Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-11-20
State Q1ews.

The Bellows Falls Times changed own
ership Saturday. The paper was sold by
l.. z. Thayer & Co. to w. G. Belknap d
Co. Mr.. Belknap is now the editor and
proprietor.
Fish Warden Preston of VeIgennes
discovered and took up pound net of
Stony Point, West SwantOn, one day
last week. The net is now in the town
clerks Office awaiting instruction from
the fish commissioners.
A Barre firm has made the last ship
ment for the battle monument to be
erected in honor of the 9th New York
regiment on the battlefield of Antietam.
The base is II feet square and the spire
is 40 feet long and weighs SO 1000 pounds.
II. c. Idle of st. Johnsbury, chief JUS
tice of Samoa, has resigned and is COM
ing home next spring and the probabili-
ties are that he will receive comforta-
BILE ministerial appointment or CONSUL
ship under President McKinley's admin
istration.
Curtis Reese of Randolph met with
quite an accident the other day while at
work about his barn In walking across
the floor, he slipped and, to save himself
from failing, caught at hanging chain.
The hook at the end of it entered his
hand under the tendon Of the middle
finger, and he hung there until assistance
arrived.
George wilkins of Mount Holly in a
fit of insanity Tuesday morning set fire
TO the hay In his barn, burning the barn,
hogpen, 10 cows, one hog and consider
able hay. Mr.. wilkins has been subject
to temporary fits OF insanity for several
years, and was known to be suffering
nf
the fire.
Thomas A. Hazen of Norwich turned
Is high-grade COWS INFO his field Friday
morning to feed. At noon II of them
were dead. About a month ago two of
his herd died suddenly. Poisoning for
revenge by some miscreant is suspected.
Mr.. Hazen is highly respected citizen
and there is considerable excitement in
town. The veterinarian who made the
autopsy said the animals died of poison.
Mrs. Annette Magoou of st. Johns
bury was the victim of serious accident
last week. She was washing windows
and stepped out on the piazza roof to
wash outside. The recent rains had
made the shingles slippery and her feet
slipped, letting her slide down and of
the roof to the ground below, a distance
of at least u feet. She struck partly on
the walk and on the stOop and was badly
bruised.
The celebrated Marlboro pond case is
now on trial in Windham county court.
The point to be decided is the right of a
private club to buy land enclosing a
large pond to the exclusion of private
fishing parties. The same case has been
tried before and has been to the supreme
court, who returned it for retrial upon
Q n nd uyido in IN
The New England Trout and Salmon
club brings the suit in trespass against
George Mather
Much Inconvenience is experienced in
finding a railroad route to New Orleans
having bridges high enough for the
passage of the largest block of granite
ever quarried in Vermont. The block is
10 feet square and three feet thick. 1t is
intended for the noted Moriarty monu-
ment in New Orleans. 1t was quarried
in Barre and has been moved to the
dressing sheds. \ special car is being
built by the local roads on which it is
intended to set the block on edge, let
ting the lower side swing through the
bottom to within eight inches of the
rails. The weight of the block exceeds
30 tons. Investigation shows that most
routes have bridges too low for the
block to pass through.
The 47th annual meeting of the State
Teachers association was held at st. AL
bans last Friday and Saturday with
nearly 300 teachers In attendance. At
the business meeting Saturday morning
these officers were elected President,
G. ii. Morrill, of Bakers field; vice-presi-
dents, z. c. Hoyt of Middlebury, j. L.
Alger of Bennington, d. Y. COmstock
of st. Johnsbury, Prof. S. F. Emerson
of Burlington, Z. X. Davis of Island
Pond, w. ID. Parsons of Swanton, Mrs.
II. NJ. Margin of Albany, W. A. Beebe
of Worthwhile, p. A. Blossom of Brad
ford, G. A. Andrews of Derby, w. p.
Abbot of Proctor, Harriet E. Savage of
Montpelier, II. c. Bristol of Saxtons
River, H. Dressed, Jr., of Springfield
secretary, c. II. Richardson of Hanover,
N. H.; treasurer, F. A. Bagnall of ST.
Adams; executive committee, f. II.
Whitehill of Woodstock, w. j. Kelley of
St. Johnsbury, c. c. Davis of White
River Junction; member of legislative
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