Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-22
State 11erps.

Squire Bowen. rs years old, and Mrs.
Mary +. Pratt, Il, were married at West
Randolph Tuesday.
A. j. Brown, station agent at Water
bury for 40 years, died of pneumonia
Saturday, aged G5.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Wiley of Mont
pelier died of pneumonia on Saturday
within "A few hours of one another.
The employees of the Vermont Marble
company of Proctor were paid the 10th
|lbout $37 ,00O--their earnings during the
month of January.
The large livery stable of William G..
Mound at Castleton was destroyed by
fire Saturday. All the horses and car
riages were saved.
Burlington Republicans have renomi-
hated w. j. Van Patten for mayor The
4Republican nominee for mayor in Rut-
and is John A. Sheldon.
Mrs. George Il. Chafiee of Rutland has
given in memory of her husbands
huother $1,000 each for an Episcopal mis-
Zion house and to the old ladies' home.
The dividend to the creditors of the
Caledonia County Publishing company,
which formerly published the st. Johns
bury Republican, was 30 cents on dol
lar.
Christie Olson, Swede, was struck at
Center Rutland, Saturday, by a train
aud was instantly killed. The wheels of
the locomotive crushed his head and
face and severed his right arm from his
body.
Both the village and the town of Ben
nington have unanimously voted to retain
the Australian ballot in village and town
meetings. This action became necessary
because of the change in the election law
by the legislature of 1894 fixing 5000
population as the limit of the compul-
sorry use of the Australian system, which
before was applied to municipalities of
only 1000.
A Hardwick dispatch says: The 800
shares of the Hardwick and Woodbury.
railroad stock, necessary to be subscrib
+ ed before organization, were all cleaned
s up Monday, and calls for the 10 per
cent of the stock to be paid in will be
issued at once. The road now seems
sure to go into and through the heart of
the immense granite deposits, and local
enthusiasm over the future of llardwick
is marked. A great business boom is
confidently looked for at once.
The Vermont insurance commissioners
nave received reports from 30 Oh ule II
. fire insurance companies doing usiness
ia this State in 1894. The aggregate
premiums received were $4S6, 736, and
the losses paid were 1874 .S2l, showing
an average loss ratio of 97.3 per cent.
AS it cost 30 per cent to do business, the
year was extremely disastrous to the
companies. Two or three companies
have discontinued business during the
year, their losses being much more than
on former years. The four companies
not reporting are among the heavier
losers, and they will increase the loss
ratio somewhat
Burlington men have organized the
Military Post Street Railroad company,
with Hon. F. G. Kennedy as president,
and a capital stock of $50, 900. The
company will commence early in the
spring to construct an electric road from
IWinooski to Essex Junction by way of
Fort Ethan Allen. The road will be
one of the best IN equipment in the
State, using 56-pound rails and white
oak ties. The cars will be vestibuled,
with all modern appliances, and will run
as often as necessary to accommodate
patrons. 1t is expected that the road
4 will be completed by the first of June.