Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-16

Philip Royce was last week appoint
ed fourth.class postmaster at Browne
! vile.
The following fourth-class postmat
, ters were appointed last Thursday:.A
. N. Adams, Benson; James McGinn
st. Adams Bay.
Lieut.. Peary, the Arctic Explorer
will lecture in Rutland, April II, lin
der the auspices of the Young Men
Christian association.
The New England alumni OF the U
| V. M. held its 50th annual meeting ii
the Parker House at Boston. Owe
100 members were present.
Renslow Foster Of Mortified, aged
go, formerly a railroad man, commit
ted suicide Friday morning by cutting
his throat with knife in his barn.
i About 10000 trout fry from thu
state fish hatchery at Waterbury were
received at West Rutland last week
| Tuesday. The fry arc large and were
in excellent condition. when received
| Joseph Strong lost horse .h;'ougl
the ice recently, while running Il point
off North Hero in consequence of the
roads not being broken out on land
The crossing at this time OF the yeal
is dangerous.
Prof. Rowell of Vermont Academy
has been greatly Frustrated with re.
peated hemorrhages within few
days. Prof. and Mrs. Rowell entered
upon their duties at Vermont Acade-
my at the opening Of the winter term.
Herbert johnson of Bondvillc met
with bad accident on Monday. lie
was going down hill with a load OF
potatoes on two-horse sled when the
forward6sled struck a rock in the road,
throwing him off and frightening the
horses so that they started to run. In
trying to hold them the sled struck
his ankle, badly SCATTERING both of the
bones.
| L. N. Norris of North Troy will
open his cheese factory May 4th. He
has engaged ii. Sweet, the famous Ca
madam cheese maker,t to take charge of
the work. Mr.. Sweet won second
prize for cheese making at the Domin-
ion exhibition at Montreal in 1894,
and first prize at the same place in
1895. He was awarded gold medal
at the Chicago Worlds Fair.
St.Albans will soon have paid fire
department. AT recent village meet
ing it was voted that beginning May
l, at least one man be kept on duty at
the fire station and that pair of
horses be purchased for use on the
new hose wagon. Men have also been
authorized to take charge of affairs at
each fire. Several other necessary inn
provements will be made as occasions
present themselves.
The railroad station at North Ben
nington was burglarized last Thursday
morning sometime between and 5
o'clock. The burglars gained an en-
trance by prying up a window. The
safe door was drilled into and blown
off. The thieves got about $40 or Sl5.
An attempt was made to crack the
same safe about year ago. The
burglars took hand car 10 get away
with. The job is thought TO be the
work OF professionals.
The most disastrous fire that has
struck Vergenncs in years broke out
in the Sherman stone block last Thurs
day morning at o'clock in the store
occupied by II. l.. kingsland, dealer
in groceries, boots and shoes, etc. The
Stevens hose and the Independent hose
company were quickly on the grounds
but as some twenty minutes elapsed
before full head of water was ON, the
fire got control of the-building. clean
ing out the whole business and leav-
ing only the walls standing. The
building, which was built in 1885, was
about l3Ox50 feet, three stories, valued
at 80, 900; insured for $40, 1000. The
loss to the occupant amounted to $780,
400; insurance, $l4, 400. The build
ing was totally destroyed and will un-
be rebuilt. But a small
amount Of goods was saved.
Lawyer Z. H.Robb of Bellows Falls
has brought an action of tort against
three brothers, Patrick, VIM. and Mi
chael Drisland, in behalf of the wife and |
children of Herbert j. Porter, one of
the three brothers recently convicted |
Of placing distractions on the track Of |
the Boston n Maine railroad near
The suit is very inter-
esting, coming under the personal LA
bility clause Of the Vermont prohibit
ton law, whereby the seller is liable
to the dependents for the time lost at
the rate of 50 per day while in con-
tinemcnt. The crime was committed
last October. Porter has been in Jail
since and has just begun serving
three years sentence. Another inn
portant point is the equal liability of
he landlord owning the building,
which. in this case, is Col.G. Wilcox
II of Brattleboro, in whose block the
sales were made by confession of one