Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20
State of Vermont.

OtQlC vi VCI HULL.
Its News Condenseu and Rewritten
for Our Readers.
Inc Barre citizens caucus Friday even
ing renominated Mayor John Robins
and almost all the city officials.
10 lower expenses of operation, the
central Vermont Railway company has
decided to reduce the working time at its
shops at ST. Adams five hours week.
For assaulting John Moore with a ra-
zor and soaring his face for life. Dominic
Clofh OF Rutland will serve sentence of
at least six months in the house of correc-
ton.
Northfield is beginning to feel good
again, as it is reported that the f. B. FL
lis Granite company is closing a contract
that will keep its sheds busy for five
years.
Rev. j. II. G. Cooper, who was pas
tor in the Methodist church at Stamford
for six years and who later entered the
Episcopal ministry, has been elected
rector of large parish at Gloucester,
Mass.
Francisco Santisban of Barre, who was
terribly burned one week ago Thursday,
died last Friday night. While kindling
fire with kerosene, his clothing ignited
and it is supposed that he inhaled the
flames.
DIR. c. F. Dalton of Burlington is able
to resume his practice after being con-
fined to his home for eight weeks. Doc
tor Dalton's eyes were injured IN runa-
way accident in which some powerful
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sight will not be impaired.
Before Judge Darrah Feb 10, John
Smith of White River Junction pleaded
guilty to charge of disturbing the peace
and was fined $50 and costs. Lacking
funds, he was taken to the house of cor
rectiou at Rutland, where stay of $50
days will be necessary to liquidate the
fine.
Mark Campbell of Morristown, arrested
ON charge of breach of the peace, in at
lacking Barre woman in her home,
while he was said to be in an intoxicated
condition, was sentenced Saturday in city
court to not less than five or more than
six months in the house of correction,
Rutland.
! 1t is now thought that Mrs. John R.
Darling of Corinth, who recently severely
burned her eyes, will not lose her eye
sight. The accident was caused by can
of coffee boiling over onto the stove.
The cover was forced off by the steam and
the hot coffee splashed into Mrs. OAR
| ling's eyes
/ Charles Nonato, an Italian woodchop-
per, II years old, and unmarried, was al
most instantly killed by falling tree at
Center Rutland last week Wednesday.
! He saw his danger and attempted to run,
but slipped on the ice and fell. The tree
| fell across his head, crushed his skull and
broke his neck.
| Tramps are SO numerous these days
that the accommodations at the Montpel-
Ter city farm are overtaxed and the over
seer has been obliged to give some of
them accommodations over night in the
basement of the county jail. Nearly all
of these tramps are anxious to work and
willing to do any kind of manual labor.
| The wife of the Rev. DR.. E. A. Bishop,
principal of Montpelier seminary, died
Friday morning after an illness of more
/ than two years, the last 13 months of
which she had been confined to her bed.
Since the tragic death of their daughter,
! Helen. at Wilmington, DEL, in 1900,
Mrs. Bishops health had never been firm.
| ganized at Bellows Falls by s. j. Cray
and H. S. Davis with $50, 900 capital paid
in, to slaughter hogs, pack and pickle
| hams. Five carloads a week will be
slaughtered and twenty-five men en-
ployed. The company purposes to build
! a three-story cement building, 10Ox6O
feet, on the line offhe Rutland railroad.
The new pipe organ in the Congrega-
/ f;onoi obnrob Of WnodafocE off from
Miss Elizabeth Billings of New York,
was dedicated last Thursday evening. s.
B. Whitney of Boston was the organist.
/ Miss Billings and her sister, Mrs. French,
| gave the money for erecting the new sci
euce hall, which has been in use for some
months, in the name of their mother,
| Mrs. Frederick Billings, who is still liv-
| ing.
| Archie Gummill of Rutland was sem
| fenced to the state prison at Windsor last
Thursday by Judge w. K. Farnsworth to
serve not less than two nor more than
three years at hard labor for burglary.
| He was found guilty of breaking into the
house of Michael Burke in Rutland the
day before, from which he took few
small articles 1t is believed that he be-
longs to gang that has infested that
city.
Breaking the lock of the back door
with an ak, some bold thieves entered
the office of Duffy & Clifford, coal dealers
! in Rutland, between and O'Clock last
week Wednesday night, and fired the safe
| of about SIS in cash. Mr.. Duffy left the
safe open while he went to supper at his
home nearby, but locked the doors care
fully. The vicinity is thickly populated
but no one seems to have heard the bur
glars.
The Montpelier Merchants association
is on the trail of two new industries.
One is a Montreal concern that manu-
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