Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-07-26

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pressed.
Sheriff F. II. Tracy of Montpelier is send
| ing out to the insane hospitals and re-
treats Of the New England states and New
York an offer of s100 reward for the arrest
and detention OF b. ID. Coon, who is under
/ Indictment for nanslaughter in causing
the death Of Peter Durant at the state
hospital for the insane at Waterbury last
| October. Coon has JUMP mis- bail, and
as he had formerly WORKED in insane hos
pilals II is thought be may be located by
the circulars and cuts of him which have
been sent out.
While pursuing three boys who had
escaped from custody at the State Indus
trial school, Vergennes, July Is, William
| MctIinnis, a division officer OF the school,
was shot by one of them, Frank Ladri,
one OF whose companions had stolen a
revolver from a guard. The bullet entered
the left thigh and lodged above the knee.
| Other attendants oVerhauled the boys and
they were returned TO the school. Ladri
was sentenced to not less than two or
more than two and one-half years in the
house Of correction.
Mrs. Louise Joyner of Burlington is the
defendant in two divorce suits. Her
| first husband is Charles +. Simmons OF
lion, n. Y, and her second husband is
DIR. Francis f.. Joyner OF Burlirgt n.
| AndN MS wiz hht bNSh
married a sec md time, determined to
| secure a divorce as quietly as possible
and thus avoid a scandal. DIR. Joyner's
suspicious, however, had been aroused
/ and, aseertaining that she had another
living husband, he at once applied for an
annulment of his own marriage.
Fire destroyed the home Of the Coburn
sisters in South Ryegate the 18th. Short
| Nv before $3.50 a. m. one of them started
1 fire in ha at n nd
wood. When she returned the flames
were roaring in the chimney, and soon
spread TO the woodwork of the house.
Prof. Lewis Meader and daughter we're
stopping with his sisters. He rushed out
to the aid of his daughter, passed her
through the window and then succeeded
/ in saving few things. The home was all
/ the Coburns had. Their insurance was
| 1900.
| William Fletcher of Richford rose at
Ia a. IN. the 18th and built a fire in the
/ kitchen stove to warm some milk for his
| baby On going up stairs where his
| children we're sleeping, he found the
chamber all in flames and cinders falling
on the beds, had already set lire to the
quilts. He succeeded in rescuing the
| children, and also his cream separator,
which is about all he saved. Mr.. Fletch-
er's wife died about three months ago,
and he was living alone with his little
children. There was an insurance OF only
! 1915.
aBy the recording OF mortgage in the
recording office in Allegheny county,"
says a Pittsburg, Pa, dispatch, Laura
| Biggar, actress, formerly OF Chester, under
the will of her husband, Henry M.
| Bennett, takes a mortgage on the Bilou
Theatre property for $4,000 and all the
litigation over this million dollar estate
is ended. Laura Biggar gets about soOO,-
900 as her total share OF the property
The mortgage was the balance due Miss
Biggar by the other heirs OF the estate
under an agreement which she made
some time ago.
Toe committee appointed to investigate
the feasibility OF gravity or artesian
water supply for Burlington recommends
that, the lake supply be continued IN
use. The cost OF gravity system would
be very heavy and artesian water Is too
hard. The mayor will call city meeting
soon for the purpose OF presenting to the
citizens proposition to issue bonds TO
build a filtration plant to purify the
lake water. The state board OF health has
not yet extended the time given the city IN
which to take action but has indicated
that 1t will give such extension II faucets
are properly labelled.
Charles A. Page, employed by the New
Englan Telephone Co., narrowly escaped
serious injury the 18th while at work
stringing wire in Barre. He was climbing
a pole with coil OF wire in one hand
when the wire rubbed against feed wire
to the electric car trolley, which was
hI ched to the telephone pole. IL hap
pened that place was broken in the IN
sulstion on the feed wire and the wire
which Mr.. Page was carrying hit the place
and was charged. Mr.. Page was thrown
TO the ground by the shock and was badly
shaken up, beside having his hands
burned. He fell about twenty feet and
struck on his feet
The men who had been out at the u.
Macchi shed, Barre, for several days re-
turned to work July II, the difficulties
having been adjusted at conference OF
Inc executive committees of the Manufae-
turers association and the Granite cutters
union. BY this adjustment, the member
OF the firm who had been running sur-
face cutter and over whom the trouble
arose. does not take up his job again. The
general question of the right OF an en-
ployer, whether journeym IN or not, to
y ork in his own shed, is left to the execu-
tive committees OF the National Associa-
ton OF Granite Manufacturers and Gran
lie cutters international union for final
settlement.
Several houses in Rutland were broken
into the night of July 10 by the troopers
OF the Fifteenth cavalry, about six hum
dred OF whom stayed there that night en-
route from Fort Ethan Allen to Mount
Gretna, Pa. At the home of X. W. Good J
rich. about $50 in money and checks 10
the amount OF over 500 were taken. The
house of DIR. y. j. Delehanty, which Is
next to that OF MIR. Goodrich, was also en-
tered. Mrs. Delehanty was awakened by
a noise and awoke the doctor, who turned
on the electric light in time to see man
dressed in a khaki uniform leaving the
room. The man escaped. When the regi-
ment arrived in Rutland, owing TO the tX-
IRENE heat and the dusty roads, the horses
were in had condition. One thofse had
dropped dead and five others had fallen
from exhaustion.
What's the secret Of happy, vigorous
health? Simply keeping the bowels, the