Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-06-30

$4,000 pounds of old rubbers to Con
necticut.
UP to Saturday noon Burlington
had subscribed for 1878, $40 of the
war loan.
Lieut.. Stratton of Co. X, who had
leg ampItated at the Fanny Allen
hospital, Winooski, is recovering rap.
idly.
The city fathers of Montpelier say
that no milk shall be sold in the ham
let on the Winooski that does not
come from tested cows.
| The Central Vermont railroad has
paid Mrs. Charles NJ. Erskine of Will
JAMESTOWN $500 for injuries sustained
at Montpelier Junction last year.
Landlord johnson OF Essex juno
ton was lately arrested at jericho
having in his possession 60 trout less
than six inches long. The fine is So
for each trout.
The Cycle club of Richmond have
recently bought twcnty-two-hun-
dred-pound roller, with which they
roll a very good bicycle path by the
roadside, without large expense.
The injunction placed by the Con-
solidated Lighting Co. ON the Barre
and Montpelier Traction 81 Power
Co. has been dissolved. The operation
of the road will be begun as soon as
the power can be turned and the line
charged.
Maj. S. p. Jocelyn, who has been
stationed in Burlington for nearly a
year on duty with the Vermont
National Guard, has been ordered to
New York, where he will act as
chief mastering officer with six lieu
tenants as assistants.
l.. ii. Love of St. Johnsbury, for
peace at any price and something of
Spanish sympathizer, was hung in
effigy recently. In the right hand on
card were the words "President of
the Universal Peace League" and in
the left Spanish flag.
The Troy Conference academy at
Poultney had narrow escape from
being burned June Is. The gymna
stun and large shed and several
smaller ones in the rear of it were
burned almost to the ground and the
rear of the brick dormitory badly
charred.
Business at the st. Johnsbury scale
shops is rushing, IA carloads being
shipped every week. In the valve
department they are melting two tons
of brass daily. The manufacture of
inspirators has been recently added TO
this department. The company now
nearly GOO hands.
A young nurse, Miss Boomour, was
recently brutally assaulted by three
men in Bakersfield. The victim Is in
a critical condition, two of the brutes
are in custody and the other has es-
cased to Canada. One Of the men
called to take her to care for an aged
couple but instead took her to
lonely house where the three men did
their fiendish work.
Thomas ID. Carroll, who ran a
bucket shop in Bennington over a
year ago and decamped with a con-
siderable amount OF money that had
been put up on margins, was indict-
ed at the recent sitting of the grand
Jury. Carroll is confined at present
in the Jail at Chicago. He will be
brought to Bennington as soon as his
serm of Imprisonment expires.
Mrs. George Hammer of Brattleboro,
aged 60, was found in the woods on
Catamount Hill, Colraine, Mass, last
in a critical condition.
While her husband was away Tues
lay the house was burned and Mrs.
Hammer disappeared. Her mind was
impaired and she did not realize what
The was doing in her wanderings.
She had been severely burned and was
from the long exposure
These changes have been made in
he salaries of the. postmasters at
places named below: Increase, Bel
ows Falls, $4,000 TO -, 400; Hard ,
wick, 81, 200 to $1,000; Mortified,
81, 800 to 81, 600; Waterbury, 81, 200
o 81, 500; Bethel, 81, 800 to 81 400;
4yde Park. 81 600 to Sl,700; Rich
ord, 81 100 to 81, 200; White River
81, 200 to $500; Brandon,
Il. 600 to 81 zoo; Lyndonville, 81, 400
o 81, 900; st. Adams, $1,000 to 81 ]
100; Wilmington, 81, 100 to $1,000.
Decreases. Bradford, $500 to >, 400;
,axton's River, 81, 400 to $1,000.
AT a special meeting Of the Repub-
lean State League of Vermont held
. +ho Dav;ll;on Monfnplier after the
adjournment of the second district con-
ention these delegates were elected
o attend the National League
at Omaha next month";
). s. Page of Hyde Park, J. j. Estey
+ Brattleboro, Theophilus Grout OF
Newport, Z. b. Taft OF Burlington,
v. N. Plat of Shoreham, l.. b.
lack of st. Johnsbury, RI. kimball
+ Randolph, Ed. White OF Rutland.
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