Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12

An examination for the position OF
deputy officer, clerk, and dav inspec.
tor, customs service, will be held al
Newport June 20. Application
blanks and information relative to the
scope of the examination can be OBJ.
tanned from the secretary at Newport,
Vt.
Sherman Getty, a laborer, cut his
throat with a jaekknife at Huntington
last week. He had lived there for
more than 20 years. Insanity was
the apparent cause. 1t is thought he
has a mother in Canada and carried
life insurance in some benevolent
order there.
James Flynn, a farmer, aged As
years, shot himself through the heart
with a revolver Monday morning of
last week at his home three miles from
Aewfane village. He leaves a wife
and three children. He had no do
nestle troubles and it is supposed he
was temporarily insane.
In Franklin county court at st. AL
bans Monday Of last week in the case
of State vs.. William Bullice of High
gate, charged with the crime of arson,
in burning of certain buildings on the
Sheldon fair grounds early in tie
morning Of August, l3. 1899, return
ed verdict Of not guilty.
Word has come that Miss Eveline
Paddock, daughter of Gaius and
Mary Wood Paddock, died at her
home at Paddock's Grove, near Alton,
ILL.,, on March p, at the age Of SO
years and six months. Miss Paddock
was born at Woodstock in 1903 and
bad lived at Alton for 81 years.
Vermont is to be represented in the
gavel which is 10 be used at the next
national Republican convention by
piece Of wood that formerly was
part Of Fort Dumner when the fort
was one Of the outposts ofeivilization.
Every state ia the union will have
bit Of historical wood In the gayel.
DIR. J. II. Linsley of Burlington
made his first appearance upon the
streets with his new loeomobile last
week and it was watched with much
interest. DIR. Linsley's father, ID. c.
Linsley, once constructed a steam car
riage in that city. This was many
years previous to the perfection Of the
vehicle.
Bellevue Chapter, Daughters Of the
Revolution, has offered to
the members Of the st. Adams High
school two money prizes for the two
best essays on the subject, 1.-The Crit
zeal Events of the Revolutionary
War; The essays will be handed to
a committee of award about the mid
die of May.
Former Cashier Mussey Of the Mer-
chants National bank at Rutland,
waived examination before United
States Commissioner Merrill Saturday
on the charge Of transportation of
the funds Of the bank and was held
for the May term Of the grand jury
in $4,000 Musseys previous bail
has been 100000.
Silas b. Cobb,a wealthy Chicagoan,
who for so years has been connected
prominently with important business
interests Of that city, is dead. Mr..
Cobb went to Chicago from Montpel-
Ter. and was IS years old. Cobb hall, |
one Of the principal buildings belong !
ing TO the University Of Chicago, was
given that institution by Mr.. Cobb. |
The name of Ralph |. Lee Of the |
Office force at ST. Johns
bury is the first in the list Of those re-
reiying honorable mention Of the COM
petitors who supplied the fnal para
graph in a short story in the January !
number OF Eyerybody's Magazine.
The paragraph was to contain from
80 to 100 words and a prize of 500
was offered.
Letter Carrier +. l.. Pond of Bel
ows Falls while making his rounds
ately was caught by a moving train
between the track and the wall OF
Morse a Thompson's paper MIL
where the space was so narrow that
ne was fOl4tu lUt lthSAh VI th1 o"aiN
ng. On reaching an open place he
dropped down under the edge of the
,ars and escaped being crushed to
leath.
Mark Larner, brakeman of the
CENTRAL Verno Railway Co.. was
INJURED at Roxbury last week and
AIKEN to his home in st. Adams. lie
vas coupling cars, and in some way
Iipped between two moving cars.
rhe engineer heard him cry out and
TONED the train before he was seri-
,usly injured. His leg was severely
,ruised, though no bones were
,roken.
What is known as the Green prop
rtv located at Lake ST. Catherine IN
'oultney has been purchased by Mrs.
J. Lyde of New York for $3.50. Mrs.
VIDE is the mother of the talented {
nd popular young actress, Miss Elsie |
VIDE. now with the Joseph Jefferson {
ompany and who will next season |
ssume the title role in the play dra- j
natized from the popular DOCK,
Janice Meredith
Mr. and Mrs. w. IT. Rowe are at l