Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-04-05
STATE NEWS.

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has a surprise rose hush twelve inches
high that contains 116 flowers and buds.
The reimbursement of salaries which is
going on in Barre results in the raising
of stipends paid bookkeepers and stenog-
raphers.
Leon E. Whitney, a laborer, of Brattle-
tleboro, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. He has liabilities of &82S.46 and
assets of $2s0.45 of which S75 is claimed
exempt.
In the Smith extemporaneous debate
at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.,
Wednesday evening, March 81, George
Henry Howard, of Craftsbury, won sec
ond prize.
The King of Tramps Co., which played
IN engagement at the Rutland opera
house Monday night, disbanded there
Tuesday. most of the actors starting for
their homes.
G.. w. Adams, of Stowe, has made $50
pounds of sugar of excellent quality from
500 trees so far this spring, while from
Sheldon comes a report of only about
one-half pound to a tree.
Three barrels of snow weighing 145
pounds apiece, were shipped from Ran.
dolph by express Thursday morning to
Boston for the annual ''sugaring off,
party of the Vermont Association.
Eugene Mazzoni, a lineman for the
municipal electric light plant, was in
stantly killed in Burlington Saturday
while handling a dead wire which came
in contact with a live wire. Twenty
seven hundred volts passed through his
body.
Changes and additions will be made on
the various cotton mills in Burlington
this spring.
In case of State VS.. William Hunt,
charged with the ~manslaughter of John
Farley, at Essex Junction last winter,
the respondent pleaded guilty when ar
raigned in Chittenden county court Tues
day afternoon and was sentenced to
not less thar 18 months nor more than
two years at hard labor in the States
prison at Windsor. He was also sem
fenced to pay the costs of prosecution.
Hunt was intoxicated at the time Of the
occurrence and did not know what he
was doing.
Companions yelling "cop' to Henry
Massie, of Barre. who had climbed a
telephone pole, caused the y%oungster
to slide down quickly. nus receiving a
severe cash which it required twelve
stitches to close.
The loss by the fire at H. B. Packer
& Sons mill and piano sounding board
factory in North Troy Wednesday, which
Quilted the second and third floors, will
be about $1,000, partially covered by in
surance.
Within an hour of marrying Elaine
D. Clarke Thursday, Henry R. Ward
of Burlington, aged 2S years, clerk and
bookkeeper for Mason & Co.. was ar
rested and placed in Jail, charged with
embezzling $500 from his employers.
There are several cases of measles in
~Lyndonville.
1t is reported that the painters of
Vergennes ale to ask 81 for a nine-houl
day the coming season.
A herd of fourteen deer was seen ir
William buttons pasture at Han tford no
over eighty rods from the house, las
Tuesday.
At the annual meeting of the village
of North Bennington, its indebtedness
less the assets was shown to be $2l9.2l
A tax of 25 cents on the dollar wal
voted.
Frank Spaulding had been in the EN-
ploy of the j. G. Barker Lumber Co. d
Quechee forty-nlne years March ~, serv
ing in the capacity of blacksmith.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop j. S. Michauc
has returned to the episcopal residenc,
in Burlington after visiting Atlantic
City, N. j., for his health. The con
dition of Bishop Michaud, who has beef
in poor health since last fall, is nov
much improved.
: A demand of 10 per cent advance il
wages after April l has been made OIL
Whitcomb Bros, by the employees a
the Montpelier steam laundry. Negotia
tions are in progress and it is not ex
pected any strike will result from thi
demand.
In the first thunder storm of the sea
son which visited Morrisville Frida,
forenoon, lightning struck and demol
ished the chimney on the residence o.
o. NJ. Waterman.