Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-03-13
THE STATE
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Edward Ross, of Burlington, died
March g, aged SO.
High water did great damage at Will
mington last week.
Albert f. Cowles has been appointed
postmaster at North Craftsbury.
ExMayor John Gordon has been ar-
pointed city attorney in Barre.
Mrs. Rachel Preston, 10, of Orange,
fell recently and broke one hip.
E. G.. Holmes, of Ryegate, dropped
dead in town meeting last week
William Cunningham, formerly of the
Barre Telegram, died of measles at Dan
vile.
The flood last week took out the dams
at Saxtons River and left several indus
tries idle.
A Bakersfield lumberman has failed
with assets of So, 900 and liabilities set at
s., $685.
Brattleboro has "a mysterious disap-
pearance case" Leroy Willis having left
for parts unknown.
There is strike in the new Whiting
brush fiber factory at Burlington.
Some so hands are out.
The annual meeting of the State Den
tai association will be held at Burlington,
March IS, 10 and 90.
L. w. Childers, of Burlington, has
been appointed to a position in the
Portsmouth Navy Yard.
A young son of NJ. Fox, of Pittsford,
was drowned last week by breaking
through the ice on pond.
Miles Foley, of Poultney, was stabbed
seven times in drunken row there
March 5. He will recover.
Cornelius Mccormick, of West Pawlet,
/ fell from a high ledge in a slate quarry
March 4, and was fatally injured.
Rev Dr. and Mrs. j. Isham Bliss, of
/ Burlington, have returned from the
south, as his health was failing there.
The Cloverdale Creamery Co. paid
$114 per hundred. East Roxbury
creamery patrons received 20 cents for
butter fat.
The condition of Chief Justice John
/ w. Rowell, who is i'll at his home in
Randolph, is giving his friends much
uneasiness.
The investigation ordered by Gov
Mccullough into the affairs of the Wat
erbury asylum commenced its work
March ., at Waterbury.
The loss on the beautiful organ in
Christ Church, Montpelier, has been
paid by the insurance companies The
church received 81 300
Fred G. Cressy, a travelling salesman,
of Brattleboro, was mistaken for Jim
Jeffreys at Columbus, Ohio, last week
and given a great ovation.
Edward Deguise, of Burlington, was
the first man arrested under the new
license law. He was fined So and costs
of Sl0.1 10 for intoxication.
w. B. Gates, city editor of the Bur-
lington Free Press, is taking months
vacation with his family in California
Sherman p. Allen fills his place.
William II. Ruston, former Vermont
printer, died at Maiden, Mass. March g.
He was representative elect from that
city in the Massachusetts Legislature.
A petition in bankruptcy has beer
filed by Henry Gebo. laborer of Mont
pelier. His liabilities are S422.45 and
his assets SS5, of which S75 are exempt.
Isaac w. Sanborn, prominent either
was town clerk for 4 years. He LEFT
over $4,000 in public requests to hi.
native town.
Inc SOUVENIRS Oh tle ldue Legislature
have just been issued. They contain
, sketches of all the members and cuts OF
all the state buildings, officers and many
of the members.
Licenses have been granted to fish il
Missisquoi bay by Commissioner Thomas
who found that the Canadians haC
again broken the agreement and were
drawing seines.
Louis Trudeau, the Swanton fiend
arrested for cruelty treating young lac
committed to his care, has been treC
in justice court and bound over to the
fall term of county court in the sum Of
$500.
H. X. Barrows. of Burlington, ha,
been appointed assistant engineer at
salary of 81 800 and w. c. Sawyer, o.
, Essex Junction, engineer aid at a salary
of 81 900 in the geological survey ser
, vice.
John Sheeran, "a, of Essex, wen
down to Winooski and fell in with
party of friends and drank so mucl
alcohol that he was found dead in til,
barn of one of the parties, where he wa
put to sleep it off.