Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-05-03
State l1elos.
Odessa, Del. Dec. 26, 1894.

The Bardwell House in Rutland i,
beng renovated.
DR.. j. II. Woodward of Burlington is
home from his European trip.
John McEyoy, Barre quarryman,
was killed Tuesday by IA large stone which
fell upon him
b. II. Woolley. proprietor OF the
Brunswick House, Rutland, has flied IA
voluntary petition III Insolvency.
Deacon Benjamin F. Lawrence of
Westford committed suicide by hanging
Friday. lie had shown evidences of ia
sanity.
G. II. Richmond of Northfrld has
bought The Press and Printer. Il Boston
printers paper, and will publish it at
Mortified.
Mrs. /. +. Powers, widow of the late
DIR. II, Powers. ana mother of Congress
man H. Henry Powers, diet at her home
in Morrisville on Friday night.
\ shaft 4G feet long, to be placed in
Rose Hill cemetery. Chicago, was quar-
ried at Barre the o.her day, aud is the
largest stone of its kind ever gotten out
in the State.
Mary E., wife of ex-Gov. w. p. Dill
i bingham of Waterbury, died Thursday
\ morning of last week at Lisbon, \. H.,
of heart disease. She had been visiting
. her mother for several weeks.
The eight-year-old son of John Pencil.
Jr., of Swanton Junction was killed sun
+ day evening at FOnda's lime kilns. He
was playing on the track aud was run
over by ear.
1t is said that new telephone com
I, intn rho t,r In
competition with the present monopoly.
The company has plenty of capital and
. will place the prices on "a reasonable
i basis.
The village of Bennington voted Tues
day 70 purchase the public water works,
the cost not to exceed Sl25,0OO. This
plant is owned by he Bennington Water
company, IA private corporation, and its
cost is not stated.
The box factory, steam saw and
shingle mill of Geo. w. Aiken of Troy
was burned Thursday evening; loss,
Sl5, 200. No insurance. The fire was
caused by the explosion of kerosene
lamp IN the engine room.
Neither of the bodies of the Bellows
Falls men drowned III the Connecticut
river during the flood two weeks age
has been recovered, although watchmen
have been kept at different points
Funeral services for them were held Sun.
day and Monday.
w. II. Sherburn of Rutland, one OF
the Central Vermont bridge builders en-
gagged in putting up the new iron rail
road trestle at East Wallingford. was
instantly killed Tuesday by falling
from the structure to the river below,
distance of 6S feet.
Harry Sondermeer, the German podes
strian, passed through Montpelier Apri
%. On wager of $1,000 he is to visi
every capital city in the United States
Canada, Mexico and Central America, th'
entire trip 10 be taken afo0t and to b.
covered in three years.
John l.. Phillips. the station agent a
Putney, left there on Saturday TO visit
sick brother at ROyaltOn. He jumped
from the moving train at Windsor, WHERE
sister had come to meet him, and wa
thrown under the cars, losing one leg
lie died of the hurt in few hours.
At Mortified, Monday, for the fourtl
time in its history the brick building
known as the old Paine factory wa
burned. That, together with a grist
mill, sawmill and a portion of ston
shed, was wholly destroyed. The prop
erty belonged to Cross Brothers, grant
dealers.
Mayor Van Patten of Burlington an
S. A. Andrews, superintendent of tn
Vermont Industrial school at VergenneS