Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-09-21
State 11erps.

John Day of Stamford the other day
caught a two-year-old black bear weigh
ing $50 pounds.
Hon. II. &. Root of bennington has
presented memorial record to the
Grand Army post of his town.
The Vermont Marble company of
Proctor on Saturday paid its help nearly
$50 900, their earnings for August.
L. b. johnson, formerly of the North
field News and Burlington Clipper, has
purchased of l.. p. Thayer the Randolph
Herald.
The ninth convention of the Rebekah
lodges of the State will be held at Odd
Fellows hall in Bellows Falls Wednes-
day, October g.
Thomas Durick's boat upset on Lake
Bomoseen, Castleton, last Thursday, and
he was drowned. The cause of the ac-
cident is not known.
Burglars stole Sll in money, some
stamps and other things from the post
Office at Rochester Sunday night. En-
trance was effected by cutting pane OF
glass.
The Burlington Cotton company is
running the mill at WinoOski IL hours a
dav in order to manufacture enough
warn to meet the wants of the mill In
Burlington.
P.J. Kelly, who was arrested short
time ago for forgery which he committed
at Fair Haven. pleaded guilty in the Rut-
land city court and was sentenced TO 10
months in the house of correction.
NJ. J. Caslin Of Rutland, featherweight
champion wrestler, and John 7. Guilt
nan of North Adams, Mass, have signed
articles for wrestling match Tor the
championship in Rutland October 2.
The 300 hands of the Bennington wool
en- mills struck, Monday, for the restora-
ton of the 10 per cent cut in wages last
February. The mill owners granted the
increase asked and the hands went back
to work.
II. L. Hoags bakery in Rutland was
broken into early Saturday morning, and
from all appearances by professional
burglars. The safe was opened and
about so in cash was taken. No arrest
has been made.
A large amount of liquor that had been
seized and condemned was spilled Sat
urdav at Pownal. The stock consisted
OF 1913 bottles of lager, two barrels of
ale, one barrel of whiskey and four jugs
containing rum, gin, wine and other
liquors.
As the steamer Reindeer, carrying
800 passengers. among whom were a
large number of women and children,
was returning to Burlington the other
evening. she struck the Colchester reef
and nearly upset. The passengers were
badly scared, but no damage was done.
Mr.. Muller. the grader of prominent
I o. nl nd
home Tuesday evening, after having
taken up for his firm S0,4O0 calf skins
bought OF c. S. Page. 1t is said and we
have no doubt it is true. that a single
transaction of this magnitude Is unknown
outside of Hyde Park News and Citi-
zen.
George W. Collins of Brattleboro, gen
eral agent for Vermont of the Wayne
Building and Loan association of Palmy
ra, n. V. is said to he a defaulter and
absconder. About 200 mill operatives In
Brattleboro were stockholders in the con-
Germ he represented. and he carried away
with him large sum of their hard-earned
money. After he left he wrote his wife,
saying that he was going to a foreign
country. and that lie would be on the
water by the time the letter reached her.
The company he represented is sound fl
nanciallv. and it is not thought the stock
holders will lose by his actions.
Acting upon the advice of ex-senator
Edmunds. a number of the licensed ma
pie sugar producers of Vermont propose
to unite III insiituting suit against the
United States government tor earned
bounties on the crops of 1894. the pay
ment of which has been refused by the
secretary of the treasury. The licensed
producers in Vermont for the season OF
1894 made about 1000, 900 pounds entitled
to receive the bounty of II cents a pound,
the product of something like $500 max
kers. Concerning this subject eX-Sena-
tor Edmunds said: 1.-The refusal of the
secretary of the treasury to pay the boun-
tv to licensed producers on the crop of
1894, which was accepted and tested by
the government, cannot be justified in
law or equity. Every cent of bounty
due under the Mckinley law is collecta-
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