Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29
State l7erps.


fees since last January. He will go to
Europe in June.
Mrs. p. S. Robinson of West Derby is
trying to collect 100000 postage stamps
and already has 375, 200. She received
$4,000 in one day last week.
j. d. Langdell OF Watervlle fell or
was thrown from an OK cart, breaking
his neck, one day last week. He sur
vived the accident but few minutes.
Principal c. f. Putney of St. Johns
bury academy has resigned to take a
professorship at Dartmouth. He has
been connected with the academy %
years, the last IA as principal.
Congressman Powers has nominated
n. Allen Goodspeed of st. Adams to be
a cadet at the West Point military
academy to fill vacancy which will &C.
cur in this district in June, 1897.
The kite track at White River junction
has changed hands. 1t has been pur
chased by stock company organized
under the name of Billings Park asso-
citation, which is composed of substan-
tial business men.
Rev. |. S. Jones, who was formerly
pastor OF church at North Clarendon
and whose term of service caused much
trouble there, has been expelled from
membership in the Lincoln, Me-, Con-
gregational Ministerial association.
The bondhoIders of the Central Yer
mont road at a meeting held in Boston on
Saturday afternoon decided to institute
foreclosure proceedings Immediately
after July l, and not to attempt to effect
any reorganization of the company at
present.
The case of the State against Clinton L.
Sherwood, who was convicted of bigamy
recently in the Rutland county court,
was heard before the supreme court at
Montpelier last week. The court sus-
tanned the exceptions taken by Sher-
woods lawyers and he will have another
trial.
w. E. Gates, IS years old, formerly of
SaXton's River and Brattieboro, unmar-
ried and employed by the Vermont Farm
Machine company of Bellows Falls as a
machinist, committed suicide Saturday
with choroform. He had been rejected
by a young woman.
Another case of whole family being
poisoned has occurred. This time it is
the family Of Timothy Hayes. prosper
Gus farmer in the town of Sandgate. All
the members of the household excep-
Mrs. Hayes, who did not drink tea, were
Frustrated, but none died.
Rev. Herbert w. Boyd, pastor of the
Congregational society at Hartford, has
resigned, and the reason is alleged to be
that members of the society object to
him because he voted for Cleveland.
There has been row in the church over
the matter for year or more.
Alta special city meeting in Rutland,
the 2lst., it was voted to instruct the
city council to issue S25, 900 worth of
bonds. These bonds will be issued to
set aside temporary loan warrants
amounting to 900, and enable the
street commissioners to continue i'm
provements on the streets and give en-
ployment to large number of men who
are out of work.
The republican caucus in Rutland
Saturday evening, to choose delegates to
the county convention to be held in June,
was one of the largest ever known in her
history. The contest, which was sharp
and in some respects bitter, was between
George L. Chaffee and DIR. j. f. Thorn
son, both of whom want to be senators.
Mr.. Chatfee won.
Edward Meyers of Winooski, Charles
Steady of Starksboro and William Eel
ton of Burlington, who were working
on eX-Mayor Van Patterns new cottage
at Cedar Beach, Charlotte, were drowned
in Lake Champlain Sunday, the 18th,
by the swapping of a small sailboat.
Mrs. Steady has offered a reward of
500 for the recovery of her husbands
body.
a brutal murder was committed in the
little village of Wheelock in Caledonia
county on Wednesday evening of last
week. The victim was Mrs. Way, wife
of the village hotel keeper. There has
been trouble in the Way family for sew
eral years. Mrs. Way applied for di-
vision of the property and the quarrel
arose over the custody of their only
child of eight years. Mrs. Way started
to leave with her sister from st. Johns
bury and the little girl, when Way
struck her terrific blow with club
across the face. He is in jail at st.
Johnsbury. He has made a confession,
in Mhinh a ftnr adnnittincr tho Eillincr IL.