Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-16

Audlhs Is DuIteT Ouytr ana president
of the defunct Swanton Suspender COM
pany.
The st. Johnsbury board OF trade is
IN Furnishing condition. The total re-
celpts last year were $l,079.5l, the ex-
penditures, 1921. As, leaving balance of
$25S.0G.
The town of Rutland, after weeks of
evidence and arguments over settle
ment, has finally decided to pay S7S42. 52
to the city of Rutland in settlement of
all differences.
Patrick, son of Thomas Coonev of
West Rutland, was burned to death last
week while irving to save stock from
his fathers burning barn. The body
was horribly burned.
f. E. Mascott's carriage factory, un-
dertaking rooms and paint shop in Cas-
Teton were destroyed by fire on the Sth
inst. A can of benzine was overturned
and set on fire by striking the stove.
Lewis Gee and his son, George, of
Chester arrested for perjury committed
at the trial of suit brought against the
old man two weeks ago, have been
bound over for trial at the county court.
The Providence Washington Fire In
surance company of Providence has de-
cided to withdraw from Vermont, taking
up all its agencies here, on account of
the unprOfitableness of its business in
the State.
A government official who has been
around the State to look up Cinnamon
finds that there are 80 of them within our
borders and that all are ready to register
as required by law. A year ago there
were 10 of them
The valuable herd of cattle on Noun
tain View farm at East Burke, owned bv
e. A. Darling of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, is found TO be infected with
tuberculosis, and rs head out of total
of 81 must be killed.
While in an intoxicated condition,
Bigelow Still of Arlington drove into
the river at South Londonderry last Fri
day night and was drowned. On his
body was found a bank book certifying
to Il deposit of $1,000.
A Dennison, Tex, dispatch says the
cotton mill erected during the boom of
1889 at a cost of S500,0 has been sold
at public auction for $4,000 1t had
never been operated Considerable YER
mont capital went INTO this enterp Use.
The explosion of an oil stove on the
Sth inst. started a fire in the second story
of the block in Fair Haven occupied by
Smith IL Powell, merchants, o. ii. Peck,
furniture. and one or two others. The loss
building is 500 and on stock $1,000 to
$4,000.
The New England association of
alumni of the university of Vermont had
a hannupt Sat
President Buckham and l.. NJ. Fitch of
West Newton, Mass, the oldest living
graduate of the institution, were among
those present.
a man who has been swindling Mas
ons in northern Vermont and New
York, by claiming that he was Judge G..
II. Mason of Mount Anthony lodge of
Masons at Bennington, is under arrest
at Oswego, n. Y. Judge Mason has
gone there to see if he can Identify him.
Edgar Chiott, the Burlington mail
clerk who was arrested i'm December for
robbing the mails, pleaded guilty in the
United States court in Burlington last
week. He was sentenced to pay fine
S. and costs and to serve year and
half at hard labor in the house of cor
rectiOn.
While Silas Sunbury was chopping off
a large maple log that was hollow in
East Concord, recently, he discovered fur
Of some kind sticking out of the log. On
further examination it proved to be
raccOOn. He quickly dispatched him
with a stick of wood, when another put
its head out of the cavity in the log, and
still another, and finally five large fat
cOOns were taken from the tree. their
weight being 80 pounds.
inst, the south wall of the electric light
and power station at the george" near
Winooski went out with crash, letting
the roof fall upon the dynamOs and
other machinery. 1t will cost $1,000 to
repair the damage. The weakness of
the tiume was the cause of the trouble.
The Burlington electric cars, which get
their power from this plant, were run for a
few days by horses till temporary re-
pairs could be made.
Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, pastor of
Berkeley temple, Boston, Is endavOring TO
establish home for boys in Vermont,
and has secured his old homestead in the
town of Westminster for that purpose
1t will require from three to five thOus-
and dollars to repair and complete it for
occupancy. 1t is II philanthrpoic cause,
and Mr.. Dickinson depends upon the
people of Vermont and New Hampshire
to raise the needed funds. 1t is proposed
to take homeless and friendless boys
from Boston and other New England
cities, provide them with home, and
later assist them in procuring a liberal
education.
A Manltowoc, Wis, dispatch of Sum
day tells this curious story: After beng
in ignorance of his name, birthplace and
parentage for 81 years, Frank Willis,
the waif of The burning steamer Niagara,
has learned who he is, and will in the
course of few days be reunited with
the members of his family who survived
the memorable disaster of Port Wash
ington in September, 1856. When a
two-year-old babe Willis hoated ashore
on plank from blazing vessel. He
has now learned that his name is France
Willete and that he was born in Win
oOski, VT, 80 years ago. His father,
mother and three brothers, he being the
next youngest child, were lost on the
Niagara. On Monday Willis will go to