Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-08-02
State 11eps.

NJ. y. Bingham of South Burlington
has oats 6S inches high.
Barre continues to boom: Is new build
lngs are going up there this season.
The veterans of Windsor county will
mold reunion at Windsor August IS.
The Windham county soldiers reun-
ion will be held at South Londonderry
).
Presiding Elder gilbert of the St. AL
bans district has resigned, on account of
poor health, and will go West.
Nermonters are entertaining more
fresh-air children sent out from the cities
than in any previous year. They are
scattered all over the State.
Frank Brow, a Frenchman. was run
over by the cars near Highgate Springs,
Monday, and killed. He was drunk and
lay down on the track to sleep.
Editor L. o. Greene of Woodstock.
state inspector of finance. has returned
from an extended business trip to the
west, having travelled about 5000 miles.
A two-years-old child of Charles Silver
OF Calais is reported to have slept more
than l2O consecutive hours and the
physicians are much puzzled over the
case.
The census of school children in Bur-
lington, just completed. shows the num-
Der OF children of school age in the city
to be 1874, of whom 677 attended no
school.
The Sons of Veterans of the State will
erect memorial hall at Bennington. 1t
Will be three-story brick building to
cost nearly $1,000. Work will probably
be begun next spring.
The State Press association will visit
Saranac lake. in the Adirondack. on their
annual outing. The start will be made
from Burlington, Thursday, August Is.
Special trains and arrangements have
been made.
The Olcott Falls Paper company,
manufacturers of paper and pulp, have
bought of st. Johnsbury parties $4,000
acres of land at Victory, with 1000, 900
feet of logs ready for manufacture, for
100000.
A meeting OF citizens was held at Bur-
lington last week to take action toward
securing union depot. Resolutions
were passed to be presented to roads en-
tering the city calling their attention to
the matter.
The Fuller battery of Brattleboro has
just been furnished by the government
with four new steel breech-loading guns
of 32-l0O inches caibre. They cost
from 100000 to $4,000 and carry a
proiectile six miles.
Adellah Doloff, % years old, living in
Sutton, shot herself with revolver Sum
day night, the ball entering Just above
the heart and passing through her body.
No cause is assigned. The chances are
that she may recover.
Oscar II. Elkins and Mrs. W. j. Fisher
were arrested at Richford Monday night
for living as man and wife. Elkins has
a wife and children at North Troy, and
the woman has husband. The couple
were held in $1,000 bonds.
Bunco men made an effort on Saturday
game on Arson Johnson of South Bur-
lington, farmer 50 years old The old
man didn't bite, though. The rascals are
said to belong in Rutland.
Albert Martin, son of J. B. Martin of
Burlington, caught his foot in a frog
while crossing the railroad track at Buff
falo, n. Y, and was unable to get it out
before an approaching train arrived.
His foot had to be amputated.
Patrick Mcmahon, aged So, station
agent for five years at Montpelier
Junction, was instantly killed Tuesday
forenoon. He slipped in getting of a
train in the yard and fell under the
wheels. The head was severed from the
body.
The total appropriations made by the
State for monuments, grounds and ex-
penses to commemorate Vermont valor
at Gettysburg amount to Sl7,5OO, in adj
dition to which sum contributions aggre-
eating 4,llS.50 have been made by citi-
zens of the State to the monument fund.
The New England Marble Dealers
association, which met in Rutland last
week, chose Stephen Maslin of Hartford,
Conn.,, president, and these directors for
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