Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
State Oeps.

The Prohibitionists of the State will
hold a rally in Burlington September l
with a speech by Gen Fisk.
Springfield has a club formed of II
veterans who voted for Harrison in 1910,
and will do the same for his grandson.
While temporarily insane Mrs. Orrin
Farnsworth of Bakersfield, so, cut her
throat with a razor late Sunday afternoon
and is not expected to recover
Orrin Davis, son of Ezra Davis of West
Chesterfield, n. H., was drowned in the
Connecticut river near Houghton's ferry
in Dummerston while bathing Sunday.
F. w. Morse, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad, succeeded G. w. Wing as
postmaster at the Montpelier office Sun
day.
James Harten of Co I, Sd Vermont
regiment, died at the soldiers home In
Bennington last week, making the fourth
death there since the institution was
opened.
The house and farm barn belonging to
W. r. F. johnson of Putney were burned
Sunday, together with most of the con-
tents; loss $1,000. insured in the Connec-
ticut for $1,000.
Richard Dodge of st. Johnsbury, a
brakeman on the st. Jo~hnsbury and Lake
Chaniplain road, fell from a stock train at
Fairfield Sunday evening and was in
stantly killed.
The premium list of the Add annual
fair of the Rutland county agricultural
society has been published. and contains
the usual offers with few departures. The
fair will be held Sept. 1920.
The Goth annual conference and camp
meeting of the S%eventh-day A%dventists
will be held at West Randolph Aug. IS
to Sept. T.. 1888. Several of the ablest
preachers of the denomination will at
tend.
William Seward Webb of Shelburne
and Henry LeGrand Cannon of Bur-
lington have been appointed aides-de-
camp with the rank of colonel by Gov.
Ormsbee. Edward n. Wright of Mont
pelier has been chosen military store
keeper with the rank of captain. He has
had charge of the State arsenal at Mont
pelier since the war.
The convention of Washington county
Republicans at Montpelier last week
made these nominations: Senator's,
Fred E. Smith of Montpelier and W. A..
Jones of Waitsfield; assistant judges, |.
S. Dwinell of Calais and H. w. Lyford
of Warren; sheriff, F. H. Atherton of
Waterbury; high bailiff, j. L. Moseley
of Mortified; county commissioners,
Clark King and Albert JohonnOtt of
Montpelier.
A Winooski officer caught a fugitive
whom he wanted to arrest in a singular
way recently. The fellow ran to the
river bank and swan across. When he
reached the opposite bank the officer
drew out a big key which flashed in the
sun like a revolver and ordered the fell
low to swim back or he shot. No trees
were near to shield him from bullets, and
aud the man slowly swan back, while
the officer covered him with the key and
arrested him as he came to land.
A case involving the liability of a tele-
graph company in falling to deliver mes
sages promptly was heard in Bellows
Falls before Judge Tyler of Brattleboro
the other day. w. S. Gibson in 1892 was
moving the old post-office building when
his wife telegraphed him from Charles
town that his daughter had run away
from home and to stop her when the train
arrived at Bellows Falls. The message
was received at the office in time but was
not delivered for several hours, and as
the train had left, Gibson was obliged to
90 to Boston. There he went three times
before the girl was found. The manager
claimed Gibson was unknown at the
time. The message boy testified he went
to the postofiice and showed the envel-
ope to the postmaster, who directed him
to w. L. Gibson. The postmaster testi-
fled that the boy asked for w. L. Gibson
and did not show him the message. Sew
eral business men testified that Gibson
was ~well-known in town. A decision
will be rendered at the county court.