Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-04-13
State 11ems.

John Robinson has been nominated
for postmaster at Bennington and c. b.
Tildcn at Northield.
The Vermont State association of
Master Plumbers was organized in Rut-
land on Wednesday.
Burlington has the largest assessed val
uation in the State of both real aud per-
sonal property, the amount being SlO,-
145,173.
The Barre granite business is on the
boom and the payroll beginning this
mouth is the largest of any month for
two years.
The university of Vermont ball team
defeated the university of Virginia team
at Charlottesville, Va, Saturday by
score of II to >.
More than one hundred cases of
typhoid fever are reported at Windsor,
clused by drinking polluted water. The
fatalities thus far are few.
John 5. Barrett, proprietor and owner
of the Ellis Park hotel at Lake BOmosecn,
Castleton, which burned some time ago,
has filed a petition in Insolvency.
The pensions of Vermont veterans are
now paid by Col. Thomas Cogswell of
Chinatown, n. H.. who succeeds Col.
Cheney as pension agent at Concord,
y. II.
4 G. q 6 -
the train privileges on the Central Yer
mont railroad last week. They retained
many of the old newsboys, who have
new uniforms.
Frank f. Lewis, aged 10, disappeared
fl rom his home in Norwich on the 3d inst.
and has not since been heard from. He
h I'd been i'll all winter and at times was
out of his head.
Edmund ii. Valentine of Tinmouth, 80
years of age, was killed in a runaway
Saturday. His team of colts ran away
and threw him to the ground with such
force as to crush his right shoulder and
side.
The trial of IL. II. Pitkin of Fair IIa-
ven, indicted with Mrs. Lorraine Gould of
Rutland for malpractice which caused
the death of Eva Shaw in Rutland July
%, 1893, began in the Rutland county
court on Tuesday.
Edwin j. Camly has been convicted of
perjury in the Washington county court.
His counsel think the act of 1890, de-
signed to simplify indictments for PERU
ry, is unconstitutional and will take the
matter to the supreme court.
The citizens of Hinesburgh have voted
to aid the proposed Chlttenden county
railroad from that place to Burlington to
the extent of S25, 900. G. &. Peck, Isai-
all Dow and Daniel Patrick have been
appointed commissioners for the town.
The lOlst birthday of Mrs. Rhoda
Stearns of IIighgate was celebrated on
Tuesday. a reception was given by
her at the Methodist church parlors at
IIighgate Centre She seems to he as
well as she was at her Tooth birthday
anniversary.
\ stuffed two-headed partridge is on
exhibition in Boston. The bird was shot
at West Hartford, this State, last fall.
The two heads are well developed, and
from the condition Of the bills both
entrances must have been used. 1t is
the first case of the kind known.
The finance committee of the Rutland
city council is trying 10 sell these per
cent bonds: 100000 refunding debt
/ bonds, $50. 0O0water extension bonds, $50, =
600 sewer bonds, all payable May l, 1921 !;
$4,000 school bonds, payable May /,
1901, and $4,000 school bonds, payable
May |, 1909.
st. Adams village is in muddle over
its recent election and the services of the
supreme court may be required to ascer-
tain who was elected president of the cor
poration. j. w. Hobart had the most
votes for president, but failed of election
as trustee. The charter provides that the
president must be a trustee.
An unknown tramp was killed Satur-
day forenoon by a freight train on the
Central Vermont railroad near East
Granville, being badly mangled. lie
was killed by jumping from the train
when ordered off by the conductor. A
letter was found in his coat, dated Lon
don, England, commencing dear Son,
and signed f. Wilcox. lie was about
30 years old.
Mrs. Alfred Fournier and Mrs. Effit
Whaon are under arrest at Burlington
Oh the charge of having murdered thu
formers husband, Alfred FOurnier,a car
penter, by poison. lie died on the l4tl
of October last under suspicious circum
stances and an analysis of the contents
of his stomach is said to have disclosed
the presence of arsenic. The presumed
motive for the act was to get hold ,
property decided Fournier by his father.