Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-30
State of Vermont.
Its News CONDENSED and Rewritten
for Our Readers.


Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.
The Manuel railroad crossing in Troy
is to be abolished and an underp IS put
in to be completed by Sept. 1.
The University Of Vermont is left 's1o,-
600 by the will of the late John Ordron-
aux, filed for probate at Mineoia, Long
Island, last week.
The Vergennes Baptist church has
extended a call to Rev. G. ii. Bennett OF
New Brunswick, n. j., to be its pastor.
The call has been accepted and be will
enter upon his new duties Sunday, Feb.
2.
Royal II. Noyes OF Coventry met with a
fetal accident Jen. 10. While working
in the woods with his son, log fell on
him and he suffered such serious injuries
that he died Jan. Is. Sir. Noycs was 20
years old.
By defeating st. Johnshury academy
Friday night ny score OF ~ to IL, the
Peoples academy (Morrisville) basket bali
team won its 'enth straight game this
season and the twenty-eighth straight
game in two years.
Alfred Mahan, tie murderer OF his
little niece at North Pennington last
April, against when q verdict n the
second degree IVES returned, was taken to
Windsor Friday TO begin his life sentence
at the state prison.
News was received in Ruriingtcn Fri
day of the death in Par,.ers burg, ". Va,
of Frank McCaffrey of New YORK city,
son of Mrs. Catherine McCa1rey OF BGr-
lington. lie is supposed to have met &
violent death in a railroad accident
Thursday evening, hut details have not
yet been received.
The house and barn belonging to c. Il.
Demerse of GageyiIle, situated oct OF the
corporation limit of Bellows Falls, was
burned Wednesday evening, Jan. %.
The barn was used as storage for raw
furs and was said to have contained
about 81, 900 worth. The total loss will
be about IS, 900, with a small insurance.
New York papers tell OF the narrow
escape of DR.. Seward Webh, his son,
James Watson Webb, and Mrs. Webb,
who sprang from burning automobile
SUNDAY Afternoon, Jan. 10. They were
warned of their danger by member OF
the police bicycle corps who first noticed
that the machine was on fire and speedcd
after it.
The.59th annual meeting of the policy
I holders OF the National Life Insurance Co.
was held at the company's Office in Mont
pelier Jan. 81. notwithstanding the g.
nancial depression of the past few
I months, the report for the year 1907 was
the best of any in the history OF the com
pany. All tbe directors and officers were
reelected.
sIr "a lnu a. 49, an 80
/ harness his horse to attend the funeral Of
Theodore Brown, his father-in-law
I Thomas Ryan OF Berlin dropped dead
at his home near Browns mills. Mr..
/ Ryan had recently had severe attacks OF
heart trouble and this was the cause OF
his sudden death. He was 40 years old.
/ Fire discovered last Thursday In the
blacksmith shop of the Vermont Con-
densed Mix Co.'s plant at Richmond
destroyed the office building, machine
shop and storage building, containing six
large tanks OF condensed milk. The
main factory building was saved only
/ by the brave work OF the force of men
employed by the company.
Rev. Louis Van den Burg, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church OF Brooklyn,
has decided to remain in that place and
not accept the very 1attering invitation
to consider the pastorate of the First
church at Burlington, one of the first
Congregational churches in New Eng
land. Much pressure had been brought
to bear upon him to remain in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn (S. W Society OF Yer
monters is planning most attractive Sc
ries of events which will doubtless prove
most enjoyable to it, members and
| friends. There will be included a ban
quet and sugar party. Vermonters re
siding in New York city and vicinity who
are interested should address the secretary.
/ II. K. Twitchell, No. go Broadway, New
York.
] The promotion of Mai.-Gen. o. o.
1 Howard of Burlington Of the retired list
of the army to the rank of lieutenant
general viii probably be favored by the
Senate committee on military affairs.
Senator Hale of Maine, where General
I Howard was born, and Senator Proctor
of Vermont, where General Howard now
resides, appeared before the committee "a
advocate the promotion.
John Flynn, an employee of the Rutland
railroad, was found guilty in Rutland
city court recently OF stealing five radia.
tors valued at $50 from box car at the
Rutland railroad yards about three weeks
ago. The respondent was fined $50 and
costs and appealed his case to the March
term OF Rutland county court. Flynn
had witnesses who testified that be
bought and paid for the radiators.
Col. Horace s. Haskell of Derby Line
has formally presented the handsome free
library and opera house recently erected
by him, together with an endow ment, to
the three villages of Derby Line, Stan
stead, Que, and Rock Island, Que. The
endowment consists of mortgages and
bonds to the amount OF $50, 900. This IL
said to be one OF the finest structures for
library use in New England and repre-
sents cost Of about 100000.
John Dunn of West Rutland, aged 81
years, last week Wednesday fell over a
cliff about forty feet high on Hanley
mountain and was killed. Mr.. Dunn had
been suffering from an attack of the grir
and his mind was probably affected. He
wandered away and when his brother,
Charles, discovered his absence he fol-
lowed him, finding him at the foot OF q
cliff with bad cash on his head. He