Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-07
LATE STATE NEWS.

quart, this price to continue until May
next.
The Youngest son OF Oscar b. Coy Of
Manchester, aged eighteen months, died
suddenly Nov. ! from eating safety
matches.
Fred Long OF Warren, while deer hunt
ing, discovered a curiosity in the shape Of
a Jet black doe. \ white deer Is also re-
ported TO have been seen there.
The Central Vermont Railway Go. has
purchased the L. q. Bolster stOrehouse
at the foot of West street, Barre, for
$4,000, for the erection Of a new freight
house.
Miss lena Britton Of Springfield was
the winner of a 1900 prize recently offered
by George I. Angel, pr 'sident OF the
American Humane society, for the best
anti-vivisection essay.
Definite arrangements have been made
TO hold the Vermont Dairymen's associa-
ton convention az Rutland Jan. Z, and
O. Probably the Vermont Sugar Makers
association will assemble there Jan. o. a
big hall has been reserved for the machin-
cry exhibit.
Hugh Mckinney, a fireman on the Can
adam Pacific railway and a resident Of
Richford. was killed Nov. in a wreck at
Eastman, p. O., when the engine and
four cars went through a trestle. Engi-
neer Draper Of Sutton, p. @, and a brake
man also perished.
The Hon. Henry c. Ide Of 81. Johns
bury has been appointed one Of the three
receivers for the knickerbocker Trust Go.
Of New York, which closed its doors re-
Gently during the panic. This is the sec
ond largest trust company IN New York
and had deposits Of ESQ, 900, 900.
GoIdie sun Morse, who in Washington
county court at Montpelier Friday plead
&c guilty to raising a check for sl2 TO
1.2OO. was placed in the hands Of the
probation officer. The woman. who has
figured in the courts time and again, had
been sentenced to not less than two years
nor more than two years and three
months at hard labor in the house Of cor
rection at Rutland and 10 pay a fine Of
go.
The Calais granite quarries are reported
as working IL their capacity this fail and
as unable 20 keep up with their orders.
Twenty-eight to 30 horses are employed
daily in hauling the stone To Mont pelier.
Some goes 10 the stone sheds and other is
shipped to out-of-town points. The Cal
ais granite is an easy stone 10 cut and this
works to the advantage OF the manufsc-
turcr although the price in the rough j.
the same as that from Barre.
An attempt IVES raade Get. % TO bur
glariZc the hardware store Of II. +. Mar
tin & Co. OF Swanton. An iron bar vas
used TO pry of window at the rear Of
the store and the crash Of glass made
such a loud noise that il was heard By
members Of the Tauquahunga club in
.
and a man was seen running toward the
Missisquoi river, but il was impossible to
catch him or to identify him. Nothing
was taken from the store, the thief hay
ing been scared away before efecting an
entrance.
The building and reconstruction now
in progress at the Wilder plant Of the In
ternational Paper company Is Of such
magnitude that $50 men are engaged in
the accomplishment of the undertaking.
The falls OF the Connecticut river at Wild
er have already been impro red to the ez-
tent Of 5000 horsepower and when the
present contemplated Improvements are
finished they will afford 10000 h. p.
This j. about 1000 in excess Of the falls
OF the Amoskeag on the Merrimac at
Manchester, y. H., one OF the most pow
erful in New England.
Nearly 500 patients in the state hospital
for the insane at Waterbury are support
ed entirely by the state, more than two
thirds OF all the patients VA the institu-
ton, and the cost per week i s2.40 each.
At the Brattleboro retreat there are 81 al
legged pauper patients. A law passed by
the last legislature makes the cost OF sup
port Of insane patients a charge against
their estates or any trust funds held for
. NA.g.s- II -
are able to pay such charges. The states
attorneys are investigating cases OF this
kind in an effort 10 reduce the psuper in
sane account to its proper proportions.
The commission having in charge the
work Of revising the Vermont statutes an
nounces that the new volume will be
printed and ready for distribution some
time in December next. The statutes
now in use contain 383 sections; the new
volume will have 6,3I9 sections and will
contain about LOO pages. The price Al
which TIE new work viii be sold has not
yet been determined, but il will be con
siderahly less than the price Of statutes
now IL use. AGance sheets Of much Of
the proof have been furnished BY the
commission 10 judges Of the supreme and
superior courts, or To anyone who has
asked for them.
Edward Lee, who was sentenced from
Lamoille county for stealing an automatic
revolver, was saved few weeks on his
term Of two years by the pardon Of Coy.
Fletcher ID. Proctor for good behavior.
Although Lee is ieshy an apparently in
good health. he has taken early opportua-
ity TO criticize the prison bin Of fare. al
leging that he has saved enough bristles
out OF The soup TO make a pant brush.
Tie had registered a kick on the potatoes
the morning that Supt. W. :. Lovcu
called him 10 the Office to sign has pardon
papers. Lee says be wanted 10 60 back
and work out the day and get a souvenir
OF the potatoes. but his request was re-
fused.
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