Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-16
State 17erps.

DR.. Elery Stanford, aged about 81,
OF lrasburg, fell dead in the street on
the 9TH inst, on account of heart fail
ure.
! There is talk of an electric road from
Bellows Falls to SaXtor's River village.
A charter was obtained of the last legis-
lature.
The gas works at St. Adams were
partly burned Saturday night. The fire
was caused by a defective pipe. The
loss is not heavy.
Burglars entered the store of L. +.
Terrill at Underhill. Tuesday night, get
ting in by rear window. They carried
off $50 worth of clothing. There is no
clue.
Gov. Fuller on Saturday appointed
Elisha May of st. Johnsbury a director
of the Vermont State prison and House
of Correction, vice Seneca Haselton, re-
signed.
Gov. Fuller has appointed George w.
Wing of Montpelier trustee of the YER
mont State asylum for the insane at
Waterbury, vice DR.. W. ii. Giddings, re-
signed.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Agricultural society will be held
at the Junction House, at White River
Junction, Thursday, December %, at
Z o'clock p. m.
Edgar Rowell, prominent Bradford
man, committed suicide at Thetford
Monday. He had been sick with the
grip more than a year, and had tried
suicide once before.
Thieves took a quantity of clothing and
furnishing goods from Blackmer's New
York store at Manchester Depot, Monday
night, and robbed the pOst-ofiice of
money and postage stamps.
Dennis Geehan was hit by falling
tree while chOpping in Ludlow, Friday
morning, and died of his injuries on Sun
day. He was go years old and leaves a
widow and five children.
The Methodists of West Rutland dedi-
Gated new church Tuesday evening.
The dedicatory sermon was preached by
DR.. Coleman of Troy. The church is one
of the prettiest in Vermont.
A Pole employed by Perry & Lloyd of
Barre the other day caught his hand on
a set screw while putting on a belt and
his arm was torn from the shoulder
before the shaft could be stopped.
Henry Mckinney, yard master at the
Canadian Pacific railroad yards at Rich
ford, slipped under the cars Friday after
noon and had one of his legs taken off.
He had previously lost one arm. Hopes
of his recovery are entertained.
Judge Start has signed the report
which calls for $lS,lS975 for the inn
provement of the roads of Swanton.
The action is In accordance with a law
which provides that an over-burdened
town NAV call on the State for help in
maintaining its roads.
w. ID. Aldrich, lumberman, was
probably fatally hurt while chopping on
the mountain five miles east of Rutland,
Tuesday. A falling tree struck him in
the back of the head and doubled him up
between the tree and the ground in a
space of less than II inches.
On November s. James Frazler's wife
of Barre gave birth to twin boys. The
parents named the the babes Grover
Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. The
latter died and was buried Tuesday.
AT the funeral the surviving child was
christened Grover Cleveland over the
coffin of his dead brother.
A sensation was caused at Barre,
Thursday, by the arrest of Leon Cady,
for the larceny of 81 from the safe of
G. j. Reynolds on Wednesday. Cady
before his arrest returned S64, claiming
that it was all he stole, but he will be
prosecuted by the State. The prisoner
is the oldest son of G. |. Cady, now In
State prison for assaulting young girls.
A bad freight wreck occurred two
miles below Montpelier Junction, on the
main line of the Central, Monday after
noon. Owing to mistake IN train Or
ders two heavy freight trains came to-
gether, ditching several cars loaded with