Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

4OU leel away lrOln where he STOOD.
1t is claimed there was rregularity in
counting the town representative votes
in Castleton and that one of the candi-
dates will contest the election on that
ground.
/ L. Il. Fairbanks horses were fright
ened by the cars at Fairfax and he was
thrown out. His head struck a pile of
stones. fracturing the skull. He is still
alive, but likely to die.
Mrs. Rodney Bassett of st. Adams,
while walking along the streets the
other night, had pocket.book contain
ing $50 snatched from her hand. The
thief ran and escaped.
about noon Friday, and threw an engine
and six freight cars from the track. All
the passenger trains were detained at
Waterbury till Q o'clock in the evening.
John Brown of Barre was buried in a
clay and sand bank in which he was dig
ging. and when dug out it was found that
one leg was so badly broken as to neces-
state its amputation. One arm was also
broken and there were other serious in
iuries.
\ severe thunderstorm did much
damage just north of Burlington, Friday
night. Jacob Morrson's barn in Col
chester was struck by lightning and
burned with contents. William Villas
house and barns in Winooski were also
burned.
Moses j. Perkins tenement house at
Rutland was set on fire Friday afternoon,
but it was discovered in time to prevent
serious results. Mrs. Perkins found Il
bushel basket of rugs and papers on fire
in the woodshed, and the blaze was easily
put out with few pals of water. The
basket sat near an empty kerosene barrel.
The voters of fire district No. | of
Poultncy have appropriated $4,000 for
the purchase of Crystal lake, situated in
Hampton, y. Y, and now owned by a
private syndicate, for the purpose of
supplying the village of Poultney with
water. Contracts for the pipe will be
made this fall, and active work commence
ed in the spring.
The Vermont Marble company of Rut-
land have the contract to furnish $4,000
worth of marble for the capitol at Wash
| ington. Part of the marble will have to
f be delivered in short time, but it is eX-
al hat Il no 81,
the contract, as to do so will require l5C
carloads of marble, a good share OF
which will have to be cut.
l \ railroad has been proposed from
Rutland to Greenwich, y. y, running
; through the Washington county Stat,
region. Mr.. Hugh W. Hughes of Gran
vile. y. y. and several New York capt
talists are interested in the scheme. Re
Gently some of them looked the proposed
route over with Mr.. Hughes and consider
the plan feasible one.
Mrs. Emerson Wheelock of Bakersfield
committed suicide, the other day, while
visiting her sister in Watervile. Sh,
appeared in the morning as usual, bu
l breakfast not being ready she went bacl
to make her bed, and in 20 minutes after
was found dead. She used a rope tina
: was about six feet long, tied the two end.
r together and hung it over door anC
=. laid her head into it.
Seven hundred veterans were presen
Y at the annual reunion of the Windham
n county veteran association in Brattlebo
2 TO Saturday. \ march through the prn
! cipal streets and dress-parade took W
the afternoon. The women's relief corp
a served supper in the skating rink at
n o'clock, after which the meeting was adj
). dressed by Gen. Briggs and others. Col
l. Franklin was reelected president, Col
h Hooker was chosen vice-president an,
l.. NJ. Reed secretary. The next reunion
h will be held at Townshend.
n ii. W. Coburn of Montgomery had
: lame horse, and the other day Will
e cleaning the animal his hand struck
:. silver which was sticking through tn
d skin over the muscles of the foreleg
He cast the horse and with pair of foi
ceps pulled out from under the muscle
of the leg "A round beech stump one inc
IT in diameter and six and one-half inche
l. long, which had been in the leg since tn
d first of July when the animal was a
IL pasture. Here is a suggestion to farm
e ers.- Rchford Gazette.
The Central Vermont Railroad compan
, met at st. Adams on the Sth inst, an
- elected these directors: j. GregOr
v Smith, James Il. LangdOn, f. c. Smitl
+. II. Baker, Joseph IIickson and w. L
Is II. Bingham. The Consolidated railroa
IL company of Vermont also met and cleo
Is ed the same board of directors as tn
Central Vermont. The auditors repol
for the Central Vermont road, the Jesse
s,l,t, 4 Il. a. IL