Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-09-15

nc iarin machinery on the Bill
ings farm at Woodstock is to be ruI
! oy electricity to be supplied by a pow
er station in the river falls on tn,
farm. The plant is nearly completed
The fourth prisoner in Chittender
county Jail on the charge of crimina
assault is VIM. Montgomery, a horse
man at the Howard Park fair las,
week, who assaulted Minerve Larow
aged IA.
Moy 10y, the well-known Chinese
interpreter connected with the rcye.
nue. department of Vermont, was re-
Gently married to Miss Mabel Sabine
OF Richford. Moy is thoroughly
Americanized and draws a good sal
airy.
VIM. O'Brien of Hardwick, while
standing on the Main street bridge
one evening recently, undertook to be
polite and stepped aside to let some
ladies pass when he fell IA feet into
the water, dislocating his shoulder
and almost killing him.
A paper has been circulated in
Middlebury asking Gov. Grout to
pardon Smith G.. Davis, now in
states prison. Davis will be remem-
Dered as the respondent in the ia
nous Dora Cushman case. The paper
was very freely signed by many prom
inent men.
George Blossom of Perk insville had
a leg broken and was badly bruised
by the fall OF an iron bridge he was at
work on that spanned the st. Law
renee river at Cornall, between New
York and Canada. Fourteen men
were killed outright and quite num-
Der injured.
A young man by the name of
Frank Mckinney of Warren shot
himself recently. The ball entered
above the right eyebrow. Mr.. Nc
Kinney is a young man of good
character and highly respected by his
friends. Disappointment in love is as
signed as the cause.
Fou. thousand people attended the
Lamoille county fair at Morrisville
the middle day aud saw the state half
mile bicycle record lowered by James
Clark of Morrisville to LOO IL. Prof.
Bonnet made a successful balloon
and parachute drop. The
horse races were good.
A young man named Chantney had
one foot cut off at the station at Bel
lows Falls Sept. 6 by the cars. He
was from Fitzwilliam, N. H., and on
his way to visit relatives in Charles
town. He attempted to get on the
train while it was in motion, but he
slipped and fell under the wheels.
Samuel Hendee, Brandon farmer,
lied last week under circumstances
which point strongly to suicide by
poisoning. Whether 1t was done ac-
,identally or purposely no one knows.
He was a bachelor, and for years had
been considered nnsound, but lately
lad showed more marked signs OF in
'anity.
DIR. Thomas Sexton Robinson Of
New York died last week, willing
most of his large property to the Uni
Tersity of Vermont, from which he
graduated in 1879 from the medical
department.. He was an agnostic in
eligion anil at his funeral an address
vas read prepared by Ingersoll, with
whom he was very friendly.
The will be two ''literary fellers" in
,ur next Vermont House of Repre-
entatives. One is DIR. w. Seward
Webb, who wrote an account OF his
rip to Alaska few years ago, and
he other is Frank w. Hastings, the
Gentleman from Waterford, who three
ears ago published book Of hImor,
ntitled "Wed to Lunatic."
II. X. Dewey. Sc, cashier of the Ma
ional bank at Barton, died Sept. 3.
lie had been cashier OF the Barton
,ank the past % years. He was clerk
1 the house of representatives in 1872,
nd was one OF the active members OF
he legislature in 1892, when he was
he member from Barton. He left a
rife and two married daughters.