The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Here and There 1/29/1886 Rev. A. B. DSACOMB of Bellows Falls has been given a vacation of six months and goes to Florida for his health. Rutland Masons dedicated their new lodge-rooms, Wednesday. An oration was delivered by Grand Chaplain Alfred H. HALL. Patrick GAUHAN, aged 70, was run over in the Rutland railroad yard, last Saturday morning, and one of his legs was cut off just below the knee. He, in company with a young woman named PATNOD, was crossing behind some loose freight-cars, when a locomotive suddenly backed a train up against the loose cars, pushing them on the old man, who had fallen in a desperate attempt to get out of the way. The young woman barely escaped. he died yesterday morning. Wales N. JOHNSON, Isaiah BENSON, Liberty B. MARBLE, F. S. MACKENZIE and Justin F. MACKENZIE, of Woodstock, Joseph C. PARKER, J. Walter PARKER, William LINDSLEY, Albert G. DEWEY, William S. DEWEY and John J. DEWEY, of Hartford, owners of mills and dams across teh Ottaquechee river, in Bridgewater, Woodstock and Hartford, have brought a chancery suit against Milo. J. MOORE and S. A. COLTON of Sherburne, J. M. MADDEN and R. D. BRIDGE of Bridgewater, and H. G. ASHTON of Somerville, Mass. (who own saw-mills and manufacture chair-stock and bowls higher up the river than the plaintiffs), to compel the defendants to stop throwing sawdust, shavings and refuse into the river. The plaintiffs claim that it has filled up their mill-ponds so that they cannot store sufficient water. The national bank of Rutland has obtained a decree of foreclosure against the HOWE scale company at the last term of the Rutland county court of chancery, by the terms of which the scale company must pay $100,000 of its indebtedness to the bank on or before April 1st and balance within a year. Otherwise the buildings, shops and other scale property in Rutland will become the property of the bank. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT