The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 19, 1889 State Notes 7/19/1889 Some Fairbanks scale stock sold at auction in Boston, last week, for $432.52. Jerry REAGAN, an employe at Freedley's quarry, East Dorset, fell about 25 feet, last Friday, and was instantly killed. Of the three boys who escaped from the Vergennes Reform school, June 28th, only one was captured. July 3d two more boys escaped from the school. A boy named KEEFE, living near Williston, died recently from the effects of a paralytic shock caused by diving into the river when his blood was heated. John CARTAN, aged about 30, was drowned in the Connecticut river, Sunday, at Westmoreland, while bathing. A reward of $15 was offered for the recovery of the body. John BEFOUR of St. Johnsbury mistook muriatic acid for ice-water, in a tin store, Monday, and took a little. His condition is critical, but the doctors think he will recover. Timothy CHEEDLE, who is 60 years old, and Mary CHAPIN, 16 years old, daughter of George CHAPIN, residents of North Chittenden, went to Granville, N. Y., July 4th, and were married. The Olcott Falls Co., manufacturers of paper and pulp, have just purchased of parties in St. Johnsbury 12,000 acres of land at Victory, with 2,000,000 feet of logs ready for manufacture, for $100,000. The third annual reunion of the society of the first artillery, 11th Vermont Volunteers, will be held at St. Johnsbury, Thursday, Aug. 8th. Rev. Arthur LITTLE, D. D., will deliver the address. Railroads will give half-fare rates. A little over four months ago, Charles HADLOCK, station agent at East Thetford, absconded, his railroad, express and telegraph accounts being short $1,000. He was arrested in Kansas City, a few days ago, and brought back. The seven-year-old son of Eugene SMITH of Fair Haven, while playing with the son of Edward LITTLE at Hampton, in a bedroom, Monday, accidentally knocked a shot gun down, and it exploded, blowing out the brains of SMITH. The premium list of the Vermont State Agricultural Society and the Champlain Valley Association, is issued for 1889. The fair will be held at Burlington, September 3-6. The list is patterned much as in former years with"competition open to the whole world." May, a young daughter of Mrs. WARD of St. Albans, narrowly escaped serious injury, a recent Sunday. She was riding to Fairfield, when a run-away horse jumped on the back of the carriage in which she was riding, and the vehicle was badly wrecked. Miss May and her companions were, strangely enough, uninjured. L. H. MENEAU of Louisville, Province of Quebec who was arrested in Burlington, last Saturday, on the charge of obtaining $15,000 from the Nova Scotia Bank of Montreal by a forged note, is still in jail there awaiting requisition papers. He was arrested on an old Vermont law which permits a non-resident to be held for debt. Hattie ROOD, a girl 16 years of age, was buried at Pownal, last Friday afternoon, from the Methodist church. Her death was caused by a dose of paris green, which she took because she thought her lover, Otis HALEY, intended to desert her. Before the successful attempt to take her life, she had once drank paris green with that end in view. Carnegie Bros. & Co. of Pittsburg, Pa., have purchased of John C. ORAM of Brandon the mineral rights on the lands formerly owned by the Brandon Mining Co., now owned by Mr. ORAM. The consideration was $20,000. The CARNEGIES will commence sinking shafts about the 25th of the present month. The magnitude of their operations depends largely on the richness of the deposit developed. (I wonder if this was another gold mine, or some other mineral? RHB) Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT