Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
State Views.

/ DdTIe Will Dt dOOul Ouuos
The wind Saturday blew down build
ings and unroofed cars in the vicinity
of Bennington.
The names of 275 taxpaying women
Will appear on the Montpelier check list
| for the March city election.
Deposits in the Vermont savings banks
! increased last year from S27 ,262, $50 TO
$27 1865, $50, a gain of S703,925
The proposed electric street railway in
Brattleboro Is meeting with opposition
on the part of some of the citizens,
among them ex-Gov. Fuller.
The Prouty planning mill at Svanton
has been bought at assignee's sale by
John p. Rich for $500. The mill and
machinery originally cost about $4,000.
James Flanagan, % years old, com
mitted suicide at Shrewsbury Friday
morning by shooting himself in the
head. He was under the influence of
! liquor.
The Kelley institute at Montpelier
is closed, for the present at least, and
has been removed to Rutland. y for
mer manager of it is In trouble with the
parent company.
WIN. Lathe, who shot Mrs. George
Barstow of Barton last month, escaped
from the county Jail at Newport last
week by saving of the bars with saw
made from a case knIe.
Benningtou's l5-year per cent sewer
bonds have been sold to w. j. Hayes IL
Son of Boston, who took the whole
issue, $3l 900, at a premium, making the
interest equal to 1856 per cent.
The original charter of the town Of
Rutland granted by George | IL. through
Benning Wentworth, governor of New
Hampshire. has been recovered and is
now in possession of the town.
Calvin Colby, 80 years old, was killed
at Tunbridge Monday. He was at work
with "A saving machine, when the bal
ance wheel broke and a segment struck
his head, producing instant death.
Barre is to bring suits against several
of the former districts that refused to
| pay over the funds on hand at the time
the town system was instituted aud
which the supreme court has decided TO
b. the property of the town.
The treasurer of II. G. Gleason's
cheese factory in shrewsbury has recent
| " paid the patrons for their October
milk. Number of pounds of milk receiv-
ed lG6.3H; number of pounds of
cheese made, 19,5SS; milk net per hum
d. ed, $l.3ll7.
| Governor Woodbury. on Saturday ap-
pointed the following board of State
| highway commissioners for the uneX
| pired term ending Nov. 30, 1896: Josiah
w. NOtey of Burlington, Oscar l.. Kinds
of IIighgate and Marcus Peck of Brook
! field.
The voters of Ludlow village have en-
powered the trustees to issue sewer
bonds not to exceed $4,000, with inter
est at / per cent payable semi-annually.
/ The bonds are to run ten years and are
/ payable after two years at the option of
/ the village.
Homer p. Atwood of Woodstock found
found - hens and two turkeys dead in
his hennerv one day last week, with the
blood sucked from wound in the neck.
As he was wondering What the cause
was, large lynx sprang from behind "A
pie of boards and WAS shot.
Miss Stevenson, the st. Adams woman
charged with assisting in malpractice
which caused the death of Miss Estella
HOughton of Swanton, January 20 has
been held in $1,000 bonds to await the
action of the grand jury. DR.. ID. O.
Powers of llighgate Center has been
arrested on the charge of having per-
formed the operation.
EX-GOv. Frederick Iolbrook of Brat
tleboro has just completed an interesting
sketch of personal "reminiscences. going
back To the year 1916. when he was but
three ears old. and noting many of the
most important events from that time on
till the close of his administration as gov
ernor of Vermont. He was one of the
"War" governors of the State.
The Tarble and the Farrar blocks in
Swanton were Quilted by fire Friday
night. The fire started about 1910
O'Clock aud it was three hours before it
was under control. The total amount of
insurance carried by the occupants of
the block is $4,000 and the loss is vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to $lS,-
900.
John Robbins of Crqftsbury nearly
shot his arm of last week by another
unaccountable gun accident. He had
held up the gun ny the muzzle and pulled
it towards him, when the hammer
caugh on some brush and was raised
enough to explode the cap. The charge
went in just above the wrist and came
out above the elbow.
George Collins was arrested in Phla-
delphia Saturday charged with swindl-
luz several phltltS III bennington Couu-
ty last summer. He left Bennington on
September l, with $1,000 in his possess
ion which he obtained from various peo-
pie in sums of from $50 to S400. The
Wayne Loan and Investment company,
whose agent he was, got the warrant for
his arrest. He has been brought to Ben
nington for trial.
A BrattlebOro stamp issued by Post
master Palmer IN 1916 has been sold by
Chicago woman 10 New York collect
or for $500. The stamp had never been
removed from the envelope, which was
addressed to a former resident of Brat
tlebOrO, where it was originally mailed
in 1916. The stamp was engraved by
the late Thomas Chudbuck, then a resi-
dent of that place, and was used a year
before the first government issue.
General l1epS.