Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-06-22

Ca piOucu, anu the Dfcccn etFuCl
nun Just over the eye, breaking hi
skull in two places. Doctors wer'
called and>removed several pieces o
bone. He was conscious through il al
and has shown much courage.
Henry |. Gould of Bellows Falls, II
years old, who assists his father il
carrying the mail, was arrested last
week Monday and taken TO st. Johns
bury on charge Of robbing the mail
lie confessed his guilt and when ask.
ed why he did it said he had Just
bought wheel and must have some
money and that he took letters which
looked like "fat" ones and apt to con-
tain money.
A party Of 'correctors" took Patrick
Broughal from the residence of
Robert Redpath at West Berlin one
evening recently and gave him a coat
OF tar. Broughal's alleged attentions
TO Mrs. Redpafh were the cause of
the trouble. lie was not bodily in
Jured but his new clothes were ruined
and his hair was fill with tar. He
left for parts unknown as soon as he
cleaned himself up.
The granite dealers OF East Barre
have appealed TO the state board OF
railroad commissioners for relief be-
cause they claim they are not able to
obtain billing arrangements for
through points on the railroads, and
that they are Disseminated against
in favor OF the dealers in Barre. The
railroad commissioners have notified
the complainants that the matter is
not within their Jurisdiction, but that
the interstate commerce commission
ers will take mp their case.
The sale Of the choice Morgan stock
from Col. lie Grand b Cannon's "Yer-
mont Stock Farm" will disperse some
Of the finest Morgan stock in the
country. Col. Cannon has been breed |
ing fine horses for forty years and has
il in a systematic and intel
igent way, which has produced some |
results. Twenty-Five OF |
these years of breeding have been on
MS Vermont stock farm in Shelburne,
md here, owing TO conditions OF soil
md climate, the work has been most
A trotting circuit for the Septem-
Der fairs has been formed by the Off
,ers Of the state fair at w. r. Junction,
he Sheldon fair, the Morrisville fair
ND the Caledonia county fair at St.
Iohnsbury, and the officers have ar
anged for the following classes at
ach- fair: Three minute, 2:40, 2:35,
:22, 2:ls and free-for-all. Each as
win arrange its own purses,
ut the above classes will be trotted
{ each fair. The circuit opens with
he Sheldon fair the first week in Sep
smber and closes at st. Johnsbury the
Durth week in September.
Massachusetts, parties have bought !
he Chafiee farm in Richford on which
; an old copper mine, paying $4,000
Dr. the same. They have a Califor-
ia miner in charge and will soon put {
4 a reducer and condenser and gang
I % men. The ore will be sent away :
} be smelted. The ore assays 65 per 7
INT copper, and there is blue ore /;
liked in which assays IS per cent. II
said TO be the only copper mine in
'orth America yielding the blue ore,
though there is one such in Peru, n
outh America. The vein is large :
ne and al present prices promises to =
} good thing. i
Beginning Monday, June &c, new =,
ain will be put ON the Boston 4 .
iaine railroad, leaving Brattleboro
a. IN. The train will reach Il
laremont Junction in time to con- =
sct with the morning train for Con- ii
nd, N. H., and Boston, and it will Ii
rive at Windsor at 1886, making c,
ose connections with the Central u
ermont train for st. Adams The
w train also connects at White N
liver Junction with the Passumpsic D
vision through to Newport, thus J
aking it possible TO reach many [
'ints in the north of the state and
turn the same day. 81 81
Frank j. Laughlin of Fairfax, aged nj
years, committed suicide last week
onday at the farm of Curtis Ii.
unit. There is no reason for the act :
cept that i'll health caused Temporal
insanity. He obtained gun and 4
d piece of half-inch rope about \
hit feet long upon the outside catch q
the barn door and the other end :
stoned to the trigger OF the shot gun &
itch he then held with the mnzzle
inted to his heart. Taking step Z
ckward he frightened the rope and =
lsed the gun to 90 off, the charge =
tering the body at the heart and 4
ath occu rriDg instantly. =
A man, claiming to be Charles Will 6
mson of Bennington, and who