Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

fhOM OOh cNCF1AIN0eS.
important Seizure of Seal skins at Swan
ton-smalipox Appears in Burlington
Edict by Bishop Michaud on School At
tendance-Other Items.
The Vermont customs department
made large seizure of seal skins Tues.
day at Swanton. They were being
shipped from Alburgh to New York by
express and their value is between
$4,000 and $1,000. +. n. Billiard made
the seizure and the skins are now at st.
Albans. The exact number of skins is
l07 and their value is from $50 to $40
each. They are all skins of first class
variety and the discovery makes an i'm
portant seizure. The names of the
parties who shipped them are not known
and the New y ork consignee's name is
withheld. No arrests have been made.
-Four eases of smallpox were reported
to the health officer, III. Il. Watkins, at
Burlington Tuesday. The four who
have the disease are all children, and
live in the north part of the city in a
crowded district. Three of the children
have been sick for five or six days, but
the doctor who was called could not
determine what the disease was until
tended school regularly, and it is feared
that many have been exposed. y strict
quarantine of the infected district has
been established.
Bishop Mlchaud of the diocese of Bur-
lington, which includes the entire state
of Vermont, has issued an edict to the
effect that parents sending their very
young children to the public schools will
be refused absolution. The edict does
not apply to the smaller places, where
there are no parochial schools. The edict
also states that Catholics who are mar
ried by Protestant ministers will be ex'
communicated, and those Catholics who
are married by justice of the peace or a
notary public will also be refused abso.
luton.
One of the surveyors who has recently
been engaged in running the boundary
line between Massachusetts and Vermont
states that the average width across the
state is about II miles. The original
survey was made in l744. For years il
has been current talk that the old Stark
Hotel in Halifax was in the two states
although the owner persisted that 1t was
not. The new survey shows that II
stands Il feet from the new line, and
was eight feet by the old line.
1t is now suspected that Clark ElwelI
Of Bennington county, who died at the
Naples, n. Y, fair a few days ago, was
murdered. When last seen alive he with
two other men were drunk. His body
when found was badly cut and $50 he
had on his person was nearly all missing
Elwell owned farm in SALISBURY. The
two men last seen in his company are
under arrest. Elwell's body was brought
to Benningt ton for interment.
DR.. O. L. Woodwork, the former
Vergennes dentist who was arrested in
Redwood, CAL, some time ago, charged
with stealing S29, 900 from an aged Iowa
farmer, and who was said to have in his
possession some dies for the manufacture
of counterfeit dollars, had made in Bur.
lington about year and half ago die
press and punch which may be a part of
the outfit found in his California home.
The Chatham & Lebanon Valley rail.
road company. of which DR.. w. Seward
Webb is president, have been obliged to
discontinue their work train because sui.
ticient help cannot be obtained to keep il
in operation. The company having been
unsuccessful in their efforts to get local
men to do the necessary work have ar.
pected to soon arrive and carry 1t on.
l.. d. Hammond found an English gold
piece of 1913 while digging potatoes near
Fairlee, recently. The coin could not
have been much brighter if it had jus,
come from the mint. On one side of the
piece was Great Britain's coat of arms
and on the other likeness of Queen Vic.
toria. The probabilities are it had lain
there since the railroad was built.
Frank r. Mccormick, from the de.
partment of Justice at Washington, D. c.,
has been in Vergennes looking up further
facts IN regard to the Farmers National
bank failure. A number of residents of
have been subpoenaed before the grand
Jury at Rutland. 1t is not at all unlikely
so it Is reported, that other indictments
will be asked for in the case.
1t was semi-officially announced last
week that the Rutland railroad intends
within short time to begin the construc-
ton of a new railroad station in Rutland.
The plans, while still subject to minor
changes, are now practically complete.
The new station will be over 300 feet
long, and it will stand partially upon the
site of the present one.
c. w. Proper of Randolph has a pro-
gram used in the Ford Theatre at Wash
ington the night that President Lincoln
was shot. He was seated In the parquet
of the theatre that night and was the
third man to leap on to the stage after
the assassination. Mr.. Proper was also
acquainted with Boston Corbett, who
shot Booth.
G.P. Winter of Barre has remarkable