Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-08

quiring into the inducements tha
would be Offered to bring a shoe fac
tory there.
Bishop Hall and Maj. +. w. Child'
of Brattleboro are both improving in
health. The bishop sailed for New
York from Bermuda April ?. Maj.
Childs is at Aiken, 5. c., and will re-
main there for several weeks.
John ID. Meagher of Poultney was
dangerously injured last week Mon
day by getting caught under falling
ledge of slate at the Evergreen quar-
ny. Several ribs, his collar bone and
shoulder blade were broken and he re-
ceiyed painful scalp wounds.
James +. Pollard's store in Chester
was entered last Thursday night.
Clothing, underwear, gloves, collars
and small amount of money were
taken. The thieves gained an en-
trance through a rear window by
breaking the fastenings. They have
not been caught.
Early Tuesday evening of last week
Patrick Harrigan OF Dorset was struck
by a freight train two miles east of
Fonda, Montgomery county, n. Y,
and sustained injuries which caused
his death two hours later. He was
struck in the back and knocked 30
feet into a ditch Mt the side Of the
/ track
w. l.. Howard, until recently post
master at Fair Haven, writes the
Montpelier Argus that his accounts
with the postotlice department are corr
rect, not one penny being due the de-
partmeht. He has receipts, he says,
from the auditor Of the treasury,
showing this to be fact.
II. l.. Hover, for several years a
special insurance agent for life and
accident insurance companies, was
arrested at Bennington Friday after
noon, charged with misrepresentation
of premiums collected by him. The
deficiency has been growing for
several years. it is said. The property
OF Mr.. Hover has been attached. The
total amount gone is about $1,000.
Special Agent V. A. Billiard of the
customs department has seized the
horse Robert H., owned by w. III.
Temple of Boston, for alleged fraud
ulent entry in June, 1896. The ami
NAL was purchased at East HALEY,
Canada, for 81 400 and was entered
at valuation of $500. He is now
valued at ~, 900 and has record Of
2:l0 IL. The reports have been sent
on to headquarters.
In the death of Mrs. Cara Langdon
Nicholas, which occurred recently at
the age of 80 years, unique Montpel.
Ter character disappears. She was a
sister of the late James X. Langdon,
and her only support of late had been
the income on $4,000 provided for
her in Mr. Langdon's will. In her
early years she married Anastatias, a
Greek, who was brought to Montpel-
Ter when boy by Col. Jonathan
Miller, Vermont's hero in the war of
independence for Greece.
The house of correction at Rutland
is overcrowded. The number of pris-
oners confined there, $50, is the larg-
est since the institution was built. AL
though large number Of additional
cells have been built within the past
two years, the accommodations are far
from sufficient. The workshop, which
was enlarged about two years ago, is
filled, and should the number of pris-
oners l-eep on increasing the state will
be obliged TO make further additions.
\ stranger who took lodgings at
the Railroad House, Barre, was nearly
scared to death Tuesday evening of
last week. He was given room in
the south corner of the second floor
next to the railroad track. When the
$50 train from Montpelier came in it
so frightened him that he jumped
from a sound sleep to the floor and
thinking that the mouse was atire
made a leap through the window car
rying the lower sash and glass with
him and falling about a feet upon a
bank wall and then three or four feet
further down onto the railroad track.
The only injuries he received were
slight cuts on both wrists. How he
escaped without broken bones is a
mystery.
Some individual with more deviltry
than brains made the family of j. w.
Williams of Bennington the victims
of an extremely cruel hoax Sunday
night. March 2s. AT II O'Clock, after
all had retired, they were awakened
by violent ringing of the door bell.
Mr.. Williams went to the door and
was informed that his daughter, Mrs.
l.. L. Tiffany, was dying at her home
on Gage street. A few moments later
the family were on the way to Mr..
Tiflany's residence, hurrying with all
possible speed. On arriving there
they found Mrs. Tiffany in her usual
health. Mrs. Williams was nearly
Frustrated by the shock. In the eX-
citement of the moment Mr.. Williams
failed to recognize the one who de
livered the false message and did not
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