Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-12-14

abilities, 81 ,305.6l; assets, Sl0O.
Frank +, Green of Mount Holly, liza.
bilities, S306.3l assets, 81 ,230. Frank
T. McGovern Of Hardwick, liabilities,
SG4i.Sl; assets, $40 exempt. Fred
Plummer, a merchant of Cambridge,
liabilities, SG,277.55; assets, 50, 1s0.
1t is said that the cotton mill oper-
atives in Vermont are about to receive
an advance of about 10 per cent in
their wages. This will be in line with
the action that is being taken by cot
ton manufacturers in all OF the other
New England states. There are more
than !, 900 cotton mill operatives in
Burlington and Winooski, and the
proposed advance in wages will make
a difference OF more than 81 900 a
week in the pay rolls.
Charles Frazier, Frank Primrose
and VIM. Ralph, who had been in the
jail at Troy since Nov. IA on the
charge Of being implicated in the
robbery at the store and postofiice in
South SALISBURY, were surrendered
TO the Vermont authorities Wednes-
day of last week and brought to the
jail at Bennington by Sheriff Wilson
and Deputy Sheriff Nash of this viii
lage The prisoners will be turned
over 10 the United States marshal Of
/ Vermont.
James G. Conlan Of Rutland re-
GENTLY had narrow escape from
death in the railroad yard. He was
standing on the platform of the
freight depot, when he was taken
with an epileptic fit and fell across
the rails in front OF an approaching
Delaware 4 Hudson engine. Mich
ael Mclaughlin Of West Rutland
jumped down TO rescue Conlan, but
the engineer succeeded in stopping
his engine within few inches Of the
two men.
The seventh annual exhibition Of
the Vermont state Poultry and Pet
Stock association is TO be held at
Woodstock the first week in January,
the date being ., 3, 4 and ). Under
the leadership Of its president, Fred
erick Billings, the owner Of one Of the
largest and highest cultivated farms
in New England, an able corps of
officers has made arrangements which
should make the exhibition second to
none. The special list Of premiums
is ahead of anything put out this year
east Of the Hudson.
An important industry in its day,
the Hoag cracker factory, at one time
employing about 40 men, and having
pay roll of many thousands OF dol
lars a year, and doing a gross BUSH
ness of upwards of 100000 a year,
NAV be said to be dead, says the Rut-
land News. II has been killed by the
cracker trust, which not only has put
up the price OF this necessary COM
modify in this territory since it
brought out Mr.. Hoag, but thus has
throttled in Rutland very important
and busy manufacturing institution.
Last Friday evening fire started in
the basement Of the High School
building at Cambridge, which was
destroyed, as were a handsome dwell |
ling owned by Mrs. Nathan and a /
dwelling and barn owned by Mr..
Stratton. The village has no fire pro-
lection and it was necessary to form
a bucket brigade and bring water
from the river. Help came from |
Fairfax, Fletcher, Jacksonville and
Cambridge Junction. The loss was
estimated at between $1,000 and
IS. 600.
The case of Samuel A. Moves OF
North Bennington against the town
OF Hoosick is on trial in the Rens-
selaer county court in Troy The
action is TO secure damages for in
juries received by the plaintiff driving
into culvert caused by a washout in
the highway leading from Walloom-
sac TO North Bennington in October,
1898. The suit is for $4,000 dam
ages. Two other actions are pending
as the result of the accident. In one
the wife OF the plaintiff sues for
$4,000 damages, and in the other the
plaintiff asks 5000 damages.
Cyrus O. Lowell, Jr., Of Cavendish,
graduate of st. Johnsbury academy
in 1892, is visiting in this state before
going to London, where he expects
to sell the stock of the mining concern
controlled by himself and partner
Lowell spent five years in the mining
camps of the Rockies and then went
TO Alaska. He endured the hardships
there two years, but without success,
but was fortunate in being the ninth
man TO take out acclaim at Cape Nome.
lie and his partner now control about
SO claims 81 Cape Nome, where the
yield of gold is much greater than in
the klondike.
Complaints have been made regard
ing the large number OF lake trout
that have been killed at Newfound
lake this season by the alleged improp-
er handling of the fish in the so-called
stripping process. One OF the COM
plainants alleges to have seen two 4
dead trout, weighing between 10 and
Ii pounds, taken from the fish screen
d, . H. I,l-n ono IaN and states that