Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-08
State l1ews.

Newport is trying, through Represen.
tative Grout, to get an appropriation OF
$4,000 for public building.
Capt II. $. Foster is succeeded by
Capt II. E. Tutherly as professor OF
military science and tactics at the uni.
versity of Vermont
Burlington's new electric street rail.
way began to do business on Tuesday
when the route from the post-ollice to
Howard park was put in operation.
C. II. Young, horse thief arrested
in Londonderry last week for stealing
a team In Sunderland, has been placed
in the State prison at Windsor for safe
keeping.
The St. Johnsbury Daily Republican
which started as a morning paper about IA
months ago, announces that it will be
issued hereafter as an evening paper
The field is found to be too limited for a
successful morning daily.
The steam yacht Elfrda, owned by
DR.. Webb OF Shelburne. blew out two
tubes of her boiler while cruising on
the lake. Saturday. The engineer and
his assistant were badly scalded. They
are in the hospital at Burlington.
Phineas Fisher, the oldest person in
Hartford, and probably IN Vermont, died
of cholera mOrbus at his home in Hart
ford village Monday morning. He was
born in Lyme, n. H., in 1888. and had re-
sided in Hartford upwards of SO years.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Seventh Vermont regiment Will be
held at Burlington, October Il and Is.
An excursion will be taken TO Ausable
chasm, October Is, and in the evening
there will be campfire at the city hall,
Burlington.
The Pine street tunnel in Rutland is
being pushed to completion, when the
Landon crossing will he closed to pub
lie travel. Thirty-siX persons. it is
said, have been fatally injured at that
crossing since the Rutland railroad was
opened IL 1880.
The Vermont and New Hampshire
dairy exhibits for the September exhibit
at the Worlds fair left White River
Junction Tuesday in special refrigera-
tor car. Both exhibits are large and
varied. That of Vermont is in charge
of H. NJ. Arms of Springfield.
The storm of last week did more dam
age in the Mad river valley than was
at first supposed. Mad creek was the
highest since the flood of 1869. The
machinery from f. Cardell's saw mill at
Warren was scattered along the banks
of the river. Palmer Bros mill was
greatly damaged. Shepherd brook at
North Fayston carried away Davis
clapboard mill, and 1000 bushels of
grain were carried of.
Fire at Bennington last Thursday
night destroyed d. w. Newton's plumb
ing establishment, and store and dwell
ing attached were partially destroyed.
The latter were occupied by \. F.
Richie, dry goods merchant, and New
ton lived in the second story. The fire
caught in a tank of naptha and was
difficult to fight Newton's store is a
total loss; no insurance. Richie had
$4,000 stock, which was partly saved
and insured.
l.. c. Houghton of Sheffield. H., has
bought 1000 acres of land near his old
home in Halifax. WiLdham county
which he proposes to inclose with q
seven-foot wire fence, and stock the in
closure with deer and sheep. In ad
dition to this he will build trout pre-
serves along the several streams which
flow through the Enclosure. The whole
scheme is intended as profitable bust
ness enterprise. The venison, he is as
sured, will find ready market in New
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