Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
State 01eps.

The Rutland French Catholics have
given Father Gelot, their retiring priest,
S25N in gold and two costly vases.
W. l.. Pearl of st. Johnsbury has been
appointed delegate from Vermont to the
national anti-saoon convention at Chi
cago.
Sewell Phelps, 26, while painting "A
building at ST. Johnsbury recently. fell
from broken staging and broke his
neck.
George W. Wright at keene. y. H.,
was drowned at Brattleboro the other
day by backing his horse and wagon off
a ferry-boat into the Connecticut.
1t is said that two St.Albans boys went
fishing the other day and caught big
eel which had wrapped itself around a
tin-pail, in which were Sl7.50 in gold
The Worcester Mass friends of Rev.
G.. W. Phillips, now of Rutland but
formerly of Worcester. sent him "A birth
day present of box of gold coin Mon
day.
The Bennington wooden mills creditors
are offered 30 cents on the dollar, and if
the offer is accepted. the mills will start
up within month. Three of the heavi-
est creditors have agreed TO the arrange
ment.
Henry, the l7-year-old son of Melville
Kent. was drowned at Montpelier sat
ur,lay night while in bathing. His faith
er narrowly escaped the same fate in at
tempting to rescue him. The body was
recovered by divers.
Deputy Sheriff Whitaker of Rutland
succeeded not only in shooting Il robin
saturday, but in putting the bullet
through board fence an inch thick. and
hitting costly COW so hard in the neck
that she had To be killed.
The Howe Scale company of Rutland
have Just made an ingenious weighing
arrangement which registers a person,
weight when iive-cent piece is put into
a slot beside the recording dial. y,
heavier or lighter coin has any effect.
Col. Levi X. Fuller of Brattleboro ha,
given SlO, 900 to the Vermont academy a
SaXton's River. and X. +. Sturtevant %
| Boston 5000. to be used in the erection
of additional buildings for the use of tn,
academy. 1t is proposed to double thi'
sum for the purpose named.
Deputy Collector Lilli> of Brattleborc
with Special Agent I.arkinS of Boston
raided Alfred Worden's Illicit diStiller,
in Marlboro Monday and seized 500 gal
Ions of cider and brandy. Worden wa
arraigned and gave bonds for 500. Mar
shall w. W. Henry and Deputy Spragu'
took possession of the property.
Brakeman John X. Ashley on Con
escape from being killed by a bridge IA
Brandon Friday. He was standing OF
the top of "a car at the time, and facin!
the bridge, so that his nose was broke
and his face badly bruised. The injuries
will not prove fatal. 1t was his thir
trip over the road after he began work
Two Burlington men were ARRESTED
Saturday for stealing chicken and har
at the Van Ness House. When one o
them saw the officer entering his hous
he jumped from the chamber and struc
on his head, the shock rendering him in
sensible. DIR. Walter Carpenter was sen
for and after half an hour the man IT
gained consciousness. No bones bein
found broken he was lodged in Jail.
The university of Vermont, Burlington
last week at its commencement conferre
these honorary degrees IL. ID. on Hon
H0yt ii. Wheeler, United States Judge &
the district of Vermont; A. NJ, on Alfre
+. lloyt, NJ. d., of Cambridge, Mass
surgeon general of the State of Masss
chusetts; Hon. William Z, DillinghaI
of Waterbury, VT, Hon. Edwin Flint c
Mason City, Iowa. There were ,
graduates in the various departments.
Several men and boys had been cel'
brating the Fourth with cannon at Sout
SALISBURY Monday. and one of thel
being slightly hurt, they all went
William L. Mattison Il Co.'S store, carry
ing with them some gunpowder in pal
4 man named Dunlap inside the stor
scratched match, the phosphorus tle'
into the powder and an explosion result
ed, iniuring every one there. GeorS
Bartlett's eyes were destroyed, the frol
was blown out of the building, the roc
lifted, and general havoc was made.
At Chelsea, the other day, the jury
= the case of the State vs. Sarah Sloal
/ charged with killing her young chill
= rendered a verdict of guilty of ma
: slaughter. The particulars of this ca
= are still fresh in the public mind. MIR
Sloan killed the child, throwing it into