Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-25
STATE NEWS.

A freight car used as sleeping quarters
for gang Of railroad workmen IN Lud-
low was burned Friday night, and some
of the men lost articles of wearing APP
parel.
A big barn on the farm in Cambridge
owned by Oscar Payne of Burlington
was destroyed by a fire Sunday night. 1t
is thought to have been set. The barn
contained 20 tons of hay.
While Mrs. Harry Welch was leading
horse to water in Berkshire last Wed
nesday, the animal kicked her in the
face, breaking her upper jaw, knocking
out nearly all of the upper teeth and
part of those on the lower jaw and tear
ing the roof of her mouth badly.
H. j. Heath dug up in his yard in
Townshend recently an Indian arrow
head, about three and one half inches
long and two and one half inches wide,
and sharp on both sides, From its
peculiar shape it was Judged to have
been used 10y the Iroquois Indians.
What is undoubtedly by far the
largest casting ever made in Vermont
was manufactured in the plant by the
F R. Patch Manufacturing company in
Rutland one day last week. The cast
ing, which is a rubber bed plate for a
Milwaukee, Wis, firm, was successfully
handled in every way. The mammoth
electro magnet and electric crane equip
ment of the plant handled the SO 600
! pounds of iron with ease.
Owing to another case of infantile par
alysis appearing in Essex Junction the
churches were closed Sunday, except the
Catholic church where a short service
no |,
been two other cases of the disease in the
village and one case in the town Cf
Essex. So far all have been light cases
and are doing well. The two children of
MIR. and Mrs. William Fadden of Bran
don are ill with infantile paralysis.
Shando Pelycinerd, a Hungarian, was
killed at the HOLSTER quarry of the Yer
mont Marble company in Florence Fri
day by the fall of a five ton slab of mar
BILE upon him. Pelycinerd was driving
in wedges with other men and it is sup
posed big piece of the marble broke off
at Sc I'M. AT any rate the man was
caught before he h adj time to get out of
the way, although the other men with
him escaped. The upper part of his body
was uniniured, but from the waist down
he was badly crushed, and died before
the huge block was lifted off him. He
was 80 years old and had been in this
country but few weeks, leaving a wife
and one child in the old country
The gingseng garden of w. w. Jones
in Benson is now in its prime. The beds
are loaded with gingseng seeds and he
estimates that there are 200 900 seeds in
the 10 or 20 beds he now has under cult
walton. The seeds are at the top of the
plants, are in clusters of from 90 to 100
and are as red as red can be, deep and
brilliant in color. While the European
war is disturbing rather than promot-
ing factor to the growing of ginseng,
Mr.. Jones has no doubt the root will
bring compromising price the coming
year.
Henry +. Field, president of the Rut-
land County Savings bank, was badly
bruised Saturday afternoon when hack
horse started just as Mr.. Field was leav-
ing the vehicle in front of the bank.
One foot was on the pavement and the
other on the hack step when the horse
started and the banker was drawn under
the rear wheel, the wheel passing over
his right leg at the knee. The rubber
tires undoubtedly saved Mr.. Field from
more serious injuries, although he was
badly bruised.
A workman named Ryan was badly
injured in Poultney Friday when piece
of stone thrown by blasting fell into the