Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-07-28

ANo DOch ahtcnttu NJ LAM pa on charge
OF embezzlement. He was the sec
rotary of Chicago building and loan
association.
Jerry Donahue of Montpelier juno
ton was lately thrown from his wheel
onto picket fence, severing an artery
in his wrist. He was greatly weak
ened by loss of blood.
Several Montpelier young ladies are
wearing hat pins, the heads of which
are made from United States army
buttons from the new federal uni
forms at Chickamauga.
John Maxwell of Waitsfeld was
quite seriously injured the 18th by be-
ing run over by pair of horses at
tached to a moving machine. Luck
lily no bones were broken.
Dennis McCarty of Poultney was
thrown from moving machine last
week and fell in front of the knife
bar. His thumb was nearly ampu-
tated and his hand badly cut.
DR.. III. Nelson Jackson, formerly
assistant physician at the Brattleboro
Retreat, has beenIappointed instructor
in surgery in the medical department
of the University of Vermont.
A new tangled potato bug is report
ed from Quechee. 1t is long and slim,
of blush cast, remarkably agile and
possessed of a robust appetite, but
readily succumbs to Paris green.
Joe Covill was arrested at South
Hero last week for leaving Cambridge
with a wheel which he had purchased
on the installment plan and had not
paid for. He gave up the wheel.
Henry Magee of Milton fell 20 feet
from barn the other day. One leg
was broken in three places, his should
er blade was broken and he was badly
bruised if not injured internally.
t. II. Page, eldest son of ex-Gov.
Page, died at LasVegas, New Mex,
July 10. His father had started for
that place the day before, in response
to a message that his son was worse.
Owing to continued i'll health, Col.
o. ID. Clark OF the First regiment,
Vermont Volunteers, has asked for a
leave of absence of 80 days that he
may return to Vermont to recuperate.
John Ewing, who touched off a
counter loaded with fire works, etc.,
at Montpelier July A, with his cigar,
has settled for the display he made.
He said he did not know they were
loaded.
The officers of the Barre town are
determined to stop Sunday picnics
from that city. Recently combina-
ton of 400 granite cutters, eight bar
rels of beer and some hard stuff made
the day hideous.
The larger biennial state printing
jobs have been awarded, one each to
the Burlington Free Press, ST. Adams
Messenger, futile company of Rut-
land, Montpelier Argus and Mont
pelier Waterman.
A well executed counterfeit of the
80 Dominion of Canada bill is in cir
culation in Vermont and a good num-
Der of the bogus bills are being passed
in the towns on the boundary line.
Look out for them.
Middlebury college is building a
new residence on Storrs avenue.
This will make five houses, every one
on the street now owned by the cor
poration. Under their charter all
are exempt from taxation.
A Fairhaven boy at the Klondike
writes: sThere is no darkness there
now. 1t is as light at midnight as it
is at noon. One Of the boys was read
ing a paper in the tent without can
die at o'clock in the morning."
George Seagel, St.. Adams mer-
chant, caught Ernest Rabitor stealing
from his cash drawer. He had missed
small sums for several weeks and by
changing the money drawer combine
ton succeeded in surprising the cul-
prit.
VIM. Maple returned to Underhill
last week, after two years absence
in Canada, where lie went after COM
hitting a brutal assault on Gertrude
Cullen, l4-year-old girl. He was
arrested and is now in Chittenden
county Jail.
r.. L. Goodenough of West Bridge
water caught cub bear in trap re-
Gently. He also caught full-grown
bear. weighing about $50 pounds. The |
trap weighed IL pounds, but the big
hear carried it SO that ii made no trail
for full mile.
Walpole, N. H., across the river
from Bellows Falls, celebrated the sur
render of Santiago with hreworks'
hontires. firing Of cannon, etc. A
cannon exploded and killed a COW
belonging to j. G. Bellows in a pas
ture 80 rods away.
.Ioseph Wood of Berlin died at his
home July 20 at the age of SO years.
He was the oldest citizen in that town
where he had resided for 10 years.
Mr. Wood broke the ground for the