Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-08-10

bank OF Montpelier have voted unani-
mously 10 reduce the capital stock one
half and continue the hank. The cashier
vas instructed to be ready to make the
Necessary changes september l. The capt.
tai stock was originally $4,000. At The
time Of the extension Of the charter IN
lsSf the capital was reduced 70 et00,Oo0
aud now By tbe re-exteusion il has been
reduced 10 100000. During the 40 years
the bank has been running, IL has paid
dividends amounting 70 sa2i ,o12-52. The
popular view seems 10 be that A. much
business can be done on small as on a
big capital.
Prof. Oliver NJ. W. sprague OF St.
Johnshury has resigned as assistant pro-
lessor m The department Of economies al
Harvard university 10 accept professor
ship in the Imperial University Of Japan
a Toxic. He will be professor OF political
economy ana finance In the college OF law
in the Imperial University and lecturer on
the same subjects in the Toxic higher
commercial school. He recently married
Miss Fannie X. Ide, daughter Of President
ElmOre T.. Ide Of the Merchants bank and
niece OF vice Governor Ide OF the Philip
pine commission. Prof. and Mrs. Sprague
Will sail for the Orient the last OF this
month.
Joseph X. Hatch, a farmer OF w God
stock, aged 90 years, was killed July 80 by
a Jersey stag that was being fattened in
the pasture. w hen the cows came down
ct night one was found TO be missing, and
Mr.. Hatch, taking a staff, went to the pas
ture after il. He WAS gone so long that
his son started after him and was attacked
himself by the stag which he beat off with
a club that he carried. A little farther on
he discovered his fathers body lying in
the highway, terribly gored and mangled,
especially about the neck. A deep wound
IN the throat indicated that the animal
had caught its horn under Mr.. Hatch s
jaw aud tossed him over the wall.
What Is thought 10 have been a scheme
10 waylay Chief OF Police Patrick Brown
Of Barre the night OF Aug. 8 was fooled by
Mrs. Brown. She and her daughter were
going home on the outskirts OF the city at
ii o'clock and noticed a man following
them. When she reached the house she
locked the doors, put out the lights ana
watched the man prowl around the house
and then 90 down beside the road and
hide in the bushes. Mrs. Brown tele-
phoned TO the chief at he station and told
where the man was hiding. The chiefand
officer Faulkner went to the place and
after throwing lights on the bushes with
out seeing anything fired into them. A
man ran out aud escaped but Il was
dark so they could get no description OF
him. he is generally thought TO be an
anachist planning 10 shoot the CHIEF when
be went home.
Constable A. G. Mason OF Pawlet, who
recently discovered the hiding place of
gang consisting OF three men and a woman
that had been committing deprodations m
Dorset, Rupert and Pawlet, the gang
shooting one OF their number, probably
mistaking him for an officer, arrived IN
Bennington Aug. !, having in custody
David Rockaway and Miss Lavinia Lam
phere Westcott. The girl was brought
before justice OF the peace and select
man of Rupert and was held in the sum OF
Il 900 for appearance before the grand
jury, and in default of bail was landed in
jail. She is about eighteen years old and
has been living at home in Dorset with her
mother and sister. Rockaway was cap
tured in rinmouth at the residence OF a
relative He IL resident of Sunderland
and so far as known has never been in
trouble before. The other offender is Mer-
rift Reed, also OF Sunderland.