Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-15

was drowned last Thursday while in
bathing. His home was in St. johns
bury.
The following postmasters have
been commissioned: Albert o. Chip
man, Dorset; Ira +. Hunt, Fairfax:
Moses j. Leach, Wolcott;. Henry 5.
Howard. Benson; Amasa Grout, New
fame.
During last weeks thunderstorms
lightning struck in "a places in Brat
tleboro, knocking half a dozen people
senseless, killing three cows and dam
aging the roads to the extent of some
s., 900.
An oil stove exploded July 4th at
III. &. Peabody's house in Pittsford,
setting the rear of the building atire.
Damage to the amount of 81, 200 was
caused before the fire was extinguished
by the hose company.
President Mckinley, Vice President
Hobart, Secretary Alger and Private
Secretary Porter, with their families,
win spend their summer vacation on
the shores of Lake Champlain, proba-
bly, on the New York side.
Merritt w. Hicks of Nottingham,
aged %, committed suicide in his bed
chamber last week Sunday between
the hours of II and ! o'clock by
shooting himself through the right
temple with revolver. Cause, de-
spondency.
1t is estimated that 10000, 900 feet
of lumber, mostly pine, is now in the
yards of Burlington. Large quanti-
ties of lumber are still being brought
to Burlington, in anticipation of the
duty which the new tariff bill is eX-
pected to impose.
Henry Blodgett, one of the select
men of Grafton, was helping to I'M
load some timber, when one of the
skids broke and the other swung
around, striking his right limb with
sufficient force TO break both bones
below the knee, one of them in two
places.
The body of an infant was found
last week in the vicinity of the Fall
Mountain Paper company's log drive
in the river at Bellows Falls. Quite
likely il is case Of infanticide, but
probably no investigation will be
made, as il may have been thrown
into the stream at some point above
the Falls.
win Temple, son of the late
George Temple, was drowned in the
river short distance
north of the bridge between Newbury
village and Haverhill on Monday
evening of last week. He was in
bathing with other parties when he
disappeared, never return
ing to the surface.
Gen. w. Y. w. Ripley of Rutland
taught in Lake Dunmore the other
lay a lake trout weighing IA pounds.
There is a tradition OF a trout caught
here many years ago weighing II
pounds, but apart from that the gem
rails fish was the biggest ever caught
here. A trout was caught in the lake
asst year that weighed over ID pounds.
The East Poultney cheese factory
vas burned to the ground Wednes-
lay night, July eth. The fire started |
rom an unknown cause about ]
o'clock. In the building were about
}, 900 pounds of cheese. There was
10 insurance. The factory was
pressed with work at the time and |
will be loss to patrons.
Henry G. Bugbee of Bridgewater
ell from load of hay last week |
Wednesday, receiving injuries which |
'esulted in his death next morning. |
rhe team was frightened by a thun-
Ter clap and Mr.. Bugbee was thrown
o the ground, striking on his head |
md shoulders. Both legs were par !
lived but he suffered little pain. The |
deceased was prominent farmer and |
represented the town in the last legis- !
allure. He leaves a wife and two
children. Ire was 50 years old.
On the first day of next October /
he first deer legally killed in YER
mont for about twenty years will fall /
-ictims to the hunters rifle. On the 4
asst night Of the session of the legisla-
ure Of 1896 that body passed a most
law affecting the interests
# sportsmen. BY virtue of this stat
tie, October in each year, beginning
With October, 1897, will be an open
month for shooting throughout the
,ntire state. The law provides that
,nly deer with antlers may be killed |
md that but two may be taken by /
NV one person in the course of a sea-
on. II prohibits the use OF dogs.
alt ticks, jack lights, crusting and
raps, and allows one deer and the
ieqd and hoofs of another to be taken
rom the state when accompanied by
he captor. The first provision is in
ended to protect doe and young
)ucks.
The Burgess Sulphite Fibre COM
,any of Berlin, n. H., has recently
large tracts of land in Essex
county of G. II. Fitzgerald and Others.
Judge II. II. Lucas Of Island Pond
he company's agent, is in the woods