Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-05-22
THE STATE.


at Waterbury was Quilted by fire, May
H.
Fred Dodge's team ran away at Mont
pelier, May IS, and he was seriously in
jured.
John McGinnis of Rutland paid $3.50
for intoxication per order of the city
court
The farm buildings of Taplin & Rowell,
near Glover were burned May ID, loss
$4,000.
Al. Stephens, prominent granite
manufacturer of Barre, is dead, aged
46 years.
The dog show at Burlington last week
was a great success. There were over
$50 entries.
A. I. Morse of Duxbury had his right
hand nearly cut off at the wrist on a
saw, May To-
c.. H. Vaughan, the representative
from Pomfret in the Legislature of 1902,
died May 10.
Three men were arrested May 16 in
Burlington for intoxication The Jail
has % inmates.
The state convention of the Catholic
Order of Foresters will be held in st.
AlOdllS, June ".
The water supply of Waterbury has
been condemned as impure and contain
ing typhoid germs.
The +. & T. Fairbanks Co. has granted
voluntarily its 1000 employees a 8 hour
day at ten hours pay.
Mrs. Charles Keene of Waterbury
slipped and fell on the sidewalk May
Is, and broke one arm.
Irwin Stockwell, of Gloversvile, n. Y,
West Point cadet, was arrested at
Manchester for horse stealing.
Frank Beattie, of Graniteville, had
one arm shattered while trying to dig
out a blast which had failed to ex-
piode.
Jennie Callen, of Fairfield, supposed
to be i'll with consumption coughed up
tooth last week and is recovering
rapidly.
Bessie johnson. of Montpelier, was
knocked down by a bicycle last week
and had her left leg broken, besides being
badly bruised.
T. A. Summerskill. of st. Adams. who
was shot one night last week by Harry
| V. Hall. who mistook him for a burglar.
is recovering rapidly.
Henry Talbert, of st. Adams, who
was arrested Monday for intoXication
has been taken to Hardwick, where it
is claimed he stole $50.
Henry Come, aged %, employed on
Pruneau Il Gignere's quarry. Barre,
was struck in the head by a flying pole
and received fatal injuries.
Mrs. Thomas McCutcheon of North
field while out shopping Saturday
evening was knocked down and badly
injured by drunken man.
The twenty-first annual .encampment
of the Vermont division. Sons of Vet
Grams, will be held with C. s. Clark
camp, No. 5. Stowe. June 16. II and
IS.
Mrs Frank Nichols of Barre. May IS,
while insane set fire to her husband :
farm buildings and they We're burned.
Loss $500. She was taken to Water
bury.
The Vermont Bible society has com
pleted the canvass of Burlington and
finds total population of 1918, includ-
ing 1865 Roman Catholics and 536
Jews. The rest are Protestants.
Hard feeling has been caused at Ben
nington by the license commissioners
not issuing a license to K. q r. j.
OWES, who have applied and been re-
fused three times The place wac OBJ
jected to-
The case of Daniel McGovern Tvs the
Central Vermont Ry. that was three
times tried is again in the courts. He
is dead, but his sons ask for $4,000 cash
advanced and the three attorneys fol
McGovern ask for $4,000 out of a verdict
of $500.
The Lincoln town clerk has paid
bounties on noXious animals the past
year to the amount of sos. 80. The list
included seven bears. two lynx, 90 foXe,
and PAL hedgehogs. The StarksborC
town clerk paid bounties on go foxes anC
2,3 hedgehogs.
Frank \. Larrow of Brattleboro wa,
arragned last week on the charge o.
assaulting his wife with intent to Kill
He waived examination and was place.
under bonds of $4,000 for appearance a
the September term of the county court
Being unable To furnish bail Larrow wa
taken to Newfane Jail.
The dedication of monument to b,
erected at the birth place of Presiden
Chester Alan Arthur in Fairfield by thu
state will occur some time i'll July. Thu
speakers will be Hon. Robert T. Lincoln
OF Chicago, son of Abraham Lincoln anC
Arthur's secretary of war, former Sen
ator William f. Chandler, New Hamp
shire, his secretary of the navy, ano
others
Albert Arthur Rodier, who claim
Montreal as his residence, and who i
alleged to have been burglarizing tn
house of T. \. Sumnerskill at ST
Adams last week, when the latter wa
shot by Harrie Hall, by mistake Ina
been held for trial in county court
, The coat he wore when arrested ha
been identified by the tailor's number oil
it as one he stole at st. Jonhsbury las
week.
The new state court of claims las
week allowed the following claims: {
| F. Robbins, of Hancock, bounty of 81
on bear; G. l.. Stay, of Orwell, fo
: going into New York and securing
horse thief; the Rutland Trust Co, oven
nav To State Lax Commits sinnnr Cusl