Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-06-06


and finished stock was located, Was de-
slroyed and the engine and boilers were
also badly damaged. The property was
all insured and the insurance will cover
losses. The owners will repair the build
ing and machinery and will resume work.
In Washington county court Saturday,
judgement was entered against the bail
IN the case against h. ID. Coon. Coon,
II viii be remembered, was charged with
mansianghter in having inflicted fatal in
lurles ON Peter Durant, patient in the
state hospital for the insane at Water
bury, Bail, which was fixed at 81, 200,
was furnished by l.. NJ. Mead OF Colehes-
ter. Coon skipped his bail and has not
yet been located. Bail was forfeited and
the bondsman must now make good the
1900,
Judge W. w. Miles has made an order
ON the request OF States Attorney Benja-
min Gates OF Montpel. which will pro-
vide for the release of''Shotgun Foster,
who has been for several months at the
state hospital for the insane at Waterbury
Tor observation. Foster was charged
with the larceny OF certain goods in East
Montpelier and the grand jury returned
no bill against him by reason OF insanity.
j. \. Harvey, attorney for Foster, viii
soon secure his release on writ Of
habeas corpus.
/ An important change affecting the
vicinity of Montpelier will result from
the action Of the directors OF the New
England Telegraph 4 Telephone Co.,
held at Boston May 2s. The Vermont
Telephone Co. has taken over the hold
ings OF the New England company in
Montpelier, Barre, Waterbury, Randolph
and vicinity. The latter company has
had nominal control OF this property,
but it now becomes an actual control.
The capital stock was recently increased
from $50, 900 to sl25,ooo
June LIST was the l03d birthday ami
versary OF Mrs. Ruth Allen Smith Of
Putney. She has not had an Ill day
since Just before she was 100 years old,
when she was confined to her room with
the grip for ~ weeks. Until recently,
she has been able to read, but il is with
some difficulty that she hears. Mrs.
Smith is granddaughter OF Lieut.. Jonas
Allen, hero OF Bunker Hill. She re-
members him with much pride and also
recalls how he used to take her upon his
knee and tell her war stories.
\ There has been no particular change in
the condition OF William Fairbanks, who
shot and killed his niece, Mrs. Mary
Grout, in Saxtons River May %. He is
at the Brattleboro Memorial hospital in a
private room, guarded by officers. His
physicians can see no reason why he will
not recover, barring the possibility Of
blood poisoning. No effort has been
made to recover the two bullets which
he fired into his body over his heart, but
ii is thought at the hospital that one
bullet went through the left lung and
lodged in the muscles of the back.
Thomas E. Mason of Felchville, an &c
centric character, who has lived alone for
some years, after the burning Of his
house Friday night, went across the
street to a shed and cut four gashes in
his throat with razor. His wounds
were dressed and he will probably re-
cover. He decided his property to a wo-
man some time since for security and had
tried to get the title back in his own
name. Brooding over the trouble, cou.
pied with the free use Of liquor, is given
as the cause for the tragedy.
Mrs. Eta Simpson and Mrs. Heller
Marsh OF Bradford have been notified
that they are heirs to a large estate in
Liverpool, Eng, left in trust by two
uncles, Benjamin and Lyman Prince. II
is said these two uncles several years age
deposited s2S5, ZOO in Liverpool bank in
trust for these women and others anC
that the accrued interest makes the sun
now nearly one million dollars. jerome
Prince, librarian of the Soldiers Home a
Tilton, n. H., who is also an heir, vii
all for Liverpool next month to look VI
the matter.
A feature not down on the program
for the pre-Memorial day exercises o
the Brattleboro High school consisted o
scathing utterances by Chairman Z. Q. S
Osgood of the school board and Congress
man Kittredge Haskins. When schoo
, opened that morning, it was discovered
that the flag which has long fioated from
, the school flagstaff had been cut down
The emblem was carried into the building
and the speakers denounced the act o
vandalism in their addresses. The,
could not believe, they declared, that tn
act was committed by any member o
the school.
, Orders have been issued for NOR
: troops to come to Fort Ethan Allen an,
! one squadron, four troops, of the Elev
enth cavalry, now at Fort Des Moines
[ Ia, will proceed at once by rail to com
. to that reservation for station. TIL
Eleventh cavalry was stationed at For
Ethan Allen in 1900 and 1901, leaving
in December of that year for the Philip
pines and returning to the United State
about year ago. The troops to come +
the fort will be A, B, and d, abou
240 men. The garrison will then con
sist of troops A, B, c and D, 18th Cav.
and E, F, G and H, 18th Cav.
Vermont academy, Saxtons River, wo
the state championship banner las
Thursday in the second annual inter
scholastic track meet held under the aus
pices of the University of Vermont, BuI
lington. From the start the contest wa
an exciting one, one school being ahea
for time and then the other gaining tn
lead OF twelve schools entered for tn
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