Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-21
State 11ems.

will hereafter run nine hours day ana
close Saturdays.
Two barns in Swanton were burned by
lightning during Monday nights storm,
causing loss of $1,000.
Thomas Hughes, whose home is at WI
nooski, was run over by train at Fargo,
N. D., Tuesday and killed.
The steepe of st. Monicas Catholic
church at Barre was struck by light
ming Monday night and damaged. $1,000;
insured.
There will be two days horse racing
at Winooski August Il and Is, with BIZ
cycle races. Purses amounting to $Sl5
are offered.
The charter for new national bank
at Chelsea has been received. The bank
is to be known as the Orange county
bank, and 1t will be organized soon.
George, the 1S-year-old son of Volney
A. Gilman, was drowned while bathing
in Lamoille river at Hyde Park Tuesday
afternoon. The body was recovered.
Z. G. Chase, a prominent resident of
Cambridge, was fatally injured the other
day by falling from a load of hay and
striking upon his head and shoulders.
Patrick Fahey of Bellows Falls jumped
from hay loft upon wagon, Monday,
and struck his abdomen upon stake,
making a serious but probably not fatal
wound.
w. Z. Babbitt of st. Adams has in his
possession a $50 continental bill in a
state of most perfect preservation. He
found it in book which belonged to his
grandfather.
Henry F. Spaulding, aged 70, senior
member of the dry goods firm of Spauld-
ing, Hunt & Co., New York, died in that
city on Monday He was a native of
Brandon, this State.
A mail train going north on the Central
Vermont railroad Monday night struck
the bakery wagon of l.. L. Montana of
Mortified at Tarbels crossing, killing
two horses. The driver was uninjured.
Barre granite dealers are stirred up
over the reported temporary failure of j.
j. Sullivan, dealer at Minneapolis, who
is reported to have $4,000 worth OF
stock placed there. Several granite
dealers have left for Minneapolis.
Patrick Wheeler, son of a wealthy
lix-ort- r.. hi, l-oaNor IN NaU Xorly dron.
ped dead at summer resort in Wood
ford, where he was passing the summer
one day last week. He was p years
old and had suffered from heart disease.
James X. Meacham, one of the oldes
members of the Bennington county bal
and well-known citizen of the town anC
county, died at Bennington Sunday
evening. He was GO years of age. HI
had filled many town and county of
fees.
o. f. Nettleton, a stock broker in Bos
ton, and agent for the sale of lots il
Cardiff, Tenn. has filed schedules il
insolvency. Among his creditors ar
said to be several st. Johnsbury and on
Wells River man. His assets consis
largely of Cardiff lots.
Forty-siX new doctors received thei
3 degrees from the medical department o
! the university at Burlington Monda
night. Hon. James l.. Gordon of Chan
lottesville. Va, delivered the address c
the evening on 1.-The influence of tn
public press" The exercises close
q with a banquet at the Van Ness House.
If Three large fire insurance companiC
: have this week notified their agen
II that they shall retire from business
Franklin and Grand Isle counties b
= cause of the heavy losses by fire. o.
company states that for every dollar r.
ceived for insurance on farm property
has paid out $3.50.
The report published in some pape
n that the Vermont Marble company h
reduced the number of its workmen
curtailed its business Is not well founde
as nothing of the kind has been done
far, and the condition OF its business
d. the usual one at this time of the yea
with plenty of orders on hand Rutlal
Herald.
re Cadmus S. Gates of Highgate has be-
as arrested by federal officers charged wi
m =.
ii, smuggling in aiding his daughter, Nj
SSa n L. II. Greene of Montpelier, in bringi
unlawfully 200 ounces of suIphonal a
phenacetine, two valuable drugs, in
III this country from Canada, last FebI
9Th airy. He waived examination and ga
bonds to appear at the October term
or the United States court.
int Ex-GoY. Dillingham;, commissioner
4, to chancery, is conducting hearing
!. Bennington this week in the case of I
Of Of Hartford Annuity company against
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