News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-02-15
STATE NEWS.

Hon Olin Merrill of Enosburgh Falls and
A. b. Valentine of Bennington are members
OF the committee of reception for the ban
quet which the Home Market Club Of Bos-
ton will give in honor of the visit of Pres
ident Mckinley Thursday evening
Hon. S. L. Griffith of Dandy has recently
returned from a trip to Cuba, while there
be bought 5000 acres of fine timber land
a. 81 an acre. The timber includes vaua-
bic growths of rosewood and mahogany
and when marketed will yield a handsome
profit on the investment.
Hon. A. B. Forget of Manitoba. l'euten-
ant governor Of the Northwest territory,
| has been in Montpelier the past week. Gov,
J Forget was at one time a resident OF
Montpelier and a member Of the family of
the late George W. Reed who remembered
him in his will with $1,000.
small bull pup owned by Henry Joe o.
Bennington was killed on the street the otheN
morning by Judge c. II. Darling with
| Ratchet. The dog bad bitten the daughter
| OF William Chase of School Street, and Judge
I Darling, who witnessed the incident, evident
| ly thought the brute deserved death and ad.
minstered justice with his own hand. The
| child was not seriously hurt.
L. S. Hayes of Bellows sued the Rutland
| road for alleged conversion of mileage
| book; a jury in justice court gave him a
hinges on the alleged right of n passenger
to travel on a mileage book ISSUED to an
other party and used in violation of tie
| companys contract and contrary To the
establ shed rules and regulations of the
| road
Capt. Edward Stearns, who died in New
| York last Wednesday, was born in Benning.
ton and went to Brooklyn when a young
man. He invented a steam Derrick and was
| nj HrGt oil yvh n ind
ent twin screw propelIers. He also invented
a steam and hand winch and a three vince
truck used on docks During the war he
sailed the lighter Wallace into Charleston
harbor in the service of the government.
Harvln Paddock of st. Johnsbury has
been granted patent oman express baggage
scale to use at railway stations for weighing
baggage. certain amount of baggage
usually, ! 80 pounds, is ca rried free and th
scale determines aut Omatlcally and withOu
mental calculation the excess above this
amount on which cnargps must be paid. One
ct these scales is in use m the St Johnshur1
depot and one in the Union station ia Bost on
doe, weighing ! 10 pounds, was hrOugh
to Rutland recently on train over the Ben
riugtOn 4 Rutland railroad. The deer wa
discovered lying beside The track between
WallDgfOrd ana Clarendon nv the engineer
and it is believed it was killed by one of tn
sIeppers on that line. The railroad official
shipped the deer to John W. TItcOmb of st
Johnsbury, State fish and game commissioner
The doe was not mutlated, but was bruised
on the head and side.
The United States government has install
ed in the the navy yard at Washington on
of the largest pairs of Fairbanks scales i
the country This machine can outweigh tn
largest railroad weighing machines by D
tons, and when it is considered that its re
: suits must he accurate to the weight of
pound while railroad scales are cOnsdere
good if they approach anything near 81
pounds of being correct, it is to be marveet
at the advances made in recent years. Th
= new scnIes are 4 Sfeet long and , feet wild
and rest upon a cement base built upon lon
piles.