Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-02-24
State l7ews.

Franklin county is to have new iaiI
with IL cells.
There were go births and 200 deaths
In Rutland during 1892.
A branch Kelley institute is to be
established at once in Rutland.
The storeroom of the Novelty works,
two miles east of Bennington village.
with contents, was burned on Friday.
causing a loss of $500 above the insur.
ance.
Fifteen hundred yearling rainbow
trout have been planted in Otter creek
at Dandy. Gen. w. Y. w. Riplev of
Rutland headed the movement for get
ting them.
DR.. Geo. o. Webster of st. Albans
has been elected commander of the Yer
mott division, Sons of Veterans, in place
OF Frank l.. Greene of the same town.
who resigned.
A young child cf Mrs. Cote of Island
Pond backed into pail of boiling. hot
water standing on the floor, the other
day, and was terribly burned, dying
two days afterward.
Hon. G. b. Eddy of Bellows Falls. who
was sent to the Brattleboro asylum six
months ago for treatment. has returned
home and has recovered. He was at
one time quite noted lawyer.
Andrew Hanson, Swede, undertook
to walk from Rutland to Proctor Mon
day night. He was found late in the
evening sitting by the roadside, midway
between the two places, with both his
hands and feet frozen.
Mrs. Frederick Billings of New York,
formerly of Woodstock, has given the
ST. Johnsbury academy $500 with
which to found a scholarship in memory
of her eldest son, the late Parmley Bill
llngs. who graduated from the academy
in 1880.
A special train on the Central Yer
mont railroad ran into a team on the
crossing near the Center Rutland STA
ton on Friday. Both horses were in
stantly killed, and Henry White, the
driver of the rig, was thrown out on
his head and badly bruised.
Bert Cleveland of Casteton was per-
haps fatally hurt the other day while
chopping in company with his brother
lie slipped and fell just under his broth
ers AK. His back was badly cut, the cash
being the length of the AK, which cut
through into the Kidneys The wound is
dangerous one aud it is feared that it
will prove fatal.
A special meeting of the stockholders
Of the Central Vermont railroad was
called at st. Adams, Tuesday, to con
'lder whether the Central Vermont
would take lease of the Malone and
st. Lawrence railroad line extending
rom Malone, n. Y, to the Province
inc, and guarantee the bonds thereof |
The meeting adjourned without action
until March 6.
Ex-Governor Page has resumed his old |
line activity in his hide and skin bust |
ness. He has recently made extern
rye additions to his calf-slin establish
nent, making it larger by several times
han any other establishment of its kind |
n this country. Its dimensions are as
ollows: Main floor, used principally
or storing skins. 2i0xS6; receiving and
grading floor, 240X50; loft. lj6x40. The
which stands upon the main
Inc of the Boston & Maine railroad. has
platform BIB feet long. so that when a
ram delivers its freight half-doZpn cars
an be unloaded at the same time. In
edition to this there is "a special siding
lnnlng alongside the receiving floor.
here lS also siding alongside the low
r floor, and on II level Herewith. so that
hipments may be made from the main
forage floor without the necessity of
I1ting the skins by elevators, or other
'ise, to the receiving floor, which stands
n level with the main line. 1t is no
nusual thing to see more than l5O, 900
kins piled up in this building at time.