Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-20
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Turns Up at Bennington-St JohnsDury
& Lake Champlain Road still Resisting.
The body of man which was found
by some boys hunting near the river on
the farm of S. d. Teachout near Essex
Junction Friday was identified as that
of Hypolite SuzOr of Ludlow, Mass.
Suzor started on Oct. II from the home
of his son in Canada for his home In
Ludlow. He was seen to board the
train at Alburgh, where he was carried
by his son, and was next heard from In
Georgia two days later In November
he was seen at Essex, not far from the
point where his body was found. He
had upon his person two watches and
about $40 in cash. The body was taken
TO Canada for burial. A reward of S20
was offered for the mans return. He is
thought to have been demented, and Is
known to have had heart trouble.
Past Department Commander n. M.
Pufer of Bennington has relic of
bygone days that he recently found. 1t
is in the shape of a coupon GOOD for
two seats on the regular mail coach that
runs between here and Boston," 1t is
signed by S. NJ. Waite, proprietor.
Mr.. Waite was afterward president of
bank in that village, which he sue
ceeded in wrecking. He ran away and
went west, where he was afterward
taken. He was brought home, and,
although an old man, served sentence
in the house of correction at Rutland.
The St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlan
Railway company, which recently was
reported as having acquiesced in the
order of the state railway commissioners
and ordered two-cent mileage books to
be put on sale, has not yet exhausted its
means of evading the law. An injunc.
tion has been asked by stockholders to
prevent the company from selling such
mileage and states attorneys from COM
pelling it TO do so. The plea of the
stockholders is that the road cannot
afford it and that the state law is uncon-
stitutional.
George Brown, employed as errand
boy by the Rutland Herald, has been
arrested for opening letters taken from
the postoffice. He confessed and was
placed in Jail. Brown took moyey Or
der from letter and attempted to get it
casbed, after signing it with what he
thought was the name Of the Herald as
sociation. He served short term in the
Industrial school three years ago.
The proposed incorporators of the
Central Vermont Railway company have
signed an agreement accepting the char
ter granted by the last legislature, with
its provision for unsecured claims. 1t is
expected that as soon as possible the
courts will decree the sale OF the prop
erty now In the hands of the receivers
and that the new company will purchase
it and become the owners.
During the year 1898, 355 loaded cars
were drawn over the Mount Mansfield
Electric railroad IA were incoming and
2ll outgoing. The most sanguine
among the supporters of the road only
predicted total of 300 for the year.
During the six months ending Jan.
!, 1899, IS 600 passengers were carried.
Stephen Potwin of Windsor, freight
brakeman on b & NJ. train. while
coupling cars at the North Walpole
yard Monday morning was caught
between the deadwoods. His left arm
was badly ammed and the fingers
crushed so that amputation may be nee
essary.
The oath annual meeting of the
Ayrshire Breeders association will be
held in the parlor of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, Wednesday, Feb. l, at
two o'clock p. m. l.. S. Drew of South
I- ha nd NJ
Wlnslow of Brandon is the secretary.
A chess club has been organized in
WinOoski, starting of with 10 members
and containing some of the best chess
players in Vermont. The club expects
soon to be visited by Champion Pills
bury of Brooklyn, n. Y.
Ensign j. II. Holden, L. S. n of Bur-
lngton, who was on duty on the i'll fated
Maine and served during the late war
with Spain on the auxiliary Scorpion,
has been transferred to the Soace, the
hospital transport.
A Connecticut mercantile company is
making preparations to serve 2O0 writs
on debtors in Bellows Falls who can and
will not pay merchants of that. village
the amounts they owe them.
st. Johnsbury Is soon to have hospi-
tai, the Gov. Erastus Fair banks house at
Fairbanks village, long occupied by the
late c. NJ. Stone and family, having been
secured for that purpose.
Every lawyer In that city has signed
the petition for the appointment OF
George w. Wing of Montpelier to the
position of Judge of the Vermont
supreme court.
Colchester has record for the past
year which If maintained would soon in
crease its population to city proportions
Its record of births exceeds that OF
deaths by 43.
Not marriage license was issued II
Newark the past year, something tina
has not occurred before since the records
have been kept in that town.
Ruben w. Ross of Rutland is cred