Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-05-10
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

shelburne Estate-New CoaIing Device
on the Rutland Railroad.
Extensive swindling operations car
ried on by an alleged publishing COM
pany of Philadelphia have been brought
to light In st. Johnsbury. The plan con-
sists in engaging man to manage an
office with the promise of salary of
1925 per month with a commission on
sales, all expenses to be paid by the
company. By these promises and var
ious attractive representations the victim
is induced to sign a deceptive contract
and deposit $500 secured for stock to be
placed in his care. When the company,
which it appears does business under
various names, unloads unstable books,
it is not heard from again.
DR.. w. 5. Webb is setting out trees at
Shelburne Farms this spring in large
numbers. 1t is stated that at least 90
600 more trees W ill be utilized this year
in hiding from view many sidehlls and
knobs on the premises. y car load of
them is at the Rutland yard in Bufling-
ton and will soon be taken to Shelburne.
The trees are pine, spruce and cedar. and
year a lot of them have been set out by
DR.. Webb and there are probably quar-
ter of Il million more trees at Shelburne
Farms than when the property was pur-
chased. The trees are secured in the
Adirondacks.
a coallng-up device for engines is to
be built by the Rutland Railroad com
pany at Rutland. The structure will be
in the form of trestle, some 30 feet in
height, from which are suspended large
buckets for the coal. The coal cars are
run on to the trestle. the coal dumped
into the buckets, and when required
load of coal can be dumped instantly
into the tender of an engine beneath.
Three of the five Pownal families that
were quarantned on account of the small
poX have been released. The two fami-
lies now under quarantine are the Abrams
and one near the Bennington town line.
All the cases were very mild and it Is
thought that there is little danger of the
disease spreading. While the smallpox
+, scare was at its height nearly every per-
son in Pownal was vaccinated.
Arturo Bernaco, a prisoner in Wash
ington county Jail at Montpelier,
attempted suicide last week. He had
secured jack knife and stabbed himself
in the temple and throat. He bled pro-
fusely, but will recover. Bernaco is one
of the Italian anarchists convicted of
n'urderous assault on Chief of Police
Patrick Brown of Barre and is awaiting
sentence.
The trial of the suit for damages
brought by Mrs. Estelle Sherwin of
Chester against the Rutland railroad
company was finished in Rutland county
court and the Jury, after more than six
hours deliberation, brought in verdict
for the plaintiff, awarding her S2500 dam
ages.
Roger w. Hurlburd of Hyde Park, one
has been appointed by Gov. Stickney a
delegate to the national conference of
charities and corrections to be held in
Washington the latter part of the
month.
Robert Gordon Hardie of Brattleboro
has received a cablegram from Egypt
commissioning him to paint tUll-length
portrait of George Washington in his
Masonic regalia, the portrait to be
presented to the grand lodge in London.
Duncan Stewart, who has been con-
nected with the agricultural station in
Burlington, for the past eight years, left
recently for Washington, where he has
secured position in the chemical dvls-
ion of the agricultural department.
Randolph village report will show re-
ceipts from water rents to be $3.50 30
5 material sold, $l32 %; total expenses,
including salary of superintendent, SG72 :
0G; interest on 1000 bonds, 500
profits, Sl13G o..
PatseY Norton, a resident OF Newport
and an employe of the Prouty & Miller
Lumber company as their representative
in the clapboard business IN Ottawa, was
+. instantly killed April % by being run
over by team
e NJ. II. Farrar of Montpelier, who re-
Gently purchased through a Massachu
sets agency at an expense of $50 toul
imported Belgian hares, consist, g of one
buck and three does, now has eighteen
young hares.
The Barre Roller mills unloaded cal
of corn that contained ll55 bushels
while the average car contains only
600 or 80 bushels. 1t was the larges
car ever unloaded by them.
h 1t has already been suggested that il
the reputed richness of the asbesto;
mines at Eden is verified the property
will be acquired by the Standard Oh
company.
The Right Rev. j. S. Michaud left Bur
lington recently for Baltimore, wher,
he will attend the ceremony of comforting
the red hat on Car dinal Martinelll.
The first lake excursion of the season
on the steamer Chateaugay will he giveI
next Saturday by the Baptist church o
Plattsburg.
&. ii. Stearns of johnson has purchas
ed 1890 acres of timber land fifty mile
north of Montreal on the Canadian