Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-15

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Rev. Mr.. Barley of West Bridge
water, Mass, has accepted call Il
the Baptist church at Vergennes and
will officiate Sunday.
Benjamin f. Rollins, 76, a promi
nent and wealthy citizen and widely
known as threshing machine manu-
facturer, died at st. Johnsbury las
week. He leaves widow.
As Willis Dowlan of Lyndon was
hauling a safe from Lyndon to West
Burke the other day his horses took
fright and tipped him out. The safe
fell on him and broke two ribs.
The Worcester, Mass, Salt Co..
offers to give the Vt. w. G. Il. L.
$500 if, previous TO September lst,
1897, the union v i'll return to them
30, 600 coupons from their salt bags,
Each local union will receive a share
according to the number collected.
G. b. b. Denny, the merchant tailor
of Montpelier, has filed an involuntary
petition in bankruptcy. A meeting
of his creditors will be held at the
probate office Saturday, April II,
when an assignee will be appointed
Mr.. Denny's creditors are mostly Bos-
ton and New York parties.
The largest civil service examination
ever held in the state took place at
Burlington last week. Out of IS APP
plications 6Swere present to take the
examination as "pay Inspectors.
The examiners were Gen. w. L..
Greenleaf, Morris Walsh and John A.
Arthur. The ages ranged from 20 to
60 years.
Col. Hooker OF Brattleboro, Gov.
Josiah Grout and ex-GOv. William +.
Dillingham; have received invitations
to attend the annual banquet of the
Springfield, Mass, Sons and Daugh-
tiers of Vermont, which will be held
April 18th. The occasion promises
to be a brilliant one. Music will be
furnished by Mr. and Mrs. G. Curtis
Munson and by members of the Hem
schel club of Springfield, Mass.
A barn on a farm in Stamford,
owned by Mrs. Potter of North Adj
ans and occupied by Fred Lincoln,
was burned TO the ground Monday,
March 10Th. A number of hogs and
cows owned by Mr.. Lincoln were
burned with the barn. The fire is
said to have been caused by Mr.. Lin
coins l3-year-old son, who went to the
barn to smoke. The loss is several
hundred dollars, partly covered by
insurance.
The copper supply of the world is
said to be low, and mines are being
reworked. 1t is said that parties from
outside the state are negotiating with
Ex-Governor Farnham for the pur-
chase Of the copper mines in Corinth,
which are in his hands for sale. The
mine at South Strallord is to have a
new equipment, and Copperiield
mines are expected to yield an III
creased output ina short time, though
complications which have arisen may
cause q cessation of work at present.
Vermont parties are mixed up in an
attempted murder in Sherbrooke, Can.
Henry Burns, formerly of West Burke,
and until recently conductor OH the
b. a. NJ. railroad, according to an in
terceptcd letter from him to a Miss
Sunberry with whom he was infatu-
ated, put quantity of iodine into a
bottle of patent medicine for his wife
to take. She discovered something
wrong at once and doctor was sum-
moned Immediately and gave her re-
lief. In examining the medicine iodine
was found. Burns is under arrest.
Mrs. Burns was formerly of Barton
Landing.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bradford
say that there has not been such a
sugar season for % or 30 years and
this statement is well verified by the
loads of sugar which are drawn
through the village every day. About
1000 pounds were shipped from that
station last week. The sugar season
has been the most remarkable ever
known in Groton and vicinity. Ii is
estimated that not less than 100000
pounds of sugar or its equal in syrup
was made in town IN one week. Sap
ran every day and late into the even
ing, and i'm every camp boiling was
continued every night as well as dur.
ing the day.
A drunken carousal in Barre sun
day afternoon, April 4th, almost re-
suited in murder. The participants
in the revel were two McPhee broth.
ers and two Rogers brothers, who
bought barrel of beer and started ia
for a gay old time. In the afternoon
John McPhce and Joseph Rogers en-
gagged in a fight in which Rogers was
getting the worst of it, when his BROTH
err, William, took a hand and struck
McPhee on the head with an axe
which, coming in contact with the
mans skull, turned and glanced to-
ward one ear. turning up the scalp so
that ii made a CHASTITY looking wound.
Had the instrument been even ordi-
narily sharp, so the physician stated,
ii must have gone through McPhee's
skull with fatal results.