Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-30
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

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a Rutland Postohice Clerk Transferred
to Santiago o-Other State Items.
George B. Hit, aged 81, one of the
Windham county senators in the last
Legislature, died Wednesday at Brattle
boro after a short Illness. He was oper
ated upon for appendicitis. He was a
native of WallingfOrd, studied law in
Brattleboro, and was admitted to the bar
in 1887, becoming a member of the well
known firm of Waterman, Martin 81 Hit
few weeks after his admission. He
was states attorney in lS90-'92 aud was
elected senator last September. He
served with distinction in the legislature
and was the youngest member of the
senate. He was regarded as one of the
ablest lawyers of his years in the state
and young man of great promise.
A deer was chased and run down at
East Sheldon Wednesday, Dec. 81, by
hound owned by Carl Woodruff. Several
heard the hound in the afternoon, but no
one paid any attention until the barking
of the dog seemed to be in one place.
This attracted the attention of Louis
Bocash who went to see what was going
on. When he arrived at the place he
found a nice doe in the Hubert brook
nearly exhausted though lighting for
life. The hound had bit its nose nearly
off. Mr.. Stebbins, one of the selectmen,
was called and ordered the doe killed to
end It's suffering. The deer would weigh
about $50 pounds.
George NJ. Fernandez, who has been
for five years a clerk in the Rutland
postoflice, has been transferred to Cuba.
He has received orders from the post
office department at Washington to re-
port to the superintendent of the postal
service at Santiago, but he does not
know to what office in the province he
VIII be assigned His salary will be
Sl4O0. He sailed from New York for
Santiago Wednesday on a government
transport. Mr.. Fernandez was educated
in Spain. He has been in Cuba three
times and has relatives in Havana.
The Hawks block at Bennington.
which was recently burned, will be re-
placed by two story structure at once.
The new one will be more substantial
and of better style than the old one. One
or two of the tenants have already Sc
cured rooms In which to conduct bus-
ness until the new block is completed.
Previous estimates of losses by the fire
are too small and it is probable that the
figures will reach fully $4,000. About
one half of the amount is covered by in
surance.
What might have been a serious con-
flagration in Island Pond was happily
averted last week Monday by the dis
covery of smoke coming up through the
flooring of \. Bartlett & Sons store. An
investigation revealed portion of the
flooring, where the pipe from the fur
mace in the basement comes through in
to the store, in blaze which was speed
lily eXtingulshed. So great was the heat
that the zinc put around the stove-pipe
hole was melted.
The Grdiron club of Washington, d.
c., recently gave dinner to many cele-
brities there, among them the Canadian
commissioners. This club is company
of jolly good fellows, like the Glover
club of Philadelphia or the Lotus of New
York. Among their best hits at the
Washington dinner was portrait of Ad-
miral Dewey with the words THE Bat
tie Him of the Republic" in large letters
underneath it.
Louis Curries, who was cutting wood
on a lot in Barton recently, broke one
hip. He was taken to the home of his
daughter, who refused to care for him be-
cause of his abuse of her mother who
was an invalid several years before her
death, so he was taken to the town farm.
William Taylor and Frank Lincoln
caught deer in Barnumsvile one
r day last week. The deer was very
tame and was led to Manchester depot
by the antlers. The park commissioners
= expect to place it in the depot park.
A big wildcat was recently killed in
Underhill by Frank Cahill. The cat lit
on him as he entered the barn and after
a sharp battle was killed with pitch
| fork.
The directors of the st. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain railroad have voted to
issue twO-cent mileage books and will
put them on sale as soon as they can be
printed.
. Mrs. Mary A. Donahue of Fair Haven
was lodged in Woodstock jail recently
on charge of arson in connection with
the burning of some buildings in Ply
mouth in 1897.
Chief of Police Rowland of Barre has
! ! notified all keepers of cigar and fruit
: : stores that they must hereafter keep
their stores closed on Sunday or they
will be prosecuted according to law.
Samuel Pierson, an employee of the
Howe Scale company at Rutland, caught
+, his left hand In a cog wheel Thursday
. morning. The ends of two fingers were
Y taken off and his hand was badly jammed
r The new Baptist house in Stamford
; was dedicated last week and at the same
: time the Tooth anniversary of the organ
= ization of the society was celebrated.