Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-11


tfuancy and stealing money. lie
wanted 10 90 to the circus and to DO
so took s6.99 from his mothers purse
and she caused his arrest.
! Ground has been broken for tine
new 81. MaTy's school building
between the convent building and the
hospital in ST. Adams The building
VII. measure 60 by 100 feet. will be
three stories high and will be built OF
| orlck. When completed il will be
the equal Of any building in the city.
Mrs. Mabel j. johnson. living in
West Newport, went strawberryino
last week and when returning home in
q team, suddenly fell over, ga ped and
died Instantly. She had picked about
p quarts Of berries, which. in such
excessive heat, was more than she
could stand. She leaves two children.
The barns Of Roy Meacham on the
Newport Center road were struck BY
! lightning Tuesday OF last week and
burned, several head of stock and
about 80 tons OF hay being sacrificed
also. Loss $500; insured Tor $1,000.
Mr. Meacham was in the barn at the
time and escaped very narrowly with
his life.
/ William Love and Everett StOckwell
Of Vernon while in bathing last week
found the body Oh an unknown man,
apparently 50 % 60 years of age.
Nothing OF value or that would fur
nish any means OF Identification was
found about his person Ii is thought
the dead man was James j. Griffin
OF Bennington
A family In the town Of jay has
rich relatives In Boston who had scar
let fever and measles in the family.
Soon after the sickness a lot Of wear
ing apparel was sent by them to their
Jay relatives. The result was that
every person who was present when
the box was opened, ten In all. is now
sick with scarlet fever and measles.
The monthly report OF Health Officer
Edgar B. Moore Of Rutland shows
twelve cases Of contagious diseases re-
ported during the month. These were
a. follows -Diphtheria. three; mea-
.les, eight: smallpox, one. There
were eighteen deaths during the
month. Of which three were from
pneumonia, two from tuberculosis and
two from paralysis.
Following is a list OF immigrants
admitted through the district OF
Vermont during the month OF June.
1901 Russia 56s, Italy 70, Austria So,
Sweden Is. Roumania 80. Ireland 3,
Poland 6, England 3, Germany ?,
South America j, Turkey 1. Denmark
/. Switzerland , Norway , Finland l.
Belgium /, Hungary 3, Galicia 5,
Armenia 3. Palestine ], total S2s.
Mrs. L. T. Garfield. who came from
Burnside. South Dakota, June 10 TO
deliver the principal address to the
one hundred and sixth annual Congl
convention OF Vermont at Rutland.
was taken in with smallpox there last
week. aud Is confined in the pest
house in the woods east Of Rutland.
Just after the close Of the convention
her daughter was taken i'll with small
box but is now convalescent.
Albert +. Walker. a machinist in the
employ of the Windsor Machine Co,
attempted suicide lately by cutting his
throat with a razor. Or. Harlow was
called and sewed up the wound OF the
suicide. who was taken TO
his home in Woodstock. Despond-
ency because of obstacles in the course
of true love is SAID to have been the
cause Of the rash attempt to put away
lite
An accident occurred at Fairfax last
week by which 5000 pounds OF butter
were practically ruined. Amos Rugg
had started fIom the depot with load
Of butter. the property Of j. NJ. Bee
man a SON. He had on about 3,30O
pounds. When going down the hill
near the Fairfax creamery the neck
woke broke and the load was tipped |
over scattering butter over the ground
for some five or six rods.
II mas been deemed necessary to
take measures to kill suckers in Dog /
river. with the result that over GEO |
mounds of dead suckers were gathered 1
nm at one bend in the river last week.
/ ime was used by the barrel. The |
reason for killing of OF these fish Is on
account of their dying in great numbers
from 4 parasite which kills them. As
hey would become a nuisance, II was
hought best to put an end to the pest
N this way.
Patrick Killela, who with mis- wife.
ather and brother lived in Woodland
lille ana who has worked in quarry
~ the Vermont Marble Co, has
lisappeared. After eating supper one
,ight last week he told his wife he
yas ooing down street He has not
,een seen since. His family is seeking
or any information with regard to
h whereabouts. Such information
nm be addressed to Bart killela OF
Vest Rutland.
Gen. John G.. Mccullough Of North
bennington has made arrangements
: have his farm inclosed with a sub
tantial stone wall Some time ago |
len. Mccullough put in a considerable
tretch of wall with coping on his
On account Of the clayey
.ature OF the soil the foundation OF the
yall was sunk five feet below the sur