Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-11-03

ington are recovering from what came
near being asphyxiation, coal gas es
Gaping from stove in their sleeping
room. They were discovered just In
time.
Postmaster Walker, on going to his
barn in Hartland few mornings
since to care for his stock, discovered
a partridge feeding with his flock OF
hens. 1t flew to nearby tree and he
shot it.
While laying water pipes in ditch
the other day, VIM. Grant of Lincoln
was fatally injured by a large roll oil
lead pipe falling upon him. Two
ribs were detached from the backbone
and he was otherwise injured.
Gov. and Mrs. E. G. Smith will be
the guests of honor at the annual re-
ception of the Daughters of Vermont
in Boston Dec. 3. The governors
sister, Mrs. Oliver Croker stevens, is
the honorary president of the society.
There was unique flag raising at
Underh;ll Center Oct. %, when Old
Glory was unfurled from a 55-foot
flag pole on the lawn of st. Thomas
church. There was speaking by sew
eral Of the priests and prominent
people.
Samuel Noyes drove off the abut-
ment to a bridge, that had been
washed away by the recent flood near
Bennington Oct. %, and had leg,
arm and his jaw broken. The car
riage was total wreck. The horse
was badly injured.
Mrs. David Potter, one of the old
est residents of Swanton, was one of
a party of girls to strew roses in the
pathway of Lafayette on his last visit
to America. She was nine years OF
age at the time and recalls readily his
general appearance.
+. z. Jackson OF Island Pond put
his hand into barrel the other day
and had it badly bitten by rat. Up
TO or three years ago rat was rarely
seen in Island Pond, and it was as
serted they could not exist there, but
now the place is swarming with them
Norman Farley shot eight grey
squirrels and two cartridges Oct. IL
IN the city of Burlington. During
MS hunting trip Of 10 days in Airing
ON, Hiram Fassett OF Bennington
'hot one fox, eight partridges, 80
grey squirrels, 10 woodcocks and 80
'abbits.
The fat mems club of Vermont has
voted to appoint its
heaviest member delegate to visit
Governor Smith and sit on him until
he acknowledges his error in not APP
single fat man a member
II his official staff.-Montpelier
Record.
Gen. Rush o. Hawkins OF New
Z ork, former vermonter, has sent
o the University OF Vermont 1850
looks. 1t is a special collection OF
biographies, official docu-
nents, stories, poetry orders, sketches,
to-, illustrating the various phases OF
he civil war.
A despatch from Caimanera, Cuba,
tates that on Monday of last week
United States Consul Theodore Brooks
nd Miss Pauline Brooks of Rutland
listed the Spanish warship lnfanta
daria Teresa. Miss Brooks is the
irst woman to GO aboard the Teresa
ince the vessel was fioated.
A terrific disaster at Montpelier
vas averted Saturday night by the
of the fire department,
7hiCh finding the gas house afire,
extingu;shed the flames,
Notwithstanding the danger of the ex-
losion of the great naptha tank with
capacity of 10000 gallons.
Mrs. George Dix, wife of a well-to-
o farmer of Nottingham, who re-
emily committed suicide, first slung
double-barrelled shotgun across the
ed and discharged it by pulling the
rigger with cord, after which she
at down beside the bed and, pulling
be cord again, blew her brains out.
w. S. Bennett of Brookline, who is I
cripple with broken thigh and has /
OF walked step for five years, has
usked over 200 bushels of corn this '
Ill and helped fill two large silos,
DING to and from work in his I
-heeled chair. He also saws and
pitts all the wood for his family to 8
urn.
AT hearing before Judge Wheeler
T the United States circuit court in
last week, the unsecured
reditors of the Central Vermont Rail-
BAD company, representing claims q
ggregatings about 81, 500, 900, asked
ave to be made defendants in the a
to foreclose their mort $
age upon the road.
John Bean of Barton has curiosi-
: in the shape of lump of maple
agar which was made over ~ years !.
20 by his father, Samuel Bean. 1t l
as taken from a tub of sugar and
-eighs five ounces. Age has not !.
,emed to hurt its sweetness at all and !