Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-05-22
STATE NEWS.

ere MONDAY morning Rutteu Jne auto
mobile garage of DR.. j. NJ. Allen of St.
Johnsbury causing several hundred dol
lars loss. AT considerable risk, Dr. Allen
removed his automobile from the burning
garage. The only damage to the mach
inc was two scorched tires. The garage
and contents were practically total loss.
The Power Construction Co., which
built the big dam at Somerset, is plan
ming to build another big dam in the
Deerfield valley and to that end is con
structing an electric railroad from
Hoosac Tunnel to transport materials,
thereby saving largely from what it
would have to pay the steam railroad in
freight charges.
Knocked down and stepped on by
horse weighing !, 100, Raymond Goodno,
employed by II. NJ. Farnham of Mont
pelier, suffered a fractured hip and an
injury to his stomach Sunday morning.
He was taking the horse from car,
which had just arrived from Chicago.
An effort is being made to render
Memorial day in Rutland memorable
one. Mayor Henry G. Brislin recon-.
mends that all the uniformed organiza-
tions in the city march with the veterans
of the Civil War, as we'll as all the older
day has been less emphatic each year,
while in surrounding towns more inter-
est attaches to it. Prof Raymond Nc
Fsrland of Middlebury college is to be
the orator of the day.
James Keane, aged 46 years, who is
employed as fireman at the John T..
Moore & Sons paper mill at Bellows
Falls was seriously scalded by steam
Monday. While Keane was at work in
the boiler room, which is not very large
and in which there are two boilers, the
safety valve broke and filled the room
it'll steam. Keane was unable to make
his escape until he was frightfully scald
ed all over his body. He was taken to
Rockingham hospital. He is married
and has several children and lives in
North Walpole, n. il.
The Custer House, a two-story wooden
frame building at Underhill, was totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday. All the fur
niture was saved and the six or more
guests who registered at the hotel also
got out with all their effects. There is
a partial insurance on the building
which however, is inadequate to cover
the loss, which is estimated at $1,000.
Besides the hotel, the livery stable near
by went up in smoke and barn was
burned with its contents, a number of
sleighs and other vehicles. The hotel
was owned by G.. l. Lincoln, who is un-
decided about rebuilding.
The body of William Hemingway, one
of the brothers drowned at st. Adams bay
Sunday was recovered Monday after
noon. The body was found by George
Hemingway, a brother, who with
others had been dragging the lake in the
vicinity of the accident all day. Wher
he hooked on the body, both bodies be
gan to rise, Williams arms being claspeC
around Albert's. But the latter body
slipped away as it neared the surface
and was not recovered again until Tues
day afternoon when it was found few
rods from the spot where his brothe
was found.
Henry Miner a son of DR.. and Mrs. A
L. Miner and a member of the senior
class in the high school, narrowly escaped
death Sunday while on a fishing trip il
Rockingham. about five miles from here
with Frank NJ. Laid. few years older
At Rockingham, Cascade, where thu
water falls nearly leo feet, Miner entered
deserted grst mill just above the falls
He was looking out of window whei
the flooring gave way and he dropped
into the rushing millrace. He wa
carried down the current few feet bu
managed to grasp a stone. Ladd ran t.
seven houses. and finally secured a lad
der and Miner was lifted to safety
The body of Mrs. William B. Thayer o
Bennington, 30 Years old, was found be
side the Boston and Maine railroad tract
short distance beyond the White Greek
\. y, station, late Sunday night. Tn
woman had evidently been struck by
train and instantly killed. She had sus
tanned fracture of the skull, a broker
hip and other minor Injuries. The woman
was probably killed by the regular south
bound train which leaves North Ben
at $3.50 Sunday evening About tire
} years ago she was struck by train nea
, North, Adams, Mass, while walking Of
the track but escaped with no serious in
juries. She leaves husband and fou
daughters.
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