Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-01
State l1ems.

Tie AndInpldlu CANAL ClOStu NtSlcT-
day. The last tow from the south
reached Burlington on Saturday.
Landlord Burgess of the Avenue
House, Barre, was on Friday fined $3.50
and costs for three offences of selling.
Harley c. futile, wel-known
business man of Rutland, died suddenly
on Wednesday of last week, aged SO
years.
Burglars broke into C. d. Warren's
store at Williston last week and took 500
worth of postage stamps and 5000 worth
of goods.
The top was burned off +. f. Browns
block at st. Johnsbury, Friday morning,
causing loss of $1,000, which is covered
by insurance.
Joel Bashaw of East Berkshire was
run over by train at Enosburgh, the
other morning, and had his left leg cut
of below the knee.
The high school building in Island
Pond burned Saturday evening. Loss,
$1,000; insurance, $4,000. A defective
furnace flue was the cause of the fire,
A barn on the Page estate property
near Bennington village was burned last
Friday night. 1t contained about 30
tons of hay. The loss is $1,000, with no
insurance.
Landlord Orvls of Manchester will put
about 100000 worth of repairs upon the
Equinox House and on the Equinox
Junior in Manchester and will keep open
next season until November l.
James b. Mattocks, aged about 60
years. died of pneumonia at Danville on
Friday, after nine days illness. He had
been cashier of the Caledonian national
bank many years, and was leading
citizen of the town.
l.. c. Crosby, IA Putney tinsmth, was
found dead in the woods two miles from
BrattebCro the other day. He had bled
to death from a gunshOt wound in the
thigh. 1t is supposed his weapon was
discharged by fall.
The mill of Foster, Joycelyn & Co at Bar
ton Landing was burnd Tuesday morning,
together with large amount of lum-
Der, highway bridge and $1,000 worth of
bobbins. The total loss is $4,000. and
there was no insurance on it.
VIM. Hart of Rutland on Saturday
afternoon tried to get off the train which
reaches that city at o'clock while 1t
was in motion, and was thrown head
first to the ground and killed The top
of his head was smashed in.
Frank j. Gould, 80 years old, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at Putnty,
Monday. He had been married about
month and was preparing to mo'e to
recently purchased Westminster farm.
No cause is known for the deed.
A State bank organized at Barton re-
Gently turns out to have been fraudu-
lent concern. l.. c. Brewer of New
York, the chief mover in the enterprise,
was arrested when he appeared in Bar
ton last week and put under bonds TO be
on hand for trial.
ii. NJ. Sanders of Montpelier. who had
recently been released from the Water
bury asylum, the other morning went in
to the cellar of his residence and built
fire. He was nearly overcome by the
smoke, but neighbor dragged him out
before he suffOcated.
The office of David ii. Morse, White
River Junction miller, was entered by
burglars Friday night, by prying up "a
window in the grist mill. The safe was
blown open and the money drawer rlfled
of small change, about $40 being stolen
altogether. There is no clue to the
robbers.
The local papers give long descriptions
of the monument that is being erected in
Rural cemetery, Worcester, Mass, to the
memory of George Bancroft, the histor-
Nan. The structure is % feet high and
rests on granite base Is feet by II feet.
The memorial is of Vermont granite and
costs $1,000.
Sakus' tinshOp in Chester was broken
into the other night. The burglars be-
gan drilling the safe, but were Brighten.
ed away. James Smith, who encounter
ed the burglars, was held up with re-
volver while they prepared to escape.
The burglars are thought to have been
professionals.
REV" Henry Clay Steele, who has
been preaching at Middetown Springs,
has been arrested in Willimantic, Conn.,,
and brought to Rutland to answer to the
charge of stealing a horse and wagon
from a Middletown man. He is sand to
have gone to MiddletOwn from Alburgh.
He was held for trial.
1t is reported at Rutland that Louis
! Hilliard, formerly of that town, VINO
was lately captured in Spain and brought
TO this country to answer TO the charge
of stealing large sum from the Chicago
Tribune, of which he was assistant
cashier, has been sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
IneIe was DOlu roDDery at hlcnIOTu
early on Friday evening. Horatio
Thomas, station agent at the Central
Vermont depot, was knocked down by
parties unknown and robbed of 800, the
property of the railroad company. The
thieves did not take a considerable
amount that was in the safe. AT last ac7
counts no arrests had been made. \
Charles Clement, president of the
Clement national bank of Rutland and
former president of the Rutland railroad
company. died in New York city on
Friday. He left home on Monday for
his winter residence in Florida, and was
stricken with paralysis on the train when
near Poughkeepsie. Mr.. Clement was
born at Bridgewater, Windsor county.
He settled in Rutland in 1850 and was
one of the pioneers of the marble in
dustry.
The Vermont Slate company has de-
cided to stop work for three months,
beginning December l. This means
that 10 or more important slate quarries
IN POultney and Pawlet, VT, and Gran