Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-06-23
The cost of the Mildred Brewster
murder trial was $40, 300.

domination III Hon. Fred A. Field o
hutland as US. marshal for Vermont
Irving Murdoch of Hartford wa
thrown from his bicycle in Queche,
the other day and suffered conclusion
of the brain.
Gen. Charles P. Mattocks, who ha.
been confirmed as brigadier-general
Is a native Of Vermont, having been
born in Danville, Oct. IL, 1910.
The annual convention of the Yer.
mont Spiritualists was held at Stowe
last week, commencing Friday morn
ing and ending Sunday evening.
On Thursday the five-years-old
son OF Joseph B. Lamere of Ludlow
attempted to get on a passing wagon
and was caught in the wheel,
breaking his right leg below the knee.
Some timbers that were being hoist
ed at the raising of barn in Lyndon
vile fell and struck Henry Kilby
and Henry Watson. The former
had one arm broken in two places,
and the latter's left leg was broken
close to his body.
Daniel Sweeney of Montpelier, a
laboring man aged 6s years, hung
himself last Thursday night. The
body was found hanging from a
willow tree near the river bank. He
had been unable to work all winter
and was respondent. He had no
near relatives.
The following immigrants arrived
in the United states through the dis
trict of Vermont during the month of
May: From Russia, III; Galicia, "a;
Sweden, Is; Hungary, s.; Poland, 10;
Germany, 6; Spain. A; in transit to
Vera Cruz; Austria, 3; England, 81;
Italy, 2; Japan, l; Finland, l; Dem
mark, |; Turkey, 2; Roumania, Il;
total, 206.
The Vermont Marble company of
Proctor is building large monument
for the family of the late ex-Gov. j.
Gregory Smith. The monument,
which will be erected in the cemetery
at st. Adams, is of white marble and
its design is very handsome. 1t is ii
feet square anil II feet in height and
has canopy top resting an l6 mas
sive marble columns.
Admiral George Dewey, the hero
of Manila, is now a doctor of the
laws. He was made an LID. by
Western University of Pennsylvania
last Thursday night. 1t was consid-
cred appropriate to confer the degree
as Pittsburg armor plate is on
Dewey's vessel, and a member of the
faculty, Prof. John A. Brashear,
some of Dewey's range |
finders.
Charles Ladue, who works in the
room of the Burlington
wooden mill at Winooski, had his arm |
caught in the machinery and the
flesh torn off nearly to the elbow last
week. The fingers were also badly
mangled and damned. He is only l6 |
years old and went TO work in the
mills only few days ago. If he
ives he will lose his, arm the physi-
clans think.
The little three-years old daughter
IF an Italian named Cattozi, who |.
ives at Center Rutland, was terribly
burned last Thursday. She was left
With other children at play about the
house, the party got some matches
md the little girls clothing was set on
fire with them. Before help arrived
The was burned so that about two
birds of the skin on her body
vas lost, and one b. nd was frightful-
y injured.
The Experiment Station has just is
'ued 46-page bulletin on CONNER
,ial Fertilizers. This publication is
he largest and most complete thing
If the kind thus far printed in this
tate. 1t contains the analyses of over
100 samples of fertilizers, with COM
nents, matter descriptive OF fertiliza-
ion, choice of fertilizers, home mix
ng, money saving to be made by in
purchase, etc. The bulletin
is sent without charge to any address
lpon application.
The Dewey genealogy, a work in
which w. 7. Dewey of Montpelier
las had large share in preparing, is
@ be issued at Westfield, Mass, in
November and will contain a COM
,lete history of the Dewey family.
W. 7. Dewey has been associated in
he work with Louis Nj. Dewey OF
Westfield, Mass, Orville G. Dewey of
Wheeling, West Va, and A. M.
Dewey of Washington, ID. G. The
york has been in preparation for sew
raj wears and will contain several
hundred pages. 1t traces the family
Jack to its residence in Kent county,
England, to which place it came from
france.
Gen. William r. Shafter of the
ocular army, who is leading the in
aston Of Cuba, sprung from the YER
mont family of that name. His Ia
hers name was james Shafter. born
4 the little farming town of Athens,
few miles west of Bellows Falls,
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