Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-10
STATE NEWS.

J. w. Rooney of st. Adams died July ?
of blood poisoning.
There were 81 inmates in the Soldiers
Home at Bennington June 30. able to re-
port for duty; Is sick; 20 absent; a total
of 100.
The body of William Dixon, who was
drowned at Franklin, has not been recov-
cred, although the pond has been thor
oughly dragged each day since.
The Burr and Burton seminary at Man
chester has secured j. +. Colburn of
Newport as principal. The endowment
fund of $50, 900 has all been raised.
The bail of f. w. Eastman of the
Avenue House, st. Johnsbury, convicted
of keeping a house of i'll fame was placed
at $1,000, pending an appeal to the Su-
preme court.
Twenty horses were sold at auction at
Shelburne Farms, the home of DIR. w.
Seward Webb, last week The sale at
tracted several hundred bidders and ami
mails brought high prices.
The grand list of st. Johnsbury for
1903 shows a gain of S11S.11 over last
year, and gain in polls of 10, with at
least 100 soldiers exempt. The grand list
for 1902 was $40 ,67063 and for 1903 was
$42, 1854.
During the month of June there were
46 convictions for intoxication in Montpe-
lier city court against 4 for the same
offence in 1902. The convictions this
year were for first offence. 35: second
offence, o; third offence, 2.
Windsor is the post-office address of
the largest summer colony of authors
and artists in America. 1t includes
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Frederic Remington, Norman Hapgood.
Louis Evan Shipman, John Blair, and
! Mr.. DOoley, and there are several others.
No publisher has his summer home in
| Windsor.
Myron Barton one of the best known
men in Bennington county, died at his
home in SALISBURY last week. He was
SO years old He was born in that town
and always lived there. He and his
father before him held the office of town
clerk for over 50 consecutive years. He
represented his town twice in the legisla-
ture, was county sheriff two terms and
had filled nearly every town office.
Fred Worrell who is about 30 years
old and a resident of Bartonsvile, fell
about GO feet from the belfry of st.
Luke's church while at work painting.
He was on a staging at the time, and in
trying to move himself to one side the
board slipped off letting him down. When
about 20 feet below the staging his foot
caught i'll rope, which broke the power
of his fall somewhat, otherwise it would
undoubtedly have killed him outright. He
struck on grassy plot.
The national banks of Rutland have
declared semi-annual dividends to stock
holders, payable July |, as follows:
Baxter National Bank, 3 per cent, Kill
hngton National Bank, 3 per cent: Rut-
land County National Bank, 3 - per
cent; Clement National Bank, per cent
The Rutland Trust Co. has also declared
a 3 per cent semi-annual dividend on the
capital stock. The Rutland Savings
Bank, the Marble Savings Bank, and the
savings department of the Clement Ma
tional Bank have declared dividends to
depositors on the basis of 3 12 per cent
per annum. The Marble Savings Bank
has heretofore paid only 3 per cent.
A skull with an alleged bullet hole
in it and almost all the other parts of a
human skeleton was unearthed by an EN-
ployee of the Gas company on North
street. Burlington. Monday afternoon.
! The skeleton was dug up about four feet
underground. The thigh bone, arm and
leg bones, skull and several ribs We're il
well preserved condition. The skeleton
was that of an understood man. possibly
an Indian as the forehead was very low
and receding. and apparently had beer
buried many years. The soil where the
grewsome discovery was made is sandy
and from time to time during the pas
few years, various parts of human skele
tons have dug been up.