Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-09
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

on the battlefield at Antietam. Md was
held In Montpelier last week. The com.
mttee Is composed of Senator Redfield
Proctor, the Hon. John c. Stearns of
Bradford and the Hon. Cassius Peck of
Burlington. The state Legislature of
1896 appropriated S22 to purchase land
whereon to place the monument, and at
the same time gave $1,000 for the monu-
ment itself. The legislature of 1900
made this last amount $1,000. There
will be large monuement for the state
and two smaller ones for the Vermont
sharpshooters. They will be of granite,
with appropriate inscriptions.
Charles w. Mussey the defrauding
cashier of the Merchants National Bank
of Rutland, who was pardoned several
weeks ago by President Mckinley and
was later operated upon for appendicitis,
has left the Rutland hospital cured
man. Accompanied by his wife and by
NJ. F. Wlnship of Albany, brother-in-
law, he has gone to the Adirondacks for
the rest of the summer. Mr.. Mussey was
apparently in good health when he left
the hospital. His eye was bright, his
step firm and he looked little like man
who was reported dying not two months
ago.
The Barre railroad recently brought
down from the quarries to Barre one of
the largest blocks of granite ever carried.
III was base and was fifteen feet six
inches square and two feet six inches in
| thickness, and weighed $1,000 pounds
| hot n
sides OF the car and poles and posts near
the track got hit at several points.
n. w. Pettibone, native of Manches-
ter, has just purchased land for a fine
park at La Crosse, Wis, and begun
identifying it. This he has given to
the city. He expects to expend $780,
900. The donor will be chairman of a
commission he has selected, and among
the members is George w. Burton, also
a native of Manchester.
The steamer Reindeer, with an excur-
sion party of 400 persons on board, was
disabled about three miles from Platts-
burgh, n. Y, Sunday afternoon. After
drifting about for three hours the help
less boat was towed by the steam launch
Washta to Providence island, where the
passengers were transferred to the
steamer Chateaugay.
George Gale, who shot and killed
Charles Fisk at Stowe last week with
gun which he 'didn't know was
loaded" has been held under $1,000
bonds for appearance at the December
term of Lamoille county court.
The drive Of logs of the International
Paper company from the White river
has begun arriving at Bellows Falls.
The drive consists of about five and one
half million feet and has been doomed
for some months at Sharon.
Miss Cochrane of Brooklyn, N. V,
who is summering at Mallett's Bay
claims the honor of having caught the
largest pickeral of the season. The fish
was thirty inches long and fourteen
inches in circumference.
While tapping gas main in Burling-
ton five employees of the Burlington Gas
Light company were overcome by the
escaping fumes. They were uncor-
scious for several hours, but will suffer
no serious effects.
Stanley Perry of Barre shot a blue
heron that measured six feet from tip
to tip. Several of these birds are seen in
that section the latter part of each sum-
mer and this was an unusually fine speci-
men.
Eight cars of lingering lake trout
from the national fish hatchery at st.
Johnsbury passed over the Rutland
railroad Friday. The fish were to be
placed in the Fair Haven reservoir.
While playing in front of her home in
Winooski little Lillian Meacham, three
year old, was crushed between the curb
ing and the wheels of heavily laden
wagon and badly hurt.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, whose
summer home is near Windsor, has of.
fered several cash prizes for the best
horses exhibited at the Windsor county
fair Aug. IS and 20.
Children playing with matches set the
fire which destroyed large barn full of
hay in Poultney owned by Mrs. Lavonia
Cox. The loss of $3.50 is partially COW
cred by Insurance.
The walnut and butternut trees in Ben
nington county are heavily loaded, and
the chestnut crop promises to be a good
one. The crop of blackberries Will be
very large.
The Central Vermont Railway COM
pany is laying a large quantity of So
pound steel rails on its line between
West Berlin and White River Junction.
Tudor jerks, the well known magazine
writer, regrets that he cannot visit Yer
mont during Old Home Week. He is
native of Townshend.
The Shelburne board of health has
advised the vaccination of all children
In the town who have not previously
been vaccinated.
The selectmen of Bennington are re-
ceiving numerous complaints from
farmers of sheep being killed by dogs.
Eleven deaths and "a cases of con-
taglOus disease were repOrted to the