Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-04-15
STATE NEWS.

soon.
Martin l.. Wheeler prosperous
farmer of Worcester attempted suicide
Saturday.
st. Joseph's Catholic society of Bur-
lington will erect a $4,000 parish house
this season.
The granite cutters at Barre and
Montpelier refuse to sustain the striking
tool sharpners.
Mrs. Minnie l.. McClay, wife of Judge
Hoyt II. Wheeler died April 9th at
Bratteboro from pneumonia aged II.
The New Park hotel at Woodstock will
be reopened about May / under the man
agement of w. l.. Wood. G. w. Scarf
of Burlington, is the new proprietor.
The Barre granite exhibit for the st.
Louis fair is almost completed. One car
load has been shipped and the remainder
will follow in few days
b. Croto, the alleged murderer of
Peter Vorron at East Montpelier has
been pronounced insane and will be
confined in the Waterbury asylum for
life.
Work on the new Strong theatre at
Burlington is progressing rapidly. Over
half a million bricks will be used in its
walls The stage will be very large 40x
60 feet.
The Rutland police are after a gang of
loafers who infest the Rutland city
depot and annoy passengers. Dyke
Shinney has been sent up tor $50 days
for riotous conduct.
Frist-class licenses have been granted
at Montpelier to The Pavilion, Montpelier
house, Miller's inn and to S. Mussucco.
The two others to be granted soon will
be secOnd-class licenses.
The New York assembly has passed
the bill of Assemblyman Giaeff, provid-
ing that no fish shall be taken through
the ice in the waters of Lake Champlain
less than five inches in length.
Mrs. Dorothy Shepard Harrison died at
! the home of her son, Loren w. Harrison,
iof Greensboro, March 81 aged 81 years.
Mrs Harrison was born in Peacham.
March 20, 1907, but had passed the
greater part of her life in Greensboro.
John Monkton, age about 40 years, of
White River junction is dead in Windsor
county jail, Woodstock, where he was
serving 10 days for intoxication. He
had served six days of the sentence. 1t
is believed the cause of his death was
wood alcohol poisoning.
The mansion being erected at Benning-
ton by Frederick b. Jennings at cost of
S240 900 contains 1877 rooms. The grand
stairway will be of English oak and cyp-
ress, the library viii be finished in solid
mahogany. Several rooms will be fin
ished in rosewood and cherry.
The level of Lake Champlain rose 40
inches during the month of February.
RansOms stage across the lake from
Plattsburg, n. Y, to Grand Isle made
its last trip of the season March %. The
first trip was made January s. This
made 70 days, or, with 1 Sundays out,
81 trips.
The taking of the census of all children
in the city of st. Adams of legal school
age, from ) to 10 years, has been com
pleted, the total number being .517, of
which 1913 are boys and 734 are girls
The divisions are as follows: From to
s years, 36l; from s to 10 years, S22,
and from 10 to IS years, 1874.
The executive committee of the recent
ly organized Good r Dads association will
meet in Burlington soon to discuss ways
and means for conducting "A campaign
for road improvement. The matter of
securing better Dad laws will be taken
up and it is certain that at least one bill
will be introduced in the next legislature.
Burton McIver, of lockwood, has the
following record from forty Plymouth
Rock hens. During the past three
months he has gathered 2,297 eggs and
has twenty chickens and ten hens set
ting. His poultry supplies amount to
1910. He has sold from the hens SAT g.
worth of eggs beside those used in the
family.
The jury in the Rutland county court
case of Dennis Mahoney's administrator
against the Rutland Railroad company
returned verdict for the plaintiff
April 6, after an hour and halls DELHI
Grafton awarding $3.50 damages. Ma
honey was killed at Shelburne in Janu-
airy, 1908, and his estate brought suit for
$4,000.
David Taylor, one of the oldest resi-.
dents of Washington. died April 3. Mr.
Taylor, who was 90 years and 81 days
old, was born in Washington, and
had always lived in that town. He
two daughters, Mrs w. H. Davis, Of
Hampstead, n. H., and Mrs. John F.
Calef of Washington.
The United States Senate Saturday
confirmed President Roosevelts appoint
llehl VI Noi' IL lI' Ia. lOi dS postmaster al
Brattleboro. Colonel Taylor has asked
for vacation until May / before begin
ming his duties in the postoffice. He viii
turn over his insurance business to hi.
son, Col. L. ID. Taylor, and will devote
his entire attention to the post-otfice
retaining c. w. Wilcox as assistant post
master.
Herbert n. Green, former real estat,
agent in Brattleboro, was arrested il
Guilford Wednesday night on complain
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Seymour, of Ran
dolph, who alleged that he swndleC
them out of money in selling property il
Melrose, Mass, through false representa-
ton. Green expected to arrange to fur
nish bail of $1,000, but the sheriff o
Orange county started prosecutions of {
criminal nature and he concluded to g
Newfane Jail to await the grand jur.
term of OrPhge county court. He wa
E taken there Thursday by Deputy Sheriff
i Mcclure.