Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-02-10
State 11eps.

A fire at Burlington. Monday morning,
destroyed the dwelling house of II. ID.
Segel on Winooski avenue. The loss is
total. Insurance Sl250.
John d. O'Sullivan of Burlington, II
years of age, dropped dead Sunday night
while out walking with friend 1t is
said thar excessive use of cigarettes had
resulted in blood-poisoning.
Wallace Stiles, II farmer, aged 80 years,
fell from load of hay at st. Johnsbury,
Monday afternoon. He struck on his
head on the pole of the wagon and died
from the effects of the blow.
a new tower clock with four illumi-
mated dials has been placed in the court
house at Bennington. 1t is the gift of
ii. w. Putnam, wealthy resident of the
town, and is said to have cost $1,000.
William Dalton, tramp, was picked
up by the police in the streets of Rutland
last Sunday morning. His hands and
feet were badly frozen. He said that he
had tramped from Montreal looking for
work
The farmhouse and outGuildings of G..
w. Pratt at Berlin Corner, were burned
at 3 O'Clock Wednesday morning. w.
b. Nye, a well-known Adirondack guide,
could not be rescued and was burned to
death. He was II years old.
j. r. Hoyt, son of Timothy Hoyt of
Rutland, was knocked off car in Vic
tora bridge at Montreal, Monday morning,
and fatally hurt. He was freight brake
man aud is supposed to have been hit by
tinbers in the bridge.
st. Johnsbury had the worst storm of
the season on Friday, when highways
were filled up and trains blocked. On
Saturday morning the thermometer reg
istered the lowest it had this winter-35
below zero. At Barre, the same morn
ing. the mercury was n below.
a five-year-old child of Joseph Paule
was probably fatally burned in Brattle-
bcro on Friday. Her mother left her
in the house with some other children,
and it is supposed that her clothes were
set on fire from matches with which the
children were playing. Her screams at
tracted the neighbors.
Rev. G. w. Gallagher, pastor of Beth
any congregational church at Montpel-
Ter, resigned Sunday after he had given
MS pensioners scorchlng lecture
from the pulpit that caused sensation.
lie said the church was not in accord
with him because he had spoken plainly
against evil.
Secretary Rusk has established quar-
antine of 30 day on all Canadian cattle /:
ana until further orders such cattle can
come into the United States only through
the port of Buffalo. Admission to Cana
dian cattle will accordingly be refused at
ports at the Vermont frontier until fur
tn n notice.
The 18th annual report OF the Vermont
Bible society has been issued by the
officers of the society, of which w. p.
Dillingham; of Waterbury is president.
Inc society sustains 81 repositories and
SIX sub-depositories, and the sale of
Bibles during the past year amounted to
S22lS.9O. The canvassers have visited 26
towns, completing the canvass of Addi
son, Grand Isle and Rutland counties.
Seven thousand five hundred and eighty
two, families were visited, and 81 were
found destitute of Bible. The society
has about $500 in the treasury.
Bennington officers were on Friday
notified by the authorities in NorwGlk,
Conn, OF the arrest and confession in
that place of Henry Mcdowell, who killed
John Crowley at glastonbury near Ben
ningtOn. in April, 1892. He murdered
Crowley on a lonely road hear a Green
mountain hamlet III Glastonbury, one
night and coolly walked into town and
told what he had done. He as coolly
walked away and has not been seen since.
Mcdowell is an. English sailor and at the
time was thought to be a deserter. He
mas been brought to Bennington and
Jailed. The grand jury found an indict-
ment against him when it last sat. and he
Will be tried at the next fern of the
county court.