Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-10-23
State 11eps.

MeaSles Is epidemic In BuTllHRtOh'
The State Teachers convention will
Id its annual meeting in st. Adams
bv. l2-l4.
The act of Incorporation for the new
lage of Bennington Center Will be ap-
ed for in a short time.
frwo thousand pounds of spruce gum
We been gathered by Alonzo Bishop
WOodford this season.
The Union Bobbin company of New
rt has been forced into. insolvency,
rowing $50 hands out of employment.
The State treasurer's report shows
at sales of liquor by town liquor
ents in this State for the PAST two
ars amounted to $lSl ,507.
It is probable that the United States
Father bureau will establish signal
nation on Bald mountain in Bennington,
90 feet above the level OF the sea.
A gang of six young men has been ar
sted at Greensboro for burglaries at
ardwck. 1t is supposed that they
ere organized for the purpose of raid
O country towns and isolated farm
buses.
The late eX. Gov. Fuller carried life in
france amounting to between $4,000
= ID $4,000 1t was divided among sew
al of the leading companies, none of
e policies being for large amount.
A three.story block in West Rutland
blonging to William Thrall and occu-
ed by Parker & Thrall, dealers in gen.
Eal merchandise, was burned Sunday.
he loss is $4,000 and the insurance
F7O0.
The town of Mount Tabor is probably
be most heavily taxed town in the
tate. Its taxes for the current year are
10 on the dollar of the grand list, or
lual TO 10 per cent of the entire as
ssed valuation.
Horace Rublee, editor of the Mil
aukee Sentinel, died on Sunday from
1morous disease which developed into
tuberculosis. He was a native of Berk-
hire, Franklin county, but his family
loved to Wisconsin when he was eight
ears old.
Mrs. Louis Narcotic of Hartland COM
Slitted suicide Saturday by hanging her
Elf. She arose in the morning, dressed
erselt in her pest clothes. went to the
arm and put an end to herself with a
arness strap. Jealousy is said to have
cen the cause.
i. W. Wiley of Rutland. - years of
&c, was accidentally killed near that
ity Saturday while hunting. His gun
tent of as Wiley was pulling it with
he barrel towards him through rail
ence. The bullet entered his left side
nd lodged in his intestines.
\ preliminary survey of the Missis-
uo river is being made from Lake
hamplan to SwantOn Falls by the
nlted States government in prepare
ion for dredging the river so that
wanton may be made a reliable port
uring the period of navigation.
Work on the electric road between
harleston, n. H., and Springfield, VT,
HAS resumed Thursday and the contrac-
ors say that cars will be running in
hree weeks. The town of Springfield
paid in advance the $4,000 it was to
contribute to the expense of the road.
The champion builder is f. NJ. Prouty
f # Swanton. He began a small tene-
nent house last week Monday and the
amily for whom it was intended moved
the next Wednesday. The house is
we'll Duit and well finished, with three
oOms on the lower floor and two above,
;. j. Wilson of Lyndonville had q
harrow escape from injury few Sun.
iays ago. While ringing the church
bell for the evening service the tongue
pf The bell, which weighs % pounds
dropped out and came down through the
rap door. shiveIing window in its
descent 1t struck the floor beside Mr.
Wilson.
Willie Carruthers of Woodstock, sever
years old, met with an odd accident {
Iew days ago. He was in the Office o.
he greenhouse on the Billings estate
and stepped on the edge of chair tt
reach for something above him. Tht
chair tipped, and, having no back
turned bottom upward so that as tn
ad fell the end of one of the legs strucl
him in tine eye.
. The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of f. d. Blackwell of Mont
pelier Is no nearer solution than it wa
. four weeks ago, An inquiry amonI
relatives of Mr.. Blackwell ELECTS infor
nation that positively nothing is know
of his whereabouts. The police and de
tectives of Boston, who still have tn
matter in charge, say they never knew
+ case so thoroughly advertised as thi
has been to prove so barren of results
with the exception OF the Charley Kos
affair.
The State board of railroad commi;
sioners has prepared its biennial repOT
for the year ending July l, 1896. Tn
number of miles of railway in the Stat
is 9S4.67, of which l2.SG miles are doubl
track. During the period covered b
; the report, there have been l3l accident
reported to the board, of which 81 prove
fatal. Twenty-four people were kille
while walking or being on the trac
and II were killed at highway crossing
Not single passenger was killed du
ing the two years.
Explorations, says an exchange, hay
at last resulted in finding the old mil
tary road near Ilubbardton and II
bridge oyer which Col. Seth Warn'
crossed the river or gorge leading to II
battle ground on July 6, l777. 1t
near the residence of Allen Palmer
'Castleton and Mr.. Spencer in Ira, Il
town line running between the tv
raor-hv Residences in that mart of Ga