Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-25
STATE NEWS.

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A Burlington man picked pear
that weighed a pound.
John Williams of Essex Junction
suicided at Middlebury Oct. II.
Henry Simond's house at Guilford
was burned Oct. II. Loss $4,000.
The buildings of Horace Ellsworth
of East Fletcher were burned Oct. 16.
A Rutland woman was savagely
bitten by truck horse the other day.
T. L. Kinney of South Hero has
raised 1000 barrels of apples this sea-
son.
A three e-year-old girl of Weston was
recently choked to death while eating
an apple.
Both boys who ran away from St.
,Joseph's College, Burlington have
been found.
j. A. Baldwin of Winooski was
thrown from a wagon on the 18th and
badly hurt.
Liquor seizures seem TO be all the
rage at burlington and the officers are
kept busy.
Two children Of Leon Pinnard of
st. Johnsbury ate canned fish and
one is dead
Mr.. Williams of South Royalton has
been granted patent on suspenders,
through Cragin x Son Of Washington.
The public schools at Burlington
show am enrolment of 1864 pupils
this season against ll67 last year.
An eight-year-old boy of Rutland
fell on peice of timber, which pene-
trated his side for nearly three inches.
The receiver of the VT. National
Bank at St. Albans will soon declare
a dividend of % per cent making 81 J.
2 in all.
The village of Hydeville in Yer
mont has suffered loss of more than
s2O0,O0 by fire within the last ten
years.
S. F. Cutler of Richmond found
light valuable young cows dead in his
table recently, caused by breaking
lown of pent.
Mrs. Sarah Davis, a widow of Rich
ord, committed suicide on the night of
he / eth by drowning herself in the
SIissisquoi river.
Editor Reed of the Richford Jour
al will next week celebrate the tenth
irthday of his paper by suspending
ublication that week.
The net proceeds of the Mary Howe
oncert at Bellows Falls were gener-
usly handed over by the managers of
he affair TO the town library.
The plowing Of that 100-acre lot of
Ion. c. w. Read in Addison is quite
little job Of itself. Ten bouts day
about all team can do and do it
'ell.
The Bennington battle monument
now 80 feet high. Ii is intended to
ave it reach 120 feet before the end
f the season. Its ultimate altitude is
. be 301 feet.
Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury
as been made one of the vice presi-
ents and j Babbitt of West Brattle-
oro one of the executive committee,
f the n. Z. Sunday School conven-
on, in session at Lewiston, Me.
Woodstock station was broken into
le other night, and trunks therein
tored, belonging to ladies who were
town for the, Sunday, were opened
nd some articles of trifing value and
small amount of jewelry distracted.
The Ethan Allen Engine company
f Burlington has erected monu-
lent in Lake View cemetery, to mark
le burial place of Edwin Parker, lis
ssistant foreman, killed at the burn
g of the bobbin shop in that city
eb. z, 1885.
Burglars entered f. A. Hubbard's
,welry store in Brattleboro on the
ght of the 9Th and carried off some
800 worth of silver plated ware and
Did pens. The booty was found the
Ext afternoon in box concealed in
e rear of the narrow gauge engine
,use.
Eugene Cowen, brakeman on the
axe road, while tending switch at
orth Concord recently, got one foot
Iught in a frog in such way that he
as unable TO extricate it and the
heels ran over him. One leg was
ushed into pulp, the hip
the opposite leg was broken and
,e arm was broken in TWO pla ces.