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

I laflH near bN. where tneN were nclQ iOf
the payment Of costs and until they re-
gained sufficient strength to allow
them TO be shipped
The three weil-contested races at
Barre the Fourth were witnessed by
5000 people. The free-for-alI. purse
: 1000 was won by The Maid in the
third. fourth and fifth heats. f. +.
Knott taking the first two. Time,
j.l4 ~. 2.lj, 2.lj 3-4, 2.l7 l-2. 2.l5.
The 2.24 race, purse $3.50, went to
Susan in the second, third and fourth
heats, Polly Warner taking the first
Time, 2.2l -. 2 20 -. 2.2g Sd Barb
Wire won the 2.33 race, purse 5000. in
three straight. Time. 2.3j II, 2.29 Ia,
2.2S II.
Leslie II Hamilton Of Great Falls,
Mont, who, with his wife and two
daughters. is visiting his sister. Mrs.
) G.. Stafford OF BrattlebOro, is one of
the leading sheep men OF Montana.
president and three-fourths owner Of
the Sage Creek Sheep Co., with Slj0.-
600 capital. The company owns 3D.
600 sheep and 10000 acres OF land.
with 10000 more leased The bust
lness is managed BY Mr. Hamilton and
is in a prosperous condition. lie re-
Gently sold 700 head OF his fine merinos
at Sl2.j0 each.
Several young men were loading an
! anvil at East Barre the Fourth, when
some one threw a tirecracker into
their keg of powder An explosion
ensued which injured four of the
] young men. Clarence stevens suffer
/ ed from the conclusion so severely
I that he was rendered unconscious and
for some time it was feared he would
/ die His hair and clothes were burn
ed nearly of from him, He is now
expected 10 recover. The others in
iured were Ellis Henry, Fred WolcOtt
and Jerr0ll Stevens.
EX-Cashier Charles W. Mussey OF
I the Merchants National bank OF Rut-
land, who was pardoned by President
I Mckinley recently. was operated upon
| for appendicitis at the Rutland city
! hospital July 81. The physicians
I found Mussey In a serious condition.
They think he may recover bat il he
does ii win be very slowly as Ii is the
I third attack he has had of the disease.
They waited nearly a month for Mus
sey to get strong enough to stand the
operation His future plans if he re-
covers are not known.
Francis Truth of divine healing
| Game, whose real name was Bemis UNI
ill the New Hampshire legislature
acted fayorably upon a request to
change il. once a laundryman at Brat |
| tleboro. and later we'll known and
! financially mOurned as an alleged OPP
tician in Washington county is at
Denver, Col, doing a thriving BUSH
ness IN the healing line. He was re-
Gently fined at Boston a large sum for
fraudulent use OF the mails, and was
later compelled to leave Jacksonville,
Fla, because OF some OF his question
able operations
Chief Judge Taft Of the supreme
court OF Vermont has issued an iniunc-
ton against the striking machinistS OF
the Central Vermont Railway shops in
St. Adams and against their labor or
CARNATIONS, torbiddlng them from |
interfering in any way with the en- |
y
work in the strikers places. or in fact, |
with any employee OF the road. This |
Injunction is move OF great cOnse- /
quence to all persons interested and Is 4
the outcome OF threats and an attack .
last week on several non-uniOn work
men at st. Adams.
Mrs. Wilbur +. Halves Of Newport,
with two children and her sister,
Christie Matterson, went TO the Me
gantic region in Canada last week.
shortly after their arrival Mr., Hawes
received a telegram stating that the
oldest Girl mad died of measles. He
started to Join his family but before be
reached them his boy had died OF the
same disease. Hardly had he arrived
when Miss Matterson also died. Dur
inc the fierce tempest OF Tuesday
night. the three lay dead in the house,
three miles from nelghbors and twenty
miles from a doctor.
As Mrs. Aaron Baker of Dandy was
driving to Dorset lately she met a
large black bear in the middle OF the
road Her horse was badly frighten-
ed and. turning quickly around, over
turned the carriage, throwing her out.
She was seriously injured, the carriage
was completely demolished and the
horse ran some distance before il was
stopped BY some laborers, who came
and picked up Mrs Baker. The bear
had disappeared in the woods when
they reached her. In the last fiscal
wear the state treasurer paid Sl2 each
bounty for 10 bears that were killed t..
in the state.
The freight office of the Cuttings
willie railroad station was broken into /
last week Wednesday night. Nothing :
of value was secured and only two
taken. The same night a
horse and buggy were stolen near Cut
tingsville. Thursday George Barrett
was assaulted near Mount Holly and
left unconscious beside the road. He
was taken to Mount Holly but has not
vet sufficiently recovered to give a CO. {
herent statement of how the assault +.
occurred beyond the fact that he was ]
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