Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-10-13
State 11ems.

1t is said that over 5000 residents of
Vermont have attended the Worlds fair.
A barn and its contents on the farm of
Perry II. Miles In Ilinesburgh was burn
ed Saturday night. The loss is 5000
and the insurance nothing.
The Bennington ana Rutland railroad
will have an excursion to New York on
the 18th inst. The fare for the round
rip from Ru land will be 50.
BENJAMIN Dean. town liquor agent of
.Fayston, was fined 500 and costs in the
Washington county court Wednesday
for selling liquor without II physician
order.
There were % cases of typhoid fever in
#Rutland during September and two
other cases of Illness with contagious
diseases. The deaths of the month
numbered %.
A farewell reception was given at st.
.Johnsbury the other night to Hon.
Henry G. Ide, who has gone out to
Samoa to become chief Justice of the
supreme court.
The normal school at Randolph will be
rebuilt. The new building is to be 51xSO
feet fitted with all modern appliances; it
is to be completed by February and it is
to cost about $4,000.
b. G.. Long, Rutland dealer in must
cal Instruments, has disappeared and his
store is in the hands of the sheriff. He
started for the Worlds fair month ago
Z and nothing has since been seen of him.
A Jury of the Washington county
court has found Ira Spencer of Marsh
field not guilty of arson. He was ac-
cused of burning building owned by
his mother-n-law, in the autumn OF
1891.
Col. l.. C. Leavens, deputy collector
i'm the custom house at Richford, has re-
tired also Mr.. Barnes and Capt. Marvin.
Their places are filled by h. Gates,
Capt. Culver and Charles Bancroft, Dem-
ocrats.
The Norwich Shook 81 Lumber COM
panv's steam mill at Norwich was
burned Sunday morning. causing a loss
s of $50. 900: insurance, 10000. The mill
stood on the site of one burned in
. August, 1892, and was fully equipped
. with all the latest machinery for the
! business.
Mrs. Frank O. Gibson of Schenectady
n. y. left an infant on the steps of w
4 f. Baldwin's house in Rutland. Satur-
dav evening, but came around the next
dav aud claimed it. She SAID she was
very poor and had been abandoned by
her husband.
II. b. Burnham of North Danvill'
comes 70 the front with the biggest pc
tato story of the season. He raised two
potatoes that weighed the equivalent o
bushel: two that came within three
pounds of it; Il that weighed GO.
pounds; 81 that weighed 3l4 and 10 tina
weighed 30. All these came from ten
acre lot.
james Gilrain, a Rutland iron molder
80 wears of age. shot himself fatally
while hunting in Mendon on Monday
His body was found in lot near wire
fence. The circumstances indicated tina
/ he undertook to pull his gun through
the fence by the muzZle. when it wen
off. The charge took effect in his bowels
and must have caused instant death.
Freight trains No. 20 and Z. the form
err going south and the latter north
collded at Sbelburne station at 4 ~
O'Clock Wednesday morning. Two bo,
cars were completely wrecked, boil
engines damaged and the drawbars o
% cars broken. No one was Injured
Train No. stood on the main tract
when No. 20 approached. The engi
neer of the latter, thinking tnat NO.
was on the siding, attempted to pas
and the collision resulted. The tract
was blocked till nearly noon.
Work is nearing completion on tn
1000 acre deer and sheep park whicl
l.. G. Houghton is preparing IN Halifax
A carload of wire arrived last week AM
the work of strlnging it about the en-
closure will be completed this week
Mr.. HOughton is also contracting for
trout pond to cover about four acres
He built one when he was before in Hal
flax, and year ago last spring he tool
40 trout from it that averaged Il poun
apiece. He will go to Illinois in fey
days for the winter. He already Ina
seven old deer ana three young one
there to be shipped on here. He ais
expects TO get some moose this fall. an
has man in northern Minnesota look
ing out for them.