Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-01-12
STATE BRIEFS.
Kaleidoscope of Happenings within the
Borders OF Vermont

Borders OF Vermont
Edwin Ranger, postal clerk in Rut-
land, is missing from that city.
Humphrey Owens will succeed John
h. Metcalf as postmaster at Fair Haven.
Lightning, during the thunder storm
last Friday afternoon, struck a dwelling
in Rutland.
Mrs. Ellen Williams. colored woman
died at the Rutland poor farm last week
aged SO years.
Walter Young killed large bay lynx
last Thursday afternoon about three
miles from Rutland.
c. NJ. Winslow of Brandon has been
reelected secretary of the Ayrshire
Breeders association.
The Senate has confirmed the nom
nation of Collins NJ. Graves to be post
master at Bennington.
In a coasting accident at Bradford last
Thursday Harold Sargent received two
fractures to his left leg.
The Women's Eastern Gold Asso-
citation, recently organized, includes
Vermont in its territory.
The Burlington lodge of Elks dis
tributed funds and wearing apparel to
the poor of that city on New Years
day.
H. R. Leighton & Co., of Boston, the
brokerage firm. with several branch
offices in Vermont have made an as
signment.
judge Seneca Hasselton has so far
recovered from his illness as to be able
to return to his home in Burlington from
Hyde Park.
Chief of Police Eugene S. Abbott, of
Randolph, who was on trial last week
Thursday on the charge of breach of the
peace, was acquitted.
Three hundred poor people from the
mountain region near Rutland were
given dinner by the Rutland Humane
society last week Wednesday.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Peter NJ. Sabre, farmer of
Alburg. He has liabilities of 81, $40 and
assets of $3,412, of which 1852 are
claimed exempt.
Papers have been filed at the office of
the secretary of state in Montpelier in
cooperating the +. ID. Ladd Co., of Barre
The capital stock of the company is
$50, 600.
H. G. Thomas of Stowe, state fish and
game commissioner, has been notified
that William Burns, of Waterville, was
convicted in Lamoille county court for
illegal shooting of deer December Z. He
was fined 500 and costs.
j. E. Harris has left Danville for
Washington, ID. c.. where he will resume
his duties as Senate doorkeeper. Mrs
Harris has so far recovered as to be able
TO go to Cabot, where she will remain
this winter with her daughter, Mrs.
George Crane.
News has been received of the death
in San Diego, CAL, of the Hon. Fred
erick A Weed, for many years a res
ident of Shelburne and later of Bur
lington. Mr.. Weed, during the latter
part of his residence in Vermont, was
one of the assistant judges of Chittenden
county.
Myron Wiley, who was sentenced in
1899 by Judge John Fl. Watson 70 ten
years at Windsor for horse stealing has
been pardoued by Gov. c. j. Bell. He
has gone to his home in Peacham. Wiley
was arrested IN Marshfield in the sum-
mer of 1899 for stealing horse valued at
less than $50.
Richard Willis of Vergennes. rescued
! Miss Sybil Potter from drowning Jan.
uary l after both had gone through an
air hole while skating on the creek.
They had been in the water about ten
minutes when Willis succeeded in
scrambling out and extricating the
young woman
Charles Def. Bancroft of Montpelier
has begun diary for the present year,
and if he completes it he will have a
collection of forty without a day missed
Besides records of the weather, ETC., he
has noted state, national, and local
events and believes that his record for
completeness is unequalled.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by A. p. Beers of Burlington. He
has liabilities of $5l5.06 and assets of
$500 of which $3.50 are claimed exempt
The schedule of George E. Trick of Bur
lington who filed petition in bank
ruptcy yesterday. shows his liabilities
to be $l1 ,345.54, of which s.. 500 are
secured. His assets are $13,024, of which