Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-14
State 17ems.

A Houston liquor-cure establishment
has been organized at st. Johnsbury.
The True Blue Marble company of
West Rutland has discharged 40 men
this week. The real cause is unknown.
Peter Frazer, Barre granite dealer,
has assigned. Liabilities, $4,000. He
employed 20 men. This is the first fail
ure there for several years.
William Gleason of McIndoes fell from
load of hay Tuesday and was killed
instantly by breaking his neck. He
leaves widow and six children.
A lifelil1e picture of MAJOR General
William Wells has been presented by his
widow to the State, and has been hung
in the capitol at Montpelier beside the
portrait of General Philip II. Sheridan,
with whom he did efficient service dur
ing the war of the rebellion.
Maj A. b. Valentine of Bennington
was driving home from Wilmington the
other day, when he saw ahead of him
sitting on its launches in the middle of
the road large black bear. Three of the
brutes have been seen in that section and
have killed a number of sheep and cattle.
Miss Olive Dillingham;, a highly-re-
spected young lady of Waterbury and
cousin of ex-Gov. w. P. Dillingham;, at
tempted suicide at Waitsfield Monday.
When discovered she was in convulsions.
Letters showed the act to have been
premeditated. She is % years old, and
dependency was the cause of her act.
o. o. Calef of Washington last Fri
day night struck Frank Yattaw of Barre
with hammer with such force as to
break Yattaw's arm. Yattaw has sued
for $4,000 damages. Calef is prominent
and one of the wealthlest citizens of
Washington. Yattaw is local black
smith.
Most of the $4,000 capital stock of
the Albuquerque IN. NJ national
bank, which has just suspended business,
was owned in Caledonia county, princi-
pally in Lyndon. The officials of the
bank say they hope to resume business,
the suspension having been necessitated
only by the impossibility of calling in
loans.
The city of Rutland has bought a
steam road roller, the gross weight of
which is l21 tons, and it can be used for
rolling, blowing, breaking up the sur
face of old roads and rolling paved
streets. 1t can also he used as an engine
to run stone crushers and other ma
chimes, and as locomotive to draw the
crushed stone.
DR.. George S. Bidwell of Hartford,
CT, has been appointed assistant super
lntendent and assistant physician of the
| Vermont insane asylum at Waterbury.
He has begun work. DIR. Bidwell has
been connected with the Hartford retreat
several years, where he won distinction
as an expert in his profession. He was
born in Rutland.
The officials of the railroads running
into Rutland say that the freight traffic
is unusually light. The general de-
preston in business seems to affect the
roads as well as the merchants and
manufacturers in the city. One eXcep-
ton to this unusual quietness in business
is made by the marble companies, which
report that they have all they can do.
i Rutland Herald.
Charles Manchester and Gus Cook and
Fred Allard of Fair Haven had fight
Sunday at Carver's Falls. Manchester
story is that the two men assaulted him,
and in self-defense he drew revolver
and fired three shots. one of which hit
Allard in the small of the back, and the
other Cooks arm, one shot going through
the atter's collar. The general opinion
is that Manchester's story of self de
tense is true, and it is not likely thai
complaints will be entered.
L. X. Peck, assistant and acting post
master of Rutland, was arrested Satur
day in civil suit in which he is charged
with getting money by false pretences
The suit was brought by w. P. Proctor
of Fair Haven, and the declaration set
forth that Proctor loaned Peck $3.50 las
January on a note signed by him anC
} endorsed by his mother, upon Peck
statement that his mother owned a Sc,
600 homestead in Rutland which wa
! mortgaged for $500. The note fell du
April l, but was not paid. Finally $l2
was paid in installments, and at las
Proctor grew suspicious and found tina
Mrs. Peck's property was mortgage
!. for $1,000. He then brought this sui
Peck declares that he is innocent. Th
matter makes great deal of talk, partl
0 because there is local feud in the Den
2 ocratic party and Peck and his friend
| claim that the suit grew out of that.