Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-04-02
STATE NEWS.

who is seriously i'll at the Battle Creek,
Mich, sanatorium, remains about the
same, and that he is holding his own re-
markedly well.
Sherman Nichols celebrated his
ninety-fifth birthday anniversary at his
home in Dorset March s. He has all his
faculties and takes as much interest in
affairs as a young person. In 1890 he
was made associate judge of Benning-
ton county.
The body of Enos Crowningshield,
which was taken from Lake Cham
plain at Burlington Sunday noon, was
identified Monday by an undertaken sent
to that city by Mrs. Crownngshield
from Westport, N. Y. The body was
placed in metal casket and sent to
Newport for burial.
Levio Francheshetti, aged five years,
was drowned in the canal near the
railroad station in Readsboro. He was
PLAYING with companions in the road
when he slipped down the bank of the
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body was found later not far from the
spot where he fell in.
The sheriff's department believes the
man arrested Saturday in St Adams
and brought to Montpelier for horse
stealing at Roxbury, Waterbury, and
Burlington, giving the name Clyde
Benton, is Clifford Durant, alias Melba,
who escaped from the Massachusetts
reformatory at Concord, Mass, June 5,
! 1914. The mans name is said to be C..
A. Eames aid his residence, Troy,
N. Y.
In Washington county court Friday,
Levi Norway, charged with violation of
the white slave act, was ordered com
mitted to the insane asylum at Water
bury for observation, and he was taken
there during the afternoon. For several
weeks Norway has been in the county
Jail, in lieu of furnishing $4,000 bail.
The New England States Limited ex-
press on the Central Vermont railroad,
leaving Montreal at $50 a. M, for New
London, Conn, left the rails at Des
Rivieres, Quebec, 81 miles north of st.
Adams, but remained upright and none
of the passengers was hurt. The en-
tire train was deraied. The cause has
not been determined.
Judson j. Parker has at his home in
Sharon a Bible printed in Brattleboro in
1916, and "a hieroglyphica Bible bearing
the date, May11, 1894. Another old book
in his library bears on the fly leaf the
inscription Samuel Dexter's book,
August Is, 1928. The gift Of the Rev.
DR.. C. Matthew'S" The date of publ
cation has been torn from the book,
which was given to Mr.. Parker's grand
mother before she was married.
The death of Thomas Buck Monday
| in st. Adams closed life of eventful
interest as a railroad engineer ranging
from running the directors special
to safely plotting Presidents Rutherford
B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland on their
memorable trips through Vermont. 1t
is also worthy of note that he never was
in collision. He was born in Ireland
and was in his "a year. His rairoading
began in 1850 and ended in July, 1S99
when a fall from his engine cab in
capacitated him from further service.
He was promoted to be engine in
1857.
Aunt Margaret" Schultz of Dorset |
is dead at her home in that village at
the age of l02 years and six months. |
Miss Schultz first went to Dorset over
40 years ago as a nurse in the family of
the late DR. George l.. Prentss of New
York and his wife, Elizabeth Prentiss, |
well known authoress, whose book,
stepping Heavenward became almost |
religious classic In her old age Miss
Schultz was pensioned by her former |
employers and given little cottage in |
which she passed her last years, we'll
cared for by her host of friends who
were always more than willing to do for
Aunt Margaret.
"A HldIluatc iioii thS SiiSuit SouiI Vi
appeals of New York city has been
received at the office of Clerk F. S.
Platt in Rutland reversing the decision
of the lower court in the case of Miss
Augusta F. Trowbridge of Brooklyn
against Frank Chandler, proprietor of a
hotel on the borders of Silver Lake The
judge in the lower court directed
verdict for the defence in the negligence
suit, but the decision of the higher court
sends the case back for retria. 1t is
claimed by the plaintiff that while a
guest at the summer home she fell down
a flight of stairs one night, sustaining
serious injuries. She alleges that the
stairs were not properly guarded and