled under his body and his necl
broken. Physicians were summoned bu
y they could give no relief and the maj
died without gaining his senses. Beside
his wife he is survived by three SONS an,
one daughter, all of West Rutland.