Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-09
State l1eps.

John Terrth and wife of Morrisvlle
were robbed of 500 Monday night.
Ducks are very plentiful on Lake Cham
plain this year, but are more than ordin-
arilv shy.
The Fairbanks Scale company at st.
Johnsbury are experimenting with oil as
a fuel instead of coal.
The Corona Marble company, Brandon,
has expended 100000 in enlargng the
works and will soon employ about seven
ty-five men,
DR.. J. d. Hanrahan, prominent Rut-
land Democrat, slipped and fell as he
was boarding a train there the other day,
and had his right arm broken.
The repairs on the Soldiers home at
Bennington are rapidly approaching
completion. Every bed is now occupied
and applications are on file for fifteen
more.
George Ranney, administrator on the
estate of Mrs. Ruth II. Richards, who
was killed at st. Johnsbury, has sued
the st. Johnsbury and Lake Champlian
railroad for $4,000 damages.
The firm Tim, Wallerstein & Co.. at
Rutland, employ thirty persons in their
new steam laundry and about 315 in their
shirt factory. They intend to enlarge
their buildings so as to employ 800.
The treasury department has decided
that maple sugar is dutiable. If it is not
above No 13, Dutch standard. in color,it
isIrated according to the polariscopic test;
if above, then by the Dutch standard.
Mrs. William Ahern was instantly killed
in the depot yard at Brattleboro Monday
morning. She was picking up coal from
the track when she was caught between
two freight cars. She was the mother
of Mrs A. II. Ryan of Holyoke. Mass.
John F. Eggleston, Walingford hotel
keeper who has Just served thirty days
sentence to the House of Correction for
selling liquor, was upon his return home
met by brass band and large number
of citizens, who escorted him to his hotel
and banquet was served in his honor.
The yacht race on Lake Champlain be-
tween DR.. w. S. Webb's yacht Nymph
and Mai. w. B. Wetmore's Dolphin took
place Thursday near Burlington and was
witnessed by a brilliant company of
spectators. The course was 60 miles
long and the Dolphin won in "a minutes
seconds.
Some trotting stock was to be sold at
Peter C. Kellogg & Cos. in New York
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Yesterday. The list includes the Ham,
bletonan stallion Vermont Messenger;
Randolph Maid, a four-years-old colt by
him; Kentucky Prince, which made a
good record this season.
Gen. Peck has canvassed every town
in the State to learn the number of vet
Grams dependent on the town for support
Replies from 1873 towns show III without
destitute persons of this class. In other
&c there were 81 families with 10 individ-
uas depending on the town: % soldiers
orphans were supported, while eight vet
Grams were in the poorhouses and three
in insane asylums.
Two BrattlebOrO young women are re-
ported to have adopted an aggressive
method of bringing their lovers to the
popping" point by an election bet. One
Young woman is an enthusiastic Cleve-
land advocate. the other is for Harrison.
and each has an eligible young man
whose attentions have been business-like
for some time. The one whose favorite
candidate is defeated will inform both
young men that unless a proposal is made
before December 81, their attentions
must cease.