Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-30

including cost, was $2543.S4. In the
contention over the taxes on the temple
the members of the Masonic fraternity
nave been divided as to the justice Of the
TAX. Those who have commended that the
property was not taxable have done SO on
the ground that the organization is q
cparltable one. The property has been
advertised for sale at public auction and
Twice this summer has the sale been post
poned, pending further conference with
the Grand Lodge officers
Among those who contemplate enter
ing Norwich university, Mortified, at
the opening of the fall term is Taraknath
Das. Hindoo, who will take four
years course. Mr.. Das has been in the
University of California and also in
Washington university at Seattle, WASH,
from which place he comes to Vermont.
He has also been employed as an inter-
prefer in Vancouver, B. A. Mr.. Das is
already well acquainted with American
ways and speaks the English language
exceptionally we'll. He has published at
Seattle The Free Hindusthan, which is
ably advocating the cause of free govern
ment for his native country. Mr.. Das
expects to publish his journal here.
Candenzio Merforio of Barre jumped
from an electric car July 20 into a
brook, striking his head on q rock and
suffering injuries which caused his death
the next morning. The accident hap
pened at Benjamin falls, only few feet
from where H. H. Perkins of Berlin was
fatally injured two weeks ago by stepping
Oh W lille car was in motion. Merforio
was standing on the running board of a
crowded car. which was travelling at a
rather high rate of speed. A gust OF
wind blew OF the mans hat and, with
out waiting to signal the conductor to
stop the car, he jumped, landing in the
rocky bed of brook, four or five feet be-
low the little bridge. He was taken to
the city hospital.
The body of Albert Brown of West
Rutland was found last week Tuesday on
Thrall mountain in that town, pinned
down by heavy wagon, and the horses
he had been driving were lying on their
backs, both being dead, evidently having
been strangled to death by the pressure
of the harness. 1t was evident that the
man and the horses had been killed sever
al hours when discovered. Brown went
up the mountain that morning to get a
load of logs, and although no one saw the
accident, it is presumed that the load be-
came manageable on very steep
grade, and was overturned, pinning the
man underneath and choking the horses.
Brown was about As years old. He was
married, but did not live with his wife at
the time of hissdeath.
The second largest elevator in this state
will be owned by the A. H. Mcleod
Milling Co., st. Johnsbury when it COM
pletes one now in progress OF building,
the only larger one being owned by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Rich
ford. 1t will be 23x60 feet and go feet
high from cellar bottom to roof. 1t con-
tains eight bins holding 4,0C0 bushels of
grain each and four bins holding 1000
bushels each. 1t is finished now except
ing the roof and the new elevator and the
mill will be under the same roof, necessi-
tating raising the mill roof twenty feet.
Mr.. Mcleod says he is in no hurry to NIL
the elevator as he has been paying 81
cents bushel for a carload of corn, while
he can remember buying the same COM
modify at 81 cents bushel.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes OF New York
has appointed the five members of the
Lake Champlain tercentenary commits
sion, Judge John H. Booth Of Plattsburg,
John b. Riley of Plattsburg, Walter c.
Witherbee of Port Henry, Louis c. Lafon-
tame of Champlain and Rowland Pell OF
New York. The members who already
have been appointed to represent the
legislature are:-Senators Henry w. Hill
of Buffalo, James ]. Frawley OF New
York, and H. Wallace Knapp OF Clinton
county, Assemblymen At. Dominy OF
Clinton, James Shea of Essex and James
he nsaaf< i'm
is to receive no compensation for its SER
vices, but will be allowed actual travel
ing expenses. The legislature appropri-
ated $50. 900 for the work of the COM
mission.
The first Chinaman deported from that
district in over four years was started for
his homeland July % when Suey Lung
was taken from the house OF correction at
Rutland to New York by Marshal
Horace W. Bailey. Lung will be turned
over at New York to Deputy Marshal
Bennett, who has charge of all Cinnamon
deported from New England. Lung was
arrested in April on south-bound Rut-
land railroad train on complaint of Chin
ese Inspector A. L. Weeks of Richford.
He was ordered deported by Commission
er James A. Merrill of Rutland but ap
pealed to the United States district court
Judge James L. Martin on June ~
affirmed the decision of Mr.. Merrill.
Bark Coon, who was arrested at the
same time as Lung and was admitted to
$500 bail, did not appear when wanted
and his bail was forfeited. He is still at
large.
An electric car from Charlestown, N.
H.. ran over and instantly killed Benja-
min Mccarthy, laborer OF Springfield,
aged 80 years, July 10. The car was
nearing a switch and the motor man, who
had nearly shut off power to pass the
switch, knew nothing of the man under
the wheels until the jolt from the wheels
passing over the body was felt. The man
was nearly cut in two at the waist and
both arms were broken in several places.
The mans wife, sitting in her home
about three hundred feet from the scene
of the accident, saw the car stop and re-
marked that from appearances some one
had been hurt. The body was taken to
undertaking rooms and it was an hour
before she was aware of the facts. Mr..
Mccarthy is survived by wife and five
children. He is the second man killed
on the Springfield electric railway in its
b;storv coverinp ten wears.