Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-05
THE VERMONT STATE NEWS.

The town tax of Wilmington this yea
e amounted to s7,777.25.
: Fairhaven reports 20 marriages durin,
the past II months.
Vermont farmers arc selling this year.
: crop of tobacco for 20 cents a pound.
Alvah Wilbur of Brattleboro, aged sixt,
: years, committed suicide by hanging.
By the explosion of a lamp in her room
Mary Casey of Rutland was badly burned
Vermont employs over 5000 lumbermer
e and woodchoppers and has over 200 camps
The foundation Is completed for''C Crows
Nest Rudyard Kipling's new house al
: Brattleboro.
Corwan Gees, Bellows Falls Jew ped.
dler, ismissing and it is feared that he has
been murdered.
Wardsboro Center has been made post
office hamlet, with Mrs Carl Putnam as
postmistress.
2 Bellows Falls capitalists interested in
Fort Payne stock sold out for a. The par
value OF the stock is 500.
Christ church of Guilford has received
: from Col. VIM. Austine, IT, S. A., the gift
of Patterson cottage organ.
Vermont has 80 presidential offices with
| salaries ranging from 81 900 to $1,000 and
90 other offices which pay from $50 to
5000.
Another OF the old veterans of 1912 passed
away on the 18th inst, Robert Sargent of
STAFFORD, aged "a years, 8 months and /
day.
A house and barn, together with 20
sheep, belonging to Chauncey Armstrong
OF Newport Center, were consumed by fire
last week.
Michael Mccormack, employed by the
Vermont Marble Co.. was Killed Tuesday
hv a funAQlfda trh
sand bank.
Henry S. Goodall, a young physician
from Bennington, has been appointed to
a salaried position as one of the city ply
sicians at Washington
At Rutland Tuesday large block OF
marble fell on James W. Watson's right
foot, crushing three toes so badly that
they had to be amputated.
r. II. Howard and Frank w. Blanchard
OF Chittenden killed five large foxes last
week, the skins Of which they sold in hut-
land Monday for good prices.
Dr. George l.. Tiffany alias Spencer, who
passed bogus checks to the amount of
$1,000, drawn mostly on the Peoples Ma
tlonal bank of Brattleboro, has been held
In the sum of $500 at Philadelphia.
One Of the oldest citizens in Vermont is
Deacon James Roy OF West Barnet he hay- |
ing reached the advanced age of SO years |
For 81 years he has resided on the same
farm which he at present occupies.
The resignation of First Lieut.. Thomas |
A. Austin, Co. /, 1st Regiment " ~ G., |
has been accepted, and an election of Off I
GERS TO NIL the vacancy occasioned by this |
resignation has been ordered for the even
ing of JAN 2, 1888
Richard Benton, literary editor of the
Hartford Courant will give four lectures
early in February before the students of
the Middlebury college. The lectures will /
deal with modern English masters in
prose and verse.
Landlord +. A. Tyler, W no recently pur-
chased his partners interest in the Brooks
House, Brattleboro, is planning many inn
provements, among which is the enlarge
ment OF the house for the accommodation
of summer patronage.
Dnring the temporary absence frcm
home of his parents, the three-year-
son OF Daniel McCarty OF Mortified was
burned in shocking manner by his dress
catching fire from the stove. lie lived
but few hours.
1t is reported that President Harrison
will offer the Chief Justieeship of the Is
land of Samoa to ex-Gov. Ormsbee OF
Brandon, who is nov American Commits
sioner on the island. Mrs. Ormsbee and
her daughter have arrived home from Sa-
moa.
j. C. Wood of Cleveland Ohio, has writ
ten bradford citizens that he will soon do
nate TO that village $4,000 toward estab-
fishing new public library and a like
sum for new building for the same; also
$4,000 toward the erection of a new school
building and an endowment for the same.
At a meeting OF the trustees OF Norwich
University, Thomas j Boynton of Mont
pelier was chosen to ill the vacancy in
the Board caused by the death Of Hiram
Atkins, Chas. NJ. Davis in the place OF his
4 her, the late John p. Davis, and Frank
2 Howe succeeds DIR. p. d. Bradford, de-
Used.
Some $4,000 OF the capital stock have
been subscribed for an electric railroad
between SaXton's River and Bellows Falls.
1t will be built of standard gauge and will
be connected with the nam lines so that
freight or passenger cars can be coupled
on and drawn to their destination by mo-
tors.
Capt. +. l.. Bass OF Clayton, N. Y. was
accidentally shot and killed while hunting
at Troy, VT, recently. His dog knocked
the gun from his hand and the fall caused
the gun to discharge its contents into his
right knee. Three doctors were summon
ed, but the man did not rally enough to
permit OF an operation. Capt. Bass had
been 40 years in the steamboat business.
Caron Casey OF West Rutland was hor-
flDly burned saturday night and died in
great agony Tuesday as a result He was
sitting by table on which was Kerosene
lamp, and fell asleep with his head on the
table. The lamp exploded and the burn
ing oil was scattered over him, burning
his face and almost entire body to a cin-
der. He was sitting up to attend Xmas
midnight Mass.
FL. M. Tower, town liquor agent at Rut-
land, was arrested Monday by States At !
InrnRxF Ianag IN. oh ~ :
illegally. The arrest was made on the !
disclosure of Paul Ellis, arrested Saturday 4
Tor intoxication. In Ellis trial before 4
Judge Butler, he testified that he obtain }
I'd alcohol and whiskey of Tower Satur- /
day. An examination OF the book i'm 4
which the liquor agent is required TO keep
IN account OF sales made, showed that the
sales OF last Friday and Saturday were =
arger than those Of any days fora number
IF years.