Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-05-30

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that Sunday orders are properly
enforced.
G. NJ. Bemis of Readsboro slaugh-
tered a COW recently and found an or
binary pairing knife on one side OF the
heart which had apparently been there
/ for some years. The knife was firm
and whole and sharp enough TO cut
when found.
Four packages of papers stolen from
Denison Brothers store at the Pittsford
postoffiee robbery May 8 were found
lately in a barrel OF lime near the
/ Delaware and Hudson railroad depot
/ in West Rutland. Among the papers
found was a certificate for 200 shares
of western mining stock. The papers
which are still missing contain notes,
mortgage deeds and memoranda.
The Demerit & Palmer Packing COM
pany at Waterbury has nearly finished
contracting for this years corn for the
factory. 1t has already put out seed
corn for nearly POO acres, and II an
average crop is harvested will put up
some $50. 900 cans, doubling last years
output. Electric lights are TO be put
into the factory, and during the bnsi-
est part ofthe season both day and
night forces will be run.
Bv the viii of the late Mrs. Horace
Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury the North
Conql church of that place receives
Is .00e. the income to be used for
, preacbino. and $1,000. the income to
, he used to purchase books for all
children who are faithful at church at
tendence during the year. Sunset
Home for old ladies receives a bequest
of II 900. and the Vermont branch OF
the Woman's Board of Missions, 5000.
! Last week Oliver Preston of Fair
! Haven started to put down a carpet
! when he was startled by the report OF
4 pistol and sound Of broken glass.
I A bullet had cut a clean hole IN the
GLASS and had passed out of the other
Side az the room. Mr.. Prestons head
was not many inches from where the
hall entered the window. lie tound
that 4 number Of BOYS were IN the
!. habit Of firing at mark in q lumber
! ward near and that this was not the
only time the shots had gone Wild.
+ George Brown Of Hinesburg aged
rs. shot his sister, Lena, aged slN'
! Tuesday Of last week with a twenty
4 two caliber rifle. lie had been ont
4 shooting at w0odchucks and returning
Il home about noon. deliberately raised
= the GUN and snapped il at the child
= thinking it was not loaded. The bul'
Il lot entered her breast. This Is the
second person this boy has shot, he
having shot his brother, Harry. In the
= leo some time AGO. The child Is II
y critical condition.
n The idiotic patients at the asylum, a
N Waterbury are being seEt back to th'
~ towns from which they came. One
I ala woman. who had been at the asy
4 lnm at either Waterbury or bfattie
i boro for IS years, has been sent baei
: TO Moretown 1t is SAID that another
= woman. who had been in the asylum
- "a lone her hair was gray cried whel
AZ taken away. She did not want TO D.
A discharged Many of the towns hav
le Kent their foolish patients in the asy
- Inn. They were considered harmless
I'd. Gibbs Of Burlington, who own
!. farm of something over 500 acres !
= charlotte. Is awaiting the arrival Of
- flock Of Angora goats at the iafh
- The goats are Sc in number ana wer
~ bonght in Dusart. Iowa. They VIII 2
he tnrned loose upon a tract of about 2
- acres from which the heavy timber ha
been cut and are expected 10 cohlpiEe.
the work of clearing the land IN 50 o. y
as the underbrush is concerned. IN
ne shipment of goats Is probably the mr.
lst which has ever come to Vermont.
les A. chas. Leitsineer was cleanln
rs ont the boilers at the Centerville poW'
~ le station in Brattleboro last week, tai
ne mo ALONG an electric light with him, J
nc some way he got hold of the live WIZ
NC ua couldn't let 90 and his sitnatio
vos critical. but a comrade, Josep
q Rigelow. pluckily seized him and pui
rst "a him off and with such force a
MT braak the wire and save them oot
ew pnt Ieitsinrer's hand was 6urh'
my clear through to the bone. lue ~ u,
rs saw them and thought they were ~"
- inc.
me The prosecuting attorney OF kalam
200 Mich. was in Brattleooro "a
ris- ,SeeL examining the court records !
vas l,ting ~ Jesse Henry Myers, who ser
the ~ ! term in the state prison for hor,
and stealing some II years ago ana "
her ,yas 4 recent defendant in dlyor
aa- case in Michigan, where ne tesllu'
we'd that he had never been arrested , SI 81
the yicted of crime in Vermont. After
mo confronted with the court recoI
ave ne was arrested for perjury IN ME-
the gan where he will have his trial ne
the month. -,
rett In the case Of ID. d. Muir vs.. tid
the Nv 90, of Baltimore. in the tnlt
not States court at Windsor last wee
and Jndge wheeler, after refusing TO
d TO nil as evidence documents signed
Mead president of the deinnct X
' is iand bank. recommending Musseyy
t of his application TOR a bond, directed
The ; n,y !" IL return a verdict for the pla
God tit IN for s2l ESQ. which means that N
,anv sey's bond must be paid. Excepnl
and were taken by counsel for the deieI
.ars. and the case will be carried 70
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