Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-20

Fred Balch, charged with committing
a criminal operation on Ellen Lapeer,
resulting in her death. had a hearing the
other day at st. Adams, and was held in
$4,000 bonds for the action of the grand
jury next month.
Out of 2l0 names on the Westtied vot-
ing list 60 have been stricken from the
| list by the selcctmen. Some of those
whose names were dropped have held
offices for several years and have voted |
for nearly 30 years.
Seventeen persons made up the Ben
nington county Prohibition convention. |
which was held on Monday. The com
mittee on nominations reported the name |
of II. II. llurlburt As candidate for town
representative, and asked one weeks
time to make out a county ticket.
\ foolish man is Charles Goodrich of
Ilardwick. The other day he undertook
to drive the moving machine and carry
his little girl in his lap, when the cutter
bar struck Il stone and threw them both
to the ground. His horses became en-
tangled in the lines and he barely escaped
being run over by the machine.
Barre is enjoying as much of boom
as any town in the State. Another gran
lite shop is soon to be erected there. The
building when completed will measure
2G0 feet long by 26 feet wide. 1t will be
= occupied by the National Granite COM
y pauy, corporation recently formed,
= composed mostly of workmen. They
L start with a capital of $4,000.
While Carl, youngest son of X. b.
:, Bradley, was wadng in the river at
- johnson, the 18th, he asked one OF his
!, playmates to take him by the hand, as he
!, felt sick. On getting out of the water
he became unconscious. A doctor was
called. but all efforts to revive him failed
l., and he died soon after. The supposed
=" cause of his death is sunstroke.
L. Thirteen persons composed the La
1r noble county Prohibition convention
H. held at Hyde Park on the 18th inst.
Ie when this ticket was nominated: Sena
re- tor, G. :. Parker of ElmDre; assistan
rk Judges, :. w Royce of Cambridge, G.. :
I'd Gilmore of Hyde Bark; judge of pro
I'd bate. Il. :. Page of Hyde Park; State
" attorney, l.. :. Thompson of Stowe
So sheriff. Luke Potter of Watcrvlle.
ld Burglar, are operating in 81. Alban,
g, The other night the show window o
nd MarCeau Il COS shoe store and harncs
er mandatory was broken into and fou
he pairs of shoes taken. The thief cut
of circular piece out of the large light {
glass and took what he could reach hai
Oily. Within comparatively short tim
two churches and two bushes, place
,ro have been broken into there and no a
rests have been made
.,s The Rutland county Democrats hay
made these nominations: senator
., George +. Royce of Rutland. on
49,, Meacham of Brandon, Cyrus Jennings
llubbardtOn, &. \. ClaghOrn of Wallin.
ford: assistant Judge. j. Grafton Grigs
'u' of Rutland, Henry McFadden of Well,
~ States attorney. John u. Spellman
Rutland; sheriff. W. W. Dawlcy of Ru
yer land; high bailifi' Simon G.. BasSett
on Castleton; Judges of probate, V. c. Me
crhoher of Rutland for the Rutland iii
of trict. seth Thompson of Fair Haven f
at the Fair Haven district.
SilaS NJ. Waite of Brattlcboro, the @
lcir tinanccr. finished his siX-years' senten
lhe AT the Rutland work-houSe at midniT
,uv saturday and was released sunday NOR
ing. He was sentenced for violation
If the national banking laws. and sever
md indictments are still hanging over hi
'ial me expiration OF the sentence was ke
secret. and he was spirited away in le
than five minutes after midnight and W
Ion- quietly taken to an early morning ira
: III for the north. From Montreal he %
i'n to Omaha. Neb.. where he will Join
son. Waite tried for a pardon last wint,
ker but failed on account of a protest fro
cen old neighbors in Brattleboro
Oh DIR. l.. c. Butler or Essex and Hon.
rest GoOdhue of Westminster, of the board
he State supervisors of the insane. lat,
'nS visited Windsor, and met the prison
Nv rectOrS To see about establishing an i'm
ne tuition for insane criminals in connect
with the prison. The supervisors beli'
. that an institution is needed for this eli
of criminals separate from the Brat
boro asylum, and will so report at
- next session of the legislature. II
tab institution is already crowded with
foul hundred and fifty or more patier
4 of and the twentY-one criminals now c
in a fined there are obliged to be kept Separ
from the other patients with attenda
ILL of their own.
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