Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-14
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensec and Rewritten
for Our Readers.


the management OF W. l.. Wood. C.
". Scarf of Burlington is the new
proprietor.
The New York assembly has passed
the bill of Assemblyman Graeff, pro-
yiding that no fish shall be taken
through the ice in the waters OF Lake
Champlain less than five inches in
length.
Counsel for the defendant in the IA
nous SANDER case OF 5. ID. Wilson VS..
p. w. Clement not filing atiidavits in
respect to the bond OF the plaintiff. the
second trial will be held at Windsor at
the May term of United States courts.
The jury in the Rutland county
court case of Dennis Mahoney's adj
ministrator against the Rutland rail-
road company returned a verdict for
the plaintiff April 6, awarding So $500
damages. Mahoney was killed at
Shelburne in January. 1908, in an ac-
cident caused by the carelessness OF a
telegraph operator and his estate
brought suit for 1000 damages.
The trustees of the Dorset Library
association will sell the uncompleted
library building at Dorset at auction
April 16. The building was begun sew
eral years ago, but the plan was too
elaborate for the size of the village.
and il has never been completed. The
land was available tor library purpos-
Is only, and the building and founda-
ton must be removed before May 20.
The building contains 10000 feet of
lumber and thirty-flve squares of slate.
An opinion was received April 8
from Judge H. II. Wheeler of the
United States court by Clerk George
L. Johnson, in which the motions
made by the defendant in the case OF
Abbie j. Elliott against the Canadian
Pacific railway were overruled, and
the verdict of $500 was ordered paid
The case was tried az Burlington at the
last session of the United States court,
damages of $4,000 being asked, for
the death Of the plaintiffs husband who
was killed at Richiord
Hon. Mason S. Stone, formerly Yer
mont state superintendent of educa-
ton, and latterly connected with
school affairs in the Philippines. and
Miss Alma c. Wright OF Castleton
were married in Brooklyn, n. y,
April 3, at the home OF Hon n p.
Lewis. Owing to the recent death OF
Miss Wright's father, only the relatives
and close personal friends were pres
ent at the ceremony. Since the death
OF her father she had lived with a rela-
tive in Brooklyn. Early in May Mr.. |
and Mrs. Stone will take up their |
abode tor the summer in Castleton.
Probably few people are aware that
g. NJ. White, at present living with |
bis brother-in-law, ex-Postmaster |
Sleeper, in Westminster, is the famous
bank robber, George Bliss alias George |
Miles, connected with the most famous
bank robberies OF the country, among !
others that of the Barre bank in 1875.
The ex-robber has written a book |
which will be published about May /.
This book, "The Autobiography of
George Bliss contains the account OF
bis long list of famous bank robberies.
This unique publication should be OF
great interest TO all in any way con-
nected with banking operations.
Four Polanders from West Rutland
who were returning TO their native
land to visit their wives and families
We're seized recently at the Russian
frontier and impressed into the army
OF the car The men were hurried TO
the front without being given an OPP
pOrtunity to visit or notify their fami-
lies Of their misfortune. For the last
few years the men had been employed
BY the Vermont Marble company at
West Rutland They left their tamil
lies in Poland when they came here
and had not taken ont naturali cation
papers as they expected to return TO
Poland to live when they bad saved
sufficient money.
The first appointment from Vermont
to q scholarship in the University OF
OXioad under the will of the late Cecil
John Rhodes, has been made by the
University of Vermont, Burlington,
aud the honor falls to Walter A. Dane,
graduate of the university in the
class Of 1908, now teaching at the Burr
and Burton seminary in Manchester
The scholarship has yearly value OF
$500 and is tenable for three consec-
utlye academical years. Mlddlebury
college viii have the appointment next
year. No appointment can be made in
A'Nb, bit In 1907 the University OF YER
mont will again name man, this ro-
tation to be followed in future years.
Governor Mccullough has sent to
The directors of the United States geo.
logical survey at Washington a COM
munication asking that the hydrogra-
phlc branch ofthe survey make an eX-
animation of the waters ofLake Cham
plain, with special reference to the ef-
iect of polluting materials turned into
the lake, Lake Champlain is an inter
state body of water, and its resources
are Of great importance to the states OF
Vermont and New York Governor
Mccullough SAYS that, in order that
these resources may be conserved, 1t is
necessary that the purity of its waters
be maintained The facilities of the
state laboratory at Burlington are Of
iered for the use OF the members of the
survey during an investigation. A
number of photographic experts will