Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-08-04
The case of d. F. Holden of Hard

i The case of ID. F. Holden of Hard
wick, who was arrested in Rutland
last January for refusing to pay the
conductor on tie Rutland railroad,
when he held a mileage ticket not is
sued to him and without his name
thereon and offered same in payment
for a ride, has been decided in favor
of Mr.. Holden, who will now sue the
Rutland railroad for damages.
| Sheriff Collins went recently to
Cabot to serve divorce papers on Mrs.
Lula Moulton of Barre. He search
ed the house where she was supposed
to be without finding her, but kept at
it. After wading through the will
lows and cherry bushes for one hour,
and while pulling apart heavy
clump of willow twigs, his vigilance
was rewarded. In them he found
Mrs. Moulton curled up and lying
flat on the ground. Mrs. Moulton
recognized the officer and greeted him
with the salutation, "Well, You found
me, didn't you ?"
The Caledonia county Democracy
nominated the following ticket July
% at St. Johnsbury: Senators, Geo.
b. Davis Of Danville, George Cochrane
of Ryegate; judges, Albert w. Nor
cross of Hardwick, w. S. LETTERS of
Lyndonville; probate judge, B. E.
Billiard Of Hardwick; states attorney,
II. b. Howe st. Johnsbury; sheriff,
6. NJ. Campbell of Lyndon. The
latter gentleman is strong Republic
can and chairman of the Republican
county committee and the movement
is an effort to defeat Sheriff Sulloway,
who has held the Office nearly twenty
years.
The Bennington and Rutland rail-
road has just completed the laying of
20 car loads of new steel rails from
White Greek to Arlington. Seventy
car loads more have arrived and will
Immediately be laid between Airing
ton and Manchester. The new rails
weigh so pounds to the yard, while
the old ones weigh only 65 pounds.
When the whole lao cars of steel rails
have been laid the railroad will have
practically a new road from White
Creek TO Manchester, distance OF "a
miles. Work will be Immediately be-
gun upon the new station at Shafts
bury upon the site of the one recently
burned. The bridge over Cold river
is being replaced by an iron-decked
bridge.
The Democrats OF Windsor county
nominated the following ticket July
26: Senators, Don G. Pollard, Caven-
dish; G. A. Fitzpatrick, Hartford;
George H.Tupper, Bethel; side judges,
E. B. Baldwin, Sharon; A. B. Hutch
inson, Chester; sheriff, II. II. Miller,
Hartland; states attorney, S. E. En-
cry, Cavendish; county commissioner,
b. M. Newton, Reading; judge of
probate, Windsor district, Levi Rice,
Springfield; Hartford district, Harvey
N. Bruce, Pomfret; county commit
tee, 0. G. Sawyer, Sharon; James
Conlin, Windsor; Frank O'Neill, White
River Junction; Col. III. Peabody, An
dover; Will ID. McMaster, Woodstock.
The resolutions reafiirm the Chicago
platform.
Capt. Philip Of the Texas just escap-
ed being a Vermonter. AT the earli-
est recollection of the writer, says a
correspondent of the Fair Haven Era,
DR.. Philip, whose wife was daugh-
ter of Prof. Theodore Woodward,
one of the founders of the old YER
mont medical college, and in his day
a very eminent physician, lived in
Castleton. DIR. Philip removed from
Castleton to Undertook, N. Y, near
ly 60 years ago, soon after which his
son, John Woodward Philip, one OF
the heros of the late naval victory at
Santiago, was born. He entered the
naval academy at a suitable age and
when midshipman occasionally visit
ed his relatives here. He was pleas
ant and nice appearing lad. Today
the name of Capt. "Jack" Philip of
the battleship Texas finds place OH
the roll OF victorious American sea-
men, the fame of whose recent glori-
Gus achievements encompasses the
universe. !