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

features black dress goods, employs about
SO hands and wants to locate in the states
SO as to save paying duty on material
4 bought in New York. The other is 9
milk distributing corporation, which
plans to start new stations for handling
bottled milk direct to the consumer in
| Boston.
| Helen E. Grimm of Rutland, aged 26
years, the youngest daughter of g. H.
Grimm, manufacturer of sugar-making
| implements and well-known politician,
| committed suicide at her home Feb. Is by
turning on the gas in her room. Her
body was found by her father next morn
ing. The young woman had been melan-
choly since scandalous stories about her,
which had no foundation, we're started
some months ago.
The lynching of an unknown Italian
who had shot Edward Sheehy, a team
ster of Fair Haven; through the hand
when he attempted to assist Patrolman
James Tully in quelling an ARRAY among
the foreigners, was prevented only by the
prompt intervention of police. A crowd
gathered and the Italian was dragged for
some distance and roughly handled, and
the police arrived just as rope had been
placed around the mans neck.
Frank Bickford of Waterbury, who had
been in Washington county Jail in de-
fault of bail on the charge of alternating
the affections of Mrs. Philo r. Chase of
Waitsfield, was released Feb. IL after
signing an agreement to pay Chase GER
tain sum and to leave the state. Bick-
ford started in the evening for Jackson
vile, Fla. land Mrs. Chase returned to live
with her husband. The suit for $4,000,
brought by Chase. will be dropped.
Fire at the hotel at Waitsfield, which
had evidently been smoldering since
noon when the chimney burned out,
broke oat late Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8,
around the woodwork near the chimney,
but after two hours hard work the blaze
was extinguished after it had caused
about 5000 damage. The hotel is an old
structure, having been built about half a
century ago. 1t is now owned by George
Carpenter, who also is manager of the
hotel.
Crossing to the Vermont shore from
West Chesterfield, n. H., Feb. 8, w. b.
Allen with his horse and sleigh broke
through the ice on the Connecticut river,
the horse was drowned and Allen mar
rowly escaped similar fate. Mrs. Allen
saw the accident from their home and ran
to the rescue with plank. Her ears
were frozen in the bitter cold and Mr..
Allen suffered greatly from his icy bath.
He valued his horse and sleigh, which
disappeared under the ice in 20 feet of
water, at $500.
The state of Vermont, through Supt.
w. S. Lowell of the state prison, has pur-
chased the outside shop, machinery and
everything connected with the shoe bust
ness of the late A. Z. Mann Il Co., except
the stock of leather and findings. The
administrators of the estate are using up
the stock, the greater part of the work
being done by convict labor. Supt. Low
ell has advertised for bids for the labor of
the convicts for term of years, and al
ready several contractors have been ct
Windsor to look over the plant.
Frederick Holbrook, governor of Yer
mont in the Civil war, observed Saturday
his 95th birthday. He is the Oldest ex-
governor living in the United States, and
is one of but three surviving war govern
ors. At his advanced age, Mr.. Holbrook,
popularity known as Vermont's 'sgrand
old man," retains an active interest in
affairs. He is president of the Vermont
Savings bank and a trustee of the Brattle-
boro retreat, and attends the meetings
quite regularly. He received congratula-
tory letters and kilograms and visits from
many friends.
The law passed by the legislature of
1906, prohibiting the sale of candy con-
tanning or favored with intoxicants.
was enforced at Rutland last week Tues
day for the first time when U. Entella, an
italian fruit dealer, pleaded guilty to sell
I ling brandy drops and paid a fine of $40
and costs of $3.50. States Attorney
Robert A. Lawrence gave an interview to
the press few days before, calling the
merchants attention to the law and stat
ing that he intended to enforce it. Two
days later it was learned that Entella had
sold some of the drops to twelve-year-
old boy.
! A breaking whiffietree, which allowed
the sleigh to strike the legs of horse
which she was driving, caused a runaway
accident last week Wednesday, Mrs.
I Charles s. Hoag of Rutland being thrown
\ to the ground and sustaining fractured
skull. The woman was picked up uncon-
scious and carried to the home of F. w.
Hayward nearby. Two physicians were
/ summoned and Mrs. Hoag was removed
I in an ambulance to the City hospital. An
I operation of trepanning was performed,
a considerable portion of the bone being
removed and replaced. Her condition il
salts factory and hopes of her recovery are
I entertained.
\ Henry G. Thomas, who was born and
I educated in Richford, is under arrest al
4 Nashua, N. H., on the charge of embez
Element. He was recently promoted
! from the position of cashier to assistant
\ to the manager of the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co.'s exchange. 1t j:
said that since his promotion, discrep-
ancies have been found in his accounts a:
cashier and he is said to have confessed
4 that his accounts were not correct. Ht
has always borne good reputation, II
married and has one child. Four com
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