Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-26

New York Herald of last Sunday
| He is one ola family Of children
and has always displayed marked
ability as a mathematician. He say,
he cannot exactly tell how he per
forms his feats of mental calculation
When only IL he was asked by {
teachers institute to stand such test,
as took many older ones with pencil
and paper some time, but he was in
variably correct.
Rev. O. ID. Baketel of Manchester
Y. H., father of Leon b. Baketel, who
robbed Leonard Love last week al
Montpelier, and Harry S. Baketel OF
Boston, a brother Of the prisoner, who
is employed in the business depart,
ment of the Boston journal, came to
Montpelier last week. They en-
ployed j. III. Senter as counsel in
Icons case. He was brought into
county court and Mr.. Senter acknowl-
edged the fact d the stealing, but
entered plea of insanity and asked
the court to issue an order commit
ting Leon to the state asylum for the
insane at Waterbury for detention
AMI observation.
Rutland is passing through an ep-
idemic of bowel trouble or cholera,
the cause for which has been attrib-
uted to the water. The fact has been
guarded well in order to avoid a scare
of any sort, but it is now believed
that the trouble is disappearing. Six
samples OF water have been to the
state laboratory at Burlington for
analysis. The main reason for be-
lieving that the sickness mentioned is
a direct result of drinking water is
the fact that the epidemic has been
general and not confined to any one
section of the city. There are at
present no serious cases Of contagious
diseases in town.
EX-Gov. L. A. Woodbury. was again
a witness at Burlington last week in
the petition for an injunction against
himself and the two managers Of the
Van Ness house. It has been generally
supposed that the case against the Van
Ness growing out Of the now celebrat-
ed banquet Of the Fish and Game club
had been closed with the decision of
Chancellor Rowell in the petit ton
denying the application for temporary
injunction. Ii now develops that the
case in which there remains the appli-
cation for a permanent injunction is
still pending. Ii was in this matter
and also the case in which a petition
is presented for the making permanent
Of the temporary injunction against
the drug store Of Druggist Hall across
the street from the Van Ness that ex-
Gov. Woodbury. was a witness.
The case of Bridget Mullen VS.. DIR.
w. G.. f, Flanders Of the Fanny Al
len hospital, Burlington, is being tried
in Rutland before Judge Rowell. DR.. |
Flanders is charged with malpractice
by the plaintiff. Miss Mullen's testi-
mony showed she was suffering with |
club feet, and that DIR. Flanders as
sured her a simple operation could |
cure her. As a result of alleged i'm
proper care gangrene set in and one |
Of her feet was amputated and the
other operated upon contrary to her
She is now a helpless Grip /
pie while before going to Burlington
,he could do considerable homework.
Of these charges, DR.. Flanders makes
/ general denial and testified that
lad his directions been followed the
could walk now. The case
vas given TO the jury Saturday and
after being out three hours and half
hey reported a verdict Of guilty and
he plaintiff will receive S6,S33.33
lama-es. She asked for only $1,000.
Dr. Flanders was not in court when
he verdict was announced.
The sarcastic letter written to the
Phoenix last week by Mrs.
Dr. Laura NJ. Plantz Of Putney, in
which Mrs. Plantz announced herself
IS a candidate for the vice presidency
N the ticket with Admiral Dewey,
vas looked upon in some quarters in +
N entirely different light than the
uthor intended, and during the past
week Mrs. Plantz has been a figure of ,
Iational attention. The letter was .
opted first in the Springfield, Mass,
MON. The New York and Boston
,apers then took it up and il has
one the length and breadth of the
ountry. Mrs. Plantz's photograph I
nd a sketch Of her life have been
published. and she has received nu- :
lerous letters and kilograms in rela-
ion 10 the matter. The agitation has <
rought out some interesting facts in
be life Of Mrs. Plant She is the :
,idow Of Judge ID. A. Plantz, men,
err Of Congress from Ohio, and step e
lother Of Gen. Lloyd Wheaton by a
primer marriage. In 1860 she gradu- <
ted from a medical school and was
ne Of the pioneers in medicine <
mong women. She was for many
ears practicing physician in the :
lone Of the Friendless in New York
.tv, and here she was awarded $50 :
n meritorious services because of the