Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-15
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE.

Chas. Perkins. who served through
the Civil war in the I'd VT. Regt.. is
dead OF paralysis at his home in Castle
! ton.
j. j. Losee ofBrattleboro and Joseph
II. Allen of Williamstown have been
admitted to the state soldiers home at
Bennington.
Lieut.. Theodore G. Dewey. L. S. N.
a nephew OF the admiral, will be one of
the witnesses before the Schley-Samp-
son court OF inquiry.
Second Lieut.. Arthur II. Cushman
OF Co. X, V. n. G., Bennington, has
rendered his resignation with the re-
quest that il be accepted at once.
Robert AIosher died at his home in
Waupun. Wis, July 8, aged &c. In
1919 he married Lucinda Richardson
of Naitsfeld, who died last April. He
was veteran OF the Civil war.
Troop G, 50 men and three officers
with three tour-mule wagons and hos
pital ambulance from Fort Ethan Al
len, will go to Windsor, to participate
in the Windsor fair, Aug. Is and 80.
Ethan Allen branch of the Vermont
society of the Sons of the American
Revolution has issued cards to a re-
ception and dinner to be given at the
Putnam house in Bennington the even
ing of August 10.
VIM. Tutherly of Concord, n. H.,
brother Of Capt. II. +. Tutherly, LIST U.
). Cav, well known in Vermont, has
been made commissioner for the city
OF Manila. Tutherly was major in
the LIST n. II. Vols. in 1898 and cap
tain in the 26th L. $. Vols. during the
Philippine instruction.
Saturio Liano. Barre granite cut
ter, Is veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Mr.. Liano fought two years
and four months in the Spanish army,
but thinks America good enough for
him to live in the rest of his days.
Liano says, American bad man for
fight
The public installation of the officers
of Camp Capt. c. NJ. Brownell.
Spanish-American war veterans. was
held in Burlington August &. Capt.
Brownell is in command Of the camp,
which has decided to tender a reception
to the veterans of the war who will be
in Burlington during muster week.
Company Z OF Barre is drilling twice
a week now in preparation to 90 to
Nashua, N. H., September ia compete
in prize drill with companies from
New Hampshire. Massachusetts,,
Connecticut and Rhode Island. The
drill takes place on the last day of the
muster of the New Hampshire
National Guard.
A letter from Thomas Russell,
formerly OF Burlington, states that he
Is now in Nervid, Caceres, on the
island of LuZon and still lighting the
tilipinos. He is now in Co. ID, LIST
L. ). infantry. He enlisted about two
years ago and went first to China and
after the trouble there was over his
regiment was ordered to the Philip
pines.
Nermonters who remember Mai.
Francis E.Eltonhead when he was a cap
tain in the 2lst L. $. Inf. stationed for
several years ut Plattsburo, will be in
terested to learn that President Me
kinley has commuted his court martial
OF dismissal from the army,
10 placing him at the foot of the list OF
majors ofinfantry there to remain for
I period OF five years. Major Elton
head was tried on a charge of being
trunk on duty and of misbehaving
himself at the Army and Navy club in
Manila,an OF using profane and abus-
We language to Lieut.. VIM. III. Mullay,
list INF. The court which tried Major
sltonhead sentenced him to be dis
missed, but the President says that in
'iew OF his military record, his good
conduct in the engagements before
Cuba, and operations in the
Philippine Islands. together with rec
OF clemency by men,
)ers of the court. the sentence OF dis
nissal is committed.