Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-02-23
State of Vermont.
IFS News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

z bouse of Mrs. Ezra Gates in St.Johns-
I hurry. The furniture was removed.
Frederick butcher of st. Adams,
aoed II, died last week after IA years
4 of poor health following an injury.
Clarence Caswell of Williston
pIeaded guilty last week TO three Of
fences of stealing grain from a neigh
boris barn,
Charles II. Cross of Montpelier, the
u veteran cracker manufacturer, was 81
wears OF age Feb. ID. Mr.. Cross is as
spry and active as man of so.
At the fifth annual banquet of the
Buffalo society of Vermonters, Prof.
Walter f.. Howard of Middlebury
was the principal speaker. HIS adj
dress was a eulogy of Senator Morrill,.
The wrestling match in Barre last
week between Edward Desc of st.
Adams and Henry Welch of Mont
heller was awarded to the latter, all
three falls being awarded on breaking
hold.
Now that the war investigating
committee has ceased its labors, ex-
GOV. and Mrs. U. A. Woodbury. will
take a pleasure trip through the
South, returning to Burlington about
April LIST.
Professor +. G. Ham of East Par
.onsyille, Me-, has succeeded the late
Prof. ID. G.. Abbott as principal of the
Vergennes graded school. Prof. Ham
has supplied at Dartmouth college
Two wears.
Thomas Hunter of Castleton was
very severely injured by the starting
Of his horses when coming down
steep hin with a load Of wood. His
Jaw bone was broken and he was
otherwise severely bruised and cut.
The Bennington q Rutland rail-
road has completed the new station at
SALISBURY, TO replace the one burned |
there last year, and is also having /
plans drawn for one 10 be built at /
Griffith as soon as the season will 1
permit
Work has been resumed at the YER
shire copper mines that were known .
and were at one time famous as the .
ely mines" They are now operat-
ed by Garretson, Smith & Ogden of
New York city. +. l.. Smith is the
general manager
Hon. DIN Merrill of Enosburgh
Falls and A. b. Valentine of Benning-
ton were members of the committee OF
reception for the banquet which the
Home Market club of Boston
gave in honor Of the visit of President
Mckinley Thursday evening.
In its annual report TO the tax pay
ers Of Montpelier the city council es-
Inmates the receipts for the next year
as S79,4O7, and the estimated expenses
are S5s,s0o; net liability, sl5l, $50.
The net liability last year was
sl1lIs.64 less than the above figures.
The Woman's Loyal club Of w. II.
junction, 10 which is due the erection
OF a soldiers monument in the village
cemetery and the raising OF funds for
the soldiers who enlisted from that
vicinity for service in the Spanish
war, Is now engaged in raising funds
for public library.
Hon. \. b. Forget OF Manitoba,
lieutenant governor OF the Northwest ,
territory, has been in Montpelier the |
past week. Gov. Forget was at one
Tine a resident Of Montpelier and a ;
member Of the family OF the late Geo.
W. Reed, who remembered him in
his will with 81 ,Oe0.
The death Of three-year-old !
daughter Of Mrs Claskiskey of Bel
lows Falls led TO a knowledge of des- I
Tuition and hardship rarely equalled |
10 this state. The mother is Po- :
lander and had evidently been desert +,
ed by her husband, who left her with /
Tour children TO provide for Il
Willard Green Of Roxbury, aged 30
who went to Chickamauga with Co. !
- New Hampshire volunteers, was |
sentenced last Saturday 10 20 years in
.he states prison at Concord, n. H., II
'oF The killing of Edward Moore in {
N0iile following dispute in a lunch I
cart az Massabesic. n. III. i
Demasse Quintin, brakeman, was {
instantly killed in the railroad yard e
al IT. Adams Friday morning. He e
was on top Of the freight car when a a
sudden motion threw him TO the n
ground, crushing his skull on the rail. :
u. leaves, beside a wild ow, six chill L
HIen. He was a mem Der of Green 4
Mountain Lodge, b. r. 7. b
AS al instance Of the new order of !
Ina ". which the acquisition OF Porto
i hlao and the Philippines has brought
i"'o commerce, even up here in YER !
mont y. it Is Of interest 20 note that W.
N fernandez has opened an Office in I
N1land for the translation of letters +
:l1 other documents from Spanish n
Spanish. h
sheriff B. F. Kelley and Deputy /,
.leriti George Catlin OF ST. Adams =
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