Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-09-14


chimes which be invented in the slvtis.
Twice he sat in the Vermont Legislatnrs
being elected from Morristown, his birtb
place.
The sIth academic year of Norwich uni
versity opened Tuesday at Mort hGeld viii
an entering class of over 50. The new par
fridge dormitory hall is not yet eomplete,
and nearby is the Carnegie library al,
unfinished, and central heating Dlan
under construction. As soon as these an,
done, plans will be drawn for a new
science hall and mess hall.
A petition in bankruptcy has been flee
by the Barre Daily Telegram Publishing
Co, which ceased to publish some week.
ago. The total liabilities Of the comnan,
are set up as s3,605.49, with assets Of s825
Included IN the petition are the individual
schedules OF W. G.. Bradford and A. d
I Miller, the proprietors. The liabilities ~
each are set up as s3,605f9, with no assets
/ Arthur Perham OF Springfield. one Of
I the New England Telephone Co.'S line
/ men, while working in Newport. n n
/ the 9TH, came Ia contact with a live wire
that sent 2700 volts through his body.
+ After receiving the shock he Law helpless
7 on two strands Of the wire several seconds
+ before falling. He was severely burned on
the back ana sides and his lungs we're
injured.
A tower, IA feet square at the base and
30 feet high, has been erected on MI. Car
mel, a spur OF the Green mountains and
the highest point OF land ia Chittenden.
Prom 1t IS obtained a magnificent view
mbracing Lake Champain, Burlington
Mansfield. Killington and the Adirop-
dacks, while to the east the White noun
tains stand out prominently. The pro-
motor OF the enterprise was Charles Dodge
OF Chittenden.
The 9th US. battery from Fort Ethan
Allen, on practice march 10 Springfield
and BrattleboTo, at which places il Is to
be an attraction at the fairs. camped al
Montpelier Junction the night Of the 9Th.
About 90 OF the soldiers went into the CITY
ia the evening and became involved in a
drunken riot, IN which one OF them batted
the face of another with the metal butt Of
his four pound revolver. Police and eiti-
gems interfered, and the combatants were
safely restored 10 camp.
Something unique in the way Of dam
building Is the new concrete dam for the
Missisquoi Pulp Co. at Sheldon Springs.
into whose permanent structure nothing
but crushed stone, Portland cement and
steel enter. lt is expected TO use four or
i've thousand barrels OF cement and from
twenty-five to thirty thousand barrels OF
crushed stone and sand. Seventy-fve
men are employed on the job and as the
Pulp company furnishes electric light, the
work goes on by day and night.
A strong program has been prepared for
the 56th annual convention Of the Yer
mont state Teachers association to be
held in the state house, Montpelier, Oct. +
ls, 20 and p. The speakers expected are .
Governor Bell, President Tucker Of Dart
mouth college, Supt. John Kennedy Of
Batavia, \. Y, j. ;. Cooley Of Worcester,
Mass, George III. Martin and DR.. A. Il.
Winship and Sara Cone Bryant Of Boston
and Prof. John NJ. Tyler OF Amherst col
lege.
Mrs. Edward Plant, living near Fort
Ethan Allen, on the road TO Colchester,
attempted 20 commit suicide the evening
OF the Sd by swallowing two ounces OF
carbolic acid. Her little girl, who had
heard the mother threaten 70 take her life,
Weakened the father and he, going into the
room where his wife was, found her in an
unconscious condition. A doctor Was
summoned from Essex Junction and
reached the woman IN time to save her
life. Domestic trouble, she claims, was
he cause Of her desperate act.
A mass meeting OF Vermont rural free ,
delivery carriers was held recently at the
Randall House in Morrisville for the pur-
pose OF organizing state Rural Carriers
md six counties were represented, namely: !
orleans, Washington, Essex, Franklin, I
addison and LamOille. The principal Of
icers elected were .- President, +. ;. Rob- I
nson Of Morrisyille; secretary, A. J. Nc I
'lellan OF Greensb oro, and treasurer, A. r. /
iarvin OF North Crattsbury. II was voted a
o hold the next meeting in Burlington on a
4abor day in 1906. II
Dana Lafrana, Kenneth stebbins, Ben a
Davis, Dean Johnson, Herbert Davis, John z
Wood, Edward Latley, Jay Clark and John I
.ackey were arraigned in Mortified the Z
III charged with breach OF the peace by
eason Of boisterous conduct at a public
Meeting held in Mortified Falls Sept. 5. n
.afrana and Stebbins pleaded not guilty X
nd the cases against them were nolle s
rossed The others, with the exception a
( Laekey, pleaded guilty and each was y
ned II and costs, amounting to 500, "
nth an alternative sentence OF three days u
! the house Of CORE ction at Rutland. v
Leroy Corliss, q years old, and only son q
Frederick ID. Corliss of East Swanton, =
Ut his throat with a razor the ith inst, in =
be cellar OF the house, where he was -
,und by his father with his windpipe :,
nd several arteries severed. A doctor, x
lickly summoned, sewed up the wounds, =,
nd il was thought that the young man y
light live, but violent tit of coughing ~
issued and he died in a few minutes. =
he cause of the deed is presumed to be =
ne to the excessive use OF tobacco and to =
he fact that for some time the deceased
Id been afflicted with a severe stomach u
ouhle. We
A bout 500 members OF the Vermont Fish :,
I'd Game League, with invited guests, ~
urneyed to Bluff Point, n. Y, last FRI ~
" for the summer outing. he party -
at Burlington, crossing the -
Ike by steamer Chateaugay. A banquet ~
as served in the dining hall of the mag ns
ficent Hotel Champlain at the Point. u,
esident Fish presided at the atter-din- ~
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