Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-07-27


badly scalded July IL. A shelf gave way
and teakettle full Of boiling water went
all over the child from the body down.
The attending physician thinks that the
life OF the child will be saved.
Harry Casner and wnfred Cowdrey Of
Rutland, who were sent TO the state
prison October "a, 1900. for horse stealing,
were released July II and Immediately
re-arrested on charge Of holding up ana
robbing Scott Tinkham at Quechee. They
will await trial at the prison.
John Wales OF Gouldsville was the man
who jumped from the train at Gouldsville
Sunday night, July IS. He lay uncon-
seiOus for over half hour and received a
deep cut on one side OF the face about four
inches long. He was also very badly
shaken up, being in bed for three days.
Seventy pupils are enrolled in the in
dustrial school which is conducted In
st. Johnsbury this summer under the
auspices OF the town school system. This
school was successfully inaugurated last
year by the Woman's club, which
assumed all the expenses connected with
il.
The late Mai. Henry f. Alvord Of Wash
ington, ID. c.. made provision in his VIII
hereby all of his valuable books on mil
itary engineering and encyclopedias were
tequeathed to Norwich university, North
uti0s MhlOf AlNOfh hNNIhdEA Aht
sity before the institution was moved to
Mortified.
Congressman Kittredge Hsskins has
nominated for appointment as cadets to
West Point, Jason ID. Jones OF Chester as
principal and Lyman N. Wakefield OF
MONTPELIER and Harry Olmstead OF Hart
ford as slternates. The nominees will
report for examination at Fort Ethan
Allen May l, 1905.
A party of Southern governors will
visit the Caledonia County fair Sept. 20
and speak on conditions at the South.
Cows. Brown OF Florida, Blanchard of
Louisiana, Vardaman OF Mississippi,
Davis OF Arkansas, Glenn OF North
Carolina ana Dawson OF West Virginia
will be OF the number.
The third class license held by S. H..
Miller, who has conducted a saloon on
North Winooski ave-, Burlington, was re-
voked July II by the license commission
ers. The Zee is $3.50 and about 500 will be
returned to Mr.. Miller. 1t was established
that Miller had sold to an habItual drunk
ard and also to minor.
Frank c. Archibald, who represented
Manchester In the last House and was one
of Mary Rogers counsel at her trial, en-
gagged in fisticuffs with j. III. Callahan,
manager of the Rutland baseball team, at
Rutland Friday, over the question OF UNI
plrlng, was knocked uoWu anu dlleTWdiu
arrested for breach OF the peace.
The town OF Rockingham, in which
Bellows Falls is located, July 10 rejected
the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give the
tom $4,000 for public library building,
provided the town would secure a suitable
site and vote at least $500 a year for
maintaining the library. The final vote
TO dismiss the subject was Sc to 10.
Dwight Atwood, married, is in jail at
Bennington in default OF bail, charged
with assault upon Hattie Becker Harvey,
an adopted daughter OF his, who lived
with him. The girl was recently married,
but remained with the husband but few
days, It being said that she was enticed
back to Atwood's house by Atwood him
self.
The Plumbers union of Burlington
unanimously voted that all trades unions
affiliated with the building trades council
allow their men to go on and complete
the work on the Howard opera house
building and the addition to the Mary
Fletcher hospital, regardless OF union or
non-u union plumbers, as both the build
| ings are charitable institutions.
Thirty members OF the Vermont Press
association attended the midsummer
meeting at Brattleboro Friday. They
were given a trolley ride and automobile
trip by the local members, pariook OF a
banquet at the Brooks House, heard stella
Brazil the noted contralto, sing ana us
tened to an address by Managing Editor
Sherman of the Hartford Courant.
At a special city meeting last week
Montpelier voted unanimously to appro-
pirate $4,000 to defray the expenses OF
The celebration October next OF the lOOth
anniversary OF the establishment OF the
capital of the state at Montpelier. The
eight troops of U. 5. cavalry and the two
ont
Allen will take part in the celebration
parade.
Miss Irene Graves of Bennington, aged
is. daughter OF +. O. Graves, a banker,
eloped last week Sunday with Forrest l..
Jepson, aged Is. of Schenectady, n. Y.
Jepson came after his bride in an automo-
bile. They went to Cambridge, n. Y,
and were there married. They informed
the brides family, who had opposed the
match, and continued their journey TO
Schenectady by auto.
Edward Harrington Of Ripton had an
experience few days ago which doubtless
has not been duplicated by any other per-
son in New England for nearly century.
He was attacked by wolves in the woods
and but for his presence of mind in al
ways keeping a front toward the savage
animals and making loud noise with his
dinner pail and by shouting, would prob
ably have been seriously, IL not fatally, in
| jured.
DIR. Ezra A. Smith, prominent citizen
OF Brandon, died July II, after long ILL
ness. He was 66 years old and for several
years had large practice in this and other
states. He was one of the largest property
owners OF the town at the time OF his
death, owning twenty-five tenement
houses and nine farms in Rutland and
Addison counties. He represented Bran
don in the legislature OF 1898. For many
years he had been president and secretary
Of the Queen City Park spiritualists' asso-
citation.
United States Circuit Judge Hoyt II.
! Wheeler of Brattleboro has appointed
/ General Manager DAVID Fox OF the Rut-
land street Railway Co. of Rutland its
receiver. This action is the result OF an
invol intary petition in bankruptcy, filed
/ JUN 10 by Douglas Robinson Of New
/ York. President Roosevelt's brotber-in-
law, who is receiver of the Merchants
Trust Co., with which Vermont concerns
are heavily bonded. The receivership will
t not affect the operation OF the plants
at present.
At hearing Of the directors Of the Yer
mont Valley Railroad company at Bellows
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