Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-02-04

vi the tllg- lutTe were DO pfOsecn-
tons of persons who had been com.
mitted TO the house of correction from
Burlington, st. Adams, Barre and
other cities and towns. In speaking
OF the large number of nonresident
offenders arrested in this city last year
the chief makes the following sug-
gestion 1T would seem wise to in
corporate an amendment in our
present laws governing the sale OF
liquor at our next legislative session
providing that those outside offenders
be returned TO the towns from whence
they came and thus our city would
not be the general dumping ground
for the whole State OF Vermont"
A striking example of the intelli-
gence OF an animal has just occurred
in st. Adams. Some weeks ago a
valuable fox terrier, belonging to
Ralph Chase. who is employed at the
st. Adams Beef company's Office, APP
lparently fatally injured itself by com
ing in contact with sharp iron hook
at the beef house. The hook entered
the animals thorax, breaking two
ribs and cutting a cash through which
the lung protruded. The dog was
taken TO the office of DR.. J.. c. Parker,
who sewed up the wound and the
dog was taken home. Although the
wound was considered almost surely
fatal, the dog recovered rapidly and
after eight days was allowed to go
out doors. lie Immediately started
for Doctor Parker's house, although
he had never been there but the single
time when the wound was ''sewn up"
and presented himself for examination
to the surprised doctor. The dog
will recover.
At no-license mass meeting held
in Rutland Jan. "a, Joseph {. Jones
spoke against the working of the Ii
eense law as demonstrated in Rutland.
The speaker claimed that the law had
been a failure in the city and that con-
ditions had been much worse than UNI
der the old law. TO prove this he re-
ferred TO the police court records
which show over four times as many
arrests during the last year as there
were the year previous. He also re-
ferred to the loose manner in which
the saloons are conducted, claiming
that the law Is violated many times
every day. The speaker declared that
social drinking was encouraged by the
open saloon and that this was running
the lives OF many young men in that
city. Mr.. Jones asked the voters to
vote no-license in March and see what
the conditions would be during the
next year.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Anti-Saloon league was held Jan. 20 at
the w. G. I. U. temple in Burlington
with an attendance of 80 members.
The report of the headquarters COM
mittee showed the receipts for the past
year to have been s3sS5.41, the expen-
ditures S364s.l3. leaving balance OF
S237 .2s. A number OF resolutions
were adopted. among them being one
expressing the belief that the license
law had been a failure as corrective
measure and urging strong work for a
no-license vote at the March meetings.
1t was voted to appropriate ? l-2 per
cent of the gross receipts OF the state
league to the support of the national
work. The election of officers result
ea as follows :-Ileadquarters commit
tee, Rev. +. ID. Penney, Rev. j. f.
Mead, w. A. Dawson, F. s, Pease, G..
w. Morrow and III. o. Wheeler of Bur
lington. b. F. Kellogg OF Waterbury,
&c. II. HAYDEN of Riverside. Evan
Thomas of Essex Junction, NJ. l.. Bar
ton of Vergennes; president, c. w.
Osgood OF Bellows Falls; vice presi-
dents, c. ii. Dunton OF Poultney, 5. A.
Andrews of johnson and III. Nj. Mott
of st. Adams; superintendent, q. w.
Morrow of Burlington; treasurer, +.
G.. Evans of Burlington auditor, Ii. ).
Howard of Burlington.
Hon. Kittredge Haskins of Vermont,
a member OF the House committee on
war claims, has been authorized by
that committee to make favorable re-
port on Senator Proctor's bill providing
for the final settlement of the claim of
the state of Vermont against the Unit
ed States in respect to ordnance and
quartermaster's stores furnished In the
years 1864 and 1865. This practically
insures the passage of the act by the
House and thereby the treasury OF
Vermont win be enriched to the extent
of S155, 1886. This amount has been
held up by the treasury department
because OF claim of the United States
against the state of Vermont for APP
proximately S150,000, arising out of
the sale by the state of certain ord
nance and ordnance stores furnished
bv the United States near the close OF
the civil war for arming an extraordi-
nary militia force for the defense Of
the Vermont frontier, In offset to
this. Vermont claimed reimbursement
for about the same sum for clothing,
blankets and other quartermaster
stores purchased by the state tor this
militia force, which it claimed the
United States ought to have furnished
and, in fact, agreed to furnish. The
House committee on war claim has
also authorized Mr.. Haskins TO report
fayorahly the bill refunding to Benla-
min Burrows of Bloomington the $500
Communication paid in by him under the
draft of 1868. In this case it has since
been proved that Mr.. Burrows was not
liable to the draft because of physical
disability.