Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-10-18
State l1elos.

kutla0u Is 10 improve ntT CITY DdI MS
the sum of $1,000 having been appropri-
ated recently by the board of aldermen.
Joshua Martin of Londonderry last
week killed lynx that measured feet
% inches long, stood 20 inches high and
weighed 10 pounds.
Frank Japan. John Japan, Barney
McCarron and Lewis Iatulip have been
jailed at Burlington charged with unlaw-
fully killing deer in the town vt Willis
ton September -.
1t is reported that ST. Johnsburv is to
have an electric street railway in the near
future. charter is already in existence
and prominent capitalists are showing in
teiest in the scheme.
There is an equine wonder at the
HoughtOn stables in Bennington. y
horse of the Clvdesdale breed there weighs
POO pounds and stands Is hands high.
His shoes weigh 20 pounds.
Considerable interest in gold mining
has developed at North Danville by the
discovery of quartz rock showing free
gold in paying quantities on the farm of
+. +. Batchelder in that town.
The explosion of lantern the other
night set fire to the barn of Ira w. Haw-
ley, near Rutland, and two barns, the
house, Is head Of cattle and Il quantity
of other property were destroyed esti-
mated loss, $1,000.
John W. Carleton of Cavendish, who
died recently, is said to have been the
oldest veteran of the civil war in the
State. He was 81 years old and was "A
member of Company G, Seventh Yer
mont regiment.
The Bennington and WoodfOrd electric
railroad closed Monday after a most sue
cessful season. The road is to be eX-
tended to Glastonbury, over the old bed
of the Bennington and Glastonbury rail
road, and hotel built at its terminus
2000 feet above sea level.
Mrs. Anna Abbie Carroll. whose mar
riage to MOy Fook, the Boston China
man, has been SO eXpansively discussed
by Boston papers, is from Bethel, where
she has "A husband. Frank Carroll. He
has applied tor divorce and 1t is now
pending in the Windsor county court.
4 handsome new Catholic church of
modern design is to be built IN Wood
stock. The ell part of the old structure
has been torn down, the main part is be-
ing moved to the west end of the lot
and the new editice will stand on the
present site, on the corner of South and
School streets.
Preparations are being made for the
annual reunion of the LIST Vermont cav
airy association. which is to to be held
in burlington Nov. |. The aSsOcia-
ton has been invited to visit Fort Ethan
Allen on the afternoon of the LIST to wit
ness the drill of the United States troops
stationed there.
Mead Raymond, manager of the Pine
cliff stock farm at Castleton, was knock
Cd do. Ia,
Thursday night. Mr.. Raymond was re-
turning home from Fair Haven at the
time aud was set upon by two men in
stretch of wooded road near his house.
He was knocked from his team and was
relieved of 50. When found he was un-
conscious and badly used up.
At the recent term of the Orleans
county court these sentences were i'm
posed William Lathe, for assault with
intent to kill upon Mrs. Levi Barstow.
20 years in States prison; Frank Nor
rill, for the larceny of IA team, three
years in States PRISON. Harry l.. Wei
lngton, for breaking Jail, II months in
the house of correction. ii. G.. BiniS-
ter, for 81 offences of selling liquor, was
fined S610 and costs.
While recent thunder shower was
passing over, the electric current entered
the Mackenzie mine in Bridgewater.
where four men are at work. One man
was knocked down senselrss, one made
blind for while. and ones legs were
useless. The other, who was holding II
drill. took The shock in his arms. They
all came out of it in a few hours and are
at work again, but it came near being
serious accident.
James Durham, who was buried from
the Advent church IN CastletOn Friday
afternoon, was Tor 30 years well-knOwn
man of that village. He was born in
England and came to this country in
1913 and settled in Castleton. He was
for 36 years sexton of the village GENE
terry aId for 30 years janitor of the
Methodist church. He sent three boys
into the Second Vermont regiment dur
ing the war and all three died in the ser
vice or of diseases contracted there.
The most sensational case that has
been tried in the Franklin county court
for many years has drawn to a close at
st. Adams. 1t was that of the State
against Miss Lydia a. Stevenson, who is
accused of causing the death of Miss
Estella HOughton of SwantOn by Grim
inal operation. Miss Stevenson was ar
rested January 20. 1898, when the re-
mains of Miss lIOughton were found in
her house. The jury found the respon-
dent guilty after being out 10 hours.