Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-21
State of Vermont.
.s News condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

CONGRESSMAN ID. j. roster OF BUR
unrton will deliver the Memorial day
address in st. Adams.
The body of young Baker. student
Of dartmouth college, drowned In the
Connecticut river March -, was
tonnd Nav y in boom above Wilder
dam by college patrol.
The handsome new Soldiers Me-
mortal building at Stowe will be ded-
insted during Old Home Week. Hon.
Ieslie NJ. Shaw, secretary OF the
treasury, will be the orator OF the oc-
Miss Jennie Callan of st. Rocks, who
had been III several months with lung
trouble at Fairfield, and whose case
seemed about hopeless, recently cough
ed no a tooth that is supposed to have
been lodged in her lung. Hopes are
now entertained OF a speedy recovery.
People in various parts of Orwell
are much worked up over the appear
anee az frequent intervals within the
mast fortnight of good-sized panther
The animal has killed number of
dogs and live stock. and seems
10 have taken up his abode near the
village.
G. II. Preble of Lincoln, the noted
bear hunter, has killed his l02d bear
IN the town OF Warren. He followed
the animal from Potato Hill mountain
In Lincoln during the night. carrying
lantern in one hand and his rifle in
the other. The animal weighed about
800 pounds.
A case OF smallpox was reported TO
Health Officer Edgar b. Moore OF Rut-
land May u. The sufferer is Michael
Fay. The case is very mild one and
the man Is out of danger and well on
the road TO recovery, but the house has
been quarantined and every precaution
taken TO prevent spread Of the dis
ease.
Otis w. Howard, son of the late Col.
Guy Howard, has successfully passed
the entrance examinations for the
United States Naval academy at An
napOlis. Mr.. Howard, whose home Is
now in Omaha, was appointed 10 the
academy by Congressman Mercer Of
Nebraska and he will at once begin his
work there.
+. W. Pretseh. a government archi-
teet. was in Burlington from Washing
ton lately with preliminary plans for
the new postollice building. The
plans were submitted 70 Congressman
foster and the officials who will occu-
py the new government building. IL
win stand south OF the present postof-
flee, which will be torn down.
The Orleans county bar has invited
20. hnN
It's summer meeting at Newport In
July or August. 1t is proposed to in
clude the ladies' in this trip and il Is
possible If such a meeting is held at
Newport it will be during Old Home
Week. when the Vermont association
of Boston will visit Newport and 81.
Johnsbury.
The supreme court has appointed
ex-GOv. w. w. Stickney of Ludlow,
+. W Smith of Wells River and W.
Ii Taylor of Hardwick, to act as COM
missiOners in the case OF the town OF
JAY VS. the town OF Richford, in which
the town lines are involved. EX-Sen-
ator Jonathan Ross of St. Johnsbury
has been retained as counsel Tor the
town OF jay.
A window was placed in the First
church in Hartford, Conn. Easter day
in memory OF Horace Wells, native
of Hartford, VT, who, in 1914, dis
covered anaesthesia, and his vile,
Elizabeth Wales Wells, by their son,
Charles +. Wells This is the third
memorial 10 Horace Wells erected in
Hartford, one being a bronze tablet on
the spot where the discovery was
made, and the other statue OF the
man in Bushnell park.
Louis Lacaz, solicitor for the Rut-
land City Electric Co.. has mysterious
~ disappeared. He was last seen
Wednesday. May 6, when be was at
work as usual. Lacaz was about 30
Years old, unmarried, and went to
Rutland about year ago from Platts-
burg. N. Y. He was boarding at the
Brock House in Rutland and had his /
board bill all paid up. He left his
trunk and personal belongings in his
room. He is not known TO have had
any great amount OF money about his
person when last seen.
Charles +. Woodruff of Woodstock
has conveyed to Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman
f Robinson the stone store and livery
stable connected. Mr.. Woodruff has
the privilege of occupying the building
until January to close out his stock
and settle his business. The Amsden
Lime Co., of which Mr.. Woodruff is
manager, demands so much of his at
tention that he has decided to devote
his time wholly TO that, retaining his
residence in Woodstock. The price
paid for the property is said to be
practically $4,000.
Robert I. Lincoln OF Chicago, son of
abraham Lincoln and president OF the
Pullman Car Co., arrived in Manches-
ter, May Is, in his private car, Olivette.
lie will arrange for the building OF a
large house on the estate which he re-
Gently bought adjoining Ormsby hill,
the summer home of the late Edward
). lsham OF Chicago, who was men,
Der OF the law firm OF lsham, Lincoln
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