Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-02-21

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and the capacity OF the present building
has heen taxed TAR beyond its utmost.
The town meeting also voted VI 800 Tor re-
pairs OF the sanders property, The pur-
| ehasa OF this property gives the school
ample room for buildings and playground
Tor the present al least,
| Cyrus spTsgne, aged "a years, died al
south Woodbury. Feb. Is while walking ia
badly driiIed road behlnd the sleigh
which contained Mrs, Sprague, Death
VA que 70 heart failure, saperindueed by
cold and exhaustion. His wife remained
hy his side for nearly an hour ehdeaVoTing
10 revive him, she then saw II was useless
ana walked some little distance for help
| When they returned Mr.. SpFague Mas
found 10 be dead. Mrs, Sprague was se-
ysrrly chilled ia her efforts 10 save her
husbands life.
The Champlain tsreentenary commits
sion held a meeting in Burlington Feb. II
aud discussed the matter of bringing the
celebration before the New York legisla.
tnEe aud the Canadian government at OF
lava, The secretary was instructed TO
confer with III. w, Hill OF buffalo and Il.
Z, osulliyan OF New York city, both sons
Of Vermont, with reference 10 bringing
the matter before the New York legisla-
ture, and With United States Consul Gen.
eFal Foster OF Ottawa 10 obtain the eo-op-
Grafton Of the Canadian parliament,
sllas, the young son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur hppan of COrnwall-on- the Hud.
son, \. y, who, while at the stevens
homestead In Nergennes last summer,
walked out OF his bedroom window while
asleep and fell to the ground, distance Of
about twenty feet, and suffered a broken
leg, died at st. Luke's hospital, New York,
recently from the effects II his injuries.
( IL was supposed that the fracture had en-
/ tlrely healed, but later Il became necessary
10 smpntate his leg, as blood poisoning
had sci in, aud he died from that cause.
The dry goods and grocery store and
/ dwelling house owned by j. T.. Park hurst
In Weston village and the house and barn
owned by NJ. Bolster, near the Parkhurst
property, were destroyed by fire Feb. II,
with practically all their contents. MIR.
| Parkhurst's family narrowly escaped in
their night clothes and an old lady, a
member OF the family, had TO be carried
out OF the house on mattress. The fam.
lily even lost all their clothing IN the
house. The cause OF the iile is said to
have been an over heated stove in the
store.
Henry Downey was instantly killed In
Moretown Feb. u by premature eN-
plosion OF dynamite, while digging holes
for poles for the Consolidated Lighting
Co. OF Montpelier. Edward Freedom,
who was working with Downey, suffered
a bal injury TO one eye and was thrown
several feet. Downey was accustomed to
the handling OF dynamite and had been
warned many times OF the careless and
Indifferent way in which he would handle
the sticks and especially when il came to
the point OF taking the cap of with his
knife.
There have been seven cases OF scarlet
| fever reported to the Williamstown board
OF health. The milk supply was investi
gated and the cause OF the spread of the
disease was Immediately discovered. The
board OF health went to the home of
milkman who has sold milk at four of the
houses where cases have been reported,
and ii was found that his child was suffer-
ing from well developed case OF scarlet
| fever, and was peeling. The house of the
peddler has been quarantined and he has
been forbidden to deliver any more milk,
cream or anything else about the village.
The Vermont Veterans association OF
| Boston, composed OF men who fought as
natives OF Vernon; in the Civil wsr, held
its reunion in Young's hotel Friday night
with Gov. f. ID. Proctor of Vermont and
Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts,
as its guests. Governor Guild spoke
briefly but Governor Proctor discussed at
| length the high quality OF patriotism
shown by the men of the Green Noun
tain state. He declared that the nation
has shown appreciation of the sacrifice OF
her soldiers in the Civil war, but he
deprecated tendency to obliterate the
memory of that struggle.
Sixty-five packages OF deer meat and
four packages OF black bear meat, the
whole weighing 3,i60 pounds, seized in
the freight yards al Boston Feb. 4, was
consigned to G. A. Batchelder from New
port and billed as lumber. The fine for
taking this meat into the state in vio-
lation of the interstate commerce law is
800 a carcass, making total of 5000 on
these deer alone. The car was delivered at
Newport by some lumbermen in Canada.
Ii is evident that some game dealer IN
Boston or vicinity is interested in the con-
traband traffic, and that end of the inves-
tigaton is now in the hands OF the police.
Ju 'ge w. w. Miles of the superior court
rendered Feb. ID at Rutland decision in
one phase of the ehancery proceedings in
stituted by Senator Redheld Proctor and
Il. r. Morse as minority stockholders the
Rutland Herald to secure an accounting.
The Judge orders the records of the stock
holders meetings and all account books OF
the association to be produced before him
Feb q in Rutland, at which time also
will be the hearing on the petition for the
| the books are to be disp )sed OF as the
court sees fit. This is taken to mean that
the minority stockholders will be given an
opportunity TO inspect.
| The report of the state board Of railroad
commissioners, on the hearing held to
investigate the wreck on the Rutland
railroad at Shelburne Dec. 20, 1906, where
| by two sleeping cars OF the south bound
train were derailed, shows that the wreck
was caused from "piped" rail. plped
rail is rail containing hollow chamber,
due to defect in the rolling process. 1t
cannot be detected until the break be-
comes visible. The board found that the
Rutland railroad used every reas nable
precaution in purchasing, installing and
inspecting these rails and that the acct
dent was due to no neglect of the railroad
company or its employees.
| The Burlington police are looking for
two "sharks" whom a man named Gotta OF
Grand Isle claims relieved him OF S120 in
pool game. stranger, according to CO.
ta's story, accosted him in Burlington
pool room and agreed to play him game
of 11S points for dollar a point. Gotta
deposited $40 in the hands OF stranger.
After he had won he demanded 1886,
| nIoirnad his dine but tho stranger did not