Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-31
STATE NEWS.

A. NJ. Mortified lost a calf in a Will.
Evansville pasture recently, the body
being found with the flesh partly eaten
off the bones. A day or two ago a bear
was discovered in the pasture, SEEM
ingly much at home, which probably
accounts for the death of the calf.
Word has been received from the Pas
teur Medical Institute in New York that
an examination of the dogs head that
bit Arthur Nutcher, of Montpelier,
showed the animal to have been afflicted
with rabies. The young man will re.
main at the institution 81 days, hat the
necessary time may clapse to see whether
he took the disease.
Children playing with matches set fire
to the barn of John Moran of Bakersfield
Monday morning and the barn and
part of a connecting shed were burned
and the other half of the shed was cut
away in order to save the house which
also was connected. BY hard work the
n%eighbors saved the house and the fur
niture. This was Bakerfield's third fire
in a week.
James Benson, employed by E. j.
L%avonche, IN the farm of Homer n.
Ball of N%ergennes, was riding on a load
of hay when it tipped over and in jump
ing he struck his head on a stone, cut.
ting a cash 10 inches long over the top
of his head. DIR. F. c. Phelps was called
and dressed the wound and the patient
was then taken to the Fanny Allen hos
pital, Winooski park, where he lies in a
critical condition.
John Collins Of Danville, q years old,
charged with kidnapping, has been SEN
fenced in Caledonia county court to
serve not less than a year O more than
a year and a bali at the House Of
Correction at Rutland. 1t is alleged that
he kept a 10 year-old girl, Hazel
Hawkins. at his mothers house one
night and then took her to a deserted
lumber camp, where they stayed two
days, he then deserving her.
AS Frank Bruso of Sheldon was sharp
ening a scythe a few days ago, the
snath end slipped off the stone he had
rested it on and the scythe came against
his ann, cutting IF an artery and also
cutting a deep cash in % hand. Il-
would probably have bed to dealt #
help bad not been close at hand s. u|
was, he lost a great deal of hlon1 ..t
will recover.
a. il. Watson Of Fi7hhil Ny. .Io.
is spending "a week IN Wilmington F..
vicinity calling on old friends, may !. e
the sight Of one eye as the result of n
accident, Wednesday while goling at
Wilmington. He attempted to loft a
ball over a stone wall and the spherOid
hit the wall and %rebounded, striking him
full in the right eye. A cut was MAJ, e
over the eye and the eyeball was 0
injured that DR.. w. R. Noyes, whom
Mr.. Watson consulted, is fearful that the
sight Of the eye has been permanently
destroyed.
The fifth alarm which the Burlington
fire department received since Saturday
noon was sent in Sunday evening for a
fire which completely destroyed the
principal barns on the historic Ethan
Allen farm. The damage will amount
to about 5000, which is covered by in
surance. The farm, which is famous
because Of the fact that it is the one
upon which Ethan Allen of Green Noun
tain Bow fame once lived, is owned by
W. j. Van Patten of Burlington and
leased by +. b. Calkins. There were two
large barns 60 by 40 feet and a cattle
shed about 50 feet long,
An automobile owned and driven by
Harry Cleveland of Barre, went over the
bank at Dewey Park on a recent evening,
the driver barely escaping serious injury
by using cool judgment. Mr.. Cleveland
was returning to Barre after a brief
business trip to Montpelier, and as he
rounded the curve Just before reaching
Dewey park he met a large team coming
toward him in the middle of the road.
In avoiding the team he drove too close
to the edge of the bank. AS the machine
went over the bank, which is % feet
high, Mr.. Cleveland jumped and grasped
the limb Of a tree.
Chales Dubois, who was spending the
summer in Mortified, Mass died at
Memorial hospital at eight O'Clock sun
day night, four hours after having 3D.
600 volts of electricity pass through him.
With other boys he was climbing one of
the iron towers of the Connecticut River
Power company about a mile north of
Mortified when he reached up and
touched one of the wires. His clothing
was burned entirely off from his body
and about two-thirds of the surface of
his BODY was burned. He was placed in
an automobile and brought to the hos
pital at B~rattleboro, where he lived for
two hours after arrival.
A carlC ad of cattle shipped from Wal
lingford and taken on by the Boston &
Maine railroad at Bellows Falls was
stopped at Athol, Mass, Tuesday and
inspected by a humane officer, who
found ineXcusable conditions. Nearly
rs head of cattle were originally in the
car, but at Athol little calves were found
trampled to death on the floor of the
car, and some of the larger cattle were
down and in a suffering condition, One
COW had an eye gouged out and the hui
name officer decided that very few of
the animals would have reached Boston
alive if an inspection had not taken
place. At Athol some of the consign-
ment were transferred TO another car
and those able to stand were sent on to
Boston.
Mrs. n. Bleuret of Brattleboro is able
to walk a little for the first time
since the electrical storm of July 81,
during which she received a severe shock
when the house of Mrs Daniel Doyle,
in which Mrs. Bleuret has a tenement,
was damaged. Mrs. Doyle, who with her