Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-02
State 11eps.

James Flowers of West Rutland, wis
is 70 years old, has husked 405 bushelo
of corn this fall.
James +. Pollard's clothing store at
Chester was entered by burglars one
night last week and a large amount of
goods taken. There is no clue.
Eight men were admitted to the Sol
diers' home during the month of Novem-
Der and three discharged, leaving mem
bership of CO.
Charles ii. Bedard and A. H. Martin of
Poultney freed and killed four large
coons on a recent night, making II they
have brought to grief in the past month.
Adolph Collins, employed in a Rutland
livery stable, was seized 10y the throat by
an ugly horse and badly choked, although
the skin was not laceratod.
Gov. Fuller has re-appointed and COM
misSioned the following municipal udg-
es. who are the incumbeuts: Hamilton
5. Peck, Burlington; Fred NJ. Butler,
Rutland; Chas. II. Darling, Bennington.
District No. | of 'Iopsham pays a teach
err 81 day and board to teach one schol-
ar, the only legal pupil in the district.
That district 80 years ago had 30 legal
scholars. and the teacher was paid 50
month.
large meteorite was seen to fall i'm
Rutland late Monday night in the direc-
ton of Pine hill, and, as it passed through
the air, the report was loud and sharp.
1t appeared to be as large as an ordl-
nary kettle.
Within radius of three miles. or less,
in South Wallingford. live these aged
people: Hannah Eddy. % years: Eson
Wells, 90; Robert Markham. 90; Amy
Robinson. 81; Elihu Doty, 81: Mercy
Ames, 50, and Elvira Edgerton, so.
Frank Kent of White River Junction.
aged seventeen years. son of Lorenzo G..
kent, conductor on the Central YER
mont railroad. was drowned by breaking
through the ice while skating on Lilly
pond, near that place, on Thanksgiving
dav.
DR.. F. l.. Ladue. the representative
from Alburgh, who was stricken with
paralysis at Montpelier two weeks
ago, has so far recovered that he was TAX
en- to his home in a private car Monday.
lie is able to walk little and can Sc
his arms somewhat.
Patrick Mulhern of West Rutland was
killed by the accidental discharge of a
gun while hunting Thanksgiving day.
As he lifted his gun from the ground the
hammer caught on small limb project
ing from the log on which he was stand
Ing. The charge struck Mulhern just
back of the right ear, killing him in
stantly.
Gov Fuller and staff in full uniform
will attend the opening of the new Ben
nington opera house December 10, and
the governor will make brief dedica-
tory speech. The house has just been
completed at a cost of about $4,000.
The seating capacity is 1000 people and
all the appointments, both of the building
and the stage, are of the latest and finest
patterns.
Samuel Currie, the notorious colJred
burglar, has been sentenced at St. Adams
to three years hard labor in the State s
prison, he having pleaded guilty. Though
Currie is but 26 years old, he has had %
sentences pronounced on him. His bur-
glaries in st. Adams during the month OF
August were among the bodest ever
known in the State. The operations were
mostly in the early hours of the morning
and people awoke to find their houses
generally ransacked. Currie was finally
tectives arrested and eXtradited.
One of the half dozen ''onlv survivors
of the Custer massacre now on exhibition
in various parts of the country spent Il
day in begging around town this week
lie said that his name was George Wood
ruff, his home in San Francisco. Cal.
and his guardian was Col. L. A. Wood
bury of Burlington. He collected about
Ia tI.,f; Of 3 IA.
village, who failed to remember that the
only survivor of the Custer massacre
was Comanche, the horse belonging tC
Private Miles keogh, of Company |, 9TH
L. ). cavalry, and let their sympathy
run away with their cash. Barre Lead
er.
Charles Osborne, Charles Slade and Ar
thur Fellows of North Adams, Mass.
went rabbit hunting Sunday in Beal
swamp, near Stamford. The hunters RAJ
across "A young black bear, which tool
refuge under rock. The men had only
shotguns with bird-shot cartridges, anC
two of the hunters with the dog watched
the bear while the third went for neigh
Dor. Ed. 4. Caldwell. who had rifle
Caldwell put three Winchester bullets in
to the head of the bear. The carcass wa
taken to North Adams. The weight was
222 pounds.
, John j. Stewart and c. +. York were
acquitted of the charge of mansaughte
by jury in the Chittenden county cour
, on Tuesday. Stewart was the conductor
and ork the engineer of freigh
train which came into collision nea
Richmond with special train returning
from the Mckinley rally at Burlington L
Montpelier on the night of August 81
last. 1t was contended by the prosecu
ton that they ran their train on the tim
of the excursion train, knowing tina
the excursion train had the right of wa!
in consequence of a red flag having beef
borne for it by the regular passenge