Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-19
State Of Vermont.
- News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

Danforth Dean hung himself in hi
barn at Mount Holly last week Will
his son and family were away iron
home.
DR.. H. H. Little, one Of the wealth
lest physicians in Ohio, died in Cleve
land last week. He was born in Nor
risville.
Amos Rogers OF Rutland caugh
three pickerel in Lake st. Catherine
which weighed respectively Is IL
IA l-3 and 5 lbs.
The $4,000 Percheron stallion
which has been the cause of litigation
in Addison county, was sold a few
days ago for $3.50.
Hon. II. A. White at the March
meeting was elected to fill the office
OF town clerk Of Washington for the
forty-ninth time.
&. u. Nichols, brakeman, unmar.
ried, was instantly killed by falling
from q train on the Boston. & Maine
road last week Friday.
The st. Johnsbury museum has re.
ceived of Mr.. Clark of Boston quite a
collection of marine animals, embrace
ing the lower specimens of inverte-
brate life.
The town of Glastonbury, with but
IL voters, filled IA offices Tuesday.
Only eight voters were in attendance
but they voted a tax of 300 cents on
the dollar.
The trial of Hon. Ira r. Allen of
Fair Haven, charged with having given
away liquor at the state fish hatchery
in November, 1894, viii begin in Mont
pelier April %.
r. w. Mansfield, formerly of Rox-
bury,is now superintendent of the Car
tagena Il Magdalena railroad, Republic
of Columbia, s. "A. He has recently
purchased of the government at Bogo-
ia half interest in coffee plantation
ten miles square in the state of Magda-
lena.
Joseph A. Mcintyre, bookkeeper at
the Howe Scale works at Rutland, has
confessed that he stole $l5, 900 in can.
celled coupons and 800 in cash. The
money ard coupons had been missed
but no clue to the guilty person had
been discovered till Mclntyre's confess
sion.
The fifth annual convention of the
Vermont conference Epworth League
will be held in Montpelier June 3D.
and 4th. Prominent workers have
been engaged for this occasion, in
Rev. VIM. N. Brodbeck of
Boston and j. Ransom Day of Syra-
cuse, Iii.
Alpheus w. Giles, the .defauting
bookkeeper of the Gloucester Fish
of Boston, has pleaded gull
by in the superior court at Boston TO
The indictment charging him with the
of $1,000 from the firm.
Giles is former resident OF Brattle-
boro and Bellows Falls. He fled to
Canada about year ago, when his
shortage became known, but returned
several weeks ago and was at once ar
'ested.
DR.. j. +. Thomson and Homer l..
Hoag of Rutland are rapidly complete
ng plans for the erection Of cold
storage plant west of the shirt factory
md developing their water power in
East Pittsford. The building OF the
old storage will begin in few days.
Plans for a three-story building, 60 by |
100 feet, have been accepted and it is
that the structure will be
by May 18th.
While John McGookin of Eden was
lauling some logs which lay loose on
lis sled through his dooryard recently,
lis seyen-year-old boy came running
behind, unseen by his father, and
hold of the outside log caused
t to roll off, striking the little fellow
N the head as,it fell His head was
lriven into the hard path leading to
he door. His mother saw the acct
lent from the window and had the
10Y in her arms very soon. When he
vas picked up they supposed him dead
'ut he is getting along finely and is
onsidered out Of danger.
Charles futile of West Dover had a
old water experience the other day
which ought to make him prohibit
ionist for life. He was rolling logs
nto the river when he fell into the
tream and was carried nearly half a
nile down, when he caught hold OF
limb and drew himself out on the
sland below the village, the people
hrowing rope to him and drawing
i'm across. He was so numbed with
he cold by that time that he could
OF help himself and had to be pulled
trough the water to the mainland; by
hat time he was unconscious and
ad to be carried to his home. He was
ruised some, but the trouble was
lostly from the effects OF the cold
ath. II
The freshet played havoc at Sears
urg. The stone abutment Of the
ridge spanning the Devils Stair was
arried out. The big covered bridge
,as badly damaged. Much damage