Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-05-09

wires. A reward is offered for their
arrest.
VIM La Touche, one of the Central
4 Vermont section gang, met with a
| serious accident at North Hartland re-
, Gently. While engaged in cutting a
rail piece of steel flew from it, strik-
ing one eye. He was taken to the
Mary Hitchcock hospital in Hanover
after a local physician had treated the
wound but the doctors there decided
that he had better be taken home as
the eye was too badly injured to be
helped by an operation.
Norwich University took a holiday
Wednesday OF last week and celebrat-
ed the achievement of its great pupil,
Admiral Dewey, in the entrance of Ma
Mia Bay three years ago, by the fleet
under his command and the destruc-
ton there OF the Spanish fleet and land
detenses. A game of baseball was
| played in the forenoon. Flags were
| flying in the afternoon, an admirars
salute was fired and the festivities end
ed in the evening with a dance.
Fred l.. Hildreth. a jeweler OF New
port, liabilities 5000, all unsecured !;
assets S4004, stock $1,000. exempt, 1920.
G. +. Ross of Rutland, liabilities S2l.-
| 654.94, of which SSS26. A is secured
and S6603.50 unsecured; assets Sl5,-
475 60, exempt $1,000. Assets Of Sl3,-
600 are in real estate. VIM. Batchel-
der of Barre. farmer, liabilities $3.50
1913, all unsecured; assets Sll7 Frank
Sharbeano OF BURLINGTON, liabilities
Sl36.5S; assets SlS4.77, exempt 500.
Robert Gordon Hardie of Brattle-
boro received a cablegram from
Egypt recently commissioning him to
paint full-length portrait OF George
Washington in his Masonic regalia, the
portrait to be presented to the grand
| lodge in London by Henry S. Welcom
| of the firm of Burroughs a. Welcom,
London chemists. Mr.. WELDON was
former New Yorker, and was the
author of a book several years ago on
Frontier Life,n which Artist Hardie
| Illustrated.
The marriage of Miss Martha HIGH
born and James Gillespie Blaine will
| take place June 4, at the home Of Adj
miral and Mrs. Hichborn in Washing
ton. Mr. Blaine is the only surviving
son Of the Maine statesman. His first
wife, Marie Nevins, secured a divorce
! from him Is years ago. The mother Of
the bride-to-be was Jennie Franklin of
! Townshend, where she was born at
/ the Franklin farm near Salmon Hale
bridge. Her only surviving brother is
Representative A. b. Franklin of
| Townshend.
j. p. Rooney Of Mendon killed three
bear cubs on his farm last week and
wounded the mother When Mr..
Rooney came upon the bears they were
eating a doe, which the mother bear
had evidently killed. lie killed the
cubs without difficulty, but the old
bear cot away after being wounded
twice. The cubs were quite young,
weighing only 80 pounds apiece. Mr..
Rooney saws that bears are very plen-
tiful in Mendon this spring. lie col
lected the bounty OF Sl2 apiece on the
cubs.
Isaac Wilson, a wealthy resident of
Westfield, was arrested last week for
cruelty to animals. 1t was found that
Wilson had numerically pounded two
cows which he had sold and was to
deliver at Barton. The cows became
tired out and he beat them to get them
along until they fell by the roadside.
Wilson broke the tail OF one SIX times
and stabbed her many times with a
knife. besides pounding her back. She
was killed by the authorities. Wilson
pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and
costs.
The Doherty murder case is to come
up for hearing in the May term OF sn-
preme court and the attorneys on both
sides are making earnest efforts to
find evidence for and against the plea
of insanity. w A. Lord for the state
went to Salmon Falls, n. H., to secure
afidavits which will tend TO show that
the respondent was of sound mind. r.
H. Deavitt for Doherty has made one
trip to the same place TO secure evil
dence to the contrary. Mr.. Deavitt has
since received many communications
from people in that vicinity tending
to show that Doherty's mind
was unbalanced at times.
James Craig's team, driven by an
Adams boy, left Peacham for Barnet
last week with quite happy family
for a load, consisting of COW and
calf. mother pig and little ones and
two PIGS in a bag. After having gone
little way the cow jumped out OF the
front of the wagon onto the horses.
They ran and dumped the load into
the brook. The COW and calf were
not hurt, the pigs floated down stream
and have not been found, the mother