Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
State lleps.

Hon. David Gale, aged so, prominent
farmer of Williamstown, died of apo
plexy while reading a newspaper Friday
evening.
The Bennington county court, Judge
Taft presiding, adjourned Dec. Il after
IA two-weeks session. Only Il few jury
cases were tried.
\ new chapel for the Orthodox church
at Barre, costing $1,000. has just been
built by Henry Woods of Boston. Mr..
Woods was a native of Barre.
The engineers who have been boring
for gas the past year on Col. W. seward
WebD's land at Shelburne have drilled Il
we'll to the depth of some 1900 feet With
out striking gas.
W. Clark Henry of Rochester, carpen-
ter and JOINER, cut his throat with fatal
results Sunday night. Cause, desponden-
cy. He was Is years old, and leaves
wife and four sons.
John |. VanOrnam of Springfield was
arrested last week by the United States
marshal and taken to Burlington for
sending ''threatening and obscene matter
through the mails
Messrs. VIM. 5. Bailey of East Hard
wick and ii. L. Cults of Orwell were
chosen vice presidents for Vermont of
the New England Horse Breeders asso-
ciatiation at the recent annual meeting.
Bishop DeGoesl riand of this diocese
has written and will soon publish a 700
page book entitled, "l'he Israelite before
the Ark of the Covenant and the Chris
tan before the Altar; or History of the
Worship of God"
The house of Il. W. Cady of North
WillistOn was entered Sunday while the
family were at church and a gold watch
and chain, % silver spoons and some
money taken. Ollie Ioubar, a young
Frenchman, is suspected.
In a coasting accident at Brattleboro
the other day, Johnnie Cranston sustain
ed fracture of the right arm above the
wrist, his leg was so badly gashed that
eight stitches had to be taken in dressing
the wound, and his side lammed. An
other boy was wounded in the leg.
C. A. Foster of Barre is reported to
have narrowly escaped freezing to death
while attempting to walk from East Mont
pelier to Montpelier last week The snow
drifts made his progress very slow and
difficult, and for Il portion of the way he
was compelled to crawl on his hands
aud knees.
Have you heard "Uncle Phin Wood"
talk lately? He is nearing so years but
if YOU listen you will hear him telling
about his mother, Lucy Wood, of Barre,
Just applying for pension. She is l05
years of age and her husband was team
ster in the war of 1912. She is probably
the oldest person in the State, and she
ought to have pension for living so long
whether or not her husband eyer saw
any war; Newport Express.
1t is stated that the French Canadians
living near the the State line are forming
organizations with a view of obtaining
many of the cheap farms of the State and
and also of New Hampshire. 1t is be-
lieved there will be considerable emf
grafton from the lower part of Canada
into the State and New Hampshire with
the coming of the spring. The move
ment is well organized, and the commit
tees haye been sent to several localities
to buy up the farms.
George White, Familiarity known as
Miles, the Barre bank robber, who was
released from states prison at Windsor
after serving II years for his Job at
Barre, has been arrested at Utica, y. Y,
for attempting to open safe. One OF
Whites youthful exploits was the rob-
bling of the Walpole savings bank, more
than % years ago, in connection with the
notorious Max Shnborn. who died two
or three years ago in Il European prison.
White escaped from the keene, \. H.,
Jail after being arrested for the robbery
at Walpole.