Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-30

Ii is Sa1Q tnaC Cne laIc COl. ram
| lin Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury car
ricd $1,000 life insurance.
Sunday, Rt. Rev. Bishop Michaud
Of Burlington confessed class OF 100
candidates in the morning and in the
afternoon laid the corner stone of the
new hospital to be erected there.
I N. j. Mudgett Of Wolcott had his
pocket picked while eating at the rail-
road restaurant at Morrisville one day
last week. A pocketbook was taken,
containing $l5 in cash, besides valua-
BILE papers.
Mrs. Franz, whose husband was
frozen to death on the east mountain
at Manchester Center last winter, has
received word from Belgium, her for
mer home, that she has fallen heir to
quite a property.
Charles 5. Davis, superintendent OF
the Bennington Graded schools and
president of the Vermont State Teach
ers' association, has been elected city
superintendent of schools at Amster-
dam N. r., from July LIST, at salary
OF $1,000.
| There are now 1876 entries for the
races at the state fair in Burlington
in September. There are IL classes,
with stakes amounting to $500.
The free for all has a $1,000 purse
with eight entries. The 2:50 class has
"a entries.
G. M. Spencer of st. Johnsbury has
secured position as assistant cashier
of the Des Moines iowa National
bank, and leaves for that city about
the middle of June. The institution
in question is prosperous one, hav-
ing larger amount of deposits than
any other bank in the state.
Norwich was last week the scene of
a well-arranged pugilistic battle for
honors and private bet between
James Gibbon, formerly of Boston, and
later for some time student in Dart
mouth medical college, and an UNI
known pugilist from South Boston.
The Boston man was beaten in the
fifth round.
An effort is being made to awaken
public interest in Willoughby Lake in
Westmore as a summer resort. WV.
NCoe of West Barnet is arranging to
put steamer on the lake this summer
with capacity to carry dozen PEG.
pie. There will be half dozen steam
ers plying the waters of Willoughby
this summer.
Sunday morning, May 10, the house
owned by Mr. Downing in Coventry
was burned with nearly all the funi-
ture. and.it was with great effort that
neighbor's buildings were saved,
barn catching fire several times. The
house was thoroughly repaired two
years ago and nicely furnished. 1t
was unoccupied and it is feared the
fire was the work of an incendiary.
John J. Enright, the ex-attorney of
Burlington, recently debarred from the
practice of law, last week appeared as
correspondent in divorce suit OF Jo-
seph w. Harpen against his wife, Liz
zie II. Harpen, in Boston. Divorce
was granted. An alienation case was
also begun against Enright, but it will
never come to trial as it has been set
tied through Harpan's Boston and
Burlington attorneys.
To the surprise of several justices of
the peace and other court officers in
Rutland, State Auditor Hale has told
them that according to the laws of
1894, in the cases Of liquor seizures,
they should have collected the fines or
issued close jail warrants against the
parties responsible for keeping liquor
illegally at the time the court ordered
the liquors forfeited. He also said
that according to the laws of 1894 no
appeals could be taken in seizure cases.
A man, supposed to be VIM. Will
liams of West Pawlet, was instantly
killed last Wednesday evening mile
east of that place by the Salem train,
due in Rutland at S:l5 O'Clock. AT
the time of the accident Williams was
lying on the track, evidently asleep,
with his head resting on the rail. As
soon as the train struck the man, En-
gineer Downs made a quick stop and
he was picked up in a mutilated con-
dition. Williams left a widow, with
whom, it is said, he had not lived for
some time.
John B. Moore of Rutland, city
grand juror, has actually sued the
Herald for libel with $4,000 dam
ages. The writ was served Thursday,
and shows that H. W.Love is the law
yer, while j. B. Needham appears as
surety for costs and the paper was
served by Constable Clark. The dec
laration sets forth variety Of things
in more or less peculiar fashion, but
is apparently based chiefly upon the
editorial recently printed repeatedly
by the Herald, which began with the
statement that Moore was notorious
scoundrel.
Joseph Bushoir,an employee in A.A.
Graves brickyard at Windsor, barely
escaped death last week. He was DIG
ging clay from high embankment,
when it gave way and completely
covered him The yUorkm who ,,,oro