Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-10
STATE NEWS.

Four of the children of B, G. Ryan, of
) Cambridge, became suddenly i'll this
week of ptomaine poisoning. The fami-
ly had eaten a breakfast food, those USE
ing cream becoming ill while those who
used milk suffered no ill effects.
In Island Pond first class liquor Ii
cense has been granted to H. L. Doyle
of the Stewart house, and a fifth class
license TO John w. Thurston, druggist
| The fee of the first class was fixed at
$780, of the fifth class at $50. There
still remains one first class license to be
| awarded
Bids were opened at the treasury de-
partment in Washington Thursday for a
marble cornice and balustrade for the
post-office building at Burlington. The
bidders were: Mason 6, Co., Burlington,
S37 900; George Mann, Baltimore, Nd,
S32, 800; Corners Bros. & Co., Lowell
Mass, $45, 400.
The stone masons on the new buildings
in the burned district of Rutland, who
struck a week ago in sympathy with the
Burlington masons who had difficulties
with the Champlain Transportation Co.,
returned to work Saturday. They are
willing to complete the present job but
not to work on any other contract where
Peter Hickey and William Young, i'm
plicated in stealing 81 900 from the Rut-
land freight house, Friday, were SEN
fenced to four and three years at the
state prison in Windsor and the house of
correction at Rutland, respectively.
The Woodbury. Granite company of
Hardwick has been awarded the two
million dollar contract for granite to be
used in the Wisconsin state capital build
ing. This contract has been coveted
plum by every granite firm in the coun-
try and means prosperity and good times
to Hardwick for many months to come.
John Grantham, a former resident of
Vermont. was found dead with a bullet
hole in his breast Sunday morning in the
yards of the East Coast Line railroad at
Waycross, Ga. He was employed as
night Waterman at the East Coast Line
shops. The coroner found his death ac-
cidental He is survived by his wife and
one child. His body was brought to his
old home in Vermont.
According to a New York dispatch,
Mrs. Hettie Green, (who for many years
made Bellows Falls her summer home) is
without office room or even a peg on
which to hang her bonnet in the new
building of the Chemical National Bank
which was opened for business Monday
at 270 Broadway. Mrs. Green, who Is a
! director of the b INK, always mad a pri-
vate Office in the old building which has
become lost in the new, but the archi-
tects in their plans made no provision for
her.
John Worrell, lumberman from Viii.
mington, was taken to the hospital in
North Adams Mass. late last week He
had been injured in the woods and was
treated for severe injuries to his body,
which included several fractured ribs.
The Office employees of the Central
Vermont Railway Co., were given Sat
urday half holiday Saturday and the
practice will be maintained as usual
through the summer months.
Senator w. P. Dillingham;. of Mont
pelier, has arrived here from New York.
He expects to remain in Montpelier for
two weeks or more before entering upon
the work of the summer, as chairman
of the congressional committee on immi-
grafton.
Luigi Galleani, who has recently
been on trial at Paterson, n. j.. on
the charge of being connected with the
silk riots there in 1902, has returned to
Barre, accompanied by his wife. The
jury in his case disagreed and Galleani
is again out on bail.
The Congregational church of Ben
, nington this week observed its sew
! enty-first anniversary. The society is
one of the largest in Vermont with a
membership of over $50. The church
property is valued at S75 900 and is free
from debt.
Orc Poor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
ward j. Poor, of Williamstown, was
recently attacked by vicious bull
and narrowly escaped death, He was
so torn in one leg and elsewhere, thai
some sixteen or eighteen stitches had
to be taken in dressing his wounds
Whether there are internal injuries OIL
not that may be serious is not vel
known.
the Rutland Railroad Co, has grant
: ed an increase in pay averaging abou
10 per cent. to its trainmen including
brakemen and baggagemen. The ar
rangement went into effect Thursday
The trainmen recently asked for NOR,
pay and easier routes and James Muir
u dick, vice-grand master of the inter
national Brotherhood of Trainmen, ha
9 been in consultation with the railroa,
officials in Rutland this week as a re
. suit.
1t is estimated that navigation will
open on Lake Memphremagog in abou
ten days. A large amount of ice ha
already gone out but there remain abou
six or seven miles of ice in the vicinit
of Owls head.