Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-12-22

thrown from a sleigh last week and
badly bruised and cut, but no boncl
were broken. =
Maurice Fitzgerald, accused oil
breaking into the Huling q.store ri
North Bennington short time ago
had hearing and was neld in 81 ,Oot
to await the action Of the grind jury
Baron, the four-year-old son Of
Joseph Montefiore of st. Adams
coasted under horse on the street
but the horse stepped over his bod:
and the ch Ids only injury was q
bruised head from striking the sleigh
The eighth annual session Of the
Dairy school of the University OF
Vermont and State Agricultural col
legc will open January 9th, continu'
ing four weeks. There will be five
instructors and three courses of lee
lures.
States Attorney Rice Of Rutland
county kept three justice courts bus,
in that city Dec. 18th, the result OF
half dozen liquor raids and the con.
sequent prosecutions. Every fine
taker where liquor was found had to
settle.
e. Spear g. Son Of Burlington have
purchased in Vermont this season
about 300 raccoon skins, 80 mink,
1000 river mink, 500 or 600 brown
marten skins. Furs from this section
are superior to those from almost any
other.
The wife of George Z. Sawyer,
formerly OF Brattleboro, now Of New
York, took dose of wood alchoh :
Dec. by mistake for medicine an
died almost Immediately. She wa
we'll known in Brattleboro and much
beloved.
Frank Cahill of Underhil Center
was pounccd upon by wildcat over
4 feet in length as he entered his
barn one morning recently. He re
co-ered from the shock and after II
fierce battle killed the animal with a
pitchfork.
A son of Albert French OF Castle
ton, while walking beside a load Of
wood. slipped, falling in front OF the
wheels, and the load OF heavy wood
was drawn over him, both limbs
being badly bruised, but 1t is thought
no bones were broken.
David Wood, the Morristown hired
man, who made night hideous last
summer for his employer and laid IL
to ghosts, ETC., and who assaulted
Officer Town, who was investigating
the affair, was found guilty at the La
noble county court last week.
1t is reported that the divorce pro-
ceedings which were begun in Sep
TENDER by Mrs. Sheridan p. Hotaling
of Stamford against her husband, who
was pastor Of the Baptist church in
that place, have been dropped, rec
onciliation having taken place.
Mrs. Carroll s. Page of Hyde Park
recently stepped on a needle, a half
inch of which was left in her foot. At
last accounts the surgeons had failed
to recover it. She is the third MEM
Der of the ex-governor's family to
carry part of needle in the body.
George NJ. Fernandez, who has been
for five years clerk in the Rutland
has been transferred to Gu
ba. His salary will be 81, 400. He
has sailed for Santiago already. Mr..
Fernandez was educated in Spain. He
has bced in Cuba three times and has
in Havana.
Chas. Tufft OF North Bennington,
q well-known engineer on the Ben
nington and Rutland railroad, has
been obliged to give up his position
on account of failing eyesight. Mr..
Tuflt was next to the oldest engineer
on the road, having been over 30
years in the service.
Last week Fred Newton OF Wal
than fell from a hay nov with
lantern, which exploded and badly
burned his face and hands. The barn
was entirely consumed. Two horses
that were in the barn freed themselves
and ran away. The amount OF the
damage is not known.
The gang of boy thieves who have
been robbing stores in Burlington for
some time has been broken up. One
Of the boys said, 1--WE used to take So
bills and hold them up, touching
match to see them burn, and some of
the checks we carried out behind the
old pottery and burned in pile. :"
The papers in southern Vermont
are telling a tale of a Dummefston
farmer who confessed to Brattleboro
lawyer to having killed a poor boy
that worked for him % years ago.
The lawyers all deny the story and no
names are given. This fairy story
must have originated in a Sunday
paper.
ii. L.. StilIson of Bennington has
just finished editing John l.. Stod-
dard's last book, Entertainment and
Culture at Home This is COM
plete edition of the travel lectures de-
livered by Mr.. Stoddard during the
past Is years, and includes nearly
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