Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14
State l1eDs.

1t costs about $4,000 a year to run the
soldiers home at Bennington.
An eagle has been captured at East
Bethel whose spread of wings was over
eight feet.
Lumbermen down in Searsburg and
Somerset are making good progress on a
foot of snow.
Michael Nolan, section boss at Put
ney, was killed by the south-bound eX-
press at East Putney Saturday morning.
c. NJ. Billiards. large barns, silo, |
cows, 30 hogs, farm produce and tools
were burned at White River Junction,
Friday morning; loss, $4,000 to $4,000 /;
insured
The Standard Oil Co. is have third
depot in the State, at Brattleboro. The
plant is to include an iron tank to hold
800 or 900 barrels, and barn for the
care of horses.
\ legend like this was tackled on to the
side of freight car which passed through
st. Adams just prior to Oct. G: BARLEY
for Boston; rush me, for Mckinley is
after me-" 1t was rushed.
There was noteworthy gathering of
old people at j. f. McNaughton's, Man
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were over seventy years of age. the old
est being Mrs. Eliza Mears, ninety-four
years old.
Graniteville, in Hardwck, bids fair to
become one of the leading industrial
towns in the State. There are now be-
ing worked within the boundaries of the
township 10 quarries giving employment
to 1000 persons.
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ings banks and trust companies of Yer
mont during the past year than in any
previous year in the history of the State
excepting 1881 and 1882; so says the State
inspector of finance.
a man was run over and instantly kill
ed by freight train at Sutton Friday
afternoon. Papers in his pockets bore
the name of Jerry Donovan, Concord. y.
III. 1t was thought that he threw him
self under the saloon car.
Rutland officers on Monday raided the
stores of O. j. Cain, F. Fem, John Caden
and John McGuirk. the Bates House and
Berwick House. Nothing was found eX-
cept at Fenn's and the Bates House, and
each of these was fined 500 and costs.
Milo Lawrence, of Hinesburgh, was
held up on the Laflat bridge, north OF
Shelburne, by highwayman, who
threatened to shoot if Lawrence did moi
hand over his money, but the latter
struck his horse with the whip, and goI
away.
A little child of NJ. LaFountain, Jr., OF
Springfield met with strange accident
on Tuesday. She fell, in play, and strik
ing her chin on a sewing-machine bit hel
tongue so as to make a wound that haC
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two stitches to bring the severed member
together.
Geo. f. Crowell of Brattleboro, editor
and proprietor of the Household, ha;
sold that paper to Pettengill & Harris
horn. the former of the well-known Bos.
ton advertising firm of that name, anC
the latter the son-in-law of Ford, pub
Usher of the Youths Companion. Tn,
paper will be moved to Boston.
The post-of1ice at Springfield was en-
tered Thursday night by unknowl
parties. Entrance was made by win
dow and a glass-cutter of some kind wa
used. The burglars were frightened jus
as they had begun their operation an,
departed through rear door that wa
fastened by the key on the inside. n
loss.
Will c. Bull, 81, a prominent manu-
facturer and a trustee of Bennington vii
lage, has been missing since Saturday
when he took The evening train for Troy
y. Y. He gave no notice of his depal
ture and cannot be traced beyond Nortl
Bennington. No cause is known for hi
absence, and his family is greatly wol
ried.
The Boston Herald of Friday contain
a long story exposing the so-called"Ul
\ ion medical institute" of Ncwbury, thi
State, which it is said has sold diploma
for $50 apiece in the West, and upo
whose catalogue are given the names O
incompetent men as professors with fit
titious degrees. 1t is said that so grea
is the evidence of fraud against the pre-
motors of the scheme that the matter ha
been taken up by prominent men in tn
State and placed in the hands of lawyers