Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-03-20
State l1eps.


established there.
Edward Bearatti, an Italian marble
cutter, shot himself Friday night at the
Wells River depot at Montpelier.
William Austin, town constable of
Milton, while drawing logs last week
dropped dead from heart failure. He
leaves wife and eight children.
A freight train of l6 loaded cars left
the track OF the St. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain railroad Friday near East
Highgate and was completely wrecked.
The Rutland board of trade is consid-
ering proposition to put up bell
factory that would employ about l25
men. Boston man is at the head Of
the move.
WiIliamstown had Il long-drawn out
March meeting. occupying Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. The first two
days no officers was allowed to be
elected except by ballot.
EphrIam L. Robson, SO, was instantly
killed at the Hurley crossing at st. AL
bans the other morning. lie was driving
the village snow pillow and did not see
the approaching train until too late.
A stock company with $4,000 capital
will be formed Ia Rutland for the pur-
pose of building an opera house. Or
ders have been given for plans and
specifications for 900 building.
John Bertrand, the steward at the
officers club house at Fort Ethan Alien,
is under arrest on charge of relOniously
assaulting Miss Hattie La Bell of Essex
Junction, who is a servant at the fort.
Mrs. B. G. Morrison of Lyndonvlle,
while sewing, dropped pair of shears,
which struck on the top of her right
foot, severing an artery, causing the
loss of much blood.
The town of Glastonbury has eight
voters, fifteen town offices to fill and a
tax rate of SO on the dollar. Half of the
voters hold no offices and the other half
carry from two to six each.
For illness and the prevention of i'll
ness during the year ended Feb. the
st. Johnsbury liquor agency sold s5,G76.-
G6 worth of liquors, which was paid into
the town treasury. The net profit was
S963 80.
The State Republican league will hold
grand rally at Montpelier Tuesday
evening, April Is, at which it is expected
that Senators Frye of Maine and Thurs
ton of Nebraska and Curtis Guild, Jr.,
of Boston will speak.
w. A. Hall of Bellows Falls has a
large boulder on one side OF which APP
pears the likeness of a petrtied trout,
The likeness is very real, so much so
that Mr.. Hall will have the boulder put
on his lawn as a curiosity. The huge
stone was found in ravine acme two or
three miles below Westminster.
Thomas Cochran, %, stabbed John
Kelley three times in the breast last
week Wednesday night at Berlin. Both
had been drinking. Cochran went to
4 Mortified for doctor He said he
stabbed Kelley in self-defence. Deputy
Sheriff Chase arrested him and he is now
in Montpelier Jail. Kelley is very low.
elijah Miller of West Brattleboro mar
rowly escaped being shot a few days
ago. He was seated in his home, talking
f, with friend, when an old gun which WAS
standing in the corner of the room
slipped from its place, and. falling,
struck the hammer and exploded. The
charge Just barely passed Mr.. Miller and
entered a bureau standing against the
wall.
An historic maple was recently cut
down on the Hewitt homestead in Pom
fret. 1t is said that the tree was planted
by daughter of the famous Gen. Put
nam, oyer century ago. The trunk
was so decayed as to make the tree a
menace. but from some of the limbs
boards 10 inches wide were sawed and
made into trlnkets for the mementC
fiend.
Samuel w. Bowen lives on Rochester
mountain 2O00 feet above sea level, anC
there are no streams near him. During
the recent freshet water which had col
lected on the mountain above swep
down on his premises like an avalanche
water, logs and debris being thrown
against his barn with such force that i
was carried down the hill with contents
including live stock.
The village of Bennington Centre
with a population never exceeding 300
State. They were Moses Robinson
Isaac Tichenor, Hiland Hall and j.
Robinson, the last named being the only
Democratic governor the State ever had
Thomas Chittenden, the first goVerno