Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-03-16

NJ. DdfstOW, son OF " par
tow, is i'll with typhoid fever at hi
home in Shelburne.
The body of Owen DOYLE, who dis
appeared Feb. % from North Wal
pole, was found Sunday in the Inter
national Paper company's lntll racks
He was 90 years old and leavesa wife
irving Melendy, proprietor of tn,
Melendy house in Jacksonville, wa
badly burned and otherwise injured
by an explosion of acetylene gas il
the cellar. lie passed near the plant
with a lighted cigar in his hand. His
face and hands were badly burned
and he may lose his eyesight.
The preliminary hearing in the
case OF state against Charles Doherty
bas been again postponed until Thurs
day, March q, to await the result OF
Murphy's injuries. Murphy's physi-
clans still consider his case a desper-
ate one. The hearing in the case
against Randall Blodgett for resist
ing an officer has been continued un-
. ihuisua., bldf. 10.
G. b. Mitchell was arrested in
Georgia last week for bigamy and
was sentenced to fifteen months i'm
prisonment at Windsor. He lived
with his first wife about twenty-four
hours and remarked before her
death, which occurred last fall. He
would probably have kept clear OF
trouble had he not left his second
wife and been accused of living with
another woman.
or the newly n~aturalized citizens OF
the United States, who have been
sworn in by Judge Wheeler, 81 re-
ceived their papers Monday and 78
Thursday. OF the number l2s we're
from Barre, 6 from Montpelier and |
from Stowe. The countries where
applicants for citizenship were
born were Italy, Switzerland, Austria,
Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Great
britain, Uruguay, France and Russia.
A curious discovery was recently |
made by the workmen who were re-
the Boston IL Names steamer,
lady Of the Lake, which has run on
lake Memphremagog for the last 80
ears. A gold riyet was found in the
teamer's bow which was placed there
y, the late Sir Hugh Allen Of Mon
real when the boat was first built.
The rivet was four inches long and
must have cost originally about 1900.
The Vermont Methodist conference
meets this year at Newport. begin
ling April 10. Bishop WE. Mallalieu
4 Boston is to be the presiding bish-
p. Several important transfers to
nd from the Vermont conference are
expected. Among the important los
to the conference are those result
ng from the transfer Of Rev. Thomas
Of st, Johnsbury, to the New
southern conference and
+ Rev. A. Gillies of Montpelier, to
he New York conference.
George Potter, a brakeman on the
'oston and Maine railroad was seri-
usly injured at Bellows Falls last
eek. lie was standing on top OF a
freight train with his back to-
ard the engine and on entering the
ard tunnel was struck in the head by
ne stone work. His head was badly {
and the scalp torn from the {
eek up so that ii hung in folds over I
is face. Except from the danger
ON the shock, his injury is not like J
to have bad consequences. {
The summer residence of Mrs, John :
i. Tibbitts at Bennington occupied by :
so~n-in-law, James G. Colgate Of !
ew York, was burned last Thursday. :
he house, which was of stone, was !:
Iilt during the civil war at a cost of
'er 500, 0O0. Several pictures and i
me furniture, valued at $40, 1000, =
ere saved from the first floor. The :
surance is about S35, 900. The fire !
supposed to have started from an :
'erheated furnace. Mrs. Tibbitts is :
ending the winter in the Bermuda q,
ands.
George II. Philips of Putney will :
ship at the Putney railroad sta !,
IN 20 fat cattle to go across the ocean :
England, where they will be :
Iughtered for the ''fine" trade and y
out a month later he will start an y
her car load for the same destina- I
N. The finest lot Of fat cattle with
a radius Of many miles from Put
v and probably the finest lot that II
be found in this state may now Il
seen at his farm. Among the cat ii
TO be shipped is a pair of thorough W
"a Holstein oxen, six years old. g
lie combined weight of these oxen is di
lrly 1850 pounds. &C
is nothing just as good for salt a,
eczema, scalds, burns, chapped
1ds, chatting, old sores, cuts and wounds, VI
Lady poor's Ointment. Ii has imita- VI
5 and counterfeits, but no equals. For +
years il has been recognized as the
: great pile cure. Fully warranted. All ~