Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-14
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers

tleiOl.
st. Johnsbury is discussing the feast.
bility of establishing condensed milk
factory.
The Connecticut River Il. r. has
declared a semiannual dividend of five
per cent, payable Jan. |.
The December term of the Benning-
ton county court, Chief Judge Ross
presiding, is now III session.
F. II. Orvis will expend about 800
] 900 in repairing the Equinox House
and the Equinox Junior in Manchce-
ter.
Rev. Charles Marion Lamson, ID. d..
of the North Congregational church at
st. Johnsbury, has been called 10 the
Center church at Hartford. Conn.
The Military Post railway company
has been formed at Burlington for the
purpose of building an electric railway
from that city to Fort Ethan Allen.
The First Baptist church in West
Pawlet has extended a call to Rev.
Harvey NJ. Ives of MIeriden, Conn,
who has accepted it and will begin
his pastorate Dec. IL.
Adelbert Her Of Salisbury has been
arrested on the charge of having been
an accomplice of Peter Bushee III the
burningo Of the barns of Merritt Rob
bins in Hancock, Nov. 81.
AT meeting Of the board Of review
of Educational Trotting association, the
temporary reinstatementof II. G. Pot
ter of Middlebury, VI, owner Of Mol
lie A. Tempest, was continued.
The first American play ever writ
ten or performed, 1.-THE Contrast,
will be revived next spring. Ii was
written by Chief Justice Royal Tyler
of Vermont. over $50 years ago.
Adelbert HER of West Salisbury
has been arrested as being an accom-
plice of Peter Bushee in burning the
barns of Merritt Robbins in Hancock
on the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 81.
Oramel lIosford, professor emeritus
of astronomy and mathematics of Oh
iyet college, Mich, died Dee. Q. Prof.
Hosford was born in Thetford, VT. in
1920. He was one of the founders of
the Republican party at Jackson in
1854.
On Tuesday last as c. c. Burno Of
johnson was carving loaded gun. he
slipped and fell; the conclusion Of the
fall discharged the gun and the entire
4. I.ft IL.
SCATTERING the large bone OF the leg
and seriously injuring the ankle joint
Mrs. Ellen Battell Eldridge, whose
will bequeaths some 100000 to Yale
University, was a sister of Philip Bat
tell Of Middlebury and an aunt Of Mrs. |
John w. Stewart and Hon. Joseph |
Battell. The Battell family have given
Il half million dollars 20 Yale.
'Crazy Sarah, for 80 years wan
dering tramp in Vermont. with no
home and who would never sleep in
bed, but ON chairs or the floor. fell |
dead in the street Monday, in John
son village. Eight hundred dollars
were found in the scanty rags that COW
cred her.
At the annual business meeting Of
the st. Adams district Epworth League
at Morrisville, Dec. 9th. these officers
were elected for the ensuing year: pres
dent, II. l.. Nanton, Morrisville: first
vice president, Mrs. Clayton Cornell,
second vice president.
Miss Lucy Leland, johnson: third
vice president, Miss Julia Moody,
fourth vice president, Mrs.
A. A. Aseltine, Enosburgh Falls: Sec
'etary, f. +. Harvey, St.Alpans; treas
lrer. II. Waite, Morrisville.
Rutland's health officer reports for
November the following number of
-ases Of contagious diseases: diphthe-
ia, three; measles, two; scarlet fever,
me; typhoid fever, four. Deaths re-
ulted from the following cases: asth-
ma, one; accident, one; bronchitis, one; ,
ANGER, two; consumption, one: kid =,
ley disease, one; eryesipelas, one; ty-
'hoid fever, two; gangrene, one; gas !
ritis, one; meningitis, one; paralysis. !
hree; peritonitis. one. Total number /,
4 deaths, 10. There were 80 burial :
ermits issued during the month. :
here were "a births reported :
The report of the health officer of a
burlington for the month OF Novem- b
er shows that there were IL mar
iages, 80 births and II deaths in the
ity during the month. OF the deaths. 4,
wen were under one year OF age. one. !,
etween ) and 90; four, between 30 !,
nd 30, three, between 80 and 10. and =
ne, over so. There were three deaths Il
ON Bright's disease, two, from phthis- !,
and one each from bronchitis. cere- 4,
'o-spinal meningitis, cholera infantum !
electric shock. general de- /,
lily, heart disease, old age. prcma- :
re birth, still birth and uraemic !.
'ison. :,
One Of the members of the staff of Sc
Dvernor-elect Greenhalge of Aassa- or
1Saffs i Ex-a..nft a n.Yt... - II 70