Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-07-09
State l1erps.

The stone sheds and quarrits of Barre
were shut down Monday on account of
the heat
The presence of ex-champion Jas.
Corbett at Burlington last Saturday at
tracted large crowd to that city.
Corbett played hrst-base with the local
nine in a match game of ball, and his
proves saved the team from defeat
TWO fishermen of Craftsbury found a
dead body in barn recently. The
body proved to be that of Marshal Gill
bert HIS father was called and took
charge of the remains. Mr.. Gilbert left
a note saying that he wished to die ard
had taken poison.
on July 5, Howard, the nine year old
son of Guy Goodrich, of Morrisville,
was drowned in the Lamolle river near
the tannery. He got beyond his depth
while swimming with older boys. The
body was recovered quickly and worked
over long time but to no purpose.
The Barre officers searched the Ameri-
can Express Office, the express wagon
and the Wells River station last week
am found eight half barrels of beer,
two sugar barrels of bottled beer and
three cases of whiskey. There will be
at least that much less liquor drunk in
Vermont this summer.
The number of immigrants from for
eign countries that entered the United
States through the district of Vermont
during the month Of June are are as fol-
laws. Russia, 100; Germany, Il; Ar
menia, 3; Hungary, 10; Greece, l Nor
avia, I Austria, l Italy, l; Turkey, l ;
Roumania 3; Galcia, Il; Poland, g;
Sweden, l Bohemia, l. Total, 2i7.
While in Burlington, W. A. Brady,
Corhett's manager, visited the Eineto-
scope entertainment on Church street,
which alleges to give the Corbett-Fitz
simmons fight in five rounds. Mr..
Brady told them that if they didn't
stop that fake, he'd "bust" their ma
chine and have the whole outfit arrested
for infringing on his rights. Brady
has the New England right for repro
ducing kinetoscope views of the Carson
City fight and proposes 10 maintain il.
A Bennington correspondent writes
thusly 70 a Troy paper ~ local lawyer
has received from wholesale liquor
dealer in Albany, y. Y, bills for col.
lection against men here to the amount
Of over SllOO Three or four of thC
bills run up into the hundreds and mos
of them range from s. upward. The
+ same lawyer has in his hands also foi
collection bills of more than 81 90,
against the same men. sent by othel
dealers. According to the laws of thi.
p state not a dollar is collectable".
+, The attractions Of Vermont as a sum
~ Ia re.ort are admirably presented il
It the 'Slmmer Art Number of the Yer
montcr, which appears as a double mum
T. bc"lor July. II is by far the hand
> soonest and most elaborate issue Of thi
popular -,ate magazine ever published
and contains over forty artistic hal
tones Of picturesque scenes in ditleren
sections Of the state. The Illustration
form a valuable album of Vernon
- scenery. and the text descriptive Of til
- mountains. lakes, rivers and other scent
attractions is entertaining and comprC
hensive.
News reached Montpelier one da
last week of the closing Of The Perr,
g South Dakota, Savings bank, an inst
- tuition capitalized at $4,000. The stoc
was almost entirely held in Montpeie
>, and vicinity. The directors voted at
meeting to make an assignment to pre-
-. tect the stockholders and creditors :
far as possible. 4. O. Cummins, vic
- president of the closed bank is resider
- of that city and acted as its easter
- agent. There are outstanding, mostl
in this state. loans and discounts amour
=. ing to over 100000. Mr.. Cummr
g states that all the outstanding papt
O.; VIII be met without loss, and
, the real estate taken on foreclosure ca
- be sold, the stockholders will get the
10 money back.
to The caterpillar pest still hourshe
N The ravages in the woods seem qui
.v unparalleled, In places fire could har,
n. " have been more dies tructive, II
4. pests having entirely stripped the tre'
v of leaves in small forest patches, map
ID trees appearing to be the greatest SUITE
y ers. In every section in southern We
as mont, they say that the woods are beir
TO overrun by the caterpillars, which har
is in huge punches from the tree liml
H. everywhere. One man, who drove
IN Hartland, reports the work OF the cate
pillars to be particularly complete al
destructive in that direction, and
going through Healeys maple grove
found it convenient to put up an III
X brella to ward off the rain of pests fro