Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
LATE STATE NEWS.

/ ing for "a black coffin"
/ Protective grange of Brattleboro last
week received a class of 80 candidates in
the first and second degrees, making
/ the total membership 49,.
Barre will entertain the Vermont Meth
odist conference again next year, the
opening date being April Is, and Bishop
Earl Cranston, ID. D., L. l.. d., OF Wash
+ ington, u. C., will be the presiding
officer.
4 novel apparatus has been invented
by Harry c. 10y, an operator in the Bur
/ lington office of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co., in the shape of a machine
which takes the place Of an operator in
calling any number Of offices required.
Figures on the work of the II. c. Bax-
ter Il Bros. canning factory at Windsor
during its four weeks season follow
Bushels of corn on the cob canned, $500;
succotash, $4,000 cans; corn, 100000
cans price paid farmers for corn, $4,000;
cost of labor, $4,000; cost of labelling,
1900.
Edith Mowrey, a Pownal child, was
taken TO North Adams, Mass, the other
day to have DIR. J. F. O'Hara remove a
safety pin, which the child had swal-
lowed, from her throat. The physician
was successful in his efforts TO dislodge
the pin, which, when removed, was
found to be open.
John Angelo, an Italian fruit peddler OF
Bellows Falls, confined in the lookup in
default of payment of fine Of y for let
ting his hens run at large, sought to end
his life by hanging himself with towel.
His fellow prisoners yelled and help came
to cut him down, but he would have been
dead in another minute.
The Windsor Machine company dis
charged upwards of one hundred men be-
cause OF the disturbed condition OF the
New York money market and the suspen-
sion OF the Westinghouse concerns at
Pitts burg. That the step was only pre-
cautionary one j. shown by the fact that
nearly fifty men have been taken back.
state Treasurer +. II. Deavitt has re-
ceived from State Fish and Game Com
missioner II. G.. Thomas Of Stowe a report
OF the fees paid by nonresident hunters.
The total amounts to Sl,032.75. The sum
OF S7O7. IS was received from l39 bird IL
censes granted; s2s5 from deer Licenses,
and $40 from four combination Licenses.
The store Of Il. Z. Brown in Wiliiston
was burglarized Monday night. Nov. !.
Goods valued at 1900 were stolen and a
small amount in change was taken from
the cash drawer. The stolen property in
cludes rings. watches and valuable fur
coat. \ reward Of $50 has been offered
for the detection Of the thief. but no clue
has been obtained.
Secretary c. :. Forbes OF the Vermont
commission has been notified that the
jury Of awards Of the Jamestown Tercen-
tennial exposition has awarded the state
OF Vermont a silver medal for its collec-
tive mineral exhibit in the Mines and
Metallurgy building. This exhibit com
prises finished specimens Of one hundred
varieties Of marble, granite, slate and
other minerals.
Adjutant General ". II. Gilmore states
that three companies OF the Vermont Ma
tional Guard. Co. / OF Brattleboro. Co.
l. Of Newport and Co. q OF Bradford.
which were inspected the last OF March,
have been found unsatisfactory and not
up to standard, and that a. a result ofthis
condition. special inspection has been
ordered for the last Of this month. II the
inspecting officers do not find the com
pauies up to the requirements after a
formal and rigid inspection, they will.
without doubt, be mustered out Of service.
Roy Brown Of Bennington. while driv-
ing a truck team over the bulk head cross
ing at Cheshire, Mass. Nov. 8, was
struck by the New York express and
thrown several rods and over high fence
down an embankment and into a pond.
His head was badly cut and he was taken
on the same train to the North Adams.
Mass, hospital. The team had covered
top and the storm was beating. " hich
prevented the sound OF the whistle being
heard. The horses broke away and ran
to the hotel a half mile away. where they
were stopped. Pieces OF the wagon were
carried thirty TO forty rods down the
track. This crossing il just north Of
curve in the road and the reservoir gate
house hides the view somewhat.
MILFORD Gordon, aged seven years. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Gordon, who live
near the Chester and Windham town line.
while out hunting in the woods near the
home with his uncle recently was allowed
To carry a 22-caIibre revolver. and while a
few steps in the lead OF his uncle. the un-
Gle was startled 10y the report Of the pistol
and he at once saw that he little fellow
had been accidentally shot and that the
smoking revolver was still in the boys
hand, the other hand clasping his left
side. The uncle asked il be was hit.
The little fellow answered. II guess so.
for 1t kinder pinched.'' The bullet en-
tered the SIDE, passing through the abdo-
men and hip bone and lodged under the
skin on the back side. An operation was
performed upon the boy and the chances
are very favorable for his recovery.
new page has been opened in the
life Of Mamie King, the unfortunate girl
who died at the Russell House. Burling-
ton, from asphyxiation under mysterious
circumstances Oct. &. after lying for nine
days in the Mary Fletcher hospital in an
unconscious condition. 4 letter has been
received by the Free Press from a man in
Wilmington, o.. who claims TO have been
the husband OF Miss King, and who asks
for information regarding her death.
Miss King went to the Russell House, a
hotel on the water front, on the night OF E
sept. % with a strange man, who later
disappeared. His name never was
learned. The girl was found unconscious
in her room the next day and died. never
recovering her n fhrCxU