Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-02
State of Vermont.


t. News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Headers.
The Prouty & Miller Lumber Co. of
Newport has been Obliged to place its
help on short time on account Of decline
10 business.
Charles G. Blair of Burlington died
Saturday from the effect of poisoning in
d1ced by wood alcohol. Mr.. Blair drank
the alcohol by mistake on Christmas day.
The E. l.. Chandler Co., Barton Land
ing, has shut down It's piano back factory
and it is not known when it will open
again. This throws about $50 men out
Of employment.
George Aitken of Woodstock has re-
signed as secretary of the state board Of
agriculture. Mr.. Aitken resigns, it is
understood, for the reason that he con-
templates leaving the state soon on an ex.
tended foreign tour.
Mason browns, for insulting young
women and girls, was sentenced in Bur-
lirgton city court the other day to serve
not less than one and one-balf and not
more than two years in the house Of cor
rection at Rutland.
Samuel, the tbree-year-old son of Mrs.
John Porubsky OF Winooski, was severe
ly scafded about the head and shoulders
recently. The baby was sitting on the
floor when large pan OF boiling water
was accidentally overturned from the
stove onto the baby.
Alfred Mahan is on trial in Benning-
ton county court for the murder of his
four-year-old niece, Ethel Mahan, last
April. States Attorney Meagher prose
cutes and o. VI. Barber defends. II is
understood the defence will be insanity.
Mahan appears in court ike physical
wreck.
Mrs. Jerome Chase, aged 10 years, wife
of well-to-do farmer OF North Ferris
burg, committed suicide Friday by
throwing herself into we'll near her
home. Mrs. Chase had been respondent
for some time on account OF i'll health and
had threatened several times to destroy
herself.
Miss Blanche Howard, a dry goods
clerk in Brattleboro, slipped on the ice on
the sidewalk last week and broke both
knee caps. She was taken to the home OF
her uncle, Frank III. Howard, and sur.
geon wired the broken bones together.
Miss Howard had been calling on a
young woman and was just leaving the
house.
Charles Parella, who arrived in this
country from Italy short time ago, gave
Giovanni Micelli, Rutland friend, two
cents to get him a postal card, that being
the price charged in Italy. When he
learned that the cards cost only one cent
here, he asked for the return of the other
penny and falling to obtain it, stabbed
Micelii in the side.
Elmer Ellsworth Wade of Morrisgille
died Monday of last week at the home of
his brother-in law, A. A. Royce of Stowe,
of tetanus, following injuries received
dec. II. Mr.. Wadeis bakery cart was
overturned then and he was dragged some
distance over the frozen ground, his left
leg badly scraped and dirt, thus rubbed
into the wound, caused locl<jaw.
| Results of the analyses of malt extracts
examined at the state laboratory a short
time ago have been sent to dealers where
the samples were obtained. Thirty-nine
samples were found to be illegal under
the pure food law because OF improper la
belling with respect to amount of alcohol
contained. Prosecutions will not be
made unless further analyses find the
same conditions prevailing.
The new $4,000 federal building in
Burlington, which has been in course OF
construction for the past four years, has
been formally occupied by the postoffice
and federal offices. 1t is the finest gov
eminent building in Vermont. The
structure is OF the finest white Vermont
marble, with the interior finish in quar-
tered oak and marble, with floors of ma
pie and terrazo. The building is finely
equipped and elegantly furnished.
At meeting of the directors of the
init nd taGf
/ it was announced that Nahum p. Kings
ley OF Rutland had given the home a
Christmas gift of 5000, which is invest
ed in securities bearing per cent inter
est. Only the income is to be used, the
principal to be kept intact as part Of
the institutions endowment fund which
now amounts to $4,000. The gift is in
memory OF the late Mrs. n. p. Kingsley,
who was a former president of the home.
The engine house attached to the Yer
mont Unfading Green Slate company's
plant at Fair Haven was destroyed by fire
Friday evening, the loss being estimated
at about $500. The engine house con-
tanned a boiler, two hosting machines
and quantity of other valuable machin-
cry. The plant is one of those affected by
the strike OF the slate workers. Under
ordinary conditions it employs about rs
men, but during the last six months
about one-third OF that number have been
employed. The cause OF the fire is not
known.
Dennis Mcdonald, the Rutland Rail-
road Co.'s agent at South SALISBURY, says
that his station was broken into Dec. %
and robbed OF $40 in cash and four mile
age books. Mcdonald was in the habit
OF taking his money with him when he
locked up for the night, but that night he
omitted to do SO. The station agent is of
the opinion that the thief was watching
him at closing time and he is also Of the
belief that the theft was perpetrated by q
person or persons living in SALISBURY,
who would naturally be acquainted with
his habit of taking his money home over
night.
One Of the saddest drowning accidents
that ever occurred in Castleton happened
Dec. 26 at the stone mill pond, when
three young people who were skating on
the thin ice broke through and lost their
lives. All OF the victims were about 81
If Theya were nine youpo