Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-26
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

CompIimented by Royalty-Terrible
Death of "A Farme Near Milton-Other
State Items of Interest.
Mary Howe LAWN of Brattleboro and
her brother, Lucien Howe, are expected
to return home in July from Berlin,
Mrs. LAWN has had notably successful
season at the Royal opera house at
Wiesbaden. At the close or a recent
performance the king of Sweden be-
slowed upon her the honor of an eX-
tended audience, during which he eX-
pressed his appreciation and delight at
listening to her singing. This was after
an appearance in the Barber of Seville" l."
and the feeling of the audience found
expression during the performance in a
profusion of floral pieces. On a former
occasion Kaiser William sent for Mrs.
LAWN and complmented her in the
highest terms.
Milton people were shocked by the
tragic death Saturday of Adna NJ. Sibley,
farmer. He started out in the fore
noon for the pasture, taking an axe with
him to mend fences, also gun to shoot
time, so his son started to look for him.
He found his lifeless body entangled in a
wire fence near the upper part of the
pasture with the empty gun lying near.
The ball had entered his head below the
Jaw, tearing his face nearly of.
Mrs. Redfied Proctor, Miss Proctor
and Redfield Proctor, Jr., will go to
q oh do thnx
will leave New York by the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, going directly to Paris, where
they will spend some time. From Paris
they go to England, in which country
they Will visit the noted places and pass
the greater part of the time until their
return, which is planned for the middle
of August.
Tommy Kelley. the ll-year-old son of
Thomas Kelley, foreman of the Barney
Marble companys quarries in Swanton,
was nearly burned to death last week
Tuesday evening while playing with a
lot of other boys with torch and
kerosene oil, which had been used to kill
apple tree worms. He is almost solid
ii
so swollen as to little resemble human
beings.
Matt Parker, an engineer at the Yer
mont Marble company's shop in Rutland,
was assaulted by an unknown man last
Wednesday evening and severely bruised.
Parker was alone in the shop when man,
whose face was partly covered with a
II "a dlro Of nd thra
him to the floor, pounding him badly.
No clue was obtained as to the rascal's
Identity.
Bobbin wood has given out in the
vicinity of Waterbury, and Frary
Brothers, bobbin manufacturers of that
place, are looking for a new location.
The members of the firm have been to
firm makes spools for silk thread. They
use about 1000 cords yearly of white
| birch only.
A. L. Weeks, internal revenue collec
tor, was in Montpelier Monday and an.
nounced that he had received instructions
to restamp and return to the merchants
the cigars seized recently, when the
merchants pay the Internal revenue tax
on them. Cuban Belle cigars were taker
from six merchants in that city and five
in Barre.
A part of the Memorial day observ-
ances in Burlington will be yachting
parade, which will be held in the harbol
on Tuesday, May 30, at 8 O'Clock in the
morning. After a parade of - minute:
I&t. ..,,l t.,, a,.I q,
review before the club house, all saluting
when opposite.
Work is being pushed very rapidly or
the Burns monument which is to bt
placed on the High school green il
Barre by the admirers of Burns. Tn,
date fixed for the unveilng is July 2l
The monument is to be the gift of th'
Scottish people of Barre to the city o
Barre.
Ground has not yet been broken fo
the Bellows Falls and Saxton's Rive
Electric railroad. The company has no
yet accepted the proposition of the tow
of Bellows Falls to regrade Pine stree
and pay all land damages not to exceed
$1,000.
While digging some postholes on tn
Bennington battlefield a few days ago
a workman shoveIed up several pieces o
English money. The date on them wa
1853. They were pretty well preserved
The iewelry store of Charles Steven
at East Barre was burglarized earl,
Monday morning. A quantity of silve
goods and watches were taken.
Allen Adams, II, fell from a frelgh
} car at West Rutland Saturday and wa
run over and sustained such injuries tina
| he died the same day.
In one day three Burlington wome
were fined for getting drunk and sellin
liquor.