Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-09-21
State of Vermont.
Its News condensed and Rewritten
Cor Our Readers.

SALISBURY died Saturday from paraiysi.
Of the throat.
Gov. Charles ]. Bell attended the New
| Hampshire state fair al Concord last week
and made brief speech.
Tbs Woodstock baseball team has
closed its season with clean string, win
ming 4 games and losing none.
ii. G. Cotton, for many years at the head
OF the Cotton Manufacturing company Of
4 Montpelier, died last Thursday.
II has been decided to hold the next an
nual meeting Of the Vermont state Grange
in Montpelier Dec. Y, IS and u, next.
Henry Wildes, aged ] years, an inmate
I OF the state industrial school at Nergeanes,
escaped from that institution sept. 18th.
Consul General Frank Dillingham; and
/ family have left Waterbury for New York
enroute to Mr. Dillingham's new post IN
Germany.
The Rev. A. S. Gilbert Of Newton Upper
I Falls, Mass, has accepted the call ex-
4 tended to him from the Passumpsic
! Baptist church 10 become its pastor.
Charles and Frank Bascomb. owners Of
+ the Criterion restaurant, Montpelier, have
\ filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy.
The liabilities are stated to BE- 200 and
the assets 5000.
A barn IN North Troy belonging TO Al
/ Ian Griggs was burned sept. l1th, together
with his cows aud hogs aud farm products.
+ The fire Is supposed 10 have caught BY a
+ lantern exploding.
The track record Was broken al Fair
/ Haven Friday, the closing day OF the fair,
/ by ALBERT owned 81 Mr.. Spencer Of
/ Greenwich. n. ". which trotted the first
/ heat IL the ffee-t0r all in Z:l0..
The Bellows Falls & North Nalpole Gas
+ Co has been granted the right to lay is
/ pfpes through the streets Of Bellows Falls,
etc. This company was Incorporated ~
/ July with a capital stock Of eJ0.00.
Allen smith. who was recently injured
/ IN the mill and box factory of Fred =.
smith at Moscow and who was taken %
the hospital at Burlington, became I'M
| conscious there and died sept. 10Th.
The CongI church at Bellows Falls,
which was repaired during August a. an
/ expense Of =, 200, was reconseerated sept.
10. The church Is now one Of the hand
/ soonest in its interior finish ~ that section.
The contract for the building OF the
/ Eber ". Cobleigh public library at Lynn
donville has been awarded % Y, ". spear
OF Burlington. The building is 70 cost
4 $1,000 and il 10 be completed by July !
I 1896.
President Roosevelt has sent word that
! IA y H.
/ ing the invitation to be present at the eel
ebratfon Of the centennial Of the establish
ment Of the state capital at Montpelier
Oct. i.
The first snow OF the season in Vermont
in 1905 fell Sept. 10 at Newport. II looks
a. If the record of 1g0i-iga5 was TO be du-
plicated In 1a05-i906. There was snow IN
each OF the nine months, September, 100,
TO May, 1905.
During recent thunder shower, Mrs
fC. &. johnson of 10Nnshend was struck
BY lightning WINE she vas pAllhs agpi s,s
The knife was thrown from her hand and
she was rendered unconscious Tor short
time and partly paralyzed.
There wery s1f2, 900 paid out by the YER
mont Marble company last week as wages
for August. This Is the largest payroll IN
the history OF the company. II indicates
about double the business done by this
great enterprise five years ago,
A storehouse owned BY Mrs. ;. r.
Brown al swanton. containing 50 tons OF
nav owned by ID. Noyes Barton OF High
/ gafe. was burned Friday night There
was no insurance on the building but the
hay was insured for about go
A carriage ia which A. Mason and
! daughter Of TinmOulh were driving was
struck by a train at Poultney sept. i'm,
/ one OF the horses being instantly KILLED,
/ Mr.. Mason and tae young woman had
/ narrow escapes bat were unlnIured.
Vermont fairs are reporting larger
4 attendances Ian ever this year. Ihere
we're over 10000 at the Atdde0ury lar,
and fully 10000 at the Barton lar; AZ
/ the latter fair, Ecstatic, owned by ". 4.
Holders. lowered the track record rom
2l1A to 20ol.
/ BENJAMIN Williams, the soldier from
1 Fort Ethan Allen. charged with the muir
4 der Of Policeman McGrath Of burlington
/ in Nav. 1904. who has been az the water
bury ASYLUM for observation, has been re-.
I turned Is Chittenden county jail and Will
/ be tried for the crime this week.
Burglars broke into the postoifice a.
4 Barton Landing Sept. 18Th, wrecked lhe
/ safe with charge of dynamite ana carried
away small sum Of money ana sotue
/ stan,ps. The door OF the safe was blown
through the side OF the building. 70
trace Of the burglars has been iouha yell
4 Rutland six ear-old boy, Ralph, son
/ Of Arthur Bacsn, fell while running WITH
4 ,,pandy sucker IN his mouth, and the
4 nointed stick was forced through his pal-
! ste. dividing It. IL is uncertain whether
/ the two parts will heal together or wheth-
er the palate will have to De cut out alto
4 gether.
In Rutland county court last week the
iury returned verdict for the defendant
| IA the libel suit OF J. IL. Cross OF Brandon
~. Flood and Moore, publishers OF the
Brandon Union, growing out Of the publi-
earion 81 letter dealing with certain DO
nestle infelicittes in which Cross was con-
4 cerned.
Two historic spots at Bennington center
have been recently tempora -iiy marked.
one was the spot on which stood Ihe
printing house ia which William l-9I
Harrison. the famous Abolitionist, edited
Ne Journal Of the Times. ls2S-29, and ths
other vas the site Of the iirst church pun
in Vermont.
from West Addison comes the report
that many OF the farmers are thresnlhg
oats in The held, beng unable 70 draw
Them to the barn, the ground being too
Net. The rains have occasioned many
hundreds OF dollars loss % farmers II me
grain crops. Pears aud plums are plenti-
ful in that vicinity.
pr. Jose dc Jesus Paul, who, as the Yen
sznelan representative before heIeree
Frank plumley, who arbttrated the
Frencb claims against Venezuela, mas
been Is Mortified and vicinity silee Jan
,,sr-. q "a Sc made president Of the Hlgh
I '--4 at.4,r4 ~ Venezuela according 10