Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-05
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

ana IL was voted 10 issue SlU,OOt
bonds to pay the Indebtedness.
Charles If. Moore q Co. of Barr,
have purchased Wetmore q Morse
granite manufacturing plant in Mont
pelier and will move their businos.
there. 1t is one of the best and larg-
est plants in Vermont and has been
idle several months.
Thomas /. Browne of st. Johns
bury has been granted a patent for a
metal tapping or drilling machine.
Arthur f. Walker OF ST. Johnsbury
has staken ont n trademark for his
remedy for coughs, colds and throat
and hung affections.
A fire at two O'Clock the morning
OF March 25th destroyed one store
house and damaged another owned by
the Fall Mountain Paper company
and located opposite the Island house.
Loss, $4,000 or 50, 900 ON paper stock.
finished paper, machinery and lum-
Der; insured. Cause of fire unknown
A woman at Petersburg, Va. Mon-
day, charged with drugging and rob
bling Mrs. $. b. Spratley Of Waverly,
gives her name as q. A.Carradiee and
says she was educated at Rutland, VI.
a letter was received by the chief Of
I police from % woman ia Norfolk.
stating that the prisoner had robbed
her OF q valuable ring. The ring was
found in the prisoners possession, but
Size claimed il was given % her by a
party ID Norfolk.
Here is an indication that it pays
10 advertise Vermont summer homes:
A Putney woman, whose name has
heretofore appeared in the Central
Vermont railroads Summer Homes
book, viii not advertise therein this
year as a boarder-taker, for the rea-
son tllat She has sold her farm 70 a
New York woman whom that book
brought TO her place several seasons
ago.
Gov. Fuller has designated Friday,
April 6, rs Fast Day. About the on
ty good that comes from this event Is
that it makes a holiday for school
children, and gives them a chance TO
spend the day in the sugar camp.
Vermont viii do wen to initiate Mas
sachusetts, and abolish the so-called
''fast" day. Ii we must have an add
ditional holiday, let il be in honor of
some State or national cvent.-Mor-
risyille Citizen.
The State board Of health. COM
posed Of Drs. C.. Caverly Of Rutland.
j. II. Hamilton Of Riehford and O.
W. Sherwin of Woodstock, met at the
Van Ness House in Burlington last
week, 10 on vacancies. Or. T.. IL.
Pettingill Of Saxton's River was APP
pointed health officer forthe town 81
Rockingham, and DIR. e. 5. Albee Of
Bellows Falls was appointed for the
Of Bellows Falls. both TO suc-
coed DR.. j. $. Hill, who resigned ar
the recent diphtheria scare at Bel
Falls. Other appointments were
DIR. j. G. kenncy for Sharon and Or.
Ely for C%avendish.
Judge Wheeler Of the United States
Circuit court has handed down an
opinion against Daniel n. Beatty. The
maker OF parlor organs,at Washing +,
ton, n. j., In which he holds the in f.,
lictment found in this State is rood
and that his trial shall be set for May :
-, at Windsor. The ofiensc for
which Beatty was indicted in YER /
mont was the sending Of circulars
through the mails offering to sell an
elaborate organ for $40, declared TO be {
worth 800, and on account Of which ]
representation, Ned l.. sawyer OF |
claimed that he was de- !
'rauded ont OF his money, claiming z
hat the instrument was worth about z
sl5. i
The jury in the ease Of Achsah 5. q
3ateman against the Central Vermont 4
abroad company, which was on trial
Judge Coke in the United States
District court at Utica, n. y, last
week, have returned a verdict of ST. d
100 in favor Of the plaintiff. The r.
asked for S25, 900 for injuries p
eceived in a collision at Champlain. I,
August ). 1891, when "A mail train ran u
nto an excursion train. Another n
growing out of the same accident. a
" which Mrs. Lottie 5. Lewis seeks ;,
recover a similar amount for iniu- b
les sustained, was given the jury o
saturday night. The railroad has al n
paid S25, GOO on account Of the p
ccident. "
The town of Newbury has a re- i
narkable lot of old people Wells I.
Goodwin, the patriarch. is a survivor !
+ the war Of 1872, has voted at 20 =
residential elections, and has for all y
most 81 years drawn pay for military ~
aryice rendered the United States. n
Ie viii attain a full century OF age if :
e lives to November 8. John smith, I;
ged nearly 90, is the son Of a captain :,
0 the Irish rebellion Of l79s. lie Ia,
born in Dutchess county. New
ork, and lived in Ryegate. VI, over Z,
0 years. He moved to Newbury re- 8
antly. Dennis Caumney, whose eX- n
ri aVp is unknown. * believed Ia he X