Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-01
State 11eps.

inches of new snow on Saturday.
Bellows Falls has voted to build new
school house which will cost about SIP
600.
There were 13l consecutive days of
sleighing in the town of Stratton this
winter.
Mrs. Michael Burke of DuXbury, aged
20, dropped dead while getting breakfast
Tuesday morning.
Brattleboro has new paper, The Dali
ly Times, which made its first appearance
Monday afternoon.
Burlingtons new shoe factory is going
up. 1t will be 1S7 feet long, SO feet wide
and two stories high.
There were % deaths in Rutland be-
tween the Doth and 9th of April, most
of them from the grip.
VIII Warner, residing near Wells, took
a tablespoonful of aconite by mistake for
medicine. He died in about an hour.
Bellows Falls business men have or
ganized board of trade and will try to
increase the manufactures of the place.
The high wind of Tuesday blew down
a building in course of erection at Castle
ton, and falling timber broke the leg of
a workman.
Hans Hanson of st. Johnsbury, aged
16, died last week of brain fever result
ing from injuries received while play
ing ball.
Secretary Proctor has been invited to
attend the banquet of the Business Mems
club of Bellows Falls next month and
make a speech.
considering the purchase of 10000 trout
fry with which to stock some of the
streams in that locality.
Jason Kendall, farmer Il years old,
living in West Windsor, rode for the first
time in railroad train Friday in going
from Ludlow to Rutland
A five-cent stamp issued at Brattleboro
in 1910 was sold in London the other
day for over $1,000. 1t is said to be the
rarest stamp in the market.
CT. Maynard & Co. of Fair Haven
shipped carload of marble-working
machinery to Kentucky last week, and
have an order from Tennessee.
Mrs. f. B. Rolley of Massena, n. Y, a
guest at the Van Ness House, Burling-
ton, blew out the gas Friday night and
nearly died from inhaling it.
A company has been formed at Bur-
lngton for canning and selling maple
syrup. 1t has put up and disposed of
over 1000 barrels this season.
The last school census of Burlington
gives the attendance in 1891 as 1898
against 367l in 1890. the number between
five and eighteen years being taken.
Clement Gosselin, a Burlington youth
stole revolver on Sunday and succeed
ed in putting 32-calibre bullet into the
thigh of his friend. Jed Clough. by acct
dent.
sellers of Bennington. Sixteen of them
were arrested within three days recently.
How many more the town has is not
stated.
DR.. w. Seward Webb is said to intend
purchasing the whole of Shelburn point,
including the property of the Champain
Transportation Co.. who have long had a
ship-yard there.
The Connecticut River Lumber compa-
ny are driving twenty million feet of logs
down the Connecticut. They were cut
in Northern New Hampshire and Essex
county, this State.
The trustees of the university have
bought land on the hill east of the reser-
voir on the Wiliston road, Burlington,
where the new experiment farm build
ings will be located.
Arthur Fisher was buried at McIndoes,
the other day, underneath pile of slabs.
His dog attracted the attention of the
mill men, who rescued him after hours of
suffering from bruises.
T. C. Griswold, promnet farmer of
Castleton, was attacked by Jersey bull,
the other day. and before he could get
out of the enclosure one leg was broken
and several bad bruises inflicted.
1t is estimated that there are over half Il
million paving stones at Barre quarres
ready for shipment. Last year about
100000 were shipped during the season,
and the year before some 100000
jerome Converse, who died in Wood
stock Jail last week, was confined under
indictment for burgarzing George,C.
Aliens Chester house in 1888. He was
formerly a landlord at South Londonder-
ry.
Vermont veterans resident in Boston
had a "sugaring off, at the American
House Friday night. Much maple sugar
and little speechmakng by Col. Albert