Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-05-03
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Charles Clark, a farmer living near
Randolph Centre, committed suicide last
Saturday morning by shooting himself
in the head with revolver. He had
been ill for long time with disease
of the hip, and Encouragement and mel
anchoia were probably the cause of the
deed. He had done some work atrepair
ing watches and had asked to have his
case of tools given him. He polished
the tools and watches in the case, also
the revolver, and while his wife was
absent from the room for few minutes
shot himself. lie lived only about an
hour.
The st. Johnsbury Electric company
is about to begin the installation of
branch plant at st. Johnsbury Center.
\ one-story brick building will be erect
ed just below the grist mill, which the
company purchased last year. new
penstock will be put in. and two new
wheels, one of 100 and the other of 90
horse power, will be installed. The cleo
trio equipment will consist of three arc
light dynamos. The plant Will be sup
Elementary to the present station, and
will be used in seasons of low water and
at other times when the steam plant has
been necessary.
1t looks as thought the project of form
ing a baseball league consisting of Rut-
land, Brattleboro, Bennington, Bellows
Falls. North Adams, Mass, Greenfield,
Mass, and keene, N. H., would be a
success. William II. Dunn, who is in
charge of the Rutland end of the pro-
posed league. states that he has received
replies TO a proposition to Join the league
from all of the towns mentioned except
one, and he expected to hear from this
one.
Some very favorab assays have been
gotten by all the gold mining people at
work in the ReadsborO and Wilmington
section. Those of the Brown Mining
company indicate that the ore will aver
age 50 a ton, while the cost of extracting
it is but SO. The people interested in
the new company have assays on differ
ent veins averaging to run from SD to
S43. while at Mountain Mills ore averag-
ing to be worth SOB is being taken out.
Sneak thieves entered the house of j..
w. Lord of Westmoreland, who is away
from home, recently, thoroughly rar-
sacking every room and taking all of the
unmarked silver, table and bed linen,
etc. Not cOntented with this, a plush
easy chair was broken, music scattered
with an overturning of things generally,
Entrance was made by breaking the
glass in the rear window in order to
reach the spring.
DR.. w. Seward Webb has offered to
pay one third of the expense of the con-
structiOn of a permanent macadam road
way from Burlington to Shelburne, a
distance of six miles. a number of cit
liens of Burlington held a meeting last
week i'm the Van Ness House parlOrs, and
after discussing the project at some
length, adjourned the subject TO Mayor
IIawey's call. 1t is thought that DR.
Webb's offer will be accepted.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
has been filed by NJ. Helen Phelps of
East st. JohnsbuIy. This is the first
petition to be filed by a housewife sine,
the establishment of the law in 1898
Mrs. Phelps employed no counsel, anC
made out her own schedule. Her liabili
ties are SHOP. and her assets SlS2, o.
which a large amount Is exempt, and
with one exception her creditors ART
; lawyers.
4 copy of the New England Gazetteer
published in Boston in 1892, contains in
teres ting information about the town OF
Bennington. Its population at that time
: was 3i00; now it is nearly three time
that. 1t also states that Iron ore, man
! ganese and ochre abound" At tina
: time two iron furnaces were in opera
= ton; now there are none, and the irOl
beds have been unworked for years.
Louis Wood, william Rivers and Jerr
4 Donahue of Montpelier returned recent
. from fishing trip to Alburgh Springs
=. with one of the largest catches of ifs
that has been brought into Montpelie
this season. They caught 1856 pound
: of pike.
) Maple sugar has taken a jump, &C
:, cordng to a statement made this wee
y by Secretary A. j. Croft of the Stat
q Maple Sugar Makers association. Here
n tofore it has brought only cents pc
q pound at wholesale, but farmers ar
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