Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-18
IMPORTANT VERMONT NEWS.

j. +. Jacobs, baker at Brattleboro has
Jailed and has filed petition in insolyen-
cy.
Jefferson Robbins, an aged resident of
Cratfsbury was found dead in his pasture
last Monday afternoon.
Miss Julia NJ. Ober of Brattleboro was
class orator at Vassar college commence
ment exercises last Tuesday.
Frank Hunt OF Sheffield fell from the
roof OF a building last Saturday noon,
broke his skull and died within an hour.
He was unmarried and 25 years old.
Hampton Stewart, one OF the most
prominent men in Pownal, was recently
SO terribly kicked in the head and breast
by a vicious mule as to cause death in a
short time.
1t is announced that the annual con-
vention OF the diocese of Vermont will be
held with Trinity Episcopal church in
Rutland June II and is.
Rev. Chas. Parkhurst, editor of Zion's
Herald, Boston, and former Vermonter,
will be chosen to offer the opening prayer
at the Bennington centennial.
The semi-annual meeting OF the YER
mont branch of the woman's auxiliary
will be held at the time oflhe diocese con-
yention in Trinity parish, Rutland, on
Wednesday afternoon June 17th. All
who were delegates to the annual meeting
held in Rutland last October are entitled
to be present and vote.
Rev. VIM. r. Stearns of Hartford preach
ed the baccalaureate sermon for the grad
uating class of the high school at White
River Junction on Sunday last.
Fire at Newport last Friday destroyed
some $500 worth of lumber owned by
Prouty q Miller
A -year-old son OF James Farrell of
Rutland was last Saturday seriously bitten
by a dog.
The five year-old son of John Brant of
Bennington was run over the other day
and seriously injured.
Chas. Gabaree and Mary Blanchard Of
Burlington have been held in that city in
$500 bonds, on charge OF adultery
The state insurance commissioners have
recently refused to grant a license to the
Peoples Fiye-year Benefit Order to do
business in Vermont.
The second annual Universalist grove
meeting is to be held at Willoughby Lake
June 25 to 2S under the direction OF Rev.
Frederick Miller of Glover.
A national Holiness camp meeting is to
be held ct Northfield June 20 to 30 under
the direction OF Rev. VIM. Mcdonald,
president OF the National Camp Meeting
Association.
Miss Harriet B. Conant, former prin-
cipal OF the Union School at st. Johnsbury
has graduated with high honors from the
medical department of the University OF
Minnesota and has been appointed as
sistant physician in the insane asylum at
Yankton, $. ID.
The government has concluded to dis
continue lot OF little cheap post offices
and routes in the State and among those
A.. a.a1 tarff h af
Sheldon, Franklin County, from Sheldon;
Fay's Corners, Chittenden county, from
Richmond; Graniteville, Washington Co.,
from Barre; Nashville, Chittenden coun-
tv, from Jericho Center; North Peacham,
Caledonia county, from East Peacham;
Pittsford Mills, Rutland county from Pitts
ford; South Starksboro, Addison county,
from Bristol; West Norwich, Windsor
county, from Norwich.
Barre furnishes the latest victim OF did
not know-it- was LOADED revolver business
thus far. Pearlie, the eight year old son
OF VIM. Buchanan was playing with an
old revolver when it went OF and left a
ball in his stomach.
Hon. Thomas p Chubb, the fishing rod
manufacturer at Post Mills has sold his
business to the Montague City Fishing
Rod Company OF Montague City, Mass,
the transfer to be made July l. The new
owners will rebuild on the site OF the fac
tory recently burned.
Rev. Jehiel Clafiin OF East Westmore-
land, n. H., has observed his S0th birth
day on which occasion he received two
appropriate poems, one from Rev. ID. Z.
Millard OF Portland, Mich, and the other
from Rev. A. j. Hough of Montpelier, Vt.
Mrs. Clafiin still lives and the worthy
couple celebrated their golden wedding
four years ago.
Col. Aldace F. Walker, who in late years
has developed a striking ability to draw
fat salaries with surprising persistence, is
reported as preparing TO lay aside his ard
uous duties as president OF the association
OF railroad presidents for the summer and
with his family return to Rutland from
Chicago. The report does not say any
thing about his omitting to draw his s10,-
900 salary, however.
The case OF Claretta johnson, the New
bury woman whose alleged fraudulent at
tempt to get a pension has agitated the
courts for some months, and in course OF
which Gen. Butler was elected from the
court room, is again brought to notice by
the district court for Mass. ordering her
release from imprisonment on the ground
that her sentence was illegal. 1t now
looks as though Gen. Butler was coming
out ahead of the s'iDferior judge of an in
terror court of an inferior state" as he
STYLED Judge Carpenter of the Rhode Is
land u. S. district court.