Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-28
State 11ems.
Rutland liquor dealers were fined
Sl09S.GS on Tuesday.


James Carroll, 20 years old, was kill
ed by Il fall Saturday morning in mill
at Proctor. His body was badly crush
ed.
l.. S. Drew of Burlington and G. NJ.
Wnslow of Brandon Will take their
herds of Ayrshire cattle to the Worlds
fair next month.
Editor ID. X. Simonds of the Manches
ter Journal has been appointed by Gov.
Fuller examiner of teachers for Benning-
ton county, vice A. c. Ferrin, resigned.
Charles f. Burke of Brockton, Mass,
an invalid stopping at the Red Lion
Inn, West Randolph, was thrown from
a carriage and killed Monday afternoon.
Some one damaged four valuable
stones in the yard of Stevens 81 Reid
at Barre, Monday night, the damage
amounting to 800. The firm lately dis
charged several hands.
GEdward Ii. Prentiss, who died in
Brooklyn, n. Y, Saturday evening was
born at Montpelier in 1908 and was sou
of Samuel Prentiss, once chiet-justice of
the Vermont supreme court.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
society Sons of the American Reyolu
ton will be held at the Bates house, Rut-
land, Wednesday evening, August l6.
Gov. Fuller is president of the organiza-
ton.
An old brick store at Center Rutland,
owned by F. w. Shedd & Son, was
burned Friday evening, together with a
large stock of groceries and meat. Loss
on building, $500; on stock, $500.
Total insurance, $500.
The Vermont Marble company of
l n 1
that wages will be reduced ID per cent
on August l. The company is the larg-
est marble concern in the world and
employs about 2000 men.
The Joseph Tower homestead, house
and five outbuidings, three miles south
of Rutland city, were burned Friday
afternoon with loss, estimated, of
$1,000. The fire started from the eXplo-
sion of an oil stove and nothing of value
was saved.
Anton Bakarsok, Pole, was instantly
/ killed and Frank Kappa and Frank Bick
badly injured by an accident in quarry
of the Vermont Marble Co. at West Rut
land on Tuesday. The derrick chaiu
sustaining a block of marble broke and
let it fall 40 feet into the quarry.
The Bellows Falls paper mills started
down two weeks to allow the logs IN
the Connecticut river to pass over the
dam and through the rapids. About
500 persons have been out of employ
ment since the gates were shut down.
A Rutland market gardener says: 81
NAV be eXaggerating, but | think the
storm of Saturday caused loss of not
less than 100000 to the market garden
ers of this county. Our late corn, for
instance, is practically ruined. and other
marketable products have suffered in the
same way. At any rate the outlook is
anything but hopeful"
The docket for the September term of
Chittenden county court is the largest
docket of any term in eleven years. There
are 43 criminal cases and 33 divorce
cases. beside many civil and chancery.
The term will be an interesting one.
The April term, recently closed, occupy
ing l42 DAYS in session, while the cores
pondng term in 1892 closed after II
days.
1t appears from the recently-pubished
returns to the secretary of state that Il
towns in the State have 100 miles or
more of highway. Three towns have
less than ten miles Baltimore eight
St. George six. and Glastonbury in Ben
nington county, mountain town six
miles square, reports only three miles
Danvile ranks first, with 1870 miles
Springfield, second, with l2l.
? The trustees of the soldiers home al
Bennington had their annual meeting OF
Wednesday. There are now 60 inmates
! of the home; 81 have been admitted
nine re-admitted, 20 have been discharg
' ed and seven have died, making a gam Of
l3. The treasurer reports $4,000 OF
hand. The State apprOprates $1,000 !
h year and the general government con
l. tributes about $1,000 additional, making
the income $4,000 yearly.
e A. F. Davis grist mill at Rutland, tn
largest in the State, was nearly destroy
q ed by fire Monday night. The fir
i. caught from the machinery and tn
flames consumed the hay, grain an,
= feed as though it were powder. On
e large store house and other building
r. were saved. The loss is estimated a
II $4,000, and is covered by insurance
. Thomas Mills, "A fireman, sustaine
q; severe injuries, but it is thought that h
= will recover.
y, Suit has been brought against Rev
A. Father Cloarec of Burlington by Lid
Godette of that city to recover $1,000
damages Tor personal injuries receive
at the hands of Miss LaChapelle,
teacher in St. Joseph's parochial schoo
of which Father Cloarec has charge
A verdict of $3.50 damages again:
Miss LaChapelle was obtained at tn
h last term of the Chittenden count
court, but she has since died, leaving n
property hence the present suit. Til
writ sets forth that Father Cloarec ha
} knowledge of the violent temper of Mi;
4 LaChappelle, and that he had paid n
attention to numerous complaints r.
garding her treatment of pupils. 1t
claimed that the excessive punishmeI
administered TO Ida Godette cause
spinal meningitis.