Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-28
State VepS.

Inc yacnt race on Lake Cnamplaln sat
urday for the $500 challenge cup was
Vol by DIR. w. S. Webb's Flyaway.
The Weldon House at st. Adams has
been closed for repairs and will, after a
thorough renovation, be used for a sum-
mer hotel.
The body of Nathan Skinner, a wealthy
Plainfield farmer, was found in one of
his barns Friday that had been struck by
lightning the day before and burned.
The State normal school at Castleton is
prospecting. One hundred and fifty pu-
pills are in attendance upon the fall term,
and the boarding house is full.
The rain storm of Friday last damaged
roads in Mt. Tabor to the amount of
$1,000. There were several washouts on
the Bennington & Rutland railway.
The Bennington monument has reached
a hight of 96 feet, and it is expected that
about 80 feet more will be added before
the cold weather puts a stop to the work.
Henry c. Staples and Charles o. Car
penter, two Bradford carpenters, fell
from a 52-feet staging on Saturday, and
both were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured.
Henry Carney, a brakeman on the Cen
trail Vermont railroad, fell under the cars
at Gassett's Station Friday morning. One
of his legs was cut off and he was other
wise seriously injured.
A. A. Earle. editor of the White River
Junction Landmark, is again under at
tachment for libel by Mrs. S. E. Boutelle,
a milliner of that place. who places her
damages at $4,000.
Three tramps who recently broke into
the switch house and the North Georgia
depot pleaded guilty in the county court
at st. Adams, Monday, and were SEN
fenced to three years each in State prison.
The financial success of the State fair
at Burlington was very gratifying and
the total receipts of $40, 5O6 is the largest
amount ever received by the State soci-
ETY.. The surplus in the treasury will be
$4,000.
Miss Agnes Fairbanks, eldest daughter
of the late Horace Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury. was married to Ashton r. Willard
of Boston last week. Mr.. Willard is "A
son of the late Congressman Willard of
Montpelier.
The Rutland county fair held at Rut-
land last week was one of the most sue
cessful exhibitions ever given by the So
ciety. The attendance Thursday was
about 1900, and an address was delivered
by Col. Aldace F. Walker of the inter-
state commission. One of the
most unique features was a drill by the
kinsman cadets, a company of 30 Young
women.
Owing to a mishap in the quarry, the
contractors for the principal Vermont
monument at Gettysburg were unable to
get all the blocks in season for the COM
pletion and erection of the monument
this fall, hence the dedication that was
expected to take place about this time has
been indefinitely postponed. 1t is hoped
that by next spring all the monuments
will be ready to dedicate.-[Rutland
Herald.
Ex-Gov. f'arnham, DR.. II. F. James of
Waterbury and Hon. C. p. Hogan of
Sheldon, commissioners appointed by the
governor under a joint resolution of the
last legislature to inquire into the expe-
diencv of erecting a building for the
States criminal insane, have examined
the matter in connection with the State
prison at Windsor, the asylum for the in
sane at Brattleboro and the house of cor
rectiun at Rutland, and will report in due
time.
In the Windham county court, Friday,
John b. w. Coombs IA found guilty of
burning George Campbells barns in
Westminster four years ago, and SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment.
Coombs was sentenced four years ago to
three and a half years for burning other
buildings, his sentence expiring last
March. He was then ~rearrested. A num-
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time of the burning of Campbell's barns,
and it is supposed they were caused by
Coombs.
Jealousy appears to have been at the
bottom of the recent murder in Benning-
ton. 1t seems that Mcguire and Houran,
the principals in the tragedy, had been
keeping company with the same girl, and
that on the day of the shooting, she, ac-
%companied by another girl, went to Man
chester; and it is supposed that under
the influence of liquor and maddened by
jealousy Mcguire did not stop to ascer-
tain who the woman with HOuran was,
but took it for granted that it was his
girl. This, however, was not the case
for the Miss Morey who accompanied
Houran was a stranger to Mcguire.
FLAMING FIRE IN THE VEINS.
We hold positive proof that Acker's
Ennlich Rlan1 Eliyir purps all blood DOl-