Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-02-15

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puzzled over peculiar skin disease tha
has broken out among the children and
| steadily spread to the older people in The
northern part OF the city. The disease il
not the hives in the opinion of leading
| physicians, but the itch is one OF the
| symptoms. The disease appears on the
| forehead, face, arms and breast. A scat
appears, the serum comes from underneath
the scab and wherever It lodges another
/ Irritation appears and when ii dries q
crust forms. IL the scabs are irritated
blood poisoning develops. The disease
appears largely among children from four
TO ten years old.
William Quinn, conductor, and Leslie
Carpenter, brakeman, we're hurt in a
railroad accident on the West River rail-
road Tuesday afternoon and narrowly es-
capped with their lives. They were riding
IN the eaboose OF an extra freight train
which was running from South London
derry 10 Brattleboro. At a point about
Tour miles north OF Brattleboro the last
car jumped the track and threw the ca
Doose down an embankment. Quinn's
left leg was badly cut and Carpenter re-
/ ceiVed several cuts on his head, the tenn
porai artery being severed. stove in the
car was overturned and soon the caboose
was on hre, and in a short time il was de-
stroyed.
Clarence Sinclair of Hyde Park started
last week for Boston to buy a horse. He
had the bulk OF his money, S1Si, in bills
and putting the roll ia his inside vest
pocket he made II fast with safety pin.
On the way down from st. Johusbury the
train was crowded and the air became SO
close and the heat so sitting that he
tainted when near Concord, n. II. When
he came to himself be made the discovery
that his money was gOne-taken from his
pocket as slick as could be; his watch
cham broken, but the watch was not
taken. He had just IS cents left. He
managed to raise funds enough TO get
home, where he took his bed, IN and
Respondent.
A civil suit has been brought by the
town Of Swanton agair st Charles Z.
Gilmore and Fred ID. Corliss, former
selectmen OF the town. There are two
counts in the declaration. The first
charges that the defendants unlawfully
coyerted liquors, bottles and corks TO the
OF value s3,7li.l0. The second charges the
defendants with wrongiully discharging
a certain mortgage which the town held
on liquors which had been sold 70
licensee. The ad damnum is fixed at
1900. Mr.. Gilmore has been prominent
ia town affairs for several years. He rep
resented the town in the Legislature OF
1900. lie served on the staff of Gov. Levi
X. Fuller in 1892, with the rank OF colonel. 4
The steamer Maquam, owned by the
Champlain Transportation company, is
resting on the bottom OF the lake at Shell
burne harbor. The steamer was being
used TO break ice at the harbor when a
leak was started aud the water rushed in /
so rapidly that the pumps were not able 4
to keep pace with it. The steamer was
therefore run to the dock, where she grad (
ually sank until she touched bottom. The /
Maquam is one Of the oldest boats on the I
lake and was to bave been put out OF COM |
mission soon. The building OF the Ticon I
deroga gives the company three steel I
steamers OF the newest and best type so 4
that the Maquam would have been rele- 4
gated anyway. II is doubtful il any at +
tempt is made TO repair her.
Senator Dillingham; announces that
examination will he held at /
the court house ia Montpelier on Tuesday, +
Feb. q, at II O'Clock in the morning, for 4
The purpose OF selecting a candidate for /
appointment to the Naval academy at
and two alternates. Candi-
dates must be actual residents Of Yer
mont, physically sound, and between the
ages OF sixteen and twenty years on April (
II, when the academy entrance examine
ton will be held. Candidates will be
in punctuation, spelling, arIth-
metlc, geography, English grammar,
United States history, worlds history,
algebra through quadratic equations, and
plane geometry. All desiring to take
his examination should address William
P. Dillingham;, u. 5. s., Washington, ID. {.
At a special village meeting held in
Mortified Feb. I'd. the Moody a Almon
Electric Lighting n Power Co. was award
ID contract for lighting the streets for a
period OF ten years, the contract price
being 5000 a year, for A-hour service.
The Northfield village plant was burned
Sov. 3, 1904, and at the time Moody a AL
non received temporary contract 20 light
he village until some further action was
aiken. The warning for the meeting
allied the voters together TO consider the
building OF new plant or the contracting
With the Moody q Almon Co. for lights. ,
The offer submitted by the company was
adorable and but few votes were cast IN
avor OF rebuilding the village plant The
PRESENT contract expires in June when the
lew contract will take effect. The maxi !
mum load necessary for lighting the VIII
age is IS horse power.
For common steel stub pen with !
wooden holder, the late Ira K. Allen OF
FAIR Haven, his friends say, once refused
cash offer OF $500 that was made by {
ouvenir hunter who succeeded after three !
ears IN locating he whereabouts OF the
zen used by Gov. John q. Mccullough d
o sign Nermont's local option-liceuse
Iauor law. MIR. Allen received the pen as
gift IN 1902 while he was Chairman OF
he Republican state committee from his
riend, Edward l.. Bates, secretary OF civil /.
nd military affairs. Secretary Bates
sked for and received the pen and holder
fhich the governor used, considering II
God souvenir to remember one OF the
reatest fights that any bill ever caused at r
he Green Mountain state house. The pen {
now exposed in a handsome frame, and I
eneath ii is the inscription, "Fhe pen 2
'hieh did the business I
Because he had an irresistible desire TO
&c America, to study its people, learn and
iaster It's language and to eventually be-
ONE an American merchant, Z. Alba OF
.anuma, Japan, boy of 10 years, shipped
efore the mast on a merchantmen at 1o-
ohama, year ago this month. after ibid
ing his mother, brother and sisters fare
ell, aud Travelled thousands OF miles as
4 bin boy, working his passage 10 get 10
utland aud greet his friend and benefac- y
,r. George L. Chatfee Of that city, a
ealthy lumber merchant, who met the :
ON four years ago while travelling with
IS family in Japan. Mr.. Chaffee took a
ersonal interest in the bright lad from
le first time he met the youth in Japan,