Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-10-03

carpenter accidentally hit Paul Pelto
, over the right eye with the spike in tt
end OF top, infiicting deep GU
Three stitches were taken in the wound
s Young Pelton was standing some dis
: lance from Carpenter at the time and tn
accident was due to the slipping of tn
( string used in spinning the top. a.5at
: v. Fracassi of Northfield pleaded
guilty in Washington county court Sept
70 to an Indictment charging him witt
illegally selling and furnishing in
toxicating liquor. He was fined 5000
with costs of .S11.76, which he paid
Bail in the case of Antonio Donaalazzi OF
Mortified, who was indicted for similar
offense, was fixed at $500. This he could
not furnish and he was remanded to jail.
The blacksmith shop and barn owned
by Auriel Lagare of Groton were burned
last Thursday night. A stallion valued
at $500, COW and some sleighs and wag-
ons were burned. 1. is not known how
the fire started as everything was in
flames when it was discovered. The
proprietor was in Canada. The exact loss
on the property is not known, but it will
probably be about 81, 600 over the insur-
ance.
Il Harry Diamond, who was arrested Sept
20 at Plainfield by an officer when he was
getting in condition to shoot up the
town, was committed to jail for ten days
Sept. 81 to serve an alternative sentence
for intoxication. He was released from
jail only the Thursday before after
serving a three months sentence for
breach of the peace. While serving this
sentence, he went under the name of
Harry Gilbert.
The eight hundred or more women
school teachers in Vermont are to form
club for social purposes which Will cor
respond to the Vermont Schoolmasters'
club among the male teachers of the
state. The male teachers in Vermont as
elsewhere are greatly in the minority
among 1000 teachers less than $50 are
men. Bat the men have been organized
for some years. 1t is planned to form
the club for women at the annual con-
vention of the Vermont State Teachers's
association to be held in Burlington Oct.
1919.
While the keeper of the Bellows Falls
jail was out, Raymond Sharkey, arrested
on the charge of rObbing a clothing store
in that place, crawled up the fireplace
chimney in the corridor and, descending
a ladder against the roof, made good
Sharkey escaped was fifty feet high and
was not looked upon by the officers as
likely means of escape. 1t is reported
that within twenty-four hours of his
escape he made another good haul near
Charlestown, n. H. ......
Bank Inspector L. A. Cobb of Island
Pond announces that since the law
enacted by the legislature of 1906 re-
moving the tax on national bank de-
posits went into effect, the deposits in
this state have increased IS, 500, 900 as
against S1,929,9S3 for a corresponding
period in 1906. During the past five
years, says Mr.. Cobb, the bank deposits
in the state have increased approximate
~ 100000 900 and since the new law
went into effect the increase has been
more than half that sum.
The first annual convention of the !
Vermont State league of postmasters of
the fourth-class offices was held in Rich |
ford Sept. % and was a very successful |
meeting. Postmasters from different |
parts of the state were present, all of |
whom took part in the meeting by dis
cussing various postoffice problems. |
The objects of the league are the improve !
ment of the postal service, the care of /
the common interests of the postmaster,
and the welfare of the public. The next |
annual meeting will be held at White .
River Junction.
A jury in Rutland county court, after
II hours consideration, returned a YER
dict Sept. p in the noted labor case, in
which the F. r. Patch Manufacturing
sued % members of Protection
lodge, international Association of Ma
for strike damages of -, 700
cd he -. /
lodge. The jury held that Is of the men
named as defendants were bona fide
of the lodge and are therefore
holden for the Judgment. The case
hinged on the question of membership
in the lodge at the time of the strike in
1902, which was marked by violence. 1t
has attracted wide attention, none like it
ever having been tried in Vermont.
In Barre city court Sept. 26, Mrs. Will
liam Cooney pleaded guilty to one offense
Of selling liquor illegally and was SEN
fenced to serve not less than three or
more than ten months in the house of
Rutland, and to pay costs of
and costs of condemning the
liquor. The execution of the sentence
vas suspended and the woman was
placed on probation. She is in very des-
.itute circumstances and has four young ,
children to support and her husband has
not contributed toward the support of
he family for some time. Mrs. {
Cooney's house was searched the evening
before, there being several men in the
house when the raid was made, and a
gallon of whiskey was seized. {
The riding test for that section of the
United States army, department of the 5
Cast, which is to report at Fort Ethan
Allen, will be held at that post Oct. 16. |
This riding test is to be held in compli-
nee with the letter issued by President .
Roosevelt May IS, in which he deplored
he physical inability of some field officers
0 ride even a few miles at an increased
ait. The territory to be ridden over for
his test will be determined by Maj. j. B.
: cDonald, commanding officer at Fort
Ethan Allen. The ride will be fifteen
niles in length and will be traversed five
niles at a walk, five miles at gallop,
nd five miles at a trot.- The same rests
nd halts will be observed as of an organ
zation on the march. The test will be
nade under the personal supervision of
len. F. ID. Grant, commanding the de-