Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

st. Johns bury has voted not to accept
the charter and become a city.
A young lady has been expelled from
Montpelier seminary for stealing.
There were 523 births and 332 death :
in Burlington in 1902, death rate of II
per 900.
j. 5. Faulkner's house at Reads boro
was burglarized Jan. 81 and $40 in cash
and some valuable property taken.
The Rutland tire department has an
swered the largest number of calls the
past year in its history, and the loss by
fire has been the smallest.
AS result of the strike, the fare on
the electric road from Barre to Mont
pelier will be 10 cents. The rate within
either city will be . cents.
DR.. II. Il. Stiles has been appointed a
pension examining surgeon at st Johns
bury and DR.. James Conland pension
examining surgeon at Brattleboro.
Hon. V. |. Spear, of Randolph, secre-
tary of the cattle commission, has re-
ceiyed applications from farmers TO test
cattle to the number of 2000, since Dec. 10.
Charles A. Cook, the mining expert
at Readsboro, has discovered a new
method of extracting gold that is far
superior and less expensive than any old
method.
1t is expected that the Ludlow wooden
mills, the Black RIVER ana Verd Mont
mills and +. w. Agan's shoddy mill at
Ludlow will go on the weekly payment
system soon.
The annual statement of the Rutland
Savings bank shows an increase of 5G3
depositors and S30G,759 in deposits for
the year of 1902. The sum of $4,000
was added to the surplus.
Miss Harriet l.. Phelps, daughter of
the former proprietor of the Elmwood
cottage. and once postmistress there,
has sues G.. l.. Bullard, of SwantOn, for
$4,000 damages for breach of promise.
The new building, the Warner of Home
for Little Wanderers at st. Adams, was
opened to the public last week with APP
propriate exercises. Since its founda-
ton the institution has cared for 34S
children.
An addition is being made TO the Ban
ner and RefOrmer office at Bennington.
The management of the paper is planning
TO make it daily, the first issue to APP
pear about the lst of March. A canvass
for the subscriptions was begun Monday
with excellent results.
c. X IIosford, of North Thetford, Vt,
has been appointed an engineer aid in
the geological survey service and Dun
ton Stuart, of Burlington, has just en-
tered the service of The dairy division of
the bureau of animal industry, depart
ment of agriculture, at salary of 81 POO
year.
The Universalist Church of this state,
now has an organ, the monthly periodi-
cal, "The Green Mountain Universalist."
IL is an eight page affair edited by the
Rev. Grin Edison CrOOker of Rutland.
1t will be issued the Doth of each month.
The initial number contains correspOn-
dence from II Universalist parishes in
Vermont.
Bert Jenkins. of Manchester, was be-
fore the municipal court at Bennington
last week charged with assault with in
tent to kill upon the person of Fred
Wright, also of Manchester. The assault
was made with revolver. Jenkins was
held for the grand jury in the sum of
81 900 which he furnished.
The Burnell wood block near the de-
pot at Essex Junction was burned Jan.
%. 1t was occupied by Charles Osborne,
restaurant and hotel, and the Barley
Granite Co. The fire caught from the
pipe TO the kitchen stove. Loss on build
ing, $1,000; insurance, $1,000. Os-
borne's loss, 81, 1000, insured for 81 900
Bailey Granite Co., loss $1,000.
Hon. ii. Henry Powers, counsel for
the Rutland railroad, said the other day
that he thought President W. Seward
Webb of the road was satisfied with the
proposition made by Burlington and that
the headquarters of the road would be