Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-19
State 11eps.

The forest area of Vermont is ]. 900. 900
acres.
William Jackson, Rutland carpenter,
fell from a staging the other day and had
several ribs broken.
Hannah Daniels, aged 96, died on We'd
nesday at Waterbury. She was the sis
ter of ex-Gov. Dillingham;, now SO.
The Weldon House, st. Adams, has
been closed for repairs and when reop-
ened it will only be for summer travel.
The annual meetings of the Champlain
Valley Agricultural association and the
Vermont State Agricultural society will
be held in Burlington, October 25.
The officers of the Burlington street
car company are experimenting in cleo
tricity as motive power and the Rut-
land people think of using it, too.
William Thurston of Braintree has
been fined, by the United States court at
Rutland, 500 and costs for sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails.
Jonathan Robbie, the oldest man in Cor
NTH, died Wednesday morning, aged 95
years He was pensioner of 1912 and
leaves widow and eight children.
L. andJ. G. BOWS wooden mill at Hines
burgh was burned last Saturday after
noon. Little of the stock was saved.
Loss, about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Connecticut River Lumber compa-
nys drive this year contained seventy
million feet. Seven million feet was
stopped at Bellows Falls to be made into
pulp.
Levi Chadwick of Franklin Center
committed suicide by hanging himself in
his carriage house, Thursday morning.
The cause is not known, but he has acted
strangely of late.
AT meeting of directors of the Mary
Fletcher hospital in Burlington DR..
Votey of the Newark, N. j., city hospi-
tai was elected superintendent to
succeed DR.. j. B. Gibson.
AT st. Johnsbury last Friday can of
fish was opened and partaken of by Le-
on Pinnard's family. The fish was not
cooked and stood in the can until Monday
when it was cooked and eaten by two of
his children, boy aged nine and a girl
OF four. Soon after they commenced
vomiting and the girl died in "a hours.
The boy will probably recover.
The annual meeting of the State Med
ical society was held with large attend
ance at Montpelier Thursday. Several
new members were admitted, including
Prof. c. p. Frost of Dartmouth college.
Edward X. Campbell, president of the
society, delivered the annual address,
and obituaries were presented in memory
Drs. L. c. Butter and Samuel Nichols.
The safe of Riddle Brothers at John
son was blown open last Friday night,
ana about $50 in money was stolen be-
sides notes and valuable papers. Some
OF the papers were found strewn along
the road. The same night the safe in the
Hyde Park railway station was blown
open, but few tickets were all the re-
ward :the burglars had for their eXer-
tons.
There was disastrous fire at HYDE
vile, Thursday morning. The Russell
House, the Baptist church, the house of
John Culver and all their contents were
destroyed. The fire caught from the
Russell House fireplace in room where
MIR. Hawkins, the landlord, had been
dangerously ill for five weeks. The
nurse built fire and fell asleep; and
when she awoke she found the interior
afire.
The Vermont Historical society chose
these officers at its annual meeting in
Montpelier: President, Hon. E. P. Wal
ton; vice-presidents, Rev. w. S. Hazen
and Hon. ID. Richards recording secre-
tary, Colonel j. II. Lucia; corresponding
secretaries, E. w. Scott and Professor
Charles Dole; treasurer, Hon. Hiram
Carleton librarian, ii. A. Huse, ESQ.,;
curators, Hon. r. S. Taft, DR.. II. A. Cut
ting, Hon. Gilbert A. Davis, Fred Dick
ems, Esq, Mr.. Edward Conant, DR.. p. D.
Bradford, G. G. Chandler, ESQ.,
The annual report of the trustees of
the Brattleboro insane asylum shows
that there are 46S patients in the institu-
ton, 257 being men and 2ll women.
There have been 2l2 admissions during
the year, &c deaths and 50 recoveres. SO
cases in which Improvement is shown
and 20 patients were discharged as harm
lessly insane. The whole number of pa
tients admitted to the asylum in 80 years
is 62SS, 1922 men and 2966 women. The
recoveres during the sam eperiod number
245O and deaths 1877. Superintendent
Draper reports that the majority of the
cases are hereditary.
Charles NJ. Inman of Poultney was
arraigned at Rutland, Friday, for the
murder of his neighbor Patrick Sennott