Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-02
State of Vermont.
ts News condenseo and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

the vermont Methodist conference
to hold its annual session there next
year.
Middlebury has voted to construct
a school building within the walls OF
the recently burned structure at cost
OF s2l 900, this sum being the amount
derived from the insurance companies.
DIR. l.. Wakefield, a veterinary sur
geon OF Montpelier, went to Water
bury May q 10 answer a professional
call, and dropped dead as soon as his
work was performed He had seemed
in perfect health and joyial mood.
Prof. E. A. Bishop. for some u years
principal of Montpelier seminary, will
arrive in that city soon and ii is re-
ported that he is likely TO be engaged
by the trustees 10 return to the princi-
lpalship OF the school. Since leaving
the seminary Prof. Bishop has been at
the head of a Methodist seminary in
Wilmington, Del.
John Gilmer Speed, author and
journalist, formerly manager of the
New York World and Leslie's Weekly,
has been in Middlebury lately repre-
senting the insular department of the
United States in purchasing $50 fancy
bred horses for the Philippine service.
He will include some choice Morgan
horses in this shipment.
During a thunder storm May 26
lightning struck and partially demol-
ished the big chimney at the Rutland
Florence Marble company's mill at
Fowler The lightning struck at the
top of the chimney and ran down
about 100 feet, scattering bricks, some
of which were thrown through the
skylights into the mill, frightening the
employees and knocking down the en-
gineer, +. p. Thompson. No one was
seriously injured.
BY the viii of the late John +. Hub
bard a bequest OF $3.50 was left to
the commissioners Of Green Mount
cemetery, Montpelier with which TO
erect a chapel, receiving vault and
entrance gate. The commissioners
have arranged with Frank L. Cleve-
land, a Boston architect, to furnish
plans and specifications and il they are
acceptable the work viii soon be be-
gun. Ii is proposed to build a chapel
with a seating capacity OF sixty and a
receiving vault that will hold fifty or
more caskets.
The Brooks street school building in
Barre was struck by lightning May 26,
and although il did not set fire TO the
building, shook the whole structure,
putting POO children into a panic.
They rushed from their seats to doors,
and it was only by the hardest kind of
work that the teachers succeeded in
keeping them in line The yard filled
rapidly with mothers and sisters.
Some of the children had bruised heads
when they reached the ground. One
woman. who had tour children in the
school, tainted.
George Wells OF Brattleboro, through
his counsel, c. c. Fits, has brought a
suit of damages for S25, 600 against
the Central Vermont Railway Co. for
injuries alleged to have been received
at Wardsboro last June. Mr.. Wells
was riding in passenger car attached
TO freight train. a freight car
Jumped the track, bringing the train
10 a sudden stop. Wells was thrown
on his back across the back of the seat
in front, iniuring his spine. lie has
been confined 10 his bed until recently
but Is now on crutches.
A law made by Congress last April
provides that hereafter any inmate OF
a soldiers home receiving a pension
shall receive the same direct instead Of
having ii 90 to the support OF the home
In which he is The money is retained
in charge of the treasurer until the vet
eran Is discharged, in which case he
receives all that is coming to him, or
in case of death il goes TO his legal
heir or heirs. Ii be leaves the home
the veteran cannot return TO 1t under
six months. For the purpose of car
rying ont the provisions OF the law
Colonel Thomas Harmon, superlnten-
dent. was appointed assistant treasurer
of the Vermont Home and furnished
bonds in the sum of $1,000.
About o'clock Monday morning,
Nav %, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Plpin
of st. Johnsbury were awakened by a
child CRYING. the sound coming from
outside the house. Upon inyestiga-
ton of the source of crying they
found baby girl upon their door
step. The child was about two weeks
old and dressed in poor but clean
clothes with woman's heavy winter
Jacket wrapped about it and was
living in an old willow clothes basket.
There were no marks on the clothing
bv which it could be Identified. Some
pypsies passed through the town Sum
day and It is rumored that one was
seen with a basket like the one in
which the child was found, but moth
inc definite can be learned. Inc
child win probably be given a home
with Mrs. Pipin's sister, Mrs. George
Gotta.
Walter Fish Waterman, the retiring
alderman from ward 9, Montpelier
died suddenly at his home on Berlin
side from heart disease Monday, May
%. In the night his wife noticed a
sound as il he were gasping for
breath and got up to light lamp
When the light shone on him Mrs.
Waterman saw that he was black in
the face and summoned DR.. l. A.