Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-11-17
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Happenings of a Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain state.

Happenings of a Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain State.
Developments of somewhat startling
nature have come to light in the Martin
d. Hanley drowning case noted in this
column last week which seem to point
to the suspicion that IIanley, found
drowned in Lake Champlain, was MUIR
dered and robbed. His body was found
floating in Gay s. Henderson's slip at
Burlington. A pocket book containing
two 81 bills and some small change was
found in one Of his pockets. A roll of
bills containing $45, which he had re-
ceived on Tuesday night, was not found.
On the dead mans forehead there was
bruise and an indention, which are
thought to have been made by sand
bag or billy. His nose was battered and
bent. 1t looked as though it might have
been broken.
e. F. Brownell of Burlington has ship
ped his stallion Alexander to New York,
where he is a competitor in class for
stations four years old and over, kept
for service, to be judged as to individual
ity, pedigree and showing qualities, at
the annual horse show of the National
Horse Show association this week. AL
cander is the only trotting bred stallion
ever shown in the trotting class at this
show from Vermont. He has record of
2 204 and is son of Alcantra, he by
George Wilkes, and was bred at High
land Stock Farm in Lee, Mass.
A. H. Powers of Chelsea had narrow
escape from being killed last Thursday
evening. About o'clock he had occas
ion to go down in the basement of his
gristmlll to adjust some machinery. 1t
was dark and he had lantern. While
passing along the plank walk where he
has been time and again he stepped off
and fell headong into the wheelpit some
eight or ten feet. Walter Goss who was
working in the mill heard the crash and
rushed to his rescue. He was bruised
about the face and head and terribly
shaken up, but no bones were broken.
Chief of Police Hall of Brattleboro
caught two runaway girls last week.
They were about II years old each, and
one living in Hinsdale and the other in
Ashuelot. The girls left home Wednes-
day night of last week, but no one knew
in which direction they went. The
Hinsdale girl had run away before and
come to BrattlebOro. so it was surmised
that she would come here again. Mr..
Hall was notified Monday and on Tues
day afternoon he saw the girls go into
house on Western avenue, where ne
caught them. The girls were kept in
the selectmen's room until a team came
for them from Hinsdale.
Fish Commissioner John w. Titcomb
has been collecting eggs from the various
| field stations. Six hundred thousand
have been received from four stations. at
Lake Dunmore, at Lake Mitchell in Cas-
Teton, at Darling's pond in Groton and
at Averill pond ia Averill. The season
at Caspian Lake, Greensboro, Is later
than usual and work there cannot be ex-
pected for several weeks. The eggs at
these several field stations are taken to
the st. Johnsbury station for Matching,
after which shipments are made to all
parts of the country.
DR.. r. G. Goss of Hartford reports
that four men attempted to waylay him
in lonely place near Rocky mountain
as he was returning from visiting a
patient at West Hartford Thursday
night. He saw the men just as they
sprang into the road and attempted to
catch his horse by the bit. He shook
the lines, and his horse sprang forward
so quickly it knocked over the nearest
man and left him behind.
By the will of Mrs. Lucy Daniels, re-
Gently deceased, Grafton receives from
her estate the following bequests: five
hundred dollars as fund for the sup.
port of the public library and 5000, the
income of which is to be used in taking
care of the village cemetery. Mrs.
Daniels also left Sl250 TO the Congre-
gational society of Grafton, the income
of which is to be used for the support
of preaching at that church.
John w. Titcomb, state fish and game
commissioner, has returns showing that
eighty-nine deer were shot in Vermont
during the recent open season. Windsor
county reports thirty-five or nearly hall
the total number; Rutland county,
twenty-nine, Addison five, Bennington
four, Essex six, Caledonia three, Chit