Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-13
State 11emS.

There are said to be 345 widows in
Burlington.
f. II. Dewart has resigned the princi-
paship of the st. Adams schools.
Ernest, son of Nathan Steele, a Swan
ton farmer, was struck by lightning Fri
day night and instantly killed.
l.. ID. Hazen of st. Johnsbury and c. j.
Bell of Walden are the Republican nom
lnees for senator in Caledonia county.
a irecracker exploded in the hand of
Royal Martin of st. Adams the 18th and
so lacerated it that the thumb had to be
amputated.
Mayor w. j. Van Patten and son
Charles of Burlington have started for
Japan by way of Vancouver. They will
he gone two months.
Henry LaPlant, a Burlington youth of
2 years, lost part of his right hand the
other night by the explosion of toy
cannon in which he was shooting off
firecrackers.
Fred r. Woodward of st. Adams has
be appointed deputy United States
marshal and Will succeed Thomas Fail
ley, who has held the office upwards of
twenty years.
At Barre, Saturday, F. Caersl was
fined $50 for selling liquor Illegally. The
Barre authorities have made several
az ditional arrests in an attempt to break
up the Italian kitchen barrooms.
James Brine of West Rutland jumped
from moving train the afternoon of The
18th, struck on the left side of his
breast against a rail, and ruptured his
left lung. He is not expected to recover.
The Democratic State committee has
organized by electing Col. Herbert F.
Brigham CT Bakersfield chairman, John
IL. Senter of Montpelier secretary, and
Morris F. Atkins of Montpelier assistant
secretary.
Rutland has a new street railway COM
pany The capital stock of the company
| is 100000, of which $4,000 has been
subscribed. The company will begin the
construction of the road as soon as the
city " i'll grant permission.
1t is understood at st. Adams that a
general reduction ia help and salaries is
in progress in the Central Vermont rail-
road offices. Eleven clerks in the audit
ing and purchasing departments received
their notices Monday and more are to fol-
low.
LAWYER Wolcott of Winooski, while
standing near an electric-light pole in
that village recently, leaned against 1t
and on putting his hand on the weight at
tachment balancing the light received
shock of electricity, knocking him
senseess.
The Alburgh House at Alburg Springs
was burned Wednesday morning. The
! fire caught in a coal bin in the cellar. The
house had only been open 10 days and
was entertaining 30 guests, some of whom
were overcome by smoke while trying
to save their belongings.
Harry NJ. Sykes OF Manchester Depot
was found dead in his room at the Gran
dali House, Binghamton, n. Y. last
Friday. 1t was evidently a case of sui
eide. The gas was turned on and death
resulted from asphy Xiaton. \ loaded
revolver lay beside the dead man.
Albert NJ. Grow, aged 10, was drown
d in the Connecticut river at Spring
field the 9TH. He was unable to swim,
but went in bathing with other boys,
wa led into deep hole and the boys
could not get HIM out before he was
drowned. The body was recovered.
The Republican State committee has
organized with these officers Chair
man, Olin Merrill of Enosburgh; secre-
tary, II. ). Peck of Burlington; executive
committee. the chairman and secretary
and j. W. Brock of Montpelier, DR.. Hol-
ton of Bratteboro and j. G.. Foster OF
Derby.
The Queen City Cotton company has
been formed at Burlington with a capital
stock of 100000. W. j. Van Patten
L. A. Woodbury. and Elias Lyman OF
Burlington, and capitalists of Hopedale,
Mass. and Pawtuclet, r. l., are inter
ested in the concern. a large factory
will soon be erected.
A Jury of the Windsor county court
has rendered verdict of guilty against
solomon James and Efiie Spaulding
charged with attempted murder by
administering arsenic to Walter Spauld
ing, husband of Effie. The motive
ascribed was mutual desire on the par
OF the respondents to live together
Hence the scheme to put the husband on
of the way and get his life insurance
The case has excited a good deal of in
terest in that part of the State.
There is standing on the farm of james
Wilson of Danville probably the oldes
and largest willow tree in Vermont, say'
the Lyndon Union. In the year 1890
John Wilson, while coming from Pea
cham, horse-b back, cut a willow switch
and upon his arrival home stuck it int
the ground. where 1t took root. and to
day measures, circumference of its trunk
p feet diameter of its foliage, 10 feet
This spring while burning some limb
under the tree the fire caught in the hOl
low trunk and burned for long time
leaving a hollow shell in which tire
men can stand upright, the hollow bein!
nearly Is feet in height. The tree i
: good for 80 years more.