Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-06-19
State l1erps.

paper venture, branch of the Hard
wick Gazette.
Fred Holden, a Bellows Falls ma
chlnist, was killed Monday night. His
bicycle colided with team and his
skull was fractured.
A deer was seen in Stamford last
week in the main street. a little girl
saw 1t and became so frightened as to
take two or three days to recover.
Martin Markham, conductor on the
Montpelier and Wells River railroad,
slipped under an engine at Montpelier
the other evening and lost his right foot.
The Bostonians raid Bert L. Taylor, a
former reporter on the Montpelier Ar
gus, $4,000 in cash for his opera, Capt
Kidd, Coon Collector" recently purchas-
ed by them of him.
The contract for the erection of the
new high school building at Bellows
Falls was closed Monday by the COM
mittee with Builder Buchanan of Crown
Point, n. Y, for S40,S00.
Zeb Carey and Jack Liligan of East
Arlington became involved in a quarrel
recently and Carey threw a stone at
Lillgan, but it missed and struck his u
year old daughter and fractured her
skull.
Abel Wheeler of Holland fell across
stone recently and broke one rib. The
sharp point of the broken bone pierced
the lungs so that air escaped into the
tissues of the back and his recovery is
doubtful.
George Phelps of Milton has three
legged chicken which was Matched In
regular brood of II a few weeks ago.
The fowl is perfectly formed, with the
exception of the extra leg, and is an at
traction which draws many visitors to
his place.
A young man of Hartland captured a
red tailed bird eating a spring chicken
the other day and after consulting a ma
tural history decided that they had
'rare specimen in his possession. He
was somewhat surprised when told he
had nothing but common hen hawk.
The grand list of Burlington has just
been completed by the assessors. 1t
shows large gam over last year, gain
not only in property but in polls. The
list this year is Sl27 ,G42.S4, and the
number of polls 3s5S. Last years list
was S12l ,65l.55 and the polls 37jO-a
a gain of s5,99l. % in property and pos
polls.
\ strong effort will be made at the
next session of the Vermont legislature
Ito have Williamstown taken from Or
ange county and annexed to Washington
county, because of the building of rail-
road here from Montpelier, the county
seat of Washington. Opposition will be
made by Orange county. whose county
seat is II miles from a railroad.
Daniel Twner, Go years old, was
found drowned in Pompanoosuc river, at
Union village in Thetrord one night last
week. He lett his house in the morn
ing, to set out some tomato plants Just
across the river within few hundred
yards of his dwelling. 1t is supposed
|he lost his life by the capsizing of his
boat, as it was found overturned.
The various associations of architects
|Rnd artists in New York have united in
/ movement to erect suitable monu-
|ment to the late Richard NJ. Hunt, who
WAS born in Bratteboro. and it has been
decided that the memorial shall take the
form of monumental seat, with sculp-
'tured portrait of MI. Hunt, to be erected
against the wall of Central park. on
Fifth avenue.
Fred Pounds, a youth of Hanksyille,
went to one of the neIghbors the other
day. where they were blasting rocks.
The men had put charge of powder
'hnd brick in the rock and had gone to
Ilinner. The boy went to the shop
heated an iron and put it in the powder.
IThe charge went Off filing his face and
'Fyes full of powder, brick and stone and
putting and burning his arm quite badly.
t is feared he will be blind IN one eve
f not both.
Theodore Chadwick, the town liquor
agent of Bethel, was arrested last week
dlnd given hearing before United States
commissioner George Z. johnson of
Burlington, on the charge of selling
without a government license. lie was
held for the October circuit court, under
$500 bonds. 1t is charged that Mr.. !
Chadwick, while acting in the capacity
IF town liquor agent, has lined his own
pocket book by the profit Of the sales, |
selling in the ratio of three barrels of