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

previous years, due badly to the fact
that more court officials are on salaries
and that the fees " hich formerly went to
the court officers now go into the state
treasury.
Game Warden A. Fisher and several
men were working on Miles mountain,
some 10 miles from st. Johnsbury, when
they heard a shot and hurried in its
direction. They found the body Of an
E'albino" doe, the rarest specimen ever
seen in this state. The Illegal hunter
had fed and had such start on the
warden that his capture was impossible.
The animal was pure white with the ex-
ception of black ears and two rows of
black spots down the back. 1t will be
mounted and placed in the state house
at Montpelier.
Something in the nature of western
cyclone passed through the vicinity of
Berkshire Sept. 80. The course of the
storm was from west to east and esti-
mated to have been about thirty-five feet
in width in its course. At the farm of
w. NJ. Armstrong, the shingles were
torn off from one side Of his large barn,
and a small building which he used for a
separator room was lifted and over
turned. A chimney on his house was
blown down and his sugar house divided,
cutting a path through his sugar place.
Other damage of note was at the farm
house OF 4. H. Bowen, where the storm
demolished the chimney, broke out nine
panes of glass and moved the building
about four inches from its foundation.
Passing there, it tore up trees by the
roots and soil from the rocks. The
storm was of funnel shape.
Considerable interest and Importance is
attached to the case of Mabel Mccall
loum, an insane woman of Calgary,
Alberta, Can. relative to the liability of
Vermont to take back citizens who have
become public charges in insane institu-
tions in foreign countries. This woman
was born in Vermont, and for the past
two years had been living with her broth
err in Calgary. She became suddenly in
sane while on the train on her way to
Newport, this state. She was COM
mitted to an asylum at Brandon, Mani
tOba. The Vermont authorities were then
notified that they would have to care for
the woman, and she viii be taken to
the asylum at Waterbury. This IS
new case in Vermont, and statutes may
have to be enacted to provide for similar
cases in the future. The proceedings
that were used in this case are the same
as if she had been an insane pauper wall
dering on the streets, as the state has no
statutes to provide for such cases.
The much-sought Jacksonville firebug
was caught Oct. 3, after attempting to
set another fire. His name is Henry
Gallagher, and he is a negro IS years old,
and formerly an inmate of Massa-
chusetts reformatory institution. He
confessed TO setting all but one of the
eight fires, beginning in July and he
attempted to burn the last of the hotel
barns last week. He bored holes
through the upper and lower floors,
strung a rope soaked in kerosene from
the hayloft, through the holes to the
basement and set the rope afire. Dana
Canedy, the proprietor of the hotel, dis
covered the burning rope when he went
to feed his horses. Afterward he found a
bit IN the hstel shed with fresh shavings
clinging to it. The bit fitted the holes
in the barn. He suspected Gallagher,
who lived at the Hotel Atlas as a chore-
boy. When questioned, he broke down
and confessed. He said his only object
was excitement. He was taken to New
fame jail and bound over to Windham
county court.
F. L. Smith of BartonsvilIe "a post
office in Bockingham), who has been
tried a sharp trick the other day, if the /
are proved against him. He
went to the bank in Chester with a check .
for $500 on the Bellows Falls Trust COM !
pany, bearing what purported to be the
signature of Mr.. Covey. The Chester
bank refused to hand over the $500 and
Smith went to Bellows Falls. As it was
afternoon, the Trust company
was closed and Smith went to the store
of Field & Lawrence and talked with J.
P. Lawrence, a fellow townsman. Mr..
Lawrence took the check and advanced
S25 on it. According to appointment,
Smith appeared Monday and went to the
Trust company to draw the $500 and
settle with Lawrence. While there, he
was detained until arrested by the
deputy sheriff on the charge of forging
the signature of Mr.. Convey. The latter
was in Massachusetts,, but friends of his
had heard about the check and notified
the authorities. When arrested, Smith
was searched, but none of Lawrence's SOS
could be found. Smith was bound over
to the county court in the sum of 500.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has decided to abolish two grade
crossings within the Vergennes city
limits and has ordered the construction
of an underpass, which will take the
place of the crossings abolished. This &
action will necessitate the construction
this fall of 2,OnO feet of new highway, 100
feet of which will be in the town OF
The estimated cost of the
work is $1,000 and the land damages /
probably will amount to $1,000. Under
the new law. the Rutland Railroad Co.
will pay IS yer cent of the cost and the
s ate % per cent. The cOnar7 ission de-
C AIRED t, a. the south Gro. stag is the
most dangerous one on the Rutland rail
road in this state. There a strong OPP
position at Vergennes aga INST the build
ing OF the underpass, and much feeling
has been aroused. The city authorities
have objected to the plan, claiming that
it was not needed and would place an un-
necessary burden upon the taxpayers. 1t
is further claimed that the abolition of
the two crossings will be an incoG-
venience to travel and that no person has
ever been killed or injured at the south
CROSSING In order to abolish two grade