Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-11-04

veterans admitted 10 1t. 1he present
membership is 100, Of which 20 are
cared for in the hospital.
Jerry Race, who was recently cap
tured in Athol, Mass, is the cham
pion horse thief of Vermont, having
stolen eight horses in one month. lie
travelled from Vergennes to Boston,
stealing and selling horses as he went.
Daniel w. Bromley,t the well-kr own
proprietor of the Franklin hotel at
Pawlct, committed suicide Saturday.
Mr.. Bromley had been doing business
as usual during the afternoon, and
shortly after dinner left the Office of
the hotel, saying TO his son that he
wanted to speak to man in an adj
joining room, and taking a revolver
shot himself through the brain.
The state prison at Windsor had
its first death from natural causes for
many years week before last. James
Mason. serving a sentence for pocket
picking, died and was buried in the
prison cemetery, none Of his friends
claiming the body. Mason belonged
TO a gang who operated extensively in
Canada and the United States. lie
was 68.
Gould Camp OF Stowe, very
eccentric character, an old bachelor
and confirmed miser, has been robbed
Of about $4,000, consisting Of three
hundred dollars in glittering gold,
about $500 IN silver and two 81 900
government bonds. Who took il,
when they got il and where it has
been secreted is mystery. II il the
largest haul made in Vermont in
many years, but its size does not offer
the least aid 10 its discovery. Camp
had the valuables secreteo in a barn,
he says.
The report to the court of the
grand jury of Washington county for
the present term recommends an en-
largement of the county Jail, and
that the building be repaired and re-
modelled so that sufficient room shall
be made to provide separate cells for
the prisoners and that prisoners of
each class may have Il living room,
comfortably warmed and ventilated.
At present there is available, in the
jail, only one room for female prison
ers and in that room, within the past
year, there have been, at one tune,
confined eight women prisoners.
The 4jth annual course of lecturers
at the medical department of the Uni
versity of Vermont, will begin Thurs
day, January 6, 1898, and continue
June 30. With this session the school
inauguratcs the four-year system Of
graded study, q requisite for gradua-
ton, due notice of which was given in
the last annual circular. To carry ont
this plan new lecture room for rcci-
tations has been fitted up. laboratories
and apparatus improved, and addi-
tional instructors secured. Entrance
examinations win be held by Prin. ;.
w. Langton at the High school build
ing, January 24-26, March 2l-25, June
l3-l7, 1898.
An oyster supper cost Charles Fleu-
~ OF Grand Isle 500. Such was the
judgment Of the county court. The
supper in question tool place last Feb
ruary. In the Methodist church were
the utensils of an oyster supper, not TO
mention a supply OF oysters, all
gotten together for the purpose of a
church festival. Fleury broke into the
church and stole everything. He invited
his friends TO a big oyster supper the
next evening. But the things taken
from the church wore missed and
Flcury being suspected the event new
or came of. lie was brought into |
county court and pleaded guilty TO in
formation filed against him, fine of |
5000 being imposed.
Two electric cars collided at Bur- |
lington last week Monday, resulting |
in the injury Of five people. The /
names of the injured are: Martin /
Hefron, motorman, severe injuries to
back; James Farrow, motorman, leg |
fractured; Joseph Phglie, passenger,
eg fractured; James Cayea, conduct
lr, severe scalp wound; Elmer Con-
nor. conductor, confusion. The plat
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,ars were smashed. Both cars were
filed " it'll passengers and it was inn
possible to see any distance ahead on
recount of the fog. The cars were
moving towards each other at fair
ate of speed and the collision &C.
,urred before the motormen were
aware of danger.
Rev. !. Ellsworth Fullerton, pastor
IF the Cong1 church at Bellows Falls,
lied last week Wednesday from in
uries received by falling down stairs
he previous Friday. Mr.. Fullerton
vas born in Bath, Me-, 80 years ago.
lie was graduated from the high
chool there and from Bowdoin col
eye i'm 1867. He was then recalled TO
Bath to teach in the same school. Lat
II he was engaged as principal of the
BOYS fitting school at Hallowell, Me.
lie afterwards attended the Andover