Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-03-21

markaDIe one Mnen II II ioheluNiNN
that Mr.. Baxter is now 40 years OF age.
He is tail, thin and wiry. Although
he is a millionaire he has never lost
interest in amateur athletics.
The woollen and worsted mills at
Winooski have been closed for a mat
ter of six months and since the prop
erty went into the receivers hands a
few DAYS ago it has been decided to
close the entire plant. The Colchester
mill has been doing a good business
and it was generally expected that that
portion OF the plant would be kept IN
operation but the receivers have de-
cided differently and will shut down as
soon as the stock on hand is run of,
which will take about month.
Petitions in bankruptcy have been
filed by John S. Wilkins of Burlington,
an insurance agent, liabilities S7S6.43.
all of which are unsecured and no as
sets; Thaddeus Green of Newbury,
liabilities S1,0l7.23 of which S71s.43
are unsecured and assets of Sl,249. 50,
of which 1926 is exempt; Dana P.Had-
ley of Springfield, liabilities 81 JOSS. Az,
secured, SO, S05.93, unsecured S2S2.50
with no assets; Henry III. Vancor OF
Rockingham, a laborer, liabilities $500,
al OF which is unsecured, assets, $40;
John Begg of Barre. Jumper Ga dock
handy, liabilities S305, all of which is
unsecured, assets S125, all exempt.
In Washington county court, after
being out "a hours, the jury in the
case of State VS.. Arturo Bernacco, in
dicted for an assault with intent TO kill
/ and murder Chief of Police Brown OF
Barre. Dec. q last, returned verdict
Friday morning of guilty of being
armed with a dangerous weapon and
guilty of an assault with intent to
: murder. The respondent received the
verdict with the same passive counte-
nance which he has carried through
out the trial. The verdict was inter
preted to him by the court interpreter.
Sentence was deferred. The extreme
punishment for this crime is imprison-
, ment tor life.
The win of the late VIM. M. Eyarts
was filed for probate last week. All
the estate is left to the family. Inc
will is dated Jan p, '92. Among the
: special requests the Senator leaves
: 500, 600 to his daughter, Mary Evarts,
2 and $40, 900 to his son, Prescott Evarts.
The Bailey Farm in Windsor, is be-
: oueathed to the son, Maxwell. Eliza
4 beth II. Perkins, a daughter, received
! the property known as the Sklnter
D house in Windsor. Another daughter,
Louisa Wardner Scudder, is given a
r bouse and lot on Main street, Windsor.
: The remainder of the real estate own
a ed by the Senator in Windsor is be-
Y aueathed TO the widow.
: A recent decision by Judge Hoyt ii.
S Wheeler of the United States circuit
5 court sustains the demurrer OF the
> Boston Il Maine X. r. company in the
y. case of the administrator of james
. Raldasarre VS.. the Boston & Maine X.
In. J. Walter Lyons of Rutland as
: administrator of the Baldasarre estate
Il brought suit for $4,000 against the
O railroad company for the death OF MI
g Baldasarre, who was killed in the Bos-
: ton q Maine railroad yard at Walpole
e NH. The action was brought before
4 the United States circuit court OF this
J state and in its demurrer the railroad
il claims that the action does not proper
n Nv come under the jurisdiction OF the
Vermont court. The case VIII Dc
. tried in the New Hampshire court.
/ Hon. j. o. Sanford, state highway
J commissioner, has sent notices to tho
# road commissioner OF the towns anC
Il cities of the state to attend the county
e meetings which he has appointed, I'M
e der the law of 1898, to be held in on
q town in each county. The Orange
! county meeting will be held at tht
e hotel in Chelsea Tuesday, Apr. 2, and
# the meeting for Windsor county II
called for April Sd at the junction
:. House in w. r. junction. 1t is of th'
= very highest importance that roaf
- commissioners attend these meetings
! and get the largest possible beneh
!, from them. But the meetings are no
20 designed exclusively for them. In
= selectmen, or any other town officials
- and citizens generally, are earnestl,
: invited and urged to be present anC
: give their ideas on good roads.
re Frank Hinsdill, a former well know
Young man of Bennington, committed
= suicide in his room at Binghamton, n
!, Y. last week. Hinsdill was about z
: wears of ace and was for several year
= teller of the First National bank
! North Bennington. He left Their
IL about four years ago and went to Ne'
- York because of some irregularitie
\ and went to Binghamton, where he sc
: cured work as bookkeeper in a FAC
4 tory. His dead body was found hang
: inc from a post. Appearances ma
,g cate that he first took poison, VINE
= did not work all right. He then fas
- tened a rope from joist in the ceilinl
around his neck and then jumped OF
" The rope stretched so that his toe
e. touched the floor, and he took r.
u. volver and put bullet through hl
ST brain. No cause for the act has bee
II discovered.
: The case of Fred W. Putnam {
Brattleboro VS.. Knott q Closson, tn
former Burlington brokers, was tire
last week, the defendants, who had n
at tanned a formidable array OF counse