Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-11-29
State l1eps.

A movement Is on ROOT IOr tne loTlhd-
ton of Vermont Bankers association
A chapter of the society of The child
rem of the American Revolution was
formed at Rutland Saturday with 10
charter members.
The body of an eight-weeks child
was found in the river at Manches-
ter Center Saturday. investigation
showed that it had been drowned.
j. y. Hard of Manchester has revo-
lutionarv relic in the shape of wooden
canteen, holding about Il gallon. 1t is
made of oak with iron hoops and is quite
load to carry.
The Union Signal announces the APP
pointment of Mrs. Esther T. lloush of
Brattleboro to be national superlntend7l
ent of temperance literature IN the
Woman's Christian Temperance union.
George Sanford of BroOktield has been
arrested and held for trial for bigamy.
lie was married in 1883 at Randolph,
but his wife left him. lie married the
second woman in Elizabethtown, n. Y,
in 1898
While skating Sunday on a flooded
meadow north of the city two Burling-
ton bows, George Rult, aged ID, and Jean
Beaupre, aged II, were drowned. George
Beahe, aged ID, had narrow escape,
but was rescued.
Lewis Duffany of Casileton was killed
Monday by the accidental discharge of IA
shot gun. His nephew undertook to re-
move the weapon from a closet, when
the hammer struck the bedstead and eX-
ploded the charge.
Walter Freeman of Barre, aged 20, who
has long been known a. the Vermont
dwarf, is II inches high and weighs 60
pounds. Agents of many circuses have
endeavored to secure him as an attrac-
ton, bat have never been able to get the
consent of his parents.
George A. Cushing committed suicide
near the home of his faithless wife in
Townshend, about week ago. The
woman refused to allow the body to be
taken into her house. Mrs. Gushing
was living with another man and re-
fused to 90 to California with her hus-
band.
The Canadian fishermen on Lake
Champlan and Lake Memphremagog
have complained to the dominion depart
ment of fisheries that the State of Yer
mont is not enforcing the agreement
between the State and the dominion
authorities prohibiting the catching of
fish in seineS.
Charles J. Amidon. a well-known
wooden manufacturer of BrattlcbOro,
met with a painful accident Sunday
afternoon. He fell through the floor in
one of his storehOuseS, distance of II
feet 1t is thought that he has received
internal injuries, his condition having
become serious.
The st. Adams Electric Light and
Power companvs business has increased
Of la tharp a1lp1 a fhpir
plant this week one 10 horsepower gen
orator, two incandescen and one arc
machines. The capacity of the plant is
now dOnble what it was during the sum
mcr and 1875 straight arc lights ana 2OOO
incandescents can be operated at once.
The State Teachers convention at st.
.Johnsbury closed a successful meeting
saturday. At the business session these
officers were elected: President, Priuci-
pal :. u. Blaupied of Montpelier; Secre-
tary, Rev. {. H. Richardson of Nor
wlch: treasurer. Principal {. c. Davis
of White River Junction. An executive
committee. legislative committee and
numerous vice presidents were elected.
\ recent analysis of he green granite
from Ascutney mountain shows that it is
not really granite, a. il contains no mica,
the stone being more valuable than gran
lite. 1t is absolutely impef-habie. it is
said, as it has none of the natural elements
which cause stone to decay. 1t has at
some time been subjected to intense heat.
which has driven GU. all metals, making
it remarkably compact Ihis fact and
other indications lead to the belief that
the mountain was once volcano.
Deputy United States Marshal Stearns
will start for Tacoma, Wa,h.. the first of
next week with three Chinese prisoners
lately sentenced to be returned to Hong
Kong, China, for smuggling themselves
into this country. The Cinnamon will
be shipped at Tacoma. as vessels leaving
there make no port until China is reached
As the men cannot be taken through
Canada, the trip will be made to Chicago
by way of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Central road, and from there to Ashland,
Wis, by the Wisconsin Central The
distance to be covered by the marshal will
be about $500 miles - Rutland Herald
Saturday.
The case of :. f. Prince 4 Co.. owners
of marble quarries at East Dorset
against d. J.. Kent q Co., owners OF
marble sheds at the same place, was
brought before the referees. eX-GOv
John w. Stewart of Middebury, Judg;
l.. NJ. Read of Bellows Falls ana W. f.
johnson of Woodstock. at the BardV eli
House. Rutland, last Thursday morning
This was continuation of hearing
held three weeks ago. The case was de.
cided in favor of j. b. Holister, assig.
nee of ID. l.. Kent d Co. j. W. Cram
ton was the assignee of 5. f. Prince &
60. The case was to recover the sum OF
$4,000 from ID. l.. Kent q Co