Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
State l1eps.

school shows that there are now 81 stu
dents. Last year 45 graduated, repre-
senting 30 towns.
Lieut.. Harrison Dewey of South Roy
alton is said to be the oldest veteran in
the State. He was born in 1908 and
was one of the first men to volunteer in
1861.
A team belonging to Rev. Mr.. Camp
bell of Tunbridge after a tip-over last
week ran away, demolishng the sleigh
so thoroughly that he sold it on the
spot for dollar.
Rather than move from the house he
had called home, George E. Wilkinson
of Montpelier went to the barn Sunday
morning and committed suicide by
hanging himself 20 rafter.
Department Commander Pufler of Ben
nington left for st. Paul, Mimi, Tues
day to make arrangements for quarters
for the Vermont delegation to the
national G. A. r. encampment.
George II. Almon has applied to the
city council for permission to operate
telephone lines within the city of Mont
peier. He proposes to furnish first
class telephone service for 50 per year.
In the Windham county court, Friday,
Julius and Herbert Porter, brothers,
were sentenced to State prison for five
and three years respectively for attempt
trains on the Connecticut River division
of the Boston and Maine railroad some
time ago.
w. c. McCausland, ticket broker
and employment agent in Burlington,
formerly of st. Adams, has disappeared.
Mr.. McCausland was at the head of the
local order of Red Men. He was owing
S250O. He has wife and two children,
who are overwhelmed with grief at his
unexplained absence.
The body of Joseph Wade of Poultney,
who has been missing for three months,
was found the other afternoon on the
Poultney side of the Poultney river in
Hampton. y. Y. Mr.. Wade was last
seen Christmas morning. Ii is supposed
that he lost his way while crossing the
flats. and was frozen to death. At high
water the body was probably carried
down the river. He was 20 years of age.
The women of Bennington village are
arranging to issue IA paper soon. 1t Will
be 24-page paper, with four columns
to page, each II inches long. 1t is to
be issued but once and the edition will
consist of 5000 copies. 1t will be edited
by the ladies and will consist of pictorial,
political and other interesting matter.
The proceeds will be used for the benefit
of the free kindergarten school recently
established.
Suit has been brought by Mckannon
Bros. & Co. of Burlington against p. c..
Dodge, editor of the Burlington lndepen-
dent, for libel, based on an article which
appeared May ,, 1894, charging that the
company had fraudently obtained from
Mrs. Jennie Nichols of Waterbury a
promissory note Tor a piano which a
member of the firm had sold her. The
amount of the damages claimed is $1,000.
The other morning Rufus Cloud of
South Royaton built his fire and left the
house. His wife, coming into the kit
chen soon after, smelled smoke and
looking through the register into the
room above saw fire. She found some
clothes. which had been left on chair,
had tipped over against the stovepipe
and were blazing. Soon after, her son,
James Cloud, went up to find his mother
and found the chambers full of smoke
After crawling around or his hands and
knees he found her in closet, across a
trunk and nearly smothered' She re-
vived after awhile, but was i'll from the
effects and fright.
According to figures Just tahulated by
Carroll d. Wright, who is in charge OF
the census department, Vermont ha'
500 Union veterans, the number in the
whole country being l.034.073. The
report shows that there are 1872 ,020 sur
viving Confederate veterans. of whom
only IL have found their way to the
Green Mountain State, but these have
in this State the sympathy of If widow'
of Confederate soldiers who gave ~
their lives for "the lost cause The
number of surviving widows of UnioI
soldiers and sailors throughout the
country is l45, $50, while the widows Of
Confederate soldiers number G0,5G4,
A young man calling himself James
Aborn Warren was arrested in RutlanC
last week for obtaining money on fals'
representations, pleaded guilty and wai
sent to the honse of correction for thret
months. Warren had made canvas
among the ladies of the city for ticket
to series of five art lectures or dds