Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-14
State l1eps.

a 17-pound pickerel was taken from |
Otter creek at Rutland. the other day. |
Rutland school children deposited
Sl34.4 in the savings bank last month. !
There are now about 1000 veterans be
longing to the 6. \. Il. department of |
Vermont.
The Bennington woolen-mill company
has been adudged insolvent. No state
ment of assets and liabilities is made.
\ large hotel, with dining-room capa-
able of seating 200 people, will be built
at Queen City park. Burlington, this
spring.
Frank Lockwood, South Reading
youth of ID, walked out of hi, chamber
window the other night in his sleep and
was seriously injured.
Allen st. John of IIubbardton recently
killed three 4-year-old steers. the average
weight of each of which when dressed
was over 1900 pounds.
The remains of the late Rev. DR.. Good
ell of ST. Louis were inferred in the fami-
ly lot at st. .JohnSbury. which he select
ed last summer while spending his vaca-
ton there. ON saturday. MAY |.
Winchester Newton. % years old. the
long Democrat. was one of the nine Dem
ocratS who voted for Andrew Jackson
for President in Brattleboro' out of GOO
voters.
=. j. Reardon of Rutland was fined $40
and costs in the local court Thursday for
illegally voting in the recent village cleo
ton. He is minor and escaped heavier
punishment because the Judge thought
others We're more to blame.
William jerome and Mary Robinson of
Burlington have been arrested and bound
up for trial at the county court.
Robinson is charged with stealing from
the residence of Lawrence Barnes jewel
ry which he gave to the girl who kept it,
though knowing it to have been obtained
by robbery.
The Rutland Driving Park association
has voted to hold its annual races on the
fair grounds, July IL. II and Il, and to
offer purses amounting to $500. These
officers were elected: President, W. {.
Landon; vice-president. j. W. Cramton:
/ secretary, h. h. Hannum; treasurer. +.
| \. Morse.
While some little children were play
| ing on IA float at one of the wharves in Bur-
| lington, Sunday, one of their number,
Frank Lawrence, five years old. fell into
the water. He had sunk for the second
time and come to the surface. when four
of the children, Freddie and Rose Ross
and Belle and Mary Miller. reaching as
far out as they safely could, and holding
on by each other, caught him by the
coat and dragged him out of the water.
\ serious stabbing affray came off sat
urday night in Montpelier saloon kept
by Henry Moore. William Ewing and
William Cayhue, both about - wears old,
got into an alteration while intoxicated
and Ewing stabbed Cayhue in the left
side of the abdomen, inficting Il serious
and possibly fatal wound. The wounded
man was taken to DIR. W.D. Reeds office,
where his wounds We're dressed. and was
then taken home. 1t is feared that in
tammaton may set in and cause his death.
Ewing was arrested Immediately and is
now in Jail awaiting the result of Cay
b9e's wound.
X/There is "A strike at the medical college,
4 Huntington. the students. l25 in number,
having "kicked" against DR.. l.. NJ. Bing-
ham, professor of surgery. He delivered
his first lecture Tuesday and only six stu
! dents were present. They claim that his
, clinics have been failures and have petit
toned him 10 resign. DIR. Bingham and
his friends and other members of the
medical faculty insist that it was not fail
to condemn him in advance of hearing
, his lectures. The trouble is in part al
Outgrowth of Il controversy among the
medical profession of the city. with one
+ side of which DIR. Bingham has been iden
= titled, though he has not taken active
part in the quarrel.
>, The town of Somerset. which lies OF
the back borders of Windham county ant
teens with population of 81 souls, l.
= of whom are voters, is trying to MAKE
trouble for the spunlky new postmistress
Mrs. Sutton, who has planted the post
: office in box by the kitchen stove AM
= insists on locking the house and goins