Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-04-19
State l1elps.

Ellsworth Heath of Derby is seriously
II from the effects of shingle nail
which he swallowed recently.
Three hundred and eighteen muskrats
we're captured one day recently on the
marshes north of Burlington.
The failure is announced of p. d. b cd
lett & Co. of St. JOhnsbury, the biggest
Insurance agency in northeastern Yer
nont.
David Goldman, who was knocked
Town ana robbed between Centre Rut-
an and West Rutland few nights ago,
S recovering.
The Vermont Farm Machine company
IF Bellows Falls are to light their works
by electricity and are putting in dyna-
no for that purpose.
RachNel Siskind, the six-year-old
laughter of Louis Siskind, was run over
nd killed in Rutland. Monday, by
|oal team. Nobody is blamed.
The executive committee of the State
sunday school association has hired j.
3. Miller of Syracuse, n. Y. as field
worker. He will have his headquarters
It White River junction.
Thomas Carmody, 60 years old, re-
pected resident of West Rutland, tried
o cut his throat with razor Friday
norning. He had been out of work for
ONE time aud had become respondent.
William Burke, aged 81 years, fell
rom the Boston & Maine iron bridge
ust above the falls at Bellows Falls,
Monday, and was swept through the
rapids and drowned. He was intox
Gated
A movement is on foot to establish a
State federation of woman's clubs in Yer
mont similar to decorations existing in
bther States. The st. JOhnsbury Wo-
mans club is the only one in the State
belonging to the general federation
At meeting in Montpelier last week
BIT the State Fish and Game league Is new
members were voted into the organiZa-
ion and 500 was appropriated to the
Leach" committee for the purpose of
Increasing the varieties of game birds in
he State.
The Tooth meeting of the annual con-
EentIon of Congregational Ministers and
81 Churches of Vermont will be held in the
Did First church of Bennington Centre
about the middle of June. The church.
which is the oldest in Vermont, was
organized in 1862.
The Winooski river was on rampG ge
Monday, reaching very unusual height.
! The electric station in the gorge above
Winooski was endangered. but suffered
little. At WinOoski the mills could not
run and the fume of one was carried
away. The stream has subsidized.
o. w. Hard of South Burlington was
seriously and perhaps fatally gored by a
bull Tuesday. He was either letting the
animal out of the stanchion or tying
him up, when the slide bar slipped and
the horns of the bull cur into the lower
part of Mr.. Hards bowels, exposing the
vital organs and inflicting dreadful in
iures. He may possibly recover.
Il. c. Fletcher of st. Johnsbury went
to Waterford with an express wagon,
loaded calf and two pigs into the wag-
lon and let the old COW follow. On
reaching st. Johnsbury he was going up
Maple street. sitting on the end of
the seat, which tipped up and let him
fall out, striking his head on the
curbstone. cutting the top of his right
ear nearly of and stunning him so bad
ly that he was unable to get back into
his on.-CExchange.
Great anxiety is felt at Bellows Falls
for the safety of ). y. Alexander. Jr..
cashier and paymaster OF the Fall Noun
tain Paper company, and Foreman Fitz
gerald of the paint works, who started
down the Connecticut In small cedar
canoe Tuesday for a ride of a mile or two
At > o'clock they were seen passing East
Putney II miles below. since which time
nothing has been heard from them. Theil
canoe was found in the river near Brat
tleborO. They were % years of age ant
unmarried.
Henry Harris, who had been on tria
for week in the Rutland county cOur
for numbering Albert D. Lawrence II
1890, was acquitted Monday. The cast
against Harris rested largely on the con
fesslOn of Albert Brown, who admitted
that he was the accomplish in the murder
for the purpose of robbery Monda!
Brown made another statement TO tn,
i States attorney, pronouncing his stOr!
told in court pure fabrication, and con
Tossing that he and his father, the latte
since dead. committed the deed, and tina
Harris had no part in or knowledge o
= the crime. Brown has since retracte'
his last confession.