Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-19
State l7ems.
y. II. Groton's barn and % cattle were
burned on Monday at Dandy.

y. II. Groton's barn and % cattle were
burned on Monday at Dandy.
The depot restaurant at Rutland was
raded o. Tuesday and liquor seized
The Judge Mech farm of 400 acres In
Shelburn was sold by auction on Wednes-
day, for SlO,lO0 to Cyrus Van Nliet OF
Shelburn.
The Vermont Holiness association
organized a new church at Montpelier,
Sunday, aud church building Will be
erected at once.
Civil service examinations for places
in the railway mail and Indian services
will be held at Burlington May Is ana
at Rutland May 81
VIM. Mcintyre of Milton, freight
brakeman. was swept from a car by
bridge near Boston, Mass, Friday, ana
died of his injuries.
Twelve new bridges were built on the
Rutland division of the Central Vermont
last season and others will be put up as
soon as spring comes.
Sidney w. Rowell. for several years
cashier of the old National bank OF Rut-
land, is now cashier of the First national
bank of Albany, n. Y.
II. T. Cushman, ID, young lawyer,
succeeds T.. j. Hall as county clerk OF
Bennington county, Mr.. Hall having re-
signed because of i'll health.
Diphthera has broken out at Calais,
Washington county. Three schools are
closed on that account. Several deaths
have occurred and Others are eXpt cted
Three cars of a freight train on the
Bennington and Rutland railroad were
wrecked Monday evening near Walllng-
ford. blocking the track. No one was
hurt.
Luther II. Plummer, prominent
Brattleboro man, has been held for trial
on the charge of burning cottage at
Chesterfield lake, thereby causing a loss
of $4,000
A. j. Sowell of Dandy, who has been
employed as brakeman on the Fitch
burgh railroad. has been arrested for
completely in extensive thefts of )ods
from freight cars.
The Excelsior Granite Co., which has
sheds at Pioneer Mills. near Montpelier,
is reported financially embarrassed and
is expected to assign. Two attachments
have been placed on the property.
Edgar Chiott, an employee of the Bur-
lington post-oflicp. has been arrested for
stealing money from letters. Marked
bills were found on him and he has con-
fessed. He had worked in the Office
since 1887.
F. l. Albec, aged 81, an inmate of the
Soldiers home at NorotOn, Conn, was
found dead near the railroad station there,
Thursday morning, and seemed to have
frozen to death. lie disappeared from
the home the previous day. He belong
ed in Bennington.
The Capitol Granite Co. of Montpelier,
one of the largest granite cutting estab-
lishments in the State, started up last
week with full force of men, after a
long shutdown. Other granite firms
will start this week. Many orders have
been received recently.
Tuberculosis has broken out in the
herd of cattle at the experiment station
connected with the agricultural college at
Burlington. Several animals have been
killed and their bodies burned, and the
rest will be treated in the same way il
the disease spreads to them.
The Queen Insurance company has
withdrawn from Vermont. The com
pany last Saturday notified all its agents
to discontinue business. 1t does not re
insure or cancel its policies, but allows
them to expire. The withdrawal was
caused by excessive losses in Vernon
last year