Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-29
State 11epS.

A dog-poisoner is discriminating ca
mines at st. Johnsbury.
The grand lodge and encampment of
Odd Fellows will meet at Montpelier
June 2 and 3.
a Brattleboro youth has been fined Sl2
for catching trout that were smaller than
six inches long.
William O'Neil of Underhill Center
was throw from his wagon May 10 and
instantly killed.
The United States Clothes Pin Co. of
Montpelier shipped 1900 gross of clothes
pins to Germany the other day.
Brattleboro is to have a street railroad.
1t is claimed that 75,5lS pounds of CT
gar leaf tobacco was raised in Vermont
in 1889.
Mrs. ID. NJ. Thayer of Bellows Falls
was recently hit IN the face by stone
thrown by IA boy on the street and seri-
ously hurt.
Parties from Boston and Worcester,
Mass, are looking at the gold mining in
terests of Plymouth, and there seems to
be some prospect of working the mines
this summer.
Leander LeClair of West Chazy and
Lizzie Baker of Binghamton, n. Y,
clippers, have been arrested at Burling-
ton. He left behind wife and six child
rem and she husband and four children.
The masons have begun putting in the
foundation of the new library building
for Vermont academy at SaXton's River.
The new barns on the farm are nearly
completed, and the work of grading the
grounds about the buildings is now in
progress.
n,.- l;,t - ~, Il 1,nl
contest with hog the other day. One
hand was badly torn and it is feared the
wounds will prove poisonous. Mr.. Flint
is a strong man, but it was only after
hard fight that he succeeded in getting
the better of the hog.
Miss Mamie Hassett, for several years
a highly-esteemed teacher in the North
field Graded school, is very low with
heart trouble, the result of an encounter
with Olin Johnson, one of her pupils,
who resisted an attempt at correction.
Miss Hassett won in the fight
Arthur NJ. Foster. 30, a prosperous
farmer living three miles from Chelsea
village, was found by his wife Thursday
morning dead and hanging to a cross
beam in his barn. He had left the house
half-hour before to give letter to a
neghbor. No reason can be assigned
for the suicide.
Gov. Page has appointed DR.. O. w.
Sherwin of Woodstock as member of
the board of health to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late DR.. Ches-
more. At the meeting of the board at
Burlington, May p. DR.. C. S. Caverly of
Rutland was chosen president and DR.. j.
Ii. Hamilton of Richford secretary.
a Tunbridge correspondent writes {:
The old bride road leading through the
woods and over the highlands a little
way back from the river, down which
the Indians chased Peter Button the
morning of October 16, 1880, has been
traced from the starting point in Royal
ton to near the site of Buttons house.
Button was killed in IA deep ravine near
is to De marked with a cairn.
A man named Frank Carter was killed
at Rich's lime works. Swanton, last
week, in a peculiar manner. a dynamite
blast was exploded in the ledge and the
workmen. as is customary, ran for cover
to the tool house about POO feet away.
A piece of rock weighing several pounds
came through the open door. striking the
floor, CHANGING upwards and striking
Carter on the side of the neck and face,
crushing in his face and severing the
large vein of the neck. He was from
Bedford, Que.
Redford Almy, living at Buskirks,
near Bennington, was coming out of his
barn on load of hay, which was too
high to pass freely under the beam over
the door. He lay down on the load with
his feet to the front, holding the lines in
his hands. and in passing under the beam
his feet were caught by it and he was
doubled back on his face and crushed
into the hay, causing conclusion of the
spine and internal injuries. resulting in
an almost complete paralysis of his en-
tire body. He lived two days.