Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-15
State 11eps.

The Christian scientists of st. Johns
bury have organized a church of their
own.
Rev. William Fuller of Washington
has accepted a call from Hnesburgh
Baptist church.
The State convention of the Daughters
of Rebecca lodges will be held in Rut-
land November s. There are % lodges
in the State.
a gang of sharpers is working the
fairs in Barre and its vicinity with
games, fakes, etc, and a considerable
amount of counterfeit money is said to
have been passed.
Rev. w. b. Walker has resigned the
rectorship of st. Peters Episcopal church
at Bennington. His resignation is said
to have been requested by committee of
the vestrymen.
A young man giving his name as w.
N. Powell has been arrested at Barre for
stealing a team which he disposed of
there on Sunday for a small price. 1t
was stolen in Burlington.
BY the will of the late Sarah Rankin
of Danvile the Methodist church re-
ceives legacy of $1,000 to build church
at West Danville. Work will be begun
upon the new church at once.
1t has been decided not to have "Ver-
mont's day" at the Worlds fair. The
10Th of the present month was set for
this event, but Gov. Fuller does not
think it desirable to try to observe it.
DR.. j. d. Lance of Montpelier has
been held in the sum of $500 on the
charge of violating the postal laws. DR..
Lance is partner of DR.. Fiske, who
tlt~
charge.
A house two miles from Bellows Falls
on the river road in Drewsville was fired
by lightning Friday night. The house.
barn and adjoining buildings were totally
burned and all personal property and
live stock were lost.
Another conspiracy case will be
contested at Barre. young Swede
claims that he was deprived of work
through the granite dealers association,
which demanded that he return to the
employ of Cutler & Burnham, with
whom he had been serving an apprentice
ship.
The annual reunion of the Sth Yer
mont Regiment association will be held
in the Grand Army hall at Montpelier
September rs. Major II. NJ. Pollard of
St. Louis, Mo-, will give an address and
Capt. Carpenter will read one of his
humorous poems.
The Bennington & Rutland road has
offered a reward of $500 for the capture
of the persons who tried to wreck the
New York sleeper at the Childs bridge
near WallingfOrd on Wednesday morn
ing of last week. No clue has yet been
discovered, although the officers are at
work on the case.
John w. Titcomb, assistant superin-
tendent of the Howe Scale company,
Rutland. has secured six months
leave of absence and has gone to st.
bloomsbury to superintend the construc-
ton of the government fish hatchery
there. Mr.. T1tcomb is secretary of the
State Fish and Game league.
Chauncy Warner, an aged farmer of
Cambridge, has promised to make the
town of Sturbridge, Mass, present of
$4,000, with interest from Dec. Is, 1892,
which will amount to $S336. He says
he gives this sum in recognition and ap-
probation of the care the town has taken
of his deaf and dumb cousin, Miss Auril
Morris.
A. G.. Dewey & Co., manufacturers of
&lannel at Quechee, and the Hartford
wooden company, manufacturers of
satinets at Hartford village, have shut
down their mills indefinitely, owing to
the lack of orders and doubt as to the
result of the tariff legislation by the
present Congress. These mills give
Employment to about 400 persons, most
of whom are depending on their earn
ings for their living.
Sunday morning the body of an infant
boy, apparently four or five days old.
was found in a well near the chapel
north of Bennington village. The
authorities have been investigating, and
have arrested Frank Hill for completely.
Miss Jennie Allen, who has been keeping
house for Hill, admits that she is the
mother of the child, and has said that she
threw the body in the well.