Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-08
State 11elps.


Shelburne Farms.
Eleven of the l22 cases on the docket
of the May term of the supreme court
are from Addison county. The term
will open the both.
Work on the Hlnesburgh railroad,
which was begun last fall, is soon to be
resumed and pushed to completion.
The line runs from Burlington to Hines
burgh.
George Goodrich. Morrsville grocer
and liveryman, committed suicide in his
barn the other morning by cutting his
throat lie was about % years old and
leaves wife and two boys.
William c. Rouse, a railway mail
clerk between Island Pond and Portland
who was recently arrested for stealing
a letter containing 81 from the mail, has
been sentenced to Is months in State
prison.
Wendell Rice of Bennington, 60 years
old, left home last week and has not
since been heard of. At the same time
girl of from II to Il years of age disap-
peared and it is supposed that the two
went together.
w. G. Mound of Rutland has pur-
chased the belmont property on the
west side of Lake Bomoseen at Castleton.
He will erect new hotel there, the main
part of which will be 36 by GO feet and
three stories high.
The trial of the libel suit of Gov.
Woodbury. against the Rutland Herald
was finished at Burlington Friday. The
arguments are to be submitted in writing.
The Judges intimated that their decision
would not be rendered before July.
An Enosburg man found it necessary
to kill an aged horse in his possession,
and after dispatching it drew it into the
woods. Thinking that perhaps he might
catch fox, he set several traps around
the carcass, and within a week caught
81 skunks, which netted him over $50.
Last Thursday an old Indian, calling
himself Rain-in-the Face, was roaming
aimlessly around the streets of Somerset
calling on the Great Spirit to protect him
from the whites. Some of the towns
people are afraid of him and there is
strong talk of taking him to the asylum.
A Dummerston farmer drives a horse
which sheds its entire coat in the spring
and for about five months in every year
has no hair at all. Even the name
comes out, while the animal never had a
spear of hair in its tail. The owner of
the horse says 1t is one of the best road
sters in his neighborhood.
G. L. Sherwood, arrested recently for
bigamy at Rutland. was convicted in the
Rutland county court last week. He
undertook to prove that the complainant,
wife No. l, from Newport, n. H., had
a husband living, but this evidence was
excluded and his counsel took exception.
Sherwood is in Jail in default of bail
EX-Gov. L. X. Fuller, who, with his
family, went to st. Augustine, Fla,
about four weeks ago in the hope that
the change would restore his health, has
not improved of late. the climate proving
too warm, and they have gone to Jack
sonville. They will work north unless
he is benefited by the change, in which
event they will stay in Jacksonville for
some time.
The body of Rolla Rockwell, who
disappeared from his home in St. AL
bans last November, was found in the
st. Lawrence river at Ogdensburg, n.
y, April %. Rockwell was last seen
walking on the docks near the river.
The theory is that he either fell in the
river or was murdered and thrown in.
a deep cash under the eyes and a mutt
lated nose indicate foul play.
The Gill Odd Fellows home at Lud-
low is to be dedicated the both inst.
The Odd Fellows of the State are de-
termned to make this occasion the
grandest celebration of their order ever
held in Vermont and will spare no pains
to make every detail success in itself.
Local and railroad arrangements are
being made for 5000 people, and the
grand lodge, which will be in session at
Rutland, will adjourn and go by special
train to Ludlow.
At meeting of the Peoples party In
Burlington last week S. w. Ward of
Shoreham, George f. Holden of Mont
pelier. A. j. Beebe of Swanton and n.
f. Baker of Burlington were elected del
egates to the Peoples party national
convention which meets at st. Louis
July %. 1t was decided to hold mass
State convention in Capital hall, Mont.
pelier, I tuesday, July IS, at 10 80 O'Clock
in the forenoon to nominate candidates
for State officers, congressman and pres