Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-20
State 11ems.

The Prohibitionists of Rutland county
will nominate a ticket at Rutland mex
Monday.
Hermon, aged eight years, son of Ed
gar Phelps, was drowned in the Connec'
ticut river at Bellows Falls Friday.
A. Armagnac, who two months age
sold the Burlington Clipper to l.. b
Johnson of Mortified, has bought bacl
the property.
The Windsor county summer schooI
and teachers institute will be held al
Chester August 6 to Is. a number OF
prominent educators are down to speak.
TO avoid arrest for larceny of a bicycle,
Joe Laskey, "a years old, whose par
ents live in Castleton, committed suicide
with paris green at Chester Depot the
other day.
Arthur j. Beauchamp of Moose Creek,
Ont, tried to get off a moving train al
Swanton Junction, Friday, fell under
the wheels and had his right leg cut of
above the ankle.
1t is said that Col. +. l.. Bates of Ben
nIngton, now on Gov. Fuller's staff, will
be a candidate before the Legislature this
year for the position of Judge advocate
general of the State.
Fred E. Chaplin, for the past year
teacher of mathematics at Mr.. Moody's
school at Mt. HermOn, has been elected
principal of Bellows Falls high school,
vice S. S. Wright, resigned.
John Ireson of Bennington has alb.
seconded with 1925 that he had collected
towards paying for new uniforms fol-
the Eagle Hose company, which they
ovnonfoI tO he xn fnr tho n ron1anfs tnIrno.
ment yesterday.
Captain George w. Burleson. in charge
of the custom house at st. Adams, has
been ordered by Secretary Carlisle to APP
pear before the district attorney in New
York to give evidence In the Chinese
smuggling cases.
w. G. Carson of Boston was arrested
at st. Adams Friday, charged with
smuggling opium from Canada into the
United States. He had l20 pounds of
prepared opium, valued at $500, and
liable to a duty of $40.
The Vermont Woman's Relief corps
shows a total gain in membership for
the quarter ending June 30 of l52, and a
loss of 7G, making a net gain of 16. Two
new corps were instituted. among them
Needham corps of East Middlebury.
NJ. b. Houghton, a Bennington veteri
nary, was badly hurt Friday by a sick
horse he was attending. While passing
it the animal kicked him with both feet,
striking him square in the face. breaking
his jaw in two places and otherwise in
iuring him.
a switchman named Gaffney was en-
deavoring to uncouple cars in the Della
ware and Hudson yard at West Rutland,
when his foot became caught in the
guard rail and he was thrown under the
moving train. The wheels passed over
his body, cutting it in two.
Matt Young, employed in the pull
mills of the Fall Mountain Paper com
pany at Bellows Falls, was seriously
injured Friday. His legs were caught
between some logs and the machinery
and the flesh was stripped of from knee
to ankle. AmputatiOn may be neces
sary.
A Pawlet farmer has a healthy chicken
with three perfectly formed heads anC
necks. In getting away with food 1t has
a decided advantage over its companions
The chicken attracts a great deal of at
tention. and 1t is said the owner ha.
been offered a grand price for it by thu
proprietor of a circus.
Rev. \. b. DascOmb. one of the hes
known Vermont Congregational clergy
men. committed suicide Friday at hi
home in Westminster. He was ~
years old and a graduate of Dartmouth
college. He was pastor at Bellows Fail
for Il years. but resigned in 1890 on &C
count of Illness. He never regained hi
health. and his malady resulted in unbal
ancing his mind.
At the annual meeting of the Stat
Press association IN Burlington las
week these officers were chosen: Pres
dent, George II. Blake of the Barto
Monitor; first vice president, Geo. Al
kins of he Montpelier Argus and Patroit
second vice president, Geo. Il. Child O
the st. Adams Messenger; secretary, I
B. johnson of the Burlington Clipper
treasurer. w. Hubbard of the Brattlt
boro Phoenix; executive committee, L.
Thayer of West Randolph, chairman
C.. S. Forbes of st. Adams and f. {
Tuttle of Rutland. 1t was voted that
was the sense of the association ths
the papers of the State adopt the cas-
payment system. beginning January
1895. The association and its friend
2l4 in all. had an excursion Thursda
and Friday on Lake Champlain.