Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-05-18

/ The committee in charge of raising
/ funds for the erection of the proposed me-
mortal tower to Ethan Allen on Indian
/ Rock By the Vermont Society, Sons OF the
American Revolution, is meeting with
| generous response and about Il 1000 OF the
i 1000 needed TO carry out the project IS al
/ ready IN sight.
The state boerd OF health has notified
/ the municipal officials of Burlington, Yer
gennes, Swanton, Enosburg Falls and 81.
| Johnsbury that their water supplies are
I contaminated, and that unless the same
are purified before June 1. 1906, the board
will forbid the use OF said water, as the
present law provides.
/ The bobbin factory, operated at Bellows
| Falls by the Alden Spears Sons Go. OF
I Boston, will shut down its plant there
which will be moved to Cedar Falls, Me-,
and incorporated with the company's
/ plant at that point. The plant at Bellows
| Fails was established about year ago at
an expense of about $4,000.
Papin brothers of Barre, who were in
dieted for arson a year ago and whose
/ cases were mol pressed at the recent term
OF Washington county court, have now
brought suit against the Firemen's Mu-
| tual Insurance Go. for the insurance mon
| ey on their stock which was destroyed IN
the fire they we're charged with setting.
Two intoxicated soldiers from Fort
EAuhH 4tlitu k0Uh u bpHk dA AnS gym
lake front late Saturday night and went
for a row, using boards for paddles. They
were soon in danger of capsizing and
jumped out to swim ashore. One reached
shore, but the other, John j. Moore,
Troop l, 18th cavalry, did not, ard was
drowned.
The Windsor House has closed its doors
to the public. This is the second time the
hotel has been closed in over sixty years
and then only for a few weeks some years
ago. II. A. Clark, former proprietor, has
sold all the furniture and furnishings and
il will have TO be entirely refitted before
being occupied again. Dir. Clark viii To-
cate in Maine.
The report Of the Rutland Railroad Co. |
for the quarter ending March 81 shows 1
deficit of sli,7l5 which is s23,305 less than /
the corresponding quarter in 1904. The |
gross earnings for the quarter increased
ia, 900 and operating expenses decreased 1
$4,000 compared with the corresponding 1
quarter last year. The general balance /
showed 100000 cash on hand.
Master Selah Pomeroy of Island Pond
was seriously injured by the accidental
discharge Of revolver recently. the bullet |
going clear through the hand. The
wound was at once dressed, but blood
poisoning soon set in, causing him intense
suffering. An operation was performed
and the doctors are hopeful that no turth-
er danger win result from the poisoning.
The body Of William Friend, aged as
years, was found in the river below the
gristmiu at Manchester Center May 10,
bearing marks which the authorities be-
lieve indicate that the man was a victim
OF foul play. The coroner's verdict, after
careful examination, was that death
was due to a blow on the head from some
unknown cause, and the mans death
will be further investigated.
The man who died in Fred Fenn's Rut-
land saloon MAY 3. was identified as n.
NJ. Henderson OF Raceville, y. Y, as years
old. The man went into the saloon aud
after taking two drinks OF whiskey APP
peared to be in great distress. The at
tendants carried him into the basement,
where be died soon. Physicians who
were summoned said the man undoubted-
ly died OF heart disease or apoplexy.
A tenement house on the farm OF X. w.
Clark in Berkshire, occupied by Theodore {
Young, was totally destroyed by fire sat Z
urday night. The family were asleep and |
awoke barely in time TO get out OF the {
house, Mr.. Young jumping from cham I
Der window TO make his escape. dog in
the lower part OF the house was burned. {
The family were unable TO save anything {
and the loss is total, as there was no IN !
surance.
Senator Redfeld Proctor is becoming
one Of the largest owners of real estate in !
Washington, d. G. He appears 10 have
great faith in the permanence of values in
that city. Recently he purchased the
Glover building, a modern Office structure
on + street near the treasury, and he is I
also extensively engaged in building oper- \
ations. To carry these on he has organ 1
lied a company and will use much Yer +
mont marble. b
The new athletic field of the University e
Of Vermont, Burlington, which is being
laid out on the Ainsworth farm on I
Colchester ave-, is rapidly assuming J
definite shape and il is expected that It c
will be in readiness for dedication with L
enclosed by tight board fence seven feet {
high. The amount to be expended this u
year in the equipment of the field Will c
probably be about 5000. L
Theatrical managers from some of the /
larger towns in Vermont and New Hamp =
shire met at Bellows Falls recently for the :
purpose Of discussing a proposition upon /
which they could combine for their )
protection and advancement.
Managers from keene, Claremont and y
Newport in New Hampshire, and Bellows +
Falls, Woodstock, Barre and Brattleboro y
in Vermont, were present. A circuit, II
known as the Northern Circuit" was the
result.
Laurent Reval Of Paris, who is carrying
Out a wager Oh oiNsulU AhuuuN ENNf- ] II
lO0) made in Paris in 1896, to walk z
through every country-civilized and un- n
,ivilized-on earth before Dec. IL, 1905, ar 81
rived at st. Adams last week. NJ. Reval r,
already has travelled through Africa, Asia, Z
Australia and Europe during the eight 81
years he has been on the road and has ex u
oerienced many thrilling adventures. NJ. Ia
Reval is an artist and defrays his expenses 81
By painting on china and by giving con- (
lerences. d
In tearing out partitions in the Ex- e
,hange hotel at Montpelier, q temperance
house run under the old prohibitory law,
.wo "hidesn were found. They were
1ricked so that by tapping the wall no B
hollow sound would disclose any open =,
pace. One was reached by the cellar and Y
he other by raising a cleverly constructed M
panel. They were big enough to store a f
bile Of goods. On the bar was written, /.
81 900 worth Of rum sold this year" No ii
late was given. The hotel has been closed
several years. p
The Woodbury. Granite Co. of Hard L
wick has taken a sub-contract from the ii
Horton Hemenway Construction Co. Of ia