Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-06-18

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TO tie listers this spring. During the
coming year she will pay taxes on s122.-
600. At the last quadrennial appraisal
her house in Bellows Falls was raised
from $4,000 to S12, 1000, change in APP
praisai which she vigorously opposed
Last year she gave no personal list there,
ana many supposed it was because she
TOOK exceptions to the arbitrary action of
the appraisers. Her action this wear.
however, shows that she harbors no iii
feeling on that score.
The house and farm buildings on the
/ premises of William L. White. mile
south OF the village of Jonesville, on the
way TO Huntington, were destroyed by
ire Sunday night, June Z, with their con-
tents, including household furniture,
clothing, farming tools. wagons, har-
nesses, etc. The stock was saved and the
family succeeded in getting part of their
1 belongings from the louise The loss is
estimated at $4,000, with partial insur-
ance. The fire caught in the COW barn
! from some unknown cause. One COW
! barn and one shed were saved.
/ D. U. Smith, a Norwich university
senior from Ashfield Falls, Conn.,, while
4 on the recent practice march taken by
the cadets. found an unexploded railroad
torpedo. Last Thursday he experimental
with it by placing it on the steps OF
4 Alumni hall and going to the second
story he leaned cut of a window and
dropped stone on the torpedo. As re-
suit of the explosion that followed, the
metallic part struck Smith in the collar
bone. rendering him unconscious. 1t is
thought the young man will recover.
The building was not damaged.
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Boat & Supply Co., of Newport, c. X.
Moore, manager, was burned June II.
Eight gasoline launches were destroyed.
The loss on the building and on Mr..
Moore's boat is estimated at Il, 800. with
no insurance. The loss on the other
boats is estimated to be between $4,000
and $4,000. There was a small insurance
on two boats. The cause of fire may have
been an overheated motor, which ignited
some gasoline, as an explosion was heard
shortly before the fire was discovered. The
fire company responded to an alarm and
kept the flames froEi spreading to any
buildings nearby.
| Last Thursday morning, Richmond
was visited by another fire, this one par
tally destroying the building occupied
by the boarding house of Mrs. Dan
Matra, known as Maple Inn, by the post
office and the offices of DIR. w. H. Black,
physician, and Doctor Lavolette, dem
fist. Most of the contents of the build
ing were saved. The postoffice has been
transferred to another building, the
apartment occupied for the purpose being
destroyed. The loss is partially covered
! by insurance. The fire started in the
| boarding house kitchen. The business
part of the village was practically de-
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estimated at 100000.
States Attorney Harry B. Amey of Es-
sex county has made application to Gov
ernor Proctor for a requisition for Henry
/ Perham, who is wanted in Lunenburg
on the charge of larceny. Perham is said
to have stolen $3.50 from an Indian wo-
man, Sarah Somers, who by making and
selling baskets had accumulated this sum
| to pay for her funeral. Suddenly her
money disappeared and as mysteriously
Perham became flush with lucre.
Among other investments that he made
was the purchase of ticket to Seymour,
Iowa. Mr.. Amey wired the police there
and Perham was under arrest pending the
granting OF a requisition. Upon its issu-
ance, Deputy Sheriff Dodge of Lunenburg
proceeded to Iowa after the prisoner.
/ Alexander Garetto, who is serving
sentence of not more than twelve years
| or less than ten in the state prison,
Windsor. for the murder of Eli Corti in
1903. has written letter to Gov. Fletch-
er D. Proctor asking for pardon. After
/ long trial, Garetto was convicted and
sent to Windsor, being committed Jan.
4, 1904. He is a socialist and Corti was
| an aparchist, and the murder was COM
mitteed in a row between the two parties
/ oIosv H<ax lRf1 i'm
of anarchist evidence and was convicted
on perjury and fabrication. In post
! script to the letter to Governor Proctor,
| Garetto saws. sOn account of that crowd
of law-breakers and psychologically sick,
nv family has lost the breadwlnner and
priced husband and father.
| Announcement has been made by the
| Rev. DR.. E. A. Bishop, principal of Mont
peIier seminary, of the appointment OF +.
| A. Cooper of Buckport, Me-, to be vice
principal of the seminary and instructor
| in commercial branches. For the past
seven wears Mr.. Cooper has been at the
head of the commercial department OF the
! East Maine Conference seminary at Buck
port. As vice principal, he will be IN
charge of affairs at the seminary during
/ the absence of Principal Bishop. He
will take up the work at the beginning OF
/ the school year in September. r. M.
Howe, his predecessor, who has taken
position as instructor in science ana
! higher mathematics in kimball Union
academy at Meriden, n. H., has been at
Montpelier seminary since 1901.
Lightning performed some queer
pranks at houses on the Randolph road in
! MorrisvilIe Tuesday afternoon, June y.
! If entered the house of G. s. Stancliff on
telephone wires, burning out the phones
and blowing the door of the instrument
open. At the home of Hobart Folsom 1t
went in on the wire but did not lnJure
i the instrument. At Levi Smalps home
| LIGHTNING went into six rooms IN the
house, up stairs and down, splitting cas-
/ ings. knocking off plastering, smoking
wall paper, etc. sofa in sleeping
/ room was set on fire, the carpet ruined
and other damage done. Lightning
passed through the room where Mrs.
small was sitting without iniuring her
| At the home of w. NJ. Small, lightning
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