Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-05-06
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Charles II. Morse 81 Co. of Montpelier
have contracted to deliver at Cleveland,
o., the largest spire monuments ever
cut in Vermont. 1t is to be of Barre
granite from the Wetmore & Morse
quarry. The splre will be % feet in
length and five feet square at the large
end. The bottomless base will be solid,
II feet square and three feet thick and
will weigh 80 tons, The second base
and the die are each nearly as heavy.
The four principal pieces of the monu-
ment will each require a special car for
transportation. The monument is to be
placed in the family lot of John d.
Rockefeller, president of the Standard
Oil company.
The republican state committee held a
meeting at Montpelier Wednesday night,
Collector Olin Merrill presiding. 1t was
decided to hold the state convention in
that city Wednesday, June %. Hon.
Porter II. Dale will preside. w. E.
Howard of Mlddlebury was elected chair
man of the committee on resolutions and
James w. Brock of Montpelier was
elected treasurer of the committee, vice
II. X. lde, deceased. Harry Blodgett of
st. Johnsbury was elected a member of
the committee for Caledonia county, vice
H. X. Ide, and Senator Roger Hubert of
Hyde Park for Lamoile county, vice II.
X. Gleed, deceased.
Sheldon was the scene of two acct
dents one day last week. William
Chadwick was the victim of the first.
In tearing down an old barn he knocked
out brace that let the whole building
fall onto him. He was badly crushed
besides dislocating hip and breaking a
leg. The other accident was in East
Sheldon and Louis Bocash, who was
ploughing, was turning at the end of fur
row when his horses knocked him down
and trampled on him. A shoulder was
broken and he received other serious in
juries.
The fish of Lake Morey are reported to
be dying in numbers and floating ashore
as they did last year. Last year the
fish mortality confined itself to perch
and other small fish, while this year
many pickerel as well as perch are found
dead. Mr.. Moore, who has investigated
the case, says the fish are attacked by a
minute worm or maggot, which burrows
under the scales, causing a sore, which
enlarges in some instances to cover
the whole surface of the fish before il
dies.
In the absence of Mrs. Ezra Jewett of
Derby, her four children went to George
Rltchie's mill yard and were amusing
themselves walking on the piles of logs
when large one slipped loose from the
rest, rolled upon the youngest child, a
boy about three years of age, and crush.
ed him. The cries of the other children
we're heard by neighbors, who rushed to
the spot. A doctor was summoned, but
life was extinct when the child was
picked up.
Rev. Sister Justine Bouneau, the
founder of the Fanny Allen hospital al
Burlington, died at the Hotel Dieu
Montreal, last Monday, after an illness
of only ten days. She was a woman OF
remarkable ability, as is evident from
the great success which the hospital has
attained. Notwithstanding its humble
beginnings of only four years it is now
recognized as one of the leading insttu
tiOns of the state.
The Mortified News has the following
IN reference to former well known Bel
lows Falls boy who graduated at Norwich
university previous to his appointment
as an officer in the army; Lieut. E. A
Shuttleworth, llth IUfantry, L. S. A.
who has been stationed at Whipple bar
racks, Arizona, for the past three year
has been ordered to Jefferson barracks
Missouri, together with several cOmpan
les of the regiment.
The veteran miner, 5. A. Andrews o
Richmond, is doing a good business II
the gold diggngs in the now famou
Joiner brook in Bolton. 1t is reporte,
that Mr.. Andrews and his party found S
good sized pieces of gold Thursday
about $50 worth. Mr.. Andrews is posi-
tive that rich vein of the ore extend
the entire length of the brook.
The boarding house of the Adven
Campmeeting association, about mil
from White River junction on the lin
of the Passumpsic railroad, was total
destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. !
small cottage adjoining was also cor
sumed. 1t is reported that the large ter
of the association was stored 10 the co
tage and burnt with it.
An entrance was made into the Mon
pelier postoffice some time early Wet
nesday morning by unknown parties
A window was raised In the rear of tn
building by the use of a chisel. Pos
: master Sibley has discovered no losse
r but found one letter which had been OF
d ened. No trace Of the parties has bee
: discovered as yet.
; Joel l. Mead, one of the pioneers of Osl
! kosh, Wis, for many years member
the great manufacturing firm of Ripley
Mead, and native of Montpelier, die
d the 18th at Oshkosh, aged so years. 1
J. went west In 1913, settling first in Illinoi
= and few years later went to Oshkos
II He is survived by six children.