Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-09-21
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Happenings of "A Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain state.

of the Green Mountain state.
The hurricane of last Wednesday did
a great amount of damage in Grand Isle
county, especially in the apple orchards.
Fred G.. Aldrich of Wilmington shot a
handsome blue heron recently, which !
stood five feet high and measured six
feet from tip TO tip.
Mrs. James McGuirk of Rutland, while
coming out of her house last Friday, fell
from the doorway to the walk, breaking
her right shoulder blade.
Henry Martin of Keeler's Bay has sus-
tanned the loss of II milch cows out of a
herd of 33. The cause of their death
was over-eating in a cOrnfleld.
The corn canning factory at Brattle-
boro is now operating 100 hands and has
already put up $4,000 cans of corn, prot
ably less than half its seasons output.
There will be 10 Democrats in the
house of representatives.. In 1896 there
were 20 Democrats in 1894, II; in 1892,
40; in 1890, G3: in 1888, 20; in 1856, 30,
and In 1884, 80.
Troy Conference academy at Poultney
opened last week with nearly 200 stu
years every room in the academy is oc-
cupied and many have taken rooms out
| side
Charles Dutele, who has charge of re-
ceiving the sand buckets which carry the
sand from the east mountain to the mar
Bile mills at Proctor, had the misfortune
to break his left leg below the knee
Saturday.
F. G.. Hovey. son of Emory 7. Hovev,
who left st. Johnsbury over 20 years
ago for the West, is now at Johannes
burg in South Africa, where he has been
plying his trade of house builder at s. a
day for several years.
Col Charles Dillingham;. a brother of
the Hon. w. p. Dillingham; of Water
bury. resides in the stricken city of Gal
weston. Tex. Col. Dillingham; is at pres
ent visiting in Vermont, but will return
to Galveston to look after his interests.
The water in the Connecticut river IS
about as low as it was at any time last
year. All the pulp grinding mills at
Bellows Falls are idle, and hundreds Of
men are out of employment. The stock
of pulp on hand is much larger than it
was last year.
While working on the road at Wards
boro recently Henry l.. Hall was killed
by a land slide. He stepped on the side
of sand pile and lost his footing, ard
before he could recover himself he was
buried in the sand. He leaves q wife
and several children.
Will +. Young Jumped from beam in
Albert Townsend's barn at Putney TO the
floor below last Thursday. when plank
in the flooring broke and let him fall
seven feet to the cellar. The broken
plank fell across his leg and broke both
bones below the knee.
\ unique but disagreeabe accident oc-
CURED on an electric car at Barre. Chas.
Emerson was standing on the car plat
form as the car rounded turn. \ wire
fallen from one of the poles above was
hanging down and struck him in the
mouth. His face was badly cut from
the mouth to the ear
Three young men near Little Pond in
Woodford suddenly met black bear in
one of the many runways near that
place. One had a double barrelled shot.
gun lOaOcu Wllil DlTu-Ibl WHICH lie Hltu
into bruins face. He thinks the shot
struck him in the eyes the way the ami
nal paved ana howled. but they did not
wait to see as they had no more shot
. Bear Trapper Pratt has set a trap for the
bear. Several deer have been seen il
that section recently.
, Congressman-elec d. j. Foster of Bur
lngtOn made an address last week at {
rally held by the Chauncey NJ. DepeN
Republican club on the Bowery, New
York city. Sept. - Mr.. Foster vii
leave for New York to speak each weel
! day thereafter until election, Nov. 6,
period of six weeks. The first week o
the tour will be spent in New Jersey anC
the remainder of the itinerary is not We
arranged. Mr.. Foster served success
fully as campaign speaker under tn
direction of the national committee dur
. ing the campaign of 1896.