Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-09-07

| sumo ~oAh ioA sphS liiHei owing 70 MS
recent illness.
Gen. Levi G. Kingsley, he Oldest mer-
chant in Rutland. retired last week, hay-
ing sold his business on Merchants Row
TO Henry Parker and Richard Ryan, for
| many years employees OF the firm. For
nearly fifty years General Kingsley has
occupied prominent place in the life Of
Rutland. He has figured as merchant,
public official and soldier.
The house of John McInerney at North
1 Poultney was destroyed BY fire August Is.
only small quantity Of furniture being
| saved. Mrs. NcInerney while working
about the kitchen accidentally overturned
a kettle Of hot lard, which she had been US
ing to fry doughnuts, into the fire, and an
explosion followed. The woman escaped
I injury, but the flames spread rapidly ana
could not he extinguished.
There is much rejoicing 10 Benning-
ton over the announcement that the
/ committee which has been al work raising
a fund OF s25, 600 for Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing there has been successful. The time
/ limit for raising this expired Friday and
the committee finds that 1t has secured
4 subscriptions for over s4O0 in excess OF the
sum required. Ex-Gov. Mccullough and
two other citizens pledged 5000 each.
BY the breaking Of seyen-foot pulley
at the plant of the American Wooden Co.
in Winooski Aug. % damage exceeding
I $4,000 resulted 10 the companyis ma
chinery. The breaking OF the shaft pre-
vents the mill from being run by water
power. Ii will take many weeks to repair
4 the damage and IN the meantime steam
j viii be used to keep the plant in running
I operation.
4 Friday. a train struck a man and killed
/ him near Leicester Junction. II is
! thought the man was deaf and dumb as he
4 was seen last at Belden's and narrowly
missed being hit by a train there. His
clothes were searched but there was moth
\ ing about his person to reveal his identity.
] The train took the body 10 Leicester,
where il was turned over to the town
authorities.
/ The contract for the building OF the
I Eber w. Cobleigh public library building
has been awarded to c. w. Spear OF BUR-
I lington. The building is 10 cost $1,000,
T is TO be completed ready for occupancy
on or before July /, 1906, and work On II
Is 10 be begun at once. Mr. Cobleigh,
I who originally gave $1,000 for the build
I ing OF the library, has recently added
Z $1,000 to his gift.
/ At the Bradford fair last week, in the
/ 217 race, one Of the trotters ran away,
/ and there was miXup of several OF the
racers. None Of the horses were seriously
7 injured, but two OF the drivers Jared
Y uaQlN. Ars hhsltl suHEIe4 tuutuhsluu OF
the brain; Mr.. Bowser received two frac-
tured ribs and broken collar bone; while
Mr.. uttonis injuries were slight, broken
I finger and he was able TO finish driving
I in the races.
AT Rutland. Aug. 3lst, Fred Carter was
+ fined 300 for furnishing intoxicants to
minors Patrick Kelly, associate pro-
prietor OF the Banquet hotel was also
lined 500 in city court for selling liquor
D Roth anfaalqd and
I furnished $500 bail. Nelson Breer was
convicted OF furnishing and was sentenced
+ 10 not less than three or more than four
months in the house Of correction. lie
also appealed.
Francis ID. Flint. who has been in North
4 Geld aud lived at the hotel, left Northheld
Aug. 30 for Massachusetts, and Thursday
morning his dead body was found on the
track IN Chester. The superstition Is that
he was killed by train while crossing
from one track TO another to escape an
approaching train, not knowing that one
was coming from the opposite direction.
The deceased was 66 years Of age. His
body was brought TO Barre Tor interment.
Pinned in the cab OF his overturned To-
connective so that he could not eXtricate
himself, with boiling water and steam
pouring in upon him through a broken
pipe, Engineer Almar W. Shattuck OF
Brattleboro was burned fatally Aug. y
in one OF the worst accidents that ever
happened on the railroad between Brattle-
boro and South Londonderry. The track
settled, due to the insecure state OF the
road bed, following the change OF the
Narrow Gauge to standard gauge.
WI. Vorce OF st. Adams, manager Of
the st. Adams street railway company,
was appointed receiver OF the road sat
urday. The petition for the appointment
OF receiver was made by Jerome Marble
Of Worcester, Mass, and others. The
road is bonded for 100000, Of which Mr..
Marble holds $1,000, being the largest
bondholder, stockhol and unsecured
creditor. Its expenditures exceed its in
come, and the receivershIp proceedings
are a step i'm a reorganization plan
When the new buildings now under
construction for the American Wooden
Co. in Winooski are completed the work
ing force will be increased by about nve
hundred men. The present pay roll IS m
the neighborhood of $4,000 weekly ana
" hen the additional men are set 70 work
the roll will be increased by at least so,loO.
Although il is not officially stated, u is
rumored that this is only the beginning
Of a large increase in the work OF con-
struction to put the plant at Winooski
ahead of any OF its kind in the country.
The Cooper Manufacturing Co. has pur-
chased the Coy Babcock mills at Benning-
ton for -Ib,uu0. Inc property ~
belonged to the Valentine Knitting Co.,
and was bought by the Coy Babcock Co.
for about $4,000, about a third Of the
original cost The new owners will take
possession January l. The present occu-
pants manufactured waxed paper Iheg
will either build or purchase some
property in Bennington to continue their
work. The Cooper Manufacturing Go.
viii utilize its new purchase for the
manufacture OF knit goods.
william Murphy Of Mortified Is m
Washington county jail in default Of 800
bah. held on a charge OF robbing the
nostoffice and safe Of +. l.. Cross at
Eouldsville few weeks ago. Five mileage
boolss were taken, the numbers of which
corresponded to those found IN Murphys
possession. Murphy claims he found the
mileages beside the railroad track about
mile from Mortified Falls. After find
ing them he told a cigar manufacture
81 Mortified, who advised him to give
them to the station agent or TO send
them back to ST. Adams, but he did
neither.