Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-06-15
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Happenings of a Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain state.

Montpelier was discovered in the river
Monday afternoon. Johnson had been
missing since Saturday night. A large
cash in the back of his head would ind-
cate that he probably fell off high wall
on the river bank and rolled into the
water. An autopsy showed death was
due to drowning johnson was about
10 years of age and leaves wife.
! His father and mother live in Corinth.
Ray s. Olds of Wells River, who had
been missing since March 2G last, was
found Friday morning by river men
about a mile below Wells River. Nari-
Gus rumors have been circulated since
this Young man disappeared and the
| O Id Fellows lodge to which he belonged
offered reward for his recovery, dead or
alive. His wife gave up the search sew
eral weeks ago and went to the home of
her parents in Burke.
Six bills were returned by the special
grand Jury of the Windsor county court.
which was impaneled to consider the
Shaw eases. Five of them are against
| Dustin and Frank Shaw for breaking
Jail and impeding officers, and one is
against Frank Shaw charging him with
murder. The younger Shaw's wounds
are rapidly healing, and it is probable
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term of the court.
Leo. Bennett of Rutland. brakeman
on the ID. & II. railroad. was almost in
stantly killed at 3 o'clock Monday morn
| ing by being run oyer in the railroad
yard at Whitehall. His foot caught in
the frog on the switch and he could not
get out and was dragged under the
wheels of a train that was backing onto
/ the switch. Both arms and legs were
cut of and the body was terribly
mangled.
Burlngton's grand list this year is
J early $1,000 in excess of that of last
The following table comparing the vaIu
alton OF property. number of polls and
grand list for the years 1899 and 1900 is
self-eXplanatorv 1899, polls, ll55; real
estate. SS.lSS,479: PERSONAL S3.5ll ,559;
total grand list, SIPS. S.Gl0.3S 1900, polls,
1921; real estate, SS.74S417: personal,
S3.G50 2S1: total grand list, Sl32 1864.
OF the immortal 3l9 who voted the
Liberty party presidential ticket in Ner-
mont in 1910 eight have been found now
| living. These are jonathan 5 Perkins
of BroOklield. Joel G.. StimsOn of Nor
wich, Lewis Holmes of Sutton, AlonZo
Chamberlain of Spencer. Ia, G.. W.
Seaver of Barton. AlOnzo Moore of Lyme,
y. H., F. +. Bell of st. Albans, Timothy
Peters of Westminster.
Henry johnson. aged y wears. while
walking on the East mountain at DAnhv-
recently. fell and broke both bones or
his right leg. He crawled two miles
down the rough side Of the mountain to
point near c. II Griilith's sap house.
The accident occurred about noon and it
was o'clock at night before his cries
/ for help were heard anl assistance Sc
cured.
D. b. Celley of Montpelier SUNDAY cap.
tured bear that weighed fully 800
pounds. Bruin was taken in a bear trap
contrived for his destruction. Monday
Mr.. Celley took another, a yOungster,
which he now has alive. The animals
were taken in MOretown, Just above the
farm of Lyndon Ayers.
A war trophy of no little interest has
recently been added to the collection in
( he chapel at Norwich University at
NOrthtield. 1t is Filipino flag, badly
torn and much mended. II was captured
by company of the Both L. $ V. which
is commanded bv Capt. Charles W. Mead
of the class of 81.
The corner stone of a new gymnasium
for the University of Vermont will be
laid at Burlington Tuesday of COM
mencement week. fund of over
$4,000 has been raised for this building.
which was started by the gift of $1,000
from John IL. Converse of Philadelphia.
Wimont q. Nelson OF Island Pond
died at his home at Norton Mills last
week. aged 80 years. lie was assistant
Judge of the county and one of its most
prominent men. He has held all the
town offices but never accepted others.
John RushlOw of Burlington has gone
/ to New York to take the trip to Burling
ton on DR.. W. Seward Webb's new boat,
which is to come by the way of the st.
/ ] aWrence. The yacht will be by all odds
the best on Lake Champlain.
! The Rutland Railroad company is eX-
pending several hundred dollars in and
around its passenger depot at Brandon,
and when the work already arranged for
/ is finished it is said it will be the finest
station building on the line.
James j. Jeflries, champion pugilist,
will give sparring exhibition at Bur-
lington on July / under the auspices of
the Fourth's celebration committee. He
also will umpire baseball game at How
ard park in the afternoon.
A cabegram has been received at Fort
Ethan Allen announcing the death In
Vigan, Philippine Islands, of Sergeant
Major Edward S. Thornton of the Third
cavalry. The deceased leaves wife and
two children at the fort.
Invitations are out to the golden we'd
ding of DR.. and Mrs. II. j. Potter ST., of
Bennington, for Saturday, June l6.
Rev. Edward ConnOver, who ofiiclated at
the ceremony fifty years ago, will be
present.
G. l.. Closson. of the late firm of Knott
& Closson of Burlington, is studying
medicine with physician at his former
home IN Springfield and expects to enter
Dartmouth medical department in the
fall.
b. II. Hill, of the class of '95, Univer-
sity of Vermont, has received a fellow
ship from Columbia University, where
he has been studying, which entities him
to go abroad to study Greek.
Rollin G. Bromley of Burlington has