Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-15
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.


Senate the nomination OF Arthur j.
Dewey to be postmaster at Benning.
| ton.
Willie Heonicke of Middlesex,
scalded last week by falling into a
receptacle filled with boiling maple
sap, died Tuesday afternoon of lock-
jaw.
The application of the Rutland
postoffice for stamp cancelling ma
chine has been granted. The machine
has capacity for cancelling 10000
letters an hour and viii be the only
one in the state.
A petition asking for the appoint
ment of Sheriff X. w. Merritt of
Shoreham as United States marshal
for the district of Vermont is in cir
culation in that part of the state and
it is receiving many signatures.
The Montpelier board of school
commissioners has not yet selected a
successor to the late Pro. 5. j. Blan-
pied as principal of the high school.
1t is thought that some one will be
placed in charge of the institution
until the close of the present school
year and that the permanent prin-
cipal will not be engaged until after
the summer vacation.
A large stone fell from the bank
into the quarry in which John d..
Mahar was at work at North Poult-
ney few days since and striking
within a few feet Of him broke in
pieces. One piece struck lis nose and
broke it and knocked him over. lie
fell eight feet into a deeper part of
the pit, broke his collar bone, one
shoulder and several ribs and diso-
Gated one arm.
The Montpelier seminary baseball
club has joined the interscholastic
state league. which includes teams
from Goddard seminary, st. Johns
bury academy, Brigham academy,
Rutland English and Classical insti-
tute and st. Adams, Burlington and
Middlebury high schools. During the
coming baseball season these clubs
will contest for the championship of
the state and the S7j cup offered by
the University OF Vermont.
Edward Emery's large barn in Bar
net was set on fire in some unexpect-
ed manner last week Monday evening.
The flames were seen at the village
and an alarm was given, but as tine
ice on the river was not safe the fire
engine could not be taken TO the scene.
The male population rallied with
buckets and after two hours hard
work kept the flames from spreading
TO the house, but the barn and its con-
tents were entirely consumed.
Miss Josephine Larose, the 2l-year-
old daughter Of MIR. and Mrs. Joseph
Larose of Burlington, took dose of
poison intended for rats Tuesday
morning about / | o'clock. Before TAX
ing the poison she complained of
having cramps in her stomach and
went TO shelf and took bottle
which she thought was ''quick relief"
The bottle was labeled with II poison
label, but she did not notice il. She
swallowed pretty fair dose and
Immediately complained of feeling
worse. She was dangerously sick for
several hours. The poison was light
one.
Several people in Bennington have
been victimized within few days by
a man calling himself DR. Crandell
and claiming TO hail from New York.
lie engaged board for himself and
wife at boarding house and after
remaining few days went to Rutland
TO get some more of the medicine
which he said he was introducing. He
paid for his board with draft on
New York bank, the draft being con-
siderably in excess of the bill. 1t was
found that he had bought goods in
several places for which he paid with
checks given by Albany parties, being
always larger than cost of goods. The
checks and drafts, of course, were
worthless.
Wilmington, a village whose grand
list must run up into the hundreds OF
thousands, has no fire department
What they did have is now a ghost.
We don't wonder for the men who
belonged to it worked for nothing
practically and were fined when they
were not present at the scene of the
fire. The fines were always far in
excess of the small compensation and
at the end of each year the amount of
fines was paid over to the village, so
the men really paid for the privilege
of being firemen. They have "kicked, "
and not without reason one would
say. Is it any wonder that fire in
surance companies are scared when
they look towards Vernont?-Bur-
linOton News.