Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-27

started at O'Clock, put the apparatus
out of action before it could be used. The
fire is a severe loss to Wilmington, a. the
company is the towns largest industry.
The property burned included a big pulp
mill, saw mill, and two store houses. A
hot box is supposed to have been the
cause. More than 200 men are thrown
out of employment. The company did
the largest business of any lumber COM
pany in the state.
Warner w. Stowe of Halifax anguish
es in Newfane Jail because he will not al
low his friends to furnish bail for him.
He was charged by A. A. Fairbanks OF
Halifax recently with trespass on TIM
Der lot which Mr.. Fairbanks had bought,
and body writ was issued against him.
The sum named in the writ of damages
was 81 $780, consequently like amount
was demanded by the officer as bail
Several of Mr.. Stoves friends offered to
become surety for him, but he declined
their offer and the officer took him to
Newfane Jail. He has written to a Brat
tleboro lawyer to defend him in the suit,
but made it clear that he did not want
bail furnished. The case was entered too
late to be tried at the coming term OF
| Windham county court, so unless MI.
Stowe furnishes bail he will have to stay
in Jail until the April term, barring some
other development. He is charged with
illegally cutting down 500 hemlock trees,
500 maple trees, 500 Eastwood trees and
500 beech trees.
/, At the close of the Caledonia county
court, Judge Alfred A. Halt of st. AL
bans issued a pro forma decree in favor
of the state board of health in the case
brought by the board against the village
to prevent the use, for domestic purposes,
of water taken from the Passumpsic river,
, which is the chief source of the village
, water supply. The decree overrules the
, demurrer to the complainant's bill in
equity and adjudged the bill sufficient.
The village will now carry the case to
the supreme court on exceptions. This
is an important case as it is the hrst
! proceeding brought to enforce an order
: of the board of health under authority oil
: Act No. lis OF the Acts of 1902, as
amended by Act No. 13e OF the Acts oil
1904. Having found that the water OF
the Passumpsic river was contaminated,
the board OF health prohibited its use fol
: domestic purposes unless it was boiled OF
filtered or treated in some other way, but
, the order was ignored, whereupon Bill
in chancery was brought by States
Attorney Guy w. Hill of st. Johnsbury
and Atty. General. C. c. Fits OF Brattle
boro. to which bill the village demurred
A Mysterious Kidnapping.
Aaron Britch, 14-year-oid st. Alban
!. boy, was last week Wednesday evening
seized by a strange man, taken to team
!. hitched nearby and hurried to Green
: corners, the man threatening him will
: injury il he made any outcry. At Greens
: corners, the man tied him hand and foot
leaving him on the station platform. Al
through the long cold night the boy la.
!, on the platform, not daring to make al
n outcry on account of the threats Of tn
stranger.
y At daybreak, the boy attracted the at
;, iteution OF r. A. Regain, farmer nearby
y who united him. The boy returned Z
L his home and related the story, and tn
e police were notified.
Is II was at first thought that the stor
E was merely made up to account for hi
IS absence during the night, but Mr.. Rega
Re asserted that he found the boy tied q
d and released him.
Young Britch lives with B. II. Shana
oI raw who took the boy into his home se'
l. eral wears ago. The boys father is sal
70 TO be living, but as Britch has not see
IS him for seven or eight years, he coul
Of not say whether the man was his fathe
III or not.
Oficers are investigating the case, be
]. no clue has been found.
= Three Young Women Campers brow
g, Three young women campers lost the
of lives at Grand Isle Sunday afternoon
III Aug. IS, by drowning while bathing o
oil the west side of Long point, half mi
IL north of Adams landing. The dead al
r. Miss Lucy Perry, aged 10 years,
lie Plattsburg; Miss Sarah Disasway, age
s, 27. of Plattsburg; Miss Elizabeth Disa
%, way of Brooklyn, N. Y, cousin OF tt
ly latter. None of the women could swii
be and one of them stepped into no
a some fifty feet from the shore where II
ed water was nine feet deep. Her cries Il
ct help were responded to by her con
al panions and all three persisted. A fourt
ng girl ran for aid and Herman Backwoc
to first arrived. Frantic efforts by hin
lie Charles A. Drifendors of Plattsburg,
whose camp the party was staying, II.
in Smith of Plattsburg, Goodwin Adam
on and Frank Nj. Perdy of Plattsburg, r
|, a suited in the recovery of the bodies aft
I'm being in the water forty minutes. Eve
is effort was made to revive the women b
a without the slightest success.
ie- No men were around when the accide
nv happened. The beach on the east 81
las of the DO mt has been generally used 81
Ter the dangers OF the west shore were u
Jay known.
he The bodies were taken to Plattsbu
The that night.
me A Youthful Burglar.
he Henry Nichols of West Brattleboro,
mo fourteen-year-oldb boy, was arrested II
on week by Deputy Sheriff Myron ?. Dav
! . after having confessed to the officers II
ted he burglarized the houses OF l. H. Ste
80 man and Mrs. Catherine Evans in W.
Brattleboro on succeeding nights. i
boy lived with his parents in the Pet
otn stock farm. At the StelIman house
ur. was taken from purse in Miss Fran
ino Stellman's handbag on the second no
us and at Mrs Evans s1.50 was taken fr'
pay purse belonging to Madam WOO
ara who boards with Mrs. Evans. Bs
RS families were away when the burglar
Two were made. Miss Helen Bigelow called
'ust Mr.. Stellman's home that day, and hel
eep somebody walking around up stairs.
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