Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-16
Mrs. Charles Parkinson Of Bellows

Falls, aged 63 years, committed SUI
eide last week by taking morphine.
The new Methodist church at Barr
is to be dedicated on the 23d. Bisho
Foster of Boston will attend and PAL
ticipate in the services.
Gov. Woodbury. and the trustees 0
the state industrial school at Yer
gennes made an official visit to tina
institution Wednesday.
"A German jew, with face pittet
from smallpox, has been victimizins
the people OF Cabot, Marshfield ant
Plainield by representing himself II
be DR.. Bemis, the eye specialist.
| The first tow OF lumber for tht
wholesale dealers in Burlington ar
rived last week, which gave a large
| gang of men employment, who hat
not worked since the season closed las
fall.
The farm buildings of Alfred J. and
Aurelius A. Fisher of Townshend, with
their contents, were burned early
Monday morning. Loss, $4,000; in
sured for 81, $50 in the Vermont Mu.
tual company.
Brainerd Avery of Vermont, private
secretary to Senator Proctor, has been
chosen by the Phi Delta Chi Frater.
nifty of graduate lawyers of the Dis
trict of Columbia as one of the two
members from Columbian University
for this year.
| Caroline Fisher, a spinster 65 years
old, was criminally assaulted on the
night Of April 18th at her home in
Highgate by some unknown villain
who gained entrance to the house. The
woman's mother, about 80 years old,
received severe injuries at the hands OF
/ the rutfian.
Miss Constance Fairbanks has been
engaged as associate editor OF the st.
Johnsbury Caledonian and has al
ready commenced her labors. Miss
Fairbanks was for five years connect
ed with the Critic at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, being associate editor of that
paper for two years.
Nora Shannon of Rutland, who
kept out of the way of the officers
until the county court had adjourned,
was arrested last week on six differ
ent bench warrants. The charges
against her are for selling liquor.
This is the greatest number of bench
warrants OH which any one person
has ever been placed in the House of
Correction.
The heroes of the hour, says the
Burlington Free Press, are George
Gilmore and George Prim, who last
week landed a sturgeon weighing in
the neighborhood of 100 pounds. The
huge fish gave the two men all they
could do to hold it and when it was
finally landed in the boat one man
had TO hold it while the other rowed
quickly for shore. 1t is the largest
catch made this season.
AT the annual meeting Of the f and
4. Fairbanks company, held at st.
Johnsbury recently, these directors
we're elected: Henry Fairbanks, st.
Johnsbury; VIM. S. Wells, James G..
Gardner, New York; S. n. Brown,
Boston; Charles p. Morse, Chicago;
II. n. Gurner, John G. Clark, both of
st. Johnsbury. The directors organ
lied by electing Brown president,
Fairbanks, vice president, Clark, Sec
rotary and treasurer.
George j. Bond, town clerk of
Searsburg, is something of a wit, as
his report of the vital statistics of his
town to the secretary of states office
gives evidence. His returns show one
birth and no marriages or deaths in
that town during 1894. The accom-
note speaks for itself. "With
a tax of 3S4 cents on the dollarof the
grand list of the town, we cannot
afford to die or get married and births
are avoided as much as possible"
Between $4,000 and $4,000 worth of
Canadian reprints of American copy
right music which was sent to st. AL
bans by mail, in violation of the in
copyright law. was seized
and has been confiscated and
will be sent to the dead letter office at
Washington and destroyed. The bags
the publications have been
accumulating there during the past
three months, during which time in
were being made, and
which finally resulted in the seizure.
1t is presumed that similar mail mat
ter has been sent to other American
towns along the frontier, to be for
warded to other places.
Harry lie Grand Cannon died at
his winter home in New York city
of last week. He was re-
,ently reported as very sick with the
grip but was believed to be improving
when an a6scess formed in his head,
which was probably the direct cause
II his death. He was the only son of
Col. lie Grand B. Cannon of Burling-
on and was about 40 years of age.
He was married four years ago to
Miss Elizabeth Thompson of Detroit,
Mich, and their union has been
blessed with three children--two girls
md boy. For many years Buriing-
on had been his summer home and
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