Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-02
State )1eps.

The banks of Rutland talk of establish
ing clearing house.
The Rutland Republican club has reor-
ganized for the coming campaign and has
elected officers.
The total fire losses in Burlington last
year were SOC, S53.32, on which there was
a total insurance of S64, .32 and net
loss of S32, LOG.
The list annual course of lectures at
the medical department of the university
of Vermont at Burlington began on
Thursday of last week with $50 students
present
rhe new normal school building at
Randolph, to replace the one destroyed
by fire last fall, is nearly completed. 1t
stands on the site of the old building and
is y by so feet in dimensions.
DR.. Mcintyre of West Randolph, who
managed the Vermont business AT the
Worlds fair, is closing up the various
accounts. He thinks there will be left Of
the total appropriations, amounting to
500, $50, about $1,000 to turn into the
State treasury.
Miss Bridget COnlon, 60 years of age,
living on Hyde street in Burlington,
morning. She lived alone and was &C.
centric. There was plenty of provisions
in the house as well as money. The
body was partially frozen.
A Young man has been swinding people
over in Brooktield by taking orders for
silverware which he has never delivered.
He required purchasers to pay in advance
and agreed to have the goods on hand at
certain time and place; but neither he
nor the goods has been seen.
\ Edwin Ford, who went to New York
from Isle La Motto few years ago, was
found drowned in one of the lakes in
Central park on Monday. 1t is believed
tried to cross the lake, the ice on which
was not strong enough to hold him.
All the cattle at the experiment station
at Burlington infected with tuberculosis
have been killed. Evidence of the dis
ease were found in each animal. \ bull
Netin giving the results of the autopsies
and containing general information in re-
gard to the disease will soon be Issued.
< Nicholas DCnahue, an employee of the
Vermont Marble Co. at West Rutland.
disappeared last week and no trace OF him
can be found. He left home to go TO
Rutland and make payment at bank.
lie did not go to the bank. A wife and
two children were dependent upon him.
Burlington Is now the headquarters
for the telephone system of Vermont
and northern New Hampshire. The me-
tallc circuit will be extended from Bur-
hngtOn to st. Adams, and from Rut-
land to Bellows Falls. This will give
Burlington direct communication south
and north.
l/George Hopkins, young farmer of
fEast Berkshire, while at work in the
woods was instantly killed by falling
tree. His neck was broken and his
body badly crushed. He was 30 years
old and unmarried, and the care of the
farm had been recently turned over to
him by his father.
Gov. Fuller has appointed Saturday,
March 3, vermont day at the Cali
fOrnia midwinter international eXposi-
ton. The governor has appointed as
honorary commissioners to the EXPOSE
ton Hon. Frank Dillingham;, formerly
of Waterbury; Col. Fletcher ID. Proctor
of Proctor and Hon. n. w. Fisk of Isle
| La Motto.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. b. Tarbell, recently of
Burlington, were suffOcated by gas at
their home in st. Paul, MINI, on Friday.
4 rubber tube connected a gas pipe in
the wall with portable gas stove stand
ling on table in one of the rooms.
There was no cutoff in the gas pipe and