Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-30
State l1ems.

The building of the Rutland hospital
will be begun in May.
Payson Brothers of Alfred, Me, are
to establish corn canning factory in
Mortified. A..S
Forty men were discharged last week
Tuesday from the Central Vermont
shops in st. Albans.
st. Johnsbury is to have grand
Fourth of July celebration, the biggest
thing Of the kind it ever had. It a
T.. The st. Johnsbury Gentemens Driv-
ing cub is TO hold Il twO-days' meeting,
July and ,. 1t offers $500 IN purses
c. F. Smith of Morrisville has sold to
G. |. Hood of Lowell, Mass, the five
year-old Jersey COW, Ceestine, which
made I05 pounds of butter in 1893.
The fifth annual banquet of the Bur-
lingtOn Grocers and Meatmen's associa-
/tion was held at the Van Ness House on
Wednesday eveni &, with l75 persons
present.
The Burlington wooden mill at Win
ooski, which employs 800 hands and has
been idle for several months, started up
this week on full time and with full
force
The case State VS.. III. II. Pitkn of Fair
Haven has been SET for trial in the Rut-
land county court April 10. Pitbin was
indicted for procuring malpractice which
resulted in the death of Eva Shaw.
E. K. Lamoreaux of Newport News,
Va has been awarded the contract for
building the main structure Of the United
States fish hatchery at st. Johnsbury
and work on the building will soon COM
mence.
Joseph Ross, 81 years of age, an ap.
prentice in the independent" office al
Burlington, was so badly scalded by the
breaking of steam pipe connected with
the engine, Monday, that he died the
next day.
The j0th annual session of the Yer
mont Methodist conference will be held
at Bradford, April Is %, Bishop Warren
of Denver, Col, presiding. There are
in this conference l02 ministers and l6S
preaching points.
A fire at Bellows Falls, Sunday morn
ming. destroyed one storehouse and
damaged another Ownedhy the Fall
Mountain Paper company, and located
opposite the Island House causing a
lloss of $1,000 to $4,000; insured.
a body found on the 10Th inst. in the
Misssquo river below Swanton has
been identified as that Of Martin Clary,
30 years old, who disappeared in Decem-
Der. Whether he threw himself into the
river or accidentally fell in Is not known.
Charles III. Morse & Co. of Barre have
purchased WetmOre 81 Morse's granite
manufacturing plant in Montpelier and
will move their business there. l. is one
of the best and largest plants in Yer
mont and had been idle several months.
\. f. Hamilton, one of the most prom
inent bushes men in Manchester, has
been placed under $500 bonds for APP
pearance at The county court for trial on
| the charge of setting the recent fire in
Manchester, which started in his store
and destroyed considerable property.
The constant Influx of Cinnamon by
the underground route through northern
Vermont has caused the transfer of Chi
nese. Inspector Tippetts of the Champlair
district to Vermont, where he supersedes
! Il. NJ. Sutton, sent to Plattsburgh. The
smuggling of Chinese by way of the
northeastern New York line has almost
entirely ceased.
Senator Proctor has presented the
petition of III. NJ. Goddard and others OF
South Royalton, praying for Legislation
to suppress the lottery traffic; also /
memorial of local union 264, Cigarmak
ers' International union of America. o.
Rutland, demonstrating against an in
crease of the internal revenue tax OF
cigars.
Two brothers, Gabriel and william
Abbott of North Adams, Mass, ar
searching the woods up in Groton for
;Aird brother, who was last seen ther
+ In December last, when he started GU
in storm to walk II miles. His com
panion, an Italian, was found the mex
day nearly frozen to death, but coul
give no account of AbbOtt's where
abOuts.
The Jury in the case of Achsah :
t Bateman against the Central Vernon
Railroad company, which was tried a
Utica, n. Y, last week, returned vel
= dict of Sl7 900 In favor of the plaintiff
a The plaintiff asked for $4,000 for il
iuries received in the collision ut Chan
plain, Aug. 3, 1891. The railroad Ia
already paid $25, 900 on account of tn
1 accident.
A bulletin of the census of 1890 rel;
=, ting TO manufacturing industries give
; these facts relative to Vermont: Nun
i Der of establishments reporting, 3,O3l
aggregate capital, $50, 763, 29l total yalu
. OF plant, Sl6,S25, 1872, divided, Liant
= 100000 machinery, tools and impl
h ments, IS, 223, 2S9, buildings, S2,9a5 ,06'
$ 1--we assets, $l5,937 900; miscellaneo'