Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten Tor
Our Readers.

Barre mas TWO CaIhllldics lOl ma VI
j. w. Gordon and X. 5. Currier.
Twelve children of the home Mt
Burlington are down with scarlet
fever.
The four Chinese boys arrested at
Richford recently for unlawful entry
into the country have been discharged.
There are three cases of smallpox
in Charlotte. The health authorities
have quarantined them and have taken
every precaution TO prevent its spread
ing.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded the contract for constructing
the st. Adams public building to John
w. Burrows of Portland, Me-, for
ST., 900.
Alexander Deyette died in Bur
lington recently of blood poisoning,
ca used by striking his wrist on a
rusty nail, when he fell on the ice a
few days before. lie was 36 years old.
Clayton A., sixteen-year-old son of
Mrs ID. w. Whittemore, was caught
in an elevator at ). A. Smith a Co.'S
factory at Brattleboro last week Tues
day and was instantly crushed TO
death.
Private adyices from Samoa state
that Judge lde has disposed of 1000
land cases during the first year Of his
administration but has 1000 left. His
predecessor disposed Of only 500 in
three years.
All differences between the granite
firm of Mari a. Gordon Of Barre and
the electrical firm of Almon Il Sar-
gent of Boston, now putting in the
electric light plant at Morrisville, have
been settled.
Dir. Drew of Barre was danger
ously, if not fatally, injured Monday
night Of last week by falling down
stairs. He was found in the she'd on
Tuesday morning, unconscious and
nearly frozen.
w. G. Stacy, Burlington artist,
has just sold a landscape scene which |
he painted, TO ex-Mayor +. c. Sayles
of Pawtucket, Il. l., for 5000 The
scene is familiar one little way
out of Connecticut.
Gov. Woodbury. has appointed DIR.
Henry Boynton of Woodstock normal
school examiner for the second con-
gressional district, and Prof w. T..
Howard of Middlebury college for
the first congressional district.
Some idea of the amount OF mail
business done by the Wells a. Rich
ardson company of Burlington may
be gained by the knowledge that on
an average through the winter $3.50
a day in stamps are cancelled for their
use.
The Mount Mansfield Electric rail-
road company, incorporated by the
legislature at the recent session, is
about to be formed with a capital
stock of 5000, 900, and il is expected
hat the road will be in use the LIST of
next July.
Mrs. Effie Whalen, or Effie Cox.
md Mrs. Rose Fourier, convicted of ,
in administering 10 :
Mrs. Fournier's husband tartar emetic ,
is a medicine, which resulted in his !
leath, were sentenced Thursday
morning to spend 20 years each in the :
tate prison at Windsor at hard labor. Z
Postmaster Wheeler's four years q
commission at Burlington expires Jan. /
9TH. He did not take the office. how
yer, until the end of the quarter. or a
April LIST. There are now only three v
Democrats who are actively endeav- |
ring to succeed Mr.. Wheeler. They |
re ex-Postmaster G.. w. Beckwith,
v. e. Hall and G. L. LaFountain. /
Secretary Gresham has selected the ;
esign of John Crawford q Son of v
buffalo, \. y, for the monument to !
lark the birthplace of Washington J
I Wakefield, Va, from among 30 \
roposals submitted in competition. I
he successful competitors offer for I
1000 to erect shaft of light Barre /
ranite, 81 feet in hight on a base II
ret square.
Green Mountain Lodge, /. O. OF,
Burlington celebrated its fiftieth Y
Friday evening. Gen. "
'. w. Henry presided at the meet "
ig. The Y. V. NJ. Glee Club sang sew q
al selections. Past Grand Master q
|. W. Hall gave historical address "
the lodge. G. A. Castle read
Decially written poem. AT its close n
Ime five-minute speeches, followed al
7 a banquet. m
Charles r. Witherell of Cornwall =
arted last week for South Africa =
18th fifty merino bucks and ewes ~
coping first at Cape Town. he will y
up the river about 400 miles 10 -
II the sheep to settlers, who are prin- -
pally Dutch Beers. He has made ~ q,
e trip two or three times before. and "
his return from one trip brought :,
e koodoo horns which hang in the I;
ddislon House at Middlebury. u,
Carlos X. Jones, of Scott & Jones m
met with a very Sc va
gus accident recently. He was gong .
the store when he SIinnad froo.,, 4,