Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-06-28

AialAH diminished after November l. lqgg
Mr.. Mshistrom opened the mammal
training school at Woodstock june rs
Win % men, women, boys and girls
enrolled IN the several classes In Wood
NuiAihg' Inc scheme eontemplates four
classes a uay, each having period OF one
ana one-h hours three lines veek
Tbs shop Is equipped With bench room.
Nlses and ample provision Of tools for
time.
Henry Conant, who left Vermont about
seven years ago as an attendant ed the
state hospital for the insane near Trenton.
y. u - dead as the result Of an assault
the 18th BY Moses Kirby, negro inmate.
KIRBY took crazy spite against Conant.
sueaked into a side room. wrenehed a
leg from table and lay in wait until
Conant CHANGED to be the only attendant
m the ward. He crept up behind the
victim and dealt him terrible blow with
me table leg, fracturing the victims
skull.
The big log drive Of the Connecticut
River Lumber Co.. which Is now below
BraItleboro contains 60010,000 feet Of
logs. George Van Dyke, preside OF the
company, is looking after the drive, going
up and down the valley 10 an automobile.
MT. Van Dyke Is about so years old and Is
reported 10 be several times a millionaire.
AZ the age ~ eleven years he began earn
Ing his living and al the age OF fourteen be
was chOpping wood IN winter and engaged
IN driving logs IN the spring
james +. Mountain Of Gardner. Mass. a
parOled patient at the Brattleb0ro retreat
Tor he insane, committed suicide June ~
By hurting himself IN front of a fast
freight train on the Boston and Maine
railroad IN the town Of Vernon. His head.
arms ana legs were torn from the bodyand
the torso was horribly mutilated. Noun
tain walked beside the track until the
train was short distance from him,
when be jumped deliberately in front OF
the engine. Fragments OF the body were
scattered several rods
Gerald B. Kirwan, aged IS years, died
June u al the 1Wu farm IN BrattleborO.
He was born in Boston, and was journey
man upholsterer, working by the side OF
the late Mayor Patrick A. Collins OF Bos-
ton, when the latter learned The upholster-
er's trade. He served IN the United States
navy on the bark Restless, which captured
large number Of ships, and afterwards
was inspector Of the Boston water depart
meut He went TO BrattleborO In 1870 and
conducted an upholstering shop. He was
man OF unusual mental equipment.
The large dome on the state house at
Montpelier will be giIded like the dome
OF the Massachusetts, state house in Bos-
ton. The contract has been given to
Martenson a HoldensOn Of Boston and il
Is expected that the work VIII begin at
once. The gliding OF The dome will be a
long time IN process, as the surface has TO
be scraped and sandpapered. The surface
OF the dome was getting 70 be in such
condition that Sergeant-at- Arms Ferrin
decided that something must be done AZ
once, and gliding is the method most
approved.
Twenty-Five Vermont postmasters have
been voted an increase OF 200 year IN
salary by the post-otiies department.
They are the postmasters at Barton Land
ing, Bethel, Bradford, Brandon, Brattle-
boro, Castleton, Derby Line, Johnson
Manchester, Morrisville, Newport, North
field, Proctor, Putney, Richtord, south
Royalton, Springfield, Stove, West kut-
land. White River Junction, Windsor, ana
Woodstock. The postmaster at Lyndonyille
will be advanced 200; those az Bellows
Falls, Enosburg Falls and 81. Albans VIII
he reduced 200 each. The post-oiiee at
We Is River is to become OF the preslden-
tial ass July /, and the postmaster VIII
receive a salary ofsLlOO,
Reginald. thirteen months-old son OF
Mr.. aud Mrs. b. p. Carr Of Rutland, Is hale
and hearty and a puzzle to the DOCTORS
after having lived two aud a half weeks
with breastpin open in bis throat The
child swallowed the pin while toylog with
III. but showed no bad effects from lt
pbysiciaus predicted immediate trouble
uniess the pin passed through the natural
channels, but when days went by ana no
was noticed, although the
piu still remained ia the childs body, the
medical men were nOuplussed. june ~
while the boy was eati0g some toast, he
commenced suddenly to choke and soon
eoughed up the pin, a piece 81 the tosst
being caught on the sharp point.
II i expected that the Vermont National
t;uard will 20 to Mount Gretna, Pa, ana
tale part in the army mnnoeuvres TINS
summer. The appropriation PROVIDED ~
Congress gives the state militia suulcleht
money To take part in the manoeuvres.
Vermont will get its share. While no
oyders have been issued with reference 70
the Vermont National Guard u Is eA-
pected that the regiment Will leave th1
state early in August. The regiment ~
mobilize at some point probably bratus
NO and from that point will proceed to
Mount Gretna. II is probable that the
regiment will be under orders from ten 70
fo1rteen DAYS, about seven Of that num-
her being passed in the PennsyNahla
camp. 49,. .,.,.i- the
case Of state VS.. Duncan et al, the case IN
4 bicb the labor union OF hardwlek i
charged with conspiring 70 prevent non
nnion man from carrying on business, was
mi pressed by the states attorney a. he
Ala moi consider il advisable to prosecute
~ case further In this case the granu
inrv IN June. 1905, found true blll Inc
filed their several pleas ~
/ batement. as they maintained that the
indictment was not good. These pleas
we're adiudged insufficient. The RESPOND
,rts fhen demurred to the indlctmeht
ma we're oyerruled. The case then Went Nsl
I'D the supreme court ON eXceptlons' ny
.gnrerne court held the indictment gooa
and sent the case back to the county eoui'
for trial. 80 tor sam
rle,rv i Mullings. formerly OF Brlstol' /
,res taken 10 Middlebury June y ifo.l
EIn,tsTilIe, Ala, and lodged in jail. Mul-
iipgs il Is alleged, in forging me hotJ' |
nssd ne name Of DR.. Norton OF brlstol. /
~ suddenly disappeared from Bristol y 4
- 1an3 when the note was passeu, /
Is about IS and has VIE anu |
family In Bristol where he was engageu ~
~ iife insurance business. He was as
,a,.ared In Huntsville last week ~ bris-
II man who was there. In Alabama, ne
30 GOING under an assumed nahe' 81
-, hiwsslf n. Judd Smith lie was pro