Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-03
State l1eps.

SWantOn decided at meeting OF ner
citizens Saturday to erect brick hotel
of 81 rooms.
\ fire in West Brattleboro few days
ago did $1,000 damage and made six
families homeless.
j. II. Beattle of Brunswick has been
nominated for senator by the republic
cans of Essex county.
Mrs. Albert Porter of Middetown
Springs shot herself through the heart
last week. She had been insane.
The first Mckinley and Hobart flag in
the State was raised few days ago by
Hon. Herbert Brainerd of st. Adams.
The republican senatorial nominees in
Caledonia county are Geo. p. Blair of
Barnet and l.. W. Hubbard of Lyndon.
DR.. George 5. Foster of Putney and j.
Ii. Mortified of Newfane are the Repub-
lcan nominees for senator in Windham
county.
A scale of marble fell in the old Ripley
quarry at West Rutland, Monday, badly
inuring Martin johnson and slightly in
iuring David German.
Isaac Hiliker, aged -, of West Swan
ton was struck by the Montreal express
at st. Adams June n and killed, his head
being cut nearly of.
a rural improvement society has been
organized at Woodstock. 1t rents lawn
mowers to residents to keep the lawn
plots in front of their houses in trim.
Dora Fisk, a Proctor woman, was SEN
fenced for three years to the house of
correction, for burglary, in the city court
at Rutland. She pleaded guilty to the
charge.
II. 5. Howe, who had done business as
a confectioner in Rutland for IS years,
dropped dead of heart disease in his store
Monday. He was born in Underhili in
1884.
George Brown, a civil engineer of Rut-
land, has become insane. He imagined
that ne owned large amount of prop
erty and that he had been elected gov
ernor of the State.
An artesian we'll at the Champlain
shops at Burlington has been finished.
1t is nearly 400 feet deep. After few
weeks Mr.. Poland intends to begin work
on the first one for the city, at the reser-
voir.
\ council of experts examined Mrs.
May Witherbee in Manchester last week
as to her sanity. She had already con-
fessed to throwing her three weeks old
child into the river at Manchester Center.
The council decided that she was insane
One of the features of the graduating
exercises of SaXton's River academy was
a sham fight by the military department
under command of Lieut.. Foote. T. S.
A., and the taking of a redoubt on hill
in the rear of the campus.
Newell the healer has purchased the
famous mineral springs at Sadawga,
where he is to put up a bottling house
and do large business with the water.
The springs are on the farm where Brig
ham Young was born, which Newell
now owns.
The postmaster general has ordered
the discontinuance of the free delivery
service at Ludlow, which was established
five years ago az one of the points in the
United States where the delivery was to
be tested in small towns of 1900 to
$500 inhabitants.
The annual convention and tourna-
ment of the Vermont State Firemen's as
ISOLATION will be held July - and %, the
convention at Montpelier the first day
and the tournament at Barre the second.
At the tournament $50 will be dlstrbut-
ed among the competing companies.
I'm attempt was made late the other
night to rob F. 5. Harrison, draw tender
of the North Hero bridge between the
island of North Hero and the main land.
Harrison drove of his assallant with an
iron bar after having knocked a revolver
out Of the mans hands into the water.
George Sanford of Randolph, who was
indicted for bigamy last winter. his
brother being his surety in the sum of
$500, has gone to parts unknown and
left his brother in the lurch. Efforts are
being made to discover his whereabouts.
He stole gold watch and other articles
before he left.
The Washington county republican
ticket is; Senators, Thomas b. Stevens,
East Montpelier, Hiram A. Ward, More
town; side Judges, c. f. Jones, Waits
field, Mark Meers, Marshfeld; Judge of
probate, Hiram Carleton, Montpelier;
States attorney, F. A. Rowland, Mont
|peller; sheriff, o. r. Collins, Cabot; high
bailitf, George IL. Fisher, Mortified;
county commissioner, Albert Johonnott.