Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-10-28
State of Vermont.
It's News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

There is little prospect that tn
Barre electric road will be finished
this fall
Henry G. Mower, one of the oldes
locomotive engineers in New Eng
land, died at Lyndonville Oct. 10Th
aged Ga. He was Al years in the en-
ploy of the Passumpsic and Boston
and Maine roads.
Albert Fourier of Burlington
while hunting in Underhil, wai
wounded in the side by charge from
shotgun. The youth who pulled
the trigger claims he though
Fourier was squirrel"
Thomas II. Browne, Chinese in
spector, who has been stationed at Tho
custom house in Burlington for some
time, has been transferred to New
York city. Another inspector now in
the south will be stationed here.
A young child of Fernando Buror
of Stowe died Tuesday of last week
from the effects of morphine it had
taken. Some chocolate coated pill,
were left in a box where the child
found them and before discovered had
eaten enough to cause its death.
The jury has rendered verdict fol
the plaintiff, Eugene Cooney, TO re,
cover Stops in the famous Hal.
loween shooting case, which occupied
the attention of the Chittenden coun.
ty court for just Is days. The case
will go to the Supreme court on ex'
ceptions.
Henry G.. Ide, ex-chief justice OF
Samoa, arrived home in st. Johns
bury last week. He is in perfect
health and gained 80 pounds during
his four years sojourn at Samoa. lie
has no definite plans for the future,
but is likely to be recognized by the
administration for his distinguished
service abroad.
Hon. L. j. Phelps, in his argu.
ment before the supreme court in the
liquor law case, said that from reports
he was satisfied that there were al
least one hundred persons in the
House of Correction from Burlington
convicted under the liquor laws and
that there were at least 100 places in
Burlington where liquor could be
bought.
Adolph Hattie, a German confined
at the house of correction in Rutland
for selling liquor, escaped shortly be-
fore 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon Of
last week. He was convicted in Chit
tenden county and he had about three
and half more months to serve. He
had been set TO work ON the lawn late
in the afternoon and did not turn up
at supper time.
The appointment of Hon. Frank G.
Partridge of Proctor as consul-general
at Tangier, Morocco, is announced.
Mir. Partridge has accepted the APP
pointment only temporarily and will
resign in the spring, when a New
Jersey man will be appointed to the
place. Julian Phelps Of Iowa, an
other Vermonter, has been appointed
consul at Crefeld, Germany.
At meeting of the directors Of the
st. Johnsbury Electric Railroad COM
pany last week il was decided TO con-
tinue the work of building the road
as soon as franchises could be secured
from the towns and villages which
have not already granted them. The
terminals of the road will he st.
Johnsbury and Lyndonville. and it
will pass through st. Johnsbury Cen
ter, Lyndon. Lyndon Center and
Lyndonville. The distance is little
more than 10 miles.
Philo Graves of Lyndonville owns
80, 900 pounds Of wool at an average
cost of Is - cents per pound. inter-
est included, which has accumulated
since the Harrison administration.
The price of wool has advanced to Fl
cents since Mckinley was elected and
Philo expects to unload at the % cent
mark before many months. Philo
was a Democrat from birth, but it is
limited that past experience in the
wool business has caused a decided
change in his political complexion.
UtOfgt ItlftIlu hOuilust SNulChA
Of Syracuse On. " University was
married in the Syracuse police court
recently to a girl named Belzer. 1t
later appeared that Rounds has wife
living in Enosburg Falls, VT, whom
he married IL years ago, when she
was Is years old and he IL. They
have a child 10 years old. They went
to Syracuse about three years ago,
and lived together about two years,
when she returned to Enosburg Falls,
because her husband was not earning
enough to support her.
Herbert L. Piper, a widower, and
Queen Coutermarsh, married
woman, disappeared from Windsor
4 year ago and no trace of them was
found until Friday, when Piper was
in Everett, Mass, for drunk
,nness and the Coutermarsh woman
called to see him at the police station