Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-09-09

'OS"bcu thNlc. IL Is lOf The nidIu-
featuring of machines which drive
steel shoe pegs, and other machinery.
Henry Raymond was arrested in
IT. Adams last week Tor robbing
Frank Burke at Barre. He was
brought TO Barre and placed under
SooO bonds TO appear at county court,
IN default of which he was taken to
Jail
This seasons summer resort bust
ness about Lake Memphremagog is
one-third better than in any previous
year. For example, the seasons re
ceipts of the largest hotel about the
lake are given, amounting to nearly
$4,000 This is the record of the
Mountain House.
The Burlington officers think that
they have one of the pair of murder
ers over whose heads hangs a reward
OF $4,000. The description sent out
by the detectives talles very closely
with this fellow. lie gives his name
as Tierney and was arrested for steal
ing suit of clothes.
Reuben Spaulding's gold mine dis
covery bids fair to rival Klondike.
Two weeks ago he blasted the quartz
rock in his mountain, sent two spec
linens TO be assayed, and gets returns
that No. carries S23 gold TO the ton
and No. ?, $50 to the ton. This is
higher grade than many mines out
West carry which are worked to
profit.
John Gokey, a brakeman on the
Boston Il Maine, was changing the
numbers on the caboose of a freight
train ready to leave Lyndonville yard
Monday forenoon OF last week, when
his foot slipped and he fell TO the
ground, striking a broken draw bar,
breaking his right leg in two places
and inluring him otherwise. Drs.
Copeland and Davis set the limb and
then Gokey was taken TO his home in
Newport.
What came near being a fatal ex-
plosion occurred at Lamb Il Lowry's |
slate quarry, Guilford, Wednesday af-
ternoon Of last week. Three men were |
in the blacksmith shop when they no.
ticed a slight smoke issuing from a 1
corner in which three kegs of powder
stood. Without stopping to investi-
gate they rushed out and had hardly |
gotten a safe distance when the build
ing was blown to pieces. II was a
close call.
DIR. Thomas w. Evans, the famous
American dentist, who for 40 years
has been the dental operator in Paris
for most of the crowned heads of Eu-
rope and in whose carriage the En-
press Eugene escaped from Paris, az
ter the battle Of Sedan, returned to
this country Monday, Aug. 20, with
the body OF his wife, who died the
18th, at their Paris residence. Mrs.
Evans was a daughter of the late Dan
iel Howard and a niece Of John T..
Howard of Burlington. DIR. Evans is
now IS years old and is worth $780,
600, zoe.
When Christians were being perse-
suted in England and every Bible
that could be found was burned, the
of Nathaniel Foster, an
early settler in Middlebury, lived on
m estate in Wales which was sur
by high stone wall. Over
-he entrance TO this castle was little
room. in the wall of which a stone
was closely fitted, and behind this {
was sufficient room to secrete the
Bible. This Bible, much worn and ,
acking both title pages, has come !
Town in the family and was recently
placed in the Sheldon museum for /
keeping. .
Alesident of Cliff street, st. Johns
bury, decided the other day that there
must be a vein of water somewhere
nnder his premises, and that by dig
ring deep enough spring could be
found. He engaged Patrick O'Malley
% locate with a hazel rod the proper :
olace to make excavations, and the
mot indicated was right in the mid
lie of the bottom of the house cellar. q
An auger was brought into service
md after boring only three or four
'eet, clear, sparkling water dubbed
IN TO the surface. The citizen was de-
lighted. called in his neighbors and
friends to rejoice with him in his good
'ortune and planned for putting in
,ipes to connect the various parts of
his residence with the artesian well.
But the plumbers services were re-
,nired for another purpose. The vein
truck was line of lead pipe leading
q the residence of a near neighbor,
whose supply stopped as soon as the
,ipe was severed by the auger.
Homer A.Lyons of Bennington, one
# the most experienced miners of the
tate. has, in company with his son,
been prospecting for several
months for manganese at Sunderland. :
Mr. LYONS discovered an outcropping I
# the ore in the pasture of Williams !
md Bacon, less than a quarter OF a
nile from the track of the Benning-
on and Rutland railway. Several 2
hafts were sunk and abandoned be- !,
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