Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-11
State 11eDs.

Thirty BARRIERS of Burlington have mu-
tually agreed to observe the Sunday law,
and hereafter will do no business on that
day.
The Mortified News has been sold to
f.. Gerry u Co., possession to be given
June |. The present editor, F. n. Whit
ney, goes to Burlington to edit and man.
age the Clipper.
The war lecturer, ii. W. Tewksbury of
West Randolph, who was seriously in
jured at the Hartford bridge disaster
over year ago, entered suit Monday
in the superior court for Suffolk Mass
county against the Central Vermont rail
road for $4,000 damages. His counsel
are Gen. b. +. Butler and F. c. Manch-
ester.
Parmly, oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock, died at
Chicago Monday night, after a two-days'
illness. The young man was 20 years
old and was graduated from Amherst
college in 1884. He has since been en-
gagged in the banking business at Billings.
Mont, and was on the way home at the
time of his death.
The Lake Champlain yacht club held
an enthusiastic meeting at Burlington
recently and elected these officers: Com
modore, Maj. w. B. Wetmore of New
York; vice-commodore, Col. W. A..
Crombie of Burlington; treasurer, A. c.
futile Of Burlington; fleet captain to be
appointed by the commodore. Major
WetmOre is a well-known yachtsman in
New York.
Judges and lawyers had hard time
reaching Chelsea at the opening of the
supreme court last week, but several of
them ''got there" in spite of the drifts.
Those who drove over the hills from
Bradford, a distance of % miles, went
through and over snOw-drifts six feet
deep, while lawyer from West Topsham
travelled on foot seven miles to reach the
stage from Barre, it being impossible to
get over that distance in any conveyance
on account of the deep and softened
SHOWS.
The Foster will case, which has been
on trial in the county court at st. Adams
for four weeks, was concluded Tuesday
by Il verdict against the contestants.
The case involved about 100000. the main
part of which was bequeathed by Mrs.
Catherine Foster of st. Adams to Mrs.
Julia Hayes and her daughter Minnie of
New York city, at whose home Mrs.
Foster was at the time of her death. The
will was contested by J. b. Shafler and
Della 5. Dickinson, relatives, also resd-
ing in New York city, on the grounds of
mental incapacity to make a will and
undue influence.
Rochester in Windsor county, IS miles
from a railroad, is noted for the long
evitv of its people. 1t is an elevated spot
in the Green Mountains and the good eff
fects of the clear and bracing air, unfair
nished by the smoke of the locomotive
or of extensive manufactures. is shown
by this record: One person died there
in 1850 who was IS years old in 1881,
four persons who were 81 and SO years
old; in 1882. seven persons who ranged
from so to 81 years of age: in 1888, five
ranging from 50 to Sc; in 1891. four
ranging from 50 to s.; in 1885, three
ranging from 81 to ST: in lSsG. seven
ranging from 50 to 90, and in ISIS, seven
ranging from 50 to 81.
The railroad commissioners have rem
dered the official report in the matter of
the accident on the Rutland division of
the Central Vermont railroad at Rocking
ham April 6, when an engineer and fire.
man were killed. and the engine and
several cars were demolished. The track
crosses small valley. through which in
spring small stream flows and reaches
the Williams river through ii stone cul-
vert under the roadbed, the top of the Gull
vert being nearly 30 feet below the road
bed. Where the track crosses this valley
an embankment had been built when the
road was constructed in 1915 or 1919. eX-
tending from the sloping hill-sides on
each side across the same. with the cul-
H.. a. l. 1t.
the natural earth beneath the hill be-
came permeated with an unusual quanti-
ty of water from melted snow, which
soaked in beneath the surface, until the
great weight of the water and the passing
train caused the slide Of part of the
embankment to the river below. Moth
ing could be found which showed any
fault either in the material or construc-
ton of the embankment.