Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-11-27
State of Vermont.
lts News Condensed and Rewritten
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improving In health.
friend OF Norwich university,
Mortified, has recently presented the
institution with a check for $500 for
the museum. This will enable the
management TO make some valuable
additions to this department.
A son was born to Mrs. Marcus
Rogers in the house of correction at
Rutland Nov. Is. Mrs. Rogers is
charged with the murder of her hus-
band August Y. Reports are to the
effect that Mrs. Rogers is il very
critical condition.
At the New York horse show
Wednesday, the 10th, the second prize
in class %, hackney stations. four
wears old and over was awarded 10 DR..
w. Seward Webb's Brandon In
class 50, horses, middle weight, to
hounds, Miss Frederick +. Webb's
eel Queso" took the first prize.
Early in the morning of Nov. 20,
Nathan Weller OF Wells started off
alone and crossed over into New York
state. lie had been in the woods less
than an hour when he killed large
buck, weighing probably over 800
pounds. Before noon he had killed
another buck, somewhat smaller than
the first one, and in the afternoon he
killed a third buck and a large-siZed
black bear. The bear was more Zero
cious than bears OF this species usually
are and put up hard fight until shot
a second time.
w. Pell Pulls, designer of the Colora-
do state building at the Chicago !
Worlds Fair. has completed the draw
ings Of the proposed Vermont building
at the St. Louis Exposition, expanding |
over 500 for the plans alone. Mr.. |
Pulls expressed a belief that the pro- /
posed building could be erected for
$4,000. believing II the state would 4
make an appropriation for half that
amount the remainder could be raised 1
by popular subscription. Smith q
Walker have borne the entire expense
of getting up the plans, notwithstand-
Ing the general opinion that Senator
Backus was the party so doing.
A petition is being circulated at
Burlington by Lawyer Henry Ballard
for the pardon Of Clifford Leland. a
youth whose home was in johnson,
and who was sentenced to serve
term in the state prison at Windsor
from the Chittenden county court
about two years ago. The grounds on
which the pardon will be asked ofGov.l
Mccullough are that the lad had |
always borne a good reputation and
that the crime for which he was con-
victed was his first ofiense His youth !
is also mentioned, his age at the time ,
of the crime being but Is years. The ,
crime of which Leland was convicted !
was burglary and larceny.
Cornelius NJ Brownell OF Burling- I
ton, former captain in the Twenty l
sixth Volunteer Infantry, has acknowl- '
edged that he advised the administra- Y
ton of the water cure to Father Angus '
tine at Banate in the Philippines, from I
the effects OF which the priest died.
He insists the water cure was admin G
istered to Father Augustine solely as v
an act of war 10 secure from the G
prisoner information as to the where {
abouts of the insurgents. Not only a
the war department, but officers of the 5
army, had no knowledge OF the treat I
ment of Father Augustine, nor any I
information regarding the matter until il
the charges were made by the commit G
tee of anti-imperialists. lii
1t would seem that instead of the i
that high license prevails :
among the live stock in ReadsborO, {
says an exchange. c. +. Whitney, {
the milkman, has a herd of nearly C
thirty cows that have been drunk for :
nearly week on apples. They are at d
times hilarious and some of them have
been so far over the bay as not TO be b
able TO get out of the barn. They have h
had apples more or less all the fall, \
but within the past week have been L
turned into the moving of the late tall d
feed and have eaten the apples with c
the results mentioned. Mr.. Whitney I,
has been obliged to buy milk as they $
have shrunk from two-thirds OF a pail Il
to pint since their debauchery. This %
is the first of the high license or il
Clement law that has demonstrated o
itself as yet. e
The dedicatory ceremonies of the y
authorized by the legisla- 2
Lure OF 1900 to mark the site OF Presi- y
dent Chester A. Arthur's birthplace y
will occur some time the coming sum- II
mer, the exact date not being deter =
mined at this time. That the occasion Il
viii be a notable one is assured from
he fact that Robert L. Lincoln and
William +. Chandler, who served in
President Arthur's cabinet as secretary II
IF war and secretary of the navy re- II
will be the principal speak ~
srs. The foundation for the monu- 81
nent has been completed but the shaft ID
will not be set until next spring. II Al
will occupy one corner of the old eel W
ar which marks the spot where the OF
,nly Vermont born president first saw 81
he light. The site was presented to al
he state by p b. b. Northrop, who =
represented Fairfield in the legislature Il
# 1900, and under commission from II
Governor Stickney, he has had charge "
4 preparing the foundation. ie
Frank II. Dawley, Montpelier
has oDened the safety de- ;,