Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-12-06
STATE NEWS.


Maccahees will be organized at Barre
Thursday. About 35 have signified
their intention of joining as charter men,
bers.
The quarterly conference of the evan
gelical Advent churches in northern
Vermont and Quebec will be held at Hill
west, Montgomery, December IL to Is in
elusive.
Alfred w. Lane, a wellknown con-
tractor and old-time wrestler, was posi-
bly, fatally injured by being caught in
the shafting of a polishing mill at South
Barre Friday evening. Mr.. Lane, who
is "a years old, sustained broken leg, q
dislocated shoulder. had four broken ribs
fractured and received serious cuts in the
head and abdomen.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles E. Lockwood
narrowly escaped asphyxiation at their
home in Brattleboro Thursday night
when the coal gas from the parlor stove
filled that room and the adjoining bed
room in which they were sleeping. The
services of nurse and a physician were
required before relief was gained.
Beginning Dec. l, the Brattleboro
postotfice will have the service of an
additional carrier six days a week in
stead of three days week, as has been
the case since july l. The office had the
services of an additional carrier during
the first six months of this year but he
was reduced to half time July /.
The dairy school held under the di-
rection of the agricultural department of
the University of Vermont, Burlington,
will open at Morrill, Hall January 10,
1908, to continue eight weeks. The
school has not been in session since 1908
owing to lack of facilities. New quar-
tiers have been especially fitted up for the
work.
report has become current in Brat
tleboro that William French, who for
merry conducted a milk business in that
town, but later went to Columbia, S. c.,
to engage in carpentering, was stabbed
to death short time ago. Brattleboro
people who have been in correspondence
with French say that few weeks ago
his letters stopped coming and that
letters addressed to him were returned.
The population of Bennington, which
the census of 1900 gave as 8,033. is now
5000. This, it is said, will maintain
Bennington's place as fourth town in
the State in size, the first three being
Burlington, Rutland, and Barre. The
figures for this year are not the result of
census but are deduced from the poll
tax returns which have recently been
compiled at the office of the secretary of
State and covering all the towns in the
State.
Miss Florence Dickinson of Williams
vile, is suffering from arsenic poison.
About week ago she washed shirt
waist set embroidered with green and
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basin of water which she was using for
the purpose, noticed a prickling sensa-
ton in her hands and arms and later
discovered scratch on one hand. A
few hours later rash appeared and a
physician who was consulted decided she
had been poisoned by the arsenic prepa-
ration in the green dye. Her condition
is now improving.
Miss Adelaide r. Hasse, librarian of
the department of public documents in
the New York public library, has sent to
the Vermont state librarian a volume
containing an index of economic mater
ial contained in documents published by
the state of Vermont. This index, which
is sent out by the department of eco
Monies and sociology of the Carnegie
institute of Washington, d. c., deals
with the messages of the governors, the
printed reports of state officers, legis-
lative committees, ETC., and will be of
great value to students of Vermont his
tory.
The board bill for the six months from
June to December for the lat prison
ers that have been confined in Washing
ton county Jail will be 50. 403 so, the larg-
est for some time. This large increase is
dye to the working of the new law which
keeps intoxication and breach of the
peace prisoners confined in county jail
TO offset this, the prisoners that have
been in the care of Sheriff Tracy during
this time have Melted the state $500 from
their labor. The great drawback now is
to find work for the prisoners. The
prison board will meet this week to dis
cuss a plan to farm out the prisoners
during the winter to chop wood at one
dollar day, and other plans will be sug
gested.
The Rev. S. L. Vincent who now re-
sides in Townsend, has accepted a call
to the Congregational church in Wind
ham where he has been supplying for
several months.
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