Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-03-11
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Headers.

During q few warm days recently some
maple sugar was made in Milton.
Mrs. Arthur K. Morse Of Jericho fell
on the'ic Saturday, Feb. ~, while emp
tying a pan OF ashes, and broke her hip.
A car containing q ton of molten iron,
being wheeled by an Italian at the Howe
Scale works in Rutland one day last
week, struck small piece OF scrap iron
and was upset. The hot metal set fire to
some of the material nearby and caused
damage of $500.
At the town meeting in Hardwick
81 500 was appropriated towards the erec-
ton of a monument in honor of the men
from that town who fought in the Civil
war. The sum of $500 was also appropri-
ated for q free bed in the John s. Holden
Memorial hospital
Harvelin Paddock Of st. Johnsbury died
suddenly last week Wednesday while
asleep. For fifty-three years he had been
employed in the Fairbanks Scale works.
He was in charge of the steel room and
had the oversight of the pivot making.
He had invented several appliances.
Two indictments of 81 counts each
have been found in the district of YER
mont against the Canadian Pacific and
Quaker Oats company. The Canadian
Pacific is charged with giving free trans
portation in grain products from Rich
ford, Vermont, to Boston and nearby
points.
d. E. Lincoln shot fisher from very
tall tree in Ira and the skin is worth
something between IS and $40. A fisher
is one of the weasel family and is rarely
seen in New England except in northern
Maine. In size it is about three times as
large as a mink. The fur is nearly black
and glossy.
The grand jury IN Orleans county have
reported a true bill of murder in the first
degree against Levi Partridge, who last
fall, it is alleged, shot and killed r.
Coomer at Glover. States Attorney w.
NJ. Wright, assisted by Atty.-Gen. ]. @.
Sargent, will represent the state and Fl.
B. Howe of st. Johnsbury will look after
the respondents interest.
/ Robert A. Glynn of North Springfield,
/ who Feb. 25 shot himself after killing his
wife, Lois, died three days later from his
wounds. He was a retired farmer and
village merchant, ~ years old. The dou-
bic shooting followed the repeated refusal
OF his wife, who had fled a divorce libel
against him, to return TO live with him.
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Howard II. Hascall, aged p years, son
of George NJ. Haseall, Rutland ieweler,
committed suicide by shooting through
the heart with revolver on the street
there last Thursday morning. He had
been working in Stamford, Conn.,, and
returned home on a train half an hour be-
fore the shooting. He left note to his
father saying poor health was the cause.
Joe Kocsos, a Hungarian laborer en-
ployed in the Vermont Marble Co. g
works at Proctor, was instantly killed
last Thursday by the caving in Of q sand
pit where he was working. He was dis
emboweled. The body OF Alexander
Orlowski, was found on the railroad
track at Proctor the same morning with q
bad scalp wound. He was probably
killed by train.
The farm buildings of Albert Cobb at
Woodstock, valued at $1,000, were
destroyed by fire Friday. They were in
sured for $1,000. Mr.. Cobb, who is
about so years Of age, returned two weeks
ago from the Brattleboro retreat, where
he had been under treatment. When
the fire was discovered in his bedroom at
3 O'Clock in the morning Mr.. Cobb was
dressed and out OF doors.
A deer chased by dogs jumped through
the kitchen window at the home oil
Charles II. Mcclure of South Ryegate,
hurriedly leaving through another win.
dow. The deer was then followed by q
number OF men and after a long pursuit
was found in an exhausted condition
from the loss of blood caused by being
cut by the window glass. The dogs
which pursued the deer into the hous,
were unknown.
Miss Christine Persons of North Adams
Mass, is laid up with serious injuries Al
the result OF being thrown against tn,
wall during "all hands 'round' in
kitchen dance being held Saturday even
ing, Feb. 81, in Stamford. Her left hil
was dislocated, one ankle severed,
sprained and ligaments torn, and sh
suffered conclusion of the brain, as tn
result Of the vigor of the dancers. Sh
remained unconscious for some time.
Conductor John Smith, better know
on the Central Vermont railway a
"Jake' Smith, was instantly killed q
Townshend Sunday, Feb. %. Smit
was in charge of freight train and wa
engaged in shifting cars on a grade. .
stick connecting the engine and car brok
and went clear through his right side
The body was crushed by the engin,
Smith, who was 80 years old and unmal
ried, has been passenger brakeman o
the main line.
!. Mrs. Mary Haight Phelps, widow {
the late E. J. Phelps, minister to Ems
land, died Saturday at Burlington, age
50, after an illness OF three months, inc
! dent to old age. She was born at Monl
ton, being the daughter Of Judge Stephe
e Haight, and was married to Mr.. PhelI
II in Burlington in 1S45. She was wit
n him in England in 1885 and in Paris j
% 1898. She is survived by a son, G.
Phelps. and a daughter, Mrs. Mary f
LOOMS, of New York.
By the will of the late Mrs. Emma 1
Cummins of Manhattan and East HAM
ton, Lorenzo E. Woodhouse OF BurlinJ
ton will receive q large bequest. He
made one of the trustees and executor
and in addition is made the residuar
legatee after large number Of beques
J are paid. 1t Is believed the residue " i
amount to large sum, both in real an
personal property. The exact value