Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-04
STATE NEWS.

Enosburgh Falls.
Frank G. Partridge, of Proctor, will
sail for Cuba March /.
H. A. Gregg's plumbing shop at Swan
ton was destroyed by fire Feb. "a.
The State convention of the Y. NJ. c.
$3.50. wa
The mother of the late Senator Mark
Hanna was Miss Converse of East Ran
dolph.
The Waterbury National bank has re-
duced its capital stock one half or to
$50, 900.
Henry Bailey of Calais has been ar
rested charged with stealing silver ware,
crockery, etc. 1
Rev. A. NJ. Bradley of Saugerville,
Maine, has accepted call to the Univer-
sallst church at Barre.
II. A. Burt, Jr., of Swanton was
thrown from carriage at Beatrice, Neb,
Feb. 10 and seriously injured.
G. G. Markham of Mortified celebrated
his send birthday anniversary last week
by walking to Montpelier, a distance of
ten miles.
The Park block, next the new city hall
Barre was destroyed by fire, Feb. 81
Loss including contents, $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
The Burlington high school basket
ball team defeated the Proctor high
school team in game played at Proctor
by score of SO to II.
c. r. Fiske of Montgomery Center has
brought suit for $4,000 damages for the
alienation of his wife's affections,
against Samuel Rossier.
Randolph voted town tax of 10 cents
on the dollar, but this covers the state
tax, the state school tax and state high
way and the county taxes.
From every town and city in the state
come reports of serious trouble with the
water pipes from frost. The ground is
frozen to an unusual depth.
A Waterman is now kept in the Cen
trail Vermont railroad freight depot at
Barre continually, as many fires have
occurred there lately, of incendary
origin.
Some one in Readsboro thinks he has
discovered traces of radium in the
recently abandoned gold mines near that
little village, and experts will be called
upon to settle the matter.
Clarence Adams of Chester died in
States prison of the grip Feb. 26 He
had a mania for stealing and his house
was full of all kinds of stolen goods. He
had been selectman and town represen-
tative.
The capital stock of the Waterbury
National bank has been reduced from
$780, 900 to $4,000 This is the bank
that Teller Farr, now in the house of
correction, looted of $50 900 about four
years ago.
The quarantine on Norwich University,
Northfield, for diphtheria has been re-
moved. This is the first time, with the
exception of one week, that the cadets
have all been out of quarantine since las t
November.
John Averill of the Calumet Bowling
team, Barre bowled 800 one night last
week. This is probably the first time
the highest possible score has ever been
made in Vermont, if not in New Eng
land.
Mrs Lorinda Bowen, aged "a years,
the oldest resident of Montpelier, is
dead. In 1891, the first town meeting
was held in Montpelier, 81 voters being
present Mrs. Bowen's father was one
of them.
Lester C. Howe died very suddenly
of heart failure at his home at Ludlow.
He had been for 30 years sheriff and
deputy sheriff of Windsor county and
was known throughout the state. He
was A years of age.
Williamson, a tool sharpener in
Barre, according to the story of his wife.
drew 81 100 from the savings bank and
went away without telling her his desti-
nation, leaving her only So She is now
being cared for by the Daughters of
Rebekah.
Saturday night and Sunday a fierce
blizzard ragged in Canada and Northern
Vermont and the railroads were buried
up in snow again. Not team, train
on any road reached st. Adams Sunday.
double-header was stuck in the snow
three miles south of st. Adams and the
two engines and several cars were liter
ally buried up in the snow and had to
be shoveled out.
Bids were opened in Washington last
week for the construction of the new
federal building at Burlington There
were about % bids, the lowest of which
was Sl75,3l2. 1t is not known whether
any of the bids will be accepted. If
accepted, the contract will be awarded
within one week. Among the bids was
only one by Vermont contractor,
Charles f. Paige of Rutland, whose
figure was S232 800.
John w. Hill, janitor of the state
house, Montpelier has received "dia-
mond' ring offered as prize to winners
of a puzzle in paper of the Cliff Pub
fishing company. Upon receiving notice
he was winner he was requested to
nd Sl.37 which he did. At the end of
three months he received % cent ring
on which he had to pay % cents express
Charges will probably be bought against
the company for swindling.
Rodney Chamberlain, of Rutland who
is employed at the Candlish livery stable,
was painfully injured Feb. "a, by kick
from horse. He was mailing a board
on the side of the stall at the time. The
blow caught Chamberlain on the chin
cutting cash from the lip to the end of
the chin and splitting off that part of the
jaw bone in which the teeth are EMBEDDED.
The bone was split so clean that the ply
stefan picked the teeth out of the mans